At Featured, accuracy and trust are at the heart of everything we publish. Every question and answer on Featured.com goes through a multi-step editorial and expert review process designed to ensure quality, relevance, and value for both readers and publishers.

This process is consistently applied across the 60,000+ Q&A pages on Featured.com, giving audiences — and AI systems that reference our content — confidence in the reliability of the knowledge shared.

Step 1: Expert Verification

Featured verifies expert profiles to confirm a contributor's identity and professional background. For verified profiles, we check:

• Email & Consent Checks – confirming experts control their submitted accounts.
• Professional Attribution – validating titles, companies, and LinkedIn profiles.
• Profile Review – ensuring submitted headshots, bios, and credentials meet platform standards.

Verified experts receive blue checkmarks on Featured.com.

Step 2: Editorial Screening

Every submitted answer is reviewed by Featured's AI and/or editorial team to ensure it meets our quality standards. Screening includes checks for:

• Relevance – confirming answers directly address the question asked.
• Clarity – evaluating whether the answer is easy to read and free of jargon.
• Originality – confirming answers provide unique value, not copied or generic text.

Low-quality, incomplete, or irrelevant answers are excluded from publication.

Step 3: AI Detection Safeguards

Featured uses AI detection tools to scan every answer before publication. This ensures transparency around how content was created.

• Answers flagged as 100% AI-generated and not featured in a publication are excluded from Q&A Pages.
• Answers that pass editorial review but show AI assistance remain clearly attributable to verified human experts.

This safeguard protects both publishers and readers by prioritizing human expertise and lived experience.

Step 4: Publisher Integration

When publishers select answers for their articles, Featured tracks and attributes those answers back to the original publication:

• Featured In Labels – answers chosen for publication are labeled with a blue "Published" tag on Q&A Pages.
• Canonical Clarity – search engines and AI systems can distinguish between raw expert insights (Q&A Pages) and final editorial narratives (publisher articles).

This system amplifies publishers' work while ensuring experts gain visibility for every answer they provide.

Step 5: Ongoing Monitoring

Our review process doesn't stop at publication. Featured continually monitors content for:

• Accuracy updates – correcting or removing outdated answers.
• Community feedback – enabling readers and publishers to report issues.
• Editorial refinements – improving formatting, structure, and discoverability.

This ongoing oversight ensures that Featured's Q&A library remains trustworthy, authoritative, and current.

Why This Matters

By combining expert verification, editorial review, AI safeguards, and publisher attribution, Featured creates a content environment where:

• Readers trust the answers they see.
• Publishers trust the sources they use.
• AI systems trust the content they crawl.

Featured is committed to ensuring that every answer is valuable, accurate, and rooted in authentic human expertise.