Editorial Policy

What we optimise for

Plain Figures optimises for clarity, auditability, and narrow alignment between the query and the page. We would rather publish a smaller number of explicit pages than a larger number of vague finance articles.

That means pages are expected to state assumptions, avoid product promotion inside the calculation layer, and remain clear about whether they are using examples or changeable thresholds.

What we avoid

We avoid making pages sound more personalised than they are. We also avoid treating a worked example as if it were a universal answer, especially on borrowing, tax, and protection topics.

That discipline matters because the most useful finance content is often the content that is clearest about its own limits.

• No disguised product recommendations
• No pretending a benchmark is a guarantee
• No broad advice where the page only supports arithmetic
• No unexplained assumption shifts between title, copy, and calculator