These aren't marketing lines. They're the constraints that decide what we will and won't ship.
A tool that only ever says yes is an advertisement
The most useful thing a shopping tool can do is tell you not to buy something. That sounds obvious and almost
nobody does it, because a tool that talks you out of a purchase earns nothing on that visit. We accept that
trade deliberately. AI Shopping Copilot returns "Wait" and "Avoid" verdicts on real products, and DABA Match
will tell you a part doesn't fit even when the listing insists it does. If our products stopped producing
negative answers we'd treat that as a bug, not a milestone.
Publish the method, including the parts that don't flatter us
Any tool that outputs a score owes you an explanation of how that number was reached. AI Shopping Copilot's
methodology page gives the component weightings, the reasoning
behind each one, what every score band means, and a plain list of the situations where the analysis is
unreliable — new listings with thin price history, low-review products, stores whose page structure we read
less well.
Publishing the failure modes costs us some conversions. It also means the number in front of you can be
argued with, which is the only thing that makes it worth anything.
The free tier has to be genuinely usable
A free plan that exists purely to frustrate you into upgrading is a dark pattern with a friendly name. Ours
are sized so that a normal person can rely on them permanently — five full AI analyses every day on Shopping
Copilot, no account, no card, no expiry. Paid plans lift limits and add depth for people who shop often
enough to want it. They don't unlock basic honesty.
Nothing runs until you ask
Our extensions are dormant by default. They don't watch your browsing, build a profile, or phone home in the
background. When you click the button on a product page, the visible text of that one page is sent for
analysis and is not retained afterwards. We don't collect browsing history or location, and we don't sell
data to anyone — there is no broker relationship now and none planned.
Say how the money is made, on the page, not in a footnote
We earn in two ways: subscriptions, and affiliate commissions on some retailer links. Both are disclosed
plainly on the product sites rather than buried. The important structural point is that the scoring model
has no access to which merchants pay us a commission, so it cannot favour them even if we wanted it to. If
that ever stopped being true, this is where we'd say so first.
Small on purpose. DABA Enterprise is one person building carefully, not a funded team
shipping fast. That means fewer products, slower releases, and a real human answering the support address.
It also means we're not carrying investor pressure to monetise your attention, which is what usually turns
a useful tool into a hostile one.
Where our tools fall short
Worth stating plainly, since we ask you to trust the output. Our analyses are AI-generated opinions drawn
from publicly visible page content: they can be wrong, out of date, or confidently mistaken. Review-authenticity
estimates are statistical inferences about patterns, not accusations against any named seller. Price history
reflects listing prices we've observed and is thin for recently listed items. Retailers change their page
structure frequently, so support for a given store can break temporarily. None of it is financial or
professional advice, and the buying decision stays yours.