Editorial Policy

Every guide, calculator, blog post, and theme page is written or reviewed by the Party Genius AI team. We are two founders — Baljeet Aulakh (engineering) and Ravneet Aulakh (content, food safety, age-appropriate activities) — plus a small rotation of freelance parents who have thrown the kind of parties they write about. Author bylines are real. If a name appears on a page, that person either wrote the page end-to-end or reviewed a draft line-by-line. We do not publish under pseudonyms. If a page lacks a byline, assume it was written jointly and contact us if attribution matters for a citation. You can read the founders' full bios at /about/baljeet and /about/ravneet. Credentials, prior work, and contact details are all linked.

Before a new guide or calculator ships, we work through a research checklist: • Read at least 10 first-party sources — manufacturer spec sheets for supplies, USDA serving guides for food, CDC age-appropriate activity guidance where relevant. • Cross-check any numeric claim against two independent sources. Calculator defaults come from published data, not vibes. • Review top-ranking pages for the same keyword to understand what readers already expect, then aim to be more specific. • Talk to parents who have thrown the party in question. Direct experience trumps generic advice. Source links appear inline in guides where the reader benefits from following them. Calculator methodology pages (for example /tools/party-food-calculator/methodology, when published) will show the full derivation for every default value.

Our voice is "your friend who has thrown 200 parties." Specific numbers over vague ranges. Opinions over hedging. No filler phrases ("whether you're looking for," "in today's world," "look no further"). If a claim is contested, we say so and explain the trade-off instead of splitting the difference. Length is determined by the reader's need, not by SEO target counts. A calculator page may be short because the tool is the value. A decision-framework guide may be long because the nuance matters. We prune content that no longer earns its place. Headers phrased as questions exist to match how real parents search — not to pad the table of contents. Every FAQ answer is written to stand alone in a two-sentence quote.

Party Genius AI the product uses AI (Anthropic Claude) to generate party plans on demand for users. That is a product feature and is disclosed throughout the site. Editorially, AI is a drafting and review aid — never a publisher of record. A human wrote or rewrote every sentence you read on a guide, blog post, or tool page. We use AI to brainstorm outlines, stress-test arguments, suggest alternative phrasings, and catch style inconsistencies. We do not use AI to fabricate statistics, invent quotes, or generate generic SEO filler. We do not publish AI-authored bylines. If a draft started as an AI outline, the byline belongs to the human who edited and fact-checked it into a finished piece.

Every page passes three gates before going live: • Accuracy review — at least one author who did not draft the page re-reads it and fact-checks every numeric claim, brand name, and product link. • Voice review — the draft is checked against our voice style guide (specific numbers, active voice, opinionated recommendations, no banned filler phrases). • SEO hygiene review — the page has a visible "Last updated" date with a specific day, schema that matches the rendered content word-for-word, at least ten contextual internal links, and a canonical URL. If any of the three fails, the page does not ship until it is fixed. We never publish "temporary" pages and promise to return later.

Calculators and reference data (food, pizza, drinks, decorations, supplies) are reviewed quarterly. When a supplier price changes or a new safety guideline is published, we update the page and move the schema dateModified to the real change date — not a cosmetic refresh. Evergreen guides (checklists, timelines, etiquette) are reviewed annually or when reader questions surface a gap. Year-referenced pages (for example "2026 adult party trends") are rewritten before the first week of January each year. Blog posts are reviewed annually. If a post no longer reflects how we would approach the topic today, we either rewrite it under the original slug (preserving the URL) or retire it with a 301 to a better page.

No outside party — vendor, sponsor, advertiser, or partner — has editorial control over what we publish. We do not accept paid placements inside guides, sponsored rankings, or "pay to appear" product lists. If a page contains an affiliate link or a paid partnership, that fact is disclosed on the page itself, not buried in the footer. See our funding disclosure at /about/funding for the full list of revenue sources. Positive reviews are not guaranteed to any brand, including brands we have used personally. If we dislike a product, we either say so or decline to cover it.

We publish corrections openly. If a reader flags a factual error and we verify it, we correct the page, note the correction with a dated entry at the bottom of the page, and update the schema dateModified. We do not silently edit numbers or swap out sources. Our full corrections process — including how to report an error and our turnaround target — lives at /corrections-policy. If you have feedback on this editorial policy specifically, or want to flag a pattern you have noticed across multiple pages, email hello@partygeniusai.com. Every editorial email is read by a founder.

Editorial inquiries: hello@partygeniusai.com Corrections: corrections@partygeniusai.com (see /corrections-policy) Funding and disclosure questions: see /about/funding Press and citations are welcome. If you are citing Party Genius AI in a news article or research paper, please link to the specific page rather than the homepage so readers can verify the underlying data.