Templacity publishes long-form reviews and guides alongside selling templates, which raises a fair question: who pays for the blog, and how do we keep the recommendations honest? Short version: we don’t take payment for reviews, and any affiliate link is labelled. The longer version is below.

Who pays for the blog

Templacity is funded by template sales. Nothing else. The blog exists because the readers we want as customers tend to research a device or workflow extensively before buying anything, and we’d rather be the most useful answer in that research than the loudest ad.

How posts are produced

We write with AI assistance. Drafts come from outlines we put together using manufacturer specs, public community discussion (Reddit, manufacturer forums, reviews) and our own working knowledge of the devices and templates we cover. Every published post is edited by hand before going live. If a claim doesn’t survive a sanity check, it doesn’t ship.

We don’t claim things we haven’t verified, we don’t invent quotes or user testimonials, and we don’t write under fake personal bylines. When we describe a “frustration that keeps coming up in the community”, that means we’ve actually seen it surface across multiple sources, not that one of us is pretending to have had it.

Where we link out to devices, accessories, or third-party software (Boox, reMarkable, Kindle, planning apps), some of those links may be affiliate links: if you buy after clicking, the retailer pays us a small commission. It never costs you extra, and the rate doesn’t change the recommendation.

Affiliate links are labelled. We don’t hide them. The recommendation in a post isn’t because the affiliate rate is higher; it’s because we think it’s the better fit for the kind of reader the post is written for. There are products with great affiliate rates that we deliberately don’t recommend, and products with no affiliate at all that we do.

We don’t run paid posts. We don’t take “sponsored review” deals. Brands occasionally send hardware for us to evaluate; when that happens, we say so inside the post, and the loan does not determine the verdict. If a unit gets sent over and we don’t end up recommending it, we say that too.

Comparisons and “best of” lists

When a post compares products head to head, every product is judged on the same criteria, written out at the top of the post. We don’t move the goalposts to make the higher-paying affiliate look better. If a Templacity template loses on a criterion to a competing one, we say so. If a device we sell templates for has a flaw, we say that too.

Corrections

If a fact, price, spec, or claim in a post is wrong, please tell us at contact@templacity.com. We update posts in place, with a short note at the bottom flagging what changed and when. Material changes (a verdict reversal, a corrected spec that changes a ranking) also go into the Sunday letter so subscribers see them.

Updates to this page

We update this page whenever the answer to “how do we work” changes in substance.

Last updated May 2026.