About
Verdict is run by one person: Mike Hun — Aerospace Engineer in California, twelve-plus years designing systems at Lockheed Martin and other defense primes. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, which is a roundabout way of saying I've spent most of my career staring at data and arguing about whether it meant what people claimed it meant.
Why Verdict exists
I got tired of “best of” articles that turn out to be sponsor lists with extra steps. You've seen the pattern — read the review, buy the product, realize the review was mostly a press release, swear off review sites for a week, relapse. My day job is cutting through spec-sheet claims to find what's actually true. Verdict is me pointing that same skepticism at consumer products.
The rule is simple: if a rating is on this site, you can click through to the reviewer that produced it. If a product is ranked #1, you can see why. No pay-to-play, no “editor's pick” that's really an advertiser's pick.
How Verdict is actually built
Transparency matters more than the illusion of a newsroom, so: Verdict runs on an AI pipeline I designed. It pulls structured review data directly from published reviews, synthesises pros and cons from articles, Reddit threads, and YouTube transcripts, and averages numeric scores across sources. I set the editorial rules, review the output, and decide what goes live.
Every rating traces back to a named publication — see the Methodology page for the full pipeline.
What's next
If there's a category you want covered, the contact form is the way in. Verdict is sponsor-free and not affiliated with any manufacturer. Amazon links earn a small commission if you buy, with zero influence on rankings — it's just how I try to convince myself this is worth the effort to keep live and growing.