How we research and write
Auteur publishes guides for founders who set up a business in the United States. The sections below explain how we choose topics, check facts, and fix mistakes. Auteur also sells US mail and address services, so one section explains how our products appear in our guides.
How we choose topics
We start from search demand. We look at the questions founders type into Google about business addresses, mail, and company paperwork. We also use Google Search Console to see which questions our existing pages already appear for.
Before we write, we read the pages that already rank for the question. Our goal for each new guide is to answer something those pages leave out. We do not write a guide just to fill a schedule, and on some days we publish nothing new.
How we use primary sources
We read each rule at its source. For our topics, the source is usually the IRS, the US Postal Service, a state law, or a Secretary of State office. Other common sources are the Federal Register and the official help pages of the platform in question.
We do not treat a news story, a blog post, or an AI search answer as the source of a rule. A summary can point us to the original document, but we check the original document itself.
Since August 2026, every new guide lists its main primary sources at the bottom of the page, under Sources & References. Older guides get the same list when we refresh them.
Sometimes we cannot confirm a claim in a primary source. In that case, we remove the claim or make the claim narrower. We do not invent a source to support a claim.
How AI tools fit into our process
We use AI tools to help us research, draft, and check our guides. AI writing tools can produce text that sounds right and is still wrong. For that reason, every new guide goes through separate checks before we publish it.
- An automated style check flags long sentences, idioms, and unclear wording.
- A separate fact check opens each cited primary source and compares our wording with the original text. The fact check also covers the title, the summary, and the questions and answers.
- A separate editorial review checks the sources again, looks for overlap with our other guides, and checks the grammar.
- A person on our team reviews the results of these checks and approves each release. No guide goes live without that approval.
The checks lower the risk of mistakes, but no process catches every error. Please tell us when you find one.
How we correct mistakes
To report an error, email hello@useauteur.com. Please name the page and the sentence. A link to a source helps if you have one.
We check each report against the primary source. If the guide is wrong, we fix the guide. When we change the text of a guide, we also change its update date. We do not change that date when the text stays the same.
Rules also change over time. A tool of ours checks the primary sources behind our Field Guide and flags sources that changed after our last review. We refresh blog guides when the rules behind them change.
How our products appear in our guides
Auteur sells a Virtual Mailing Address, a Virtual Business Address, and Registered Agent service. Some guides mention these products and link to them. The editorial policy on this page is our disclosure of that relationship.
Our products do not change what a primary source says. We report each rule as the source states it, even when the rule limits what a virtual address can do.
What our guides are not
Our guides explain general rules. The guides are not legal advice or tax advice. Reading a guide does not create a professional relationship with us. For a decision about your own company, please talk to a licensed attorney or a tax professional.
Who writes our guides
Guides appear under the name Auteur Team. The same team builds the Auteur mailbox and Henry, our AI mail assistant. You can read more about the team on our About page.