Editorial policy
The rules we publish by, written down so readers and brands can hold us to them.
Ownership and accountability
SleepLab Guide is independently owned and edited by Ben Shamon. No manufacturer, retailer or investor owns any part of it or has a say in what we publish. Ben is accountable for every page.
Independence
- We do not accept payment for reviews, scores, rankings, placement or links.
- Brands do not see, approve or edit copy before publication. We will check facts with a brand when that helps accuracy, but the wording is ours.
- Whether we cover a product, and what we say about it, does not depend on advertising, affiliate commissions or whether a brand sent a sample.
Testing labels
Every review says how it was made: hands-on with the number of nights, a disclosed loaner unit, or published sources and community feedback. Today every page on the site is in the last group, because hands-on testing has not started. We do not give a SleepLab score to anything we have not used. The scorecard is on our methodology page.
Sourcing and fact-checking
- Every factual claim links to its source. Prices carry the date we checked them.
- Manufacturer claims are labelled as company claims. Ratings from other publications are quoted with attribution and are never presented as ours.
- We prefer primary sources: peer-reviewed studies, regulatory filings, official spec and pricing pages. When we cannot verify something, we say so on the page.
- Community excerpts are real, short, attributed and linked to the original post. We never invent testimonials, reader counts, ratings or star scores.
How we use AI
An AI agent working under Ben's direction helps gather sources, keep prices and news current, and draft pages. It runs a daily roundup of published reviews and owner posts. It does not test products and never writes as if it had. A human owner decides what is published and is responsible for it. If you find an error that looks machine-made, tell us and we will fix it.
Review samples
We accept free or loaned units on our terms: no payment, no copy approval, no guaranteed coverage, score or timing. Any sample is disclosed at the top of its review. Details for brands are on the for brands page.
Money
We may earn affiliate commissions in future. Commission rates never influence scores or rankings, and each affiliate link will be labelled next to the link. Today the site has no affiliate links. See the affiliate disclosure.
Health information
We are not clinicians and nothing on this site is medical advice. Consumer sleep trackers are not diagnostic devices unless a regulator has cleared a specific feature, and we only repeat regulatory facts we can source.
Corrections and updates
When we get something wrong we fix it quickly and add a dated note saying what changed. Pages show an "Updated" date, and reviews are re-checked at least every 90 days or after a major price, firmware or model change. Send corrections, with a source if you have one, to sleeplab@mail.grokbot.com.