Editorial policy

Who is behind Daily Cruncher

Daily Cruncher is run by Haroon Ahmad, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, an IT professional with more than 25 years in technology, and two senior editors: Azka Shahid, an English teacher with more than 25 years in the classroom, and Najam Kausar, who brings years of experience running a home and kitchen to our home, food and lifestyle sections. They are responsible for the standards on this page and for corrections, and Haroon sets the instructions our AI drafting follows. They don’t read each article before it is published. More about them is on the About page.

How articles are made

Most articles on Daily Cruncher are drafted by AI on a daily schedule and published automatically, without an editor reading them first. Within each topic, the AI chooses the subject and headline, steering away from subjects the site has already covered. It writes to instructions our editors set: be specific and useful, write plainly, never invent statistics, studies, quotes or sources, and never claim first-hand experience or expert approval that doesn’t exist. Nearly all of the articles carried over from the original Daily Cruncher site were rewritten with AI in September 2026 and republished the same way.

These articles run under the Daily Cruncher Desk byline, marked AI-assisted, and a line under the byline of every article says how it was made.

Automated checks before publishing

Before an article is drafted, its topic is compared with every article already on the site, including drafts still held back, and with the official pages recent articles were built on; a topic too close to one of them is not written. After drafting, a draft that covers the same ground as an existing article is discarded rather than reworded, and one that repeats another article’s sentences word for word is held. The checks also look for thin content, a missing meta description, too few headings, boilerplate sections and stock filler, banned or clickbait phrasing, a year in the title of a topic that isn’t tied to one, statistics, studies or quotes without a linked source, claims of testing, first-hand experience, interviews or expert approval, links to unrelated articles or to sources that don’t exist, health and money articles that don’t point readers to a qualified professional, and undisclosed affiliate or sponsored framing. Daily horoscopes are also checked against the planetary positions computed for their date. A draft that fails any check is held as an unpublished draft instead of going live. On health, money and safety topics the AI is given specific pages from a list of official sources, each checked before it was added, and a figure the article attributes to a source must appear on that source’s page. A second automated read recomputes the comparisons and totals the article states from its own numbers, and compares the rules it states for an institution (who may do what, what is required) with the pages it cites. These checks catch patterns in the text and numbers that don’t match. They can’t tell whether every claim is true.

What we don’t do

• No editor reviews each article before it is published. Unless an article names a reviewer, nobody at Daily Cruncher read it before it went live.
• We don’t fact-check each claim in an article against its sources.
• We don’t test products, cook recipes, try routines or visit the places we write about, and we don’t interview experts.
• No doctor, dietitian, financial adviser or lawyer reviews our health, money or legal articles.

Reviews by our editors

When one of our editors reviews an article, reading it in full and fixing what needs fixing, we record who did it and when, and the article says “reviewed by” with their name and the date. An editor’s name is never added to an article for any other reason.

Sources, and health, money and legal topics

Articles on health, money, legal and safety topics are general information, not advice, and every Health and Money article carries a notice saying so. On these topics the AI is instructed to cite two to five primary sources, such as government agencies, public-health bodies, regulators, universities and professional associations, linked where the claim is made. Every outbound link is checked automatically before publishing, and a link to any other kind of site, or one that doesn’t load, is removed. That check confirms a source exists, not that it supports the sentence it’s attached to. The instruction to cite sources is new. As of the date at the top of this page, no article on Daily Cruncher carries a source link: all of them were published before it took effect, and they won’t gain sources unless we revise them. See our Disclaimer before acting on anything you read here, and talk to a qualified professional about your own situation.

Images

Cover images on AI-drafted articles are generated by AI. They are not photographs of real scenes, and the AI is instructed not to show real people, brands, logos or copyrighted characters. Most cover images on older articles were carried over from the original site.

Originality

Articles are written fresh rather than copied. The AI is instructed not to reproduce copyrighted text and to quote no more than about 25 words of any source, with attribution. If you believe an article reproduces your work, see Plagiarism and copyright below.

Story Time and horoscopes

Story Time stories are fiction, written by AI and published automatically. Daily horoscopes are written by AI for entertainment and reflection: the planetary positions in them are calculated from an astronomical ephemeris for the date, but astrology is not a science and the readings predict nothing.

Sponsored content and affiliate links

We don’t currently publish sponsored articles or use affiliate links. If we do, the article will say so at the top (for example “Sponsored by …” or “This post contains affiliate links”), and links a sponsor paid for will carry rel="sponsored". Sponsorship never changes what our other articles say.

Advertising

Display advertising (including Google AdSense and similar networks) may appear alongside our articles. Advertising is sold and served separately from editorial — advertisers do not receive review, approval, or pre-publication access to non-sponsored articles.

Articles, stories and horoscopes that the AI drafted or rewrote and that were published automatically carry no advertising until one of our editors has reviewed them; the daily horoscope pages follow the edition they show. Once a review is recorded, the page names the editor and the date, and ads may appear on it.

Corrections and updates

To report an error, email webmaster@dailycruncher.com or use our contact form, with a link to the article and what is wrong. We check every report. When an error is confirmed, we correct the article, and when the correction changes a fact we add a dated note at the end saying what changed. Typos and formatting are fixed without a note.

Plagiarism and copyright

We do not tolerate plagiarism. If you believe an article on Daily Cruncher has reproduced your work without permission, please email webmaster@dailycruncher.com with a link to the original work and the article in question. We respond to verified DMCA notices within seven business days.