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How Explore is put together
Explore reads eChai's learning hubs by what a founder came to do: 2,743 answers, 228 topics and 635 tools. This page says where each part comes from, and what in it cannot be bought.
The answers
Every answer is written and checked before it is published, and nothing on Explore is written by a model while you read it. Five hundred of them answer the questions people type into Google most, gathered from its suggestions in India and the US, and search on Explore knows the words people typed for them.
A price
A tool's price is kept in one place, its record, as the maker's own page stated it. The record carries that page and the day it was read, and every page that prints the price prints both. 530 of the 635 tools carry a price read that way; where a maker's page gave none that could be read, the page says so rather than guessing.
A pick
A topic's picks are written with its answers: the tools in an order, each with a line on when to pick it. A tool is never added to a list of picks, or moved in it, because its maker asks or pays.
What founders use
The figures beside a tool come from eChai's polls, counted the way a published ranking counts them. Each founder is counted once however many answers they named. An answer counts when the founder registered for a gathering that has since been held, or had an account before the poll was asked. A vote for the founder's own company or brand is left out, and so is a vote from a company account. A count is printed once 10 founders have answered; under that, the page asks for answers instead. It is a count of who uses something, never a rating.
Compare and alternatives
There are 110 compare pages and 61 alternatives pages, and each exists because people search for it: a pair of tools typed as "one vs the other", or a tool's alternatives. A compare is the two records side by side under a verdict of three sentences written from those records, and every figure in a verdict is in one of the two records or the topic's lines on them.
What a maker can have
A record. A tool has one here because an answer names it or founders named it in a poll. There is nothing to apply for.
Its facts checked. A maker may send corrections to its own facts to [email protected]. They are checked against its public pages, and the tool's page then says "Facts checked with" the maker and the day.
Its startup programme, on the tool's page and on Startup programmes and offers, as the programme's own page states it. 88 tools carry one today.
The partner mark, where the maker is an eChai partner brand: the tool's page says so and links the brand's page, and the tool is marked where it is listed.
What cannot be bought
Whether a tool is a pick, its place among the picks, what an answer says about it, and the founders' counts. There are no affiliate links on Explore; a link to a tool's site goes to the site.
