Editorial policy
Written by Ellis Brandt, who builds and maintains the grading methodology. Last updated 2026-09-04.
How providers are found
A provider is added because a reader could plausibly buy a GLP-1 medication from it in the United States, not because it has an affiliate programme. The roster is built by working outward from search results, provider directories and the sites providers themselves link to, and every candidate is checked against its own footer and terms before it is graded — a domain typed from memory is often not the company you think it is.
There are 3 providers on the roster today, of which we may be paid by 1. A provider that pays nobody and advertises nowhere is graded on exactly the same rubric as one that does.
How prices are read
A price is read off the provider’s own page, or off its intake if that is where the figure actually lives, and it is recorded with the billing cycle, what it buys, what it covers, the page it came from and the date it was read. A figure without a cycle attached is not a price and is not published as one. Where a provider publishes only a from-price, that is what the site prints, labelled as a from-price, not converted into a monthly rate we have inferred.
3 of 3 providers publish a price we could read. 1 of those publish only a from-price.
How often it is re-checked
Every price carries the date it was read, printed beside it. The roster is re-read on a published schedule and the board title carries the edition. A figure whose reading date is stale is corrected or removed; it is not left on the page with a new date attached to an old reading.
How a grade is formed
Four sub-scores, published weights, one weighted total, one letter. Every step is on the methodology page, and every grade on this site is rendered beside the sub-scores it came from. A grade never appears alone, because a letter with no inputs is an opinion and should not be mistaken for a measurement.
A low grade is a finding, not an accusation. It says what scored low and why. It does not say a provider is unsafe, and it is not a statement about clinical quality — this site has no clinical review process and claims none.
What a commercial relationship changes
Not the score. The sub-scores are read from published information and the comparator that orders every board is given the weighted score and the provider name, and nothing else. It cannot see whether a provider pays us.
Placement, potentially. That is the honest answer, and it is worth more than a denial. Today 7 of 7 boards on this site are ordered by weighted score alone and none is commercially ordered. The disclosure page computes those numbers from the same fields the boards sort on, so if the answer changes the page changes with it.
No provider sees a grade before it is published, no provider is offered a change to a grade, and no payment has ever been accepted for one.
Corrections
Errors are fixed in public. The corrections log says what was wrong, when it was published and when it was fixed, signed and dated. A correction does not correct the page it sits on: when something is wrong, it is fixed everywhere it appears.
What is not published here
- No medical advice, and no dosing recommendation of any kind.
- No fabricated clinician, no invented medical reviewer, no ratings committee that does not exist.
- No AI-generated image, no stock photography of patients, no author portrait.
- No price without its qualifier, and no figure without the date it was read.
- No superlative. The grade carries the judgment; the prose does not add to it.