01
High
Directly verified facts plus current primary sources; important limits are known.
Research and editorial policy
Every conclusion needs an inspectable trail.
Death Deals separates hard requirements, comparable facts, editorial judgement, evidence confidence, and merchant relationships so one cannot quietly impersonate another.
Recommendation constitution
Constraints before scores.
A must-have failure cannot be offset by strengths elsewhere. Only products that pass hard constraints enter the weighted comparison.
DimensionWeightWhat it represents
Project fit
30
Required capabilities, content model, traffic, and workflow
Budget fit
25
Current price, renewal cost, total stack cost, and free limits
Skill-level fit
20
Setup complexity, maintenance, learning curve, and support
Integration fit
15
Native integrations, APIs, exports, identity, and automation
Scale & support
10
Growth limits, reliability, support, and migration path
Affiliate payout
0
Never used in ranking, explanation, badges, or coverage order
Evidence ledger
Confidence describes evidence—not product quality.
02
Medium
Useful evidence supports the direction, but one or more material facts remain indirect or time-sensitive.
03
Low
Important data is missing, stale, conflicting, or cannot be independently verified.
The operating sequence
From messy question to defensible choice.
- 01
Normalize the question
Translate outcome, audience, budget, tools, must-haves, and risk into structured constraints.
- 02
Apply hard disqualifiers
Remove products that fail a requirement and explain why they left the set.
- 03
Compare current evidence
Normalize units, billing periods, plan limits, integrations, captured dates, and uncertainty.
- 04
Calculate fit
Use category-specific weights only after hard requirements pass.
- 05
Name the alternative
Publish the strongest competing choice and the condition under which it becomes better.
- 06
Verify before action
Expose price context, evidence state, methodology, disclosure, sources, and a correction path.
Commercial independence
The answer exists before the affiliate link.
Users receive the conclusion before any commercial action.
Affiliate payout has a literal weight of zero.
Non-affiliate destinations receive equal visual treatment.
Sponsored modules remain visibly separate from organic conclusions.
Disclosures appear adjacent to the first monetized action.
Stale prices change the label, not the evidence behind the verdict.
Use the model