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About The Front Desk Review
The Front Desk Review is an independent, provenance-first price and specification index. We track the published price of 7,464 products and software tools across 790 categories — every figure linked to the public page it was captured from, with the date, recorded in an append-only history since June 2026.
What we do
We answer one question well: what does this cost, and what do you get — for consumer hardware and for business software. Not with opinions or star ratings, but with sourced, dated facts you (or an AI assistant) can verify. Where a figure cannot be sourced, we publish nothing rather than a guess.
How we verify — sourced, dated, corroborated, logged
Every price comes from the public page it was captured from — the seller's or maker's own wherever they publish the number, otherwise the named public source — is stamped with the date we read it, corroborated against a second source where one exists, and written to an append-only, hash-chained log so its history can never be quietly rewritten. The full method and the moat's live scale are on the Price Index.
Who maintains it
The index is maintained by the The Front Desk Review editorial team. Listing is free and never requires a vendor's payment or consent, and no vendor can pay to change a position, score or inclusion. How we fund the work — Amazon's affiliate program, whose commission varies by product category and is never read by our grades or sort orders — is fully disclosed on How we make money. Corrections are free for everyone and logged.
Questions, corrections or coverage requests? Email [email protected].