Editorial Policy
Last updated: June 2026
This page explains who is behind ScaleProductOps, how our pages are produced, and the standards every page on scaleproductops.com is held to. We publish it so readers, journalists, and search engines can judge our work by a clear, stated process rather than guesswork.
Who runs ScaleProductOps
ScaleProductOps is an independent publication built and maintained by the ScaleProductOps Team. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored rankings, or fees to add, alter, or remove an entry. Our editorial judgment is not for sale.
How our content is produced
ScaleProductOps covers product-operations tools, templates, and benchmarks. Our pages are assembled programmatically from BLS OEWS salary data plus original benchmarks and editorial research: we fetch the primary records, process them with documented, repeatable methods, and render them as pages a non-specialist can read. Salary pages use BLS OEWS data pulled by occupation code and metro. Everything else on the site — templates, benchmarks, glossary, and operator guides — is original editorial material written by Product Ops practitioners, with sources cited inline whenever external data is referenced.
We are transparent that this is a data-publishing operation, not a wire service of on-the-ground reporters. Where we add narrative, that narrative describes and interprets the underlying public data — it never invents facts the data does not contain. Automated assembly is reviewed against the source, and the methodology behind any score or ranking is documented and linkable.
Editorial standards
- Primary source only. Every figure traces back to BLS OEWS salary data plus original benchmarks and editorial research, cited and linkable on the page where it appears.
- No invented numbers. If a value is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on scaleproductops.com. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
- Documented methodology. Rankings, grades, and composite scores are editorial calculations derived from public data using stated, repeatable formulas — not certifications or endorsements.
- Dated and refreshed. BLS salary sections refresh twice a year with each OEWS release; editorial pages are reviewed on a quarterly cycle as our operator survey and benchmarks change.
- Corrections welcome. When a reader or the source identifies an error, we fix it — see our Corrections Policy.
Verification and fact-checking
Because our numbers come straight from BLS OEWS salary data plus original benchmarks and editorial research, our verification work is about faithful processing rather than re-reporting. The detail of how we check figures before publication is described in our Fact-Checking Policy.
Ownership and funding transparency
ScaleProductOps is part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. The site is free to read and carries no display advertising. We do not sell personal data. Where an outbound link is an affiliate link, it is disclosed and never changes our editorial judgment.
Contact
Questions about how a page was produced, or about these standards? hello@scaleproductops.com. See also our About page and our Corrections Policy.