Disclosure

Who pays me, the conflict of interest I failed to disclose, and exactly how AI is used on this site.

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I am Mo RezaAli. I work as a Growth Marketer at Yakkyo S.p.A. and I live in Messina, Sicily, Italy. This page lists everything I know of that could bias what I publish here.

It exists because a reader has no way to audit my incentives unless I write them down. The Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility (Fogg, May 2002, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab) put “make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site” first out of ten. You cannot verify accuracy without knowing who is paying.

The conflict I did not disclose

From September 2019 to March 2026 I was a Marketing Specialist at Jumbula, a company in the online-registration-software market.

This domain used to publish a benchmark of online registration software. That benchmark ranked Jumbula. Nowhere on the benchmark did it say that I had worked for one of the ranked products.

I removed the benchmark in August 2026. I am not asking you to accept that the ranking was honest anyway. You had no way to check, because the one fact you needed to judge it was not on the page. That is the failure, and it is mine. The dated entry is on the corrections page.

Who pays me

My income comes from Yakkyo S.p.A., where I am employed as a Growth Marketer. Yakkyo is listed on Euronext Growth Milan under ISIN IT0005573966.

Yakkyofy is a product of Yakkyo S.p.A. Its own site states that Yakkyofy is a registered trademark of Yakkyo S.p.A. It is not a second employer, and I will not describe it as one.

Nothing on this site is written for Yakkyo, reviewed by Yakkyo, or approved by Yakkyo. Everything here is mine and the opinions are mine alone. If I ever write about Yakkyo or Yakkyofy, that article will carry the disclosure at the top, not in a footer.

Money on this site

There is none, and I want to be specific about what that covers:

  • No affiliate links. Not one, anywhere, in any language version.
  • No sponsorships, sponsored posts, or paid reviews.
  • No paid placements in any list, ranking, comparison, or resource page.
  • No guest posts, link insertions, or link exchanges. I decline these; see contact.
  • No advertising, and no advertising network is loaded on any page.
  • No paywall, no newsletter, no mailing list, nothing to buy.

If any of that changes, the change gets labelled at the top of every affected page, dated in the changelog, and logged in corrections. Quietly adding money to an existing page is the thing I am promising not to do.

How AI is used here

Plainly, because the previous version of this site got this catastrophically wrong.

Drafting may be AI-assisted. I use language models to draft, outline, and edit. I am not going to pretend otherwise, and a claim of “100% human-written” is unverifiable anyway.

Every factual claim is checked against a primary source before it publishes. The source title, publisher, URL, and access date go in the article’s front matter. Continuous integration fetches every one of those URLs on each build and fails the build if any stops returning HTTP 200. That check runs against the live internet, not against my own text, which is the point.

Nothing publishes under my name without me reading it first. No scheduled job, no worker, and no model may write to the published branch.

That last rule exists because the opposite rule was in force here from 31 October 2025 to 27 April 2026. An hourly Cloudflare Worker scraped five RSS feeds, passed 450-character excerpts to a small language model, and committed the output straight to the main branch with no human in the loop. Its validator demanded at least one number and two named entities per post, drawn from a 450-character excerpt that structurally forced the model to invent both. It ran up 842 Add post: commits and left 739 English articles standing, 2,922 files once the machine translations into Italian, Arabic and Simplified Chinese are counted.

Across those 739 English posts: 180 cited a source called “Internal Analysis” that does not exist. 470 carried an invented before-and-after metrics table. 91 credited a figure to Forrester with no link and no report title, and 46 did the same to HubSpot. A HubSpot writer’s first-person account was republished under my byline.

All of it is deleted. The full account is in the postmortem. The dated log of what was retracted is on the corrections page, and the rules that replaced the pipeline are on the editorial policy page.

This site was written in a single pass on 5 August 2026, which is why every page and article here carries that date. The colophon sets out what was and was not verified in that pass.

If you think something here is compromised

Email me at contact@therezaali.com and say which page and which claim. Corrections get priority over everything else in my inbox. Anything I get wrong is appended to the corrections log with a date. I do not silently edit.

Last reviewed 5 August 2026.

Sources

Every source below was opened and checked on the date shown. Links open in this tab.

  1. Best Dropshipping Platform for Top Retailers | Yakkyofy Yakkyofy www.yakkyofy.com Accessed 5 August 2026
  2. Azioni Yakkyo: quotazioni in tempo reale | IT0005573966 Borsa Italiana www.borsaitaliana.it Accessed 5 August 2026
  3. Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab credibility.stanford.edu Accessed 5 August 2026