High-stakes tools have a higher release bar

Health, tax, lending, investment, and regulated thresholds cannot be described as independently expert reviewed on engineering confidence alone. The relevant domain must sign off on scope, sources, assumptions, limitations, and re-review timing before that claim appears.

Reviewer requirements

A reviewer record identifies the person, relevant qualification or experience, formula version reviewed, date, decision, and next review date. A content editor or software reviewer cannot stand in for required domain expertise.

Scope of review

How a review claim can be checked

A released high-stakes calculator must identify the reviewed formula version, reviewer, relevant qualification, decision date, source effective date, and next review date. The page must link to that record; a generic badge or an engineering test result is not evidence of expert approval.

Reviewer publication gate: a calculator that requires domain review remains without an independent expert-review claim unless this page identifies the reviewer and links the approval to the exact formula version, scope, decision date, and next review date. A site-owner production authorization does not satisfy or impersonate that reviewer record.

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