About Famzy
Famzy is a free library of short, plain-English guides for people who make podcasts and videos and are figuring out AI.
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What Famzy is
Each Famzy guide answers one question in plain English. It shows a worked example: the setting to change, the number to expect, the price on the date we checked. Most guides take a few minutes to read, so you can read one on a phone between other jobs.
Famzy is free to read. There are no accounts, popups or paywalls.
Who it's for
People who make things for an audience, mostly on their own:
- New and small podcasters, with solo shows or interview shows.
- YouTubers and short-form video makers with small channels.
- Educators, coaches and course makers who teach on camera.
- Founders, freelancers and small businesses that make video, even if they don't call themselves creators.
- Anyone starting to use AI tools for transcripts, editing, scripts or voice, who wants to know what works and what it costs.
Who we are
Famzy is run by a small team. The same team also builds software for creators. Our guides don't mention it, and it never changes a pick (see Ads and promotions).
We don't use made-up author names, invented "experts" or stock photos of people. When a guide is about one person's experience, it is that person's own published account, and the guide links to it.
Here is how a guide gets made. AI tools research and draft it. Separate AI agents then check each fact against its source and edit it before it's published, and the sources are listed at the bottom of every guide. Our team decides what Famzy covers and sets the rules on this page.
Guides are credited to "Famzy Editors": our team and the AI tools it uses, not a single named writer.
How we check facts
- Every fact a reader could check comes from a source: a price, a spec, a date, a platform rule, something a person said. The sources are listed at the bottom of every guide.
- We prefer primary sources: a company's own help pages and pricing pages, the original study, a person's own words.
- Prices, plans and AI features change fast. Guides say when they were checked, and the "Updated" date at the top shows the last time a guide's facts were re-checked or changed.
- If we can't find a source for something, we cut it.
What we never do
- Invent people, quotes, stories, statistics or test results.
- Say we tested a product hands-on unless someone actually did, and the guide says so.
- Give a made-up example a real-sounding name. Examples that aren't real cases say so ("Here's a made-up example", "Say you...") and use "you" or a role, such as "your co-host", never a name.
- Promise growth, income or results.
How we pick products
Product picks are based on published specs and, where a guide links them, independent reviews or creator reports. Each pick says what it's based on, and every price comes with the date it was checked. A product shown in a guide's product box is a pick. A guide may also name a product in its text, as an example or as one of the options it compares. Famzy has no affiliate links right now. The full policy is on our disclosure page.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it. When a fix changes a fact, we write a dated note into the guide that says what changed, and we update the guide's "Updated" date. We don't quietly rewrite mistakes.
To report a mistake, use our contact form. Tell us the page address and what's wrong. A link to a source helps.
How Famzy is paid for
Today Famzy earns nothing from you reading it: there are no display ads and no affiliate links. The team behind it covers its costs. Later, it may carry affiliate links, or a promotion for software our team makes. Both would be labelled, and neither would change a pick.
Ads and promotions
Famzy doesn't run display ads. If we ever promote a product, including software our team makes, it will sit in a box labelled as a promotion, after a guide or on the homepage, never inside a guide. It will never change what a guide recommends.