Editorial Policy

Mission. Explain family offices honestly and plainly, for everyone from a founder who just sold a company to an experienced investor — without hype, without pretending there is one right answer, and without ever crossing from education into advice.

AI assistance, disclosed. Guides, glossary entries, and comparison pages are produced with AI-assisted research and writing against fixed editorial briefs, then reviewed for plain-language accuracy and consistency with the rules below. Pages generated this way are part of the site's normal editorial output and are covered by the AI-provenance sentence in the site footer. News headlines are never AI-written — they are real publishers' headlines, linked out.

Standing rules. (1) No invented statistics, surveys, or citations. (2) Every dollar figure is a rounded range labeled as an illustrative example. (3) No recommendation language; structures are explained, not prescribed. (4) Claims about real organizations appear only in the curated directory, described conservatively, with links to official sites. (5) Legal and tax topics are explained at the terminology level with explicit direction to qualified professionals. (6) Jargon is defined on first use and linked to the glossary.

Attribution. News items always name their publisher and link to the original article. Directory and resource listings link only to official sites. We do not republish third-party article bodies.

Corrections. Errors reported via Contact are reviewed promptly; corrected pages update their last-updated date. Broken directory/resource links are hidden automatically by the weekly link check until fixed.

Independence. Listings and mentions are free and unranked. If advertising or affiliate links are ever enabled, they will be labeled and disclosed in line with FTC guidance, and the Privacy Policy's advertising section applies.