Editorial Policy

Why we publish

Crafted Call publishes editorial content to help art organizations, artists, jurors, and arts administrators do their jobs better — not to game search rankings. We write about what we have direct, day-to-day exposure to as the operators of a gallery management platform: calls for artists, jury workflows, exhibition logistics, artist payouts, and the operational realities of small and mid-size art organizations.

How we research

Every guide is grounded in one or more of the following:

• First-party observation. We see thousands of calls, juries, and exhibitions run on Crafted Call. When we cite ranges, medians, or "typical" workflows, those numbers come from what we actually see — not from third-party listicles.
• Direct conversation with operators. Gallery directors, curators, jurors, and exhibition coordinators tell us how things work in the field. Our content reflects their language and constraints, not generic best-practice templates.
• Primary-source citations. Where we cite an external fact — a tax rule, a pricing claim about another platform, a published study — we link directly to the primary source. Aggregator blogs and AI-generated summaries are not accepted as sources.

Authorship and attribution

Most guides are authored under the byline "Crafted Call Team," which represents collective work by the people who build, support, and operate the platform. We do not invent fictional author personas or credentials. When a guide has been reviewed by a named external subject-matter expert — a working gallery director, curator, or arts attorney — that reviewer is credited explicitly under the article header.

Use of AI

We use AI tools to help with outlining, transcription, and grammar review. We do not publish unedited AI-generated articles. Every guide is written or substantially edited by a human who works on or around Crafted Call, fact-checked against primary sources, and reviewed before publication.

Comparisons and competitive content

When we write about other platforms — Submittable, CaFÉ, EntryThingy, ArtCall, and others — our goal is honest, helpful comparison from a gallery-buyer's point of view, not negative selling. We:

• Cite competitor pricing and feature claims from the competitor's own public documentation, with a link, and the date we checked.
• Disclose our obvious bias — Crafted Call is one of the options being compared — at the top of every comparison piece.
• Update competitive content when we are notified of inaccuracies or when pricing changes, and we note the change in the article footer.

Corrections

If you spot an error in any Crafted Call guide, comparison, or reference article — a factual mistake, an out-of-date number, a misattributed quote, an outdated competitor price — please write to editorial@craftedcall.com. We commit to:

• Acknowledging correction requests within five business days.
• Investigating against primary sources before making any change.
• When we update an article after publication for a factual reason, noting the change with a dated correction line in the article footer rather than silently editing it.

Conflicts of interest

We do not accept paid placements, sponsored sections, or affiliate kickbacks inside editorial content. We do link to our own product pages — that is a disclosed, expected part of publishing on a commercial product's website. When we cite a customer of Crafted Call by name, we say so.

Scope

This policy applies to guides published under /resources/guides and editorial pages elsewhere on this site. It does not apply to user-generated content (artist profiles, organization pages, open calls) or to product-marketing pages, which follow different review processes.

Not legal, tax, or financial advice

Guides that touch on 1099 forms, sales tax, artist payouts, gallery commissions, or contracts are educational summaries of how things generally work in the field. They are not legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice. For your specific situation, consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction.