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How We Verify Every Fact on This Site (and What We Still Don't Know)
Certification prep sites have a bad habit: a number gets typed once, copied by the next site, copied again, and three years later nobody can trace where the $175 fee or the 720 passing score actually came from. We built this site to not do that. Here's the actual process, not the marketing version of it.
Every fact starts at a primary source, or it's labeled as a guess
The exam fees, retake windows, renewal terms, and passing score on this site are checked against Anthropic's own Partner Academy FAQ and Pearson VUE's exam-guide pages - not against other prep sites, and not against what a forum post claims. When we can't confirm a number against one of those, we don't quietly present it as fact. The clearest example is the recommended study-hour ranges you'll see on every study time calculator page: those are this site's own planning heuristic, based on exam length and domain count, and every page that shows them says so in plain language rather than implying Anthropic published them.
The "we don't know" list is a real, visible thing
The "is it worth it" guides each carry a section called What we haven't verified - things like salary impact or hiring-manager weighting that we genuinely could not find a citable, primary source for. Rather than fill that gap with a plausible-sounding number (the kind of thing that gets repeated by the next five sites that scrape this one), we say we don't know and ask readers to tell us if they have a source. It's a small thing, but it's the difference between a reference site and a rumor mill.
One number, one file, every page that uses it
Every fee, retake wait, and passing score lives in exactly one place per exam -
data/exam-facts/{exam}.json - and every calculator, exam hub, and comparison table reads from
that same file instead of having its own hardcoded copy. That's not an SEO trick, it's a bug-prevention one:
before this existed, a fee change meant hunting down every page that mentioned it and hoping you found them
all. Now it means editing one JSON value, and the changelog records
when each figure was last checked, so a stale number is visible instead of silent.
What actually gets re-checked, and how often
Anthropic's own exam guides move - the clearest example is this site's Associate track, which had to be rebuilt after the real domain structure turned out to differ from an earlier inferred version once the official blueprint was confirmed. When that kind of correction happens, the affected track is rebuilt against the corrected blueprint rather than patched in place, so old and new domain weights don't end up mixed together. See the evidence page for the current sourced facts and the methodology page for the full build process, including exactly what this site does and doesn't collect from visitors.
Why this matters more than it sounds like it should
None of this is glamorous - it's mostly discipline about not writing a sentence you can't point at a source for. But a candidate deciding whether to spend real money on a $175exam attempt deserves to know which numbers on the page in front of them are confirmed and which are estimates, instead of finding out the hard way that a "fact" was actually three sites copying each other.