# How padell.io works

> Most of the work is reading: specs, reviews, prices. AI does the rough work. I rewrite guides and explanations myself.

- URL: https://padell.io/how-we-work/
- Language: en
- Site: padell.io (https://padell.io/)

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Mostly reading.

Most of the work is reading: specs, reviews, prices. AI does the rough work. I rewrite guides and explanations myself.

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## Mostly desk research

Most of the work is reading and comparing. Specs come from the brands' own sites: weight, balance, shape, core, face. For every value I keep the page it came from.

On top of that I read independent review sites. Shop prices are checked every day. Not every review is equally good. Which sources count and why is explained with the score.

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## Testing myself where I can

I play a lot of padel. Buy a racket, play it for a few weeks, sell it again: I do that quite often. That experience is in the guides, in the questions of the racket finder and in what comes first on a racket page.

I have not played nearly every racket on this site. That is why the score only uses published specs and what independent reviewers found. That way you can check every number.

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## AI for the rough work

Reading hundreds of product pages, putting specs in the same units, summarising reviews and translating everything into three languages: AI does that. Without that help, one person could not build a site like this.

AI also writes the first version of texts. Those do not go live as they are. They are checked against the specs and sources on the page. I rewrite guides and explanations myself.

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## Checks and corrections

A spec only goes live when it appears on the source page. If something is missing, the page says "not published". No guess. Sources that disagree, odd values, a price on the wrong racket: I actively look for those. And then I fix them.

Still spotted a mistake? Let me know. A correction goes live after a check against the brand's own page.

### What AI does

- Read brand product pages and pull out the specs
- Read reviews and summarise the verdict per aspect
- Write first versions of texts
- Translate into Dutch and German

### What AI does not do

- Decide scores: that is a fixed, public formula
- Invent specs or fill in gaps
- Pretend a racket was played
- Decide which rackets come out on top

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