What the blog covers
The blog helps people with a broken phone, tablet, computer, console or drive decide what to do next. Posts cover troubleshooting and when to call a shop, repair costs, repair or replacement, industry news, right to repair laws and checklists for choosing a shop. Reports also draw on RepairSeeker's own data.
How a post is made
Software picks topics from questions people search for and a daily scan of news feeds from manufacturers, regulators and the press. It fetches manufacturer support and newsroom pages, laws, regulator pages, company filings, research firms' own releases, repair guides, reputable news reports and RepairSeeker's own data. It saves exact numbers and short quotes from each source, with the date read. An AI writing model uses only that material to draft the post. The model does not browse the web.
Automated checks test every number against cited sources. They also check for banned phrases, jargon, dashes, reading level, sentence length, text that reads as machine-written and links to missing pages. A post may share no more than 15 percent of its wording with any other page on the site. Failed drafts are rewritten by the model with the reasons, never edited by hand, and dropped if they keep failing. Tim Katzgrau, who builds RepairSeeker, reads posts in the blog's first weeks and a sample after that.
Where the facts come from
Every figure links to an entry in the numbered “Sources” list at the end of the post, with the publisher, title and date read. Shop prices come from shops' own websites and show the month checked and how many shops they come from. Forums are used only to say what owners report, never to establish facts. Other directories, content farms and AI summaries are not used as sources.
Funding and independence
Tim Katzgrau funds RepairSeeker himself. No shop, manufacturer or advertiser pays for coverage or can review a post before it goes live. Posts never recommend or rank individual shops and name them only in data tables drawn from many shops. Paid “Featured” placements appear only in labeled list positions on directory pages, never in posts.
Images and charts
Charts are drawn by code from the numbers shown with them, with a source underneath and the data in a table. Pictures made by an AI image model carry the label “Illustration” and are marked as AI-generated in the image file's metadata. Posts do not use fake photos of real events, products or people.
What post dates mean
“Published” marks when a post first went live. “Updated” appears only after a real change to what the post says. “Reviewed” means its facts were checked again against its sources. Adding a link to another post or fixing a typo does not change any date.
Reporting and fixing mistakes
Email contact@repairseeker.com to report a mistake. Factual errors are corrected, with a dated note at the start of the post saying what changed. Every material fix is recorded in the corrections log. Typos and wording changes that leave facts unchanged are fixed without a note.
Who is responsible
RepairSeeker is operated by Fried Pickles LLC. Posts carry Tim Katzgrau's byline, and he is responsible for the blog. For questions about the blog, write to contact@repairseeker.com.