{"apiVersion":"2026-10-19","data":{"disclaimer":"Educational. Not legal, tax, or financial advice.","resource":{"slug":"editorial-standards","title":"Editorial standards and citations","audience":"shared","summary":"What NewHands will and will not put in a guide or a market figure.","citations":[{"label":"SBA 7(a) loans","url":"https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/7a-loans"},{"label":"IRS Publication 544","url":"https://www.irs.gov/publications/p544"},{"label":"SCORE","url":"https://www.score.org/"},{"label":"America's SBDC","url":"https://americassbdc.org/"}],"body":"This is educational. These are the rules for pages on this site.\n\n## Cite the source, or do not say it\n\nA fact about a loan program, a tax form, or a state filing points at the agency that published it: SBA, IRS, a state website, or a named nonprofit such as SCORE or an SBDC. The link is on the page. A paraphrase is not a citation.\n\n## Do not invent\n\nNo invented market statistics, no typical fee percent, no typical working-capital peg, no headcount for an organization we did not count, and no firm we did not verify. If a number comes from this index, the page says so and includes how many of the rows are samples.\n\n## Calculators show their work\n\nEvery adjustment is on the page. Assumptions are listed. Outputs are versioned. Test vectors are published at the calculator API so a person or an agent can check the arithmetic. An estimate is labeled an estimate. A score is a sum of published weights, not a credit decision.\n\n## Samples stay labeled\n\nFictional listings say Sample listing. A Turnkey Ready badge on a sample listing is part of the sample. The directory does not fill empty categories with made-up practices.\n\n## Educational, not advice\n\nGuides are for orientation. They tell you to hire a lawyer, a CPA, or a lender when the question is yours. NewHands is not a broker-dealer and not those professionals.\n\n## Corrections\n\nIf a citation breaks or a sentence overclaims, the changelog notes the fix. The guide is updated in place. The old sentence is not left up beside the new one."}}}