Last Updated: August 2026
I’m Ron Grinblat. I founded Thryve Digest, I edit everything published here, and I write a good share of it myself. This page covers who writes what, who checks it, how the site makes money, and what that money doesn’t buy.
1. Who Writes Here
Every article carries the byline of the person who wrote it, and each byline links to that contributor’s author page, where you can see their background and the rest of their work.
Ron Grinblat, founder and editor, spent more than 20 years in growth, lifecycle marketing and marketing operations at companies including Intuit, MUFG Union Bank and ActiveCampaign, and now runs a consulting practice alongside Thryve Digest. Brianna Lane covers small business finance and accounting, drawing on years spent doing bookkeeping and accounting work for small business clients. Kris Hutchinson covers client management and agency-client relationships as founder and CEO of Hutch, a performance marketing agency, after nearly two decades of agency ownership and leadership.
There’s no newsroom behind this. It’s three people, two categories, and each of us writing about work we’ve actually done.
2. Who Reviews What
I’m the editor. I read, edit and approve every article on this site, including Brianna’s and Kris’s. They see the final version before it publishes, and any quote attributed to them gets their sign-off first.
Here’s the part most policies leave out: nobody edits me. On my own articles there’s no second set of eyes, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page. What I do instead is hold my own work to rules that don’t need a reviewer to enforce them.
- Every statistic traces back to the organization that produced it, and the link goes to that organization rather than to an article about it. If I can’t find the original, the number comes out.
- If something is a pattern I noticed rather than a finding somebody measured, the article says so in those words.
- If a topic sits outside what I’m qualified to answer, the article names the limit instead of writing around it.
- Anything a contributor knows better than I do goes to that contributor, or it doesn’t run.
Research tools, including AI-assisted tools, may be used to gather sources, verify figures or organize an outline. They don’t write the articles and they don’t decide what gets published. Topic selection, argument, sourcing and final approval sit with the named author and with me.
3. What I Can’t Claim
Plenty of sites this size claim a wall between their editorial side and their advertising side. I can’t claim that, because I’m both sides of it. There’s no advertising department here and no separate editorial one.
This also isn’t journalism. Thryve Digest is advice writing: researched carefully, sourced to primary material where it exists, written by people with real operating experience. That’s a different thing from reporting, and calling it reporting wouldn’t make it any better.
What I can offer instead of a firewall is disclosure you can actually check: who benefits when you click something, said in the article you’re reading rather than buried on a page like this one.
4. How This Site Makes Money
Thryve Digest is free to read and it has to pay for itself somehow. There are three ways it can, and here’s the honest status of each.
Affiliate links. Affiliate relationships here run through PartnerStack, a network that connects publishers with software companies. If you click one of those links and sign up, this site may earn a commission. You never pay more because the link came from here, and in some cases a partner offers a reader discount that makes it cheaper.
Display advertising. If ad units appear on this site, a third-party network serves them and chooses what to show you using its own systems. I don’t pick the advertisers, they don’t know what’s in the article, and no advertiser has ever influenced a word of one.
Consulting. I run a consulting practice separately from this site, under Revaro Group LLC, which is also the company Thryve Digest operates under. Nothing published here is written to sell it.
Money from any of those has never changed a topic, a conclusion or a recommendation, and it isn’t going to.
5. Affiliate Links
Where an article contains an affiliate link, that article says so, above the link, in plain language. A line in the footer is a backstop, not a disclosure, and I don’t treat it as one.
The rule that decides whether a link goes in at all: the person writing the article has used the tool themselves, or has evaluated it directly against the alternatives for the situation the article describes. If neither is true there’s no link, even when there’s a program sitting right there paying for one.
Commission rates don’t set the order, don’t set the verdict, and don’t decide whether something makes the article. These relationships are disclosed in line with the FTC’s Endorsement Guides.
6. Sponsored Content
No sponsored content has ever run on Thryve Digest. No brand has paid for a placement, a mention, a review or a feature here.
If that changes, here’s exactly what you’ll see:
- The label Sponsored or Paid Partnership at the top of the piece, before the first paragraph, not at the bottom.
- The sponsor named.
- The same sourcing standard as everything else, and my name on the review of it.
- No sponsor approval over the conclusions. They can decline to run it. They can’t rewrite it.
And one rule underneath all of that: I won’t take money to recommend something I wouldn’t have recommended for free.
7. Corrections and Updates
Things get published wrong sometimes. When they do I want to hear about it, and I’d rather hear it from you than not hear it at all.
- How to report one: email [email protected] with the article title and what’s wrong. A link to the correct source helps but isn’t required.
- What happens next: I’ll reply within five business days, either with the fix or with why I think the original stands.
- Factual errors get corrected in the article and noted at the bottom of it, with the date and what changed. The wrong version doesn’t quietly disappear.
- Typos, broken links and stale figures get fixed without a note, and the article’s updated date moves.
- Disagreements about judgment aren’t corrections, but I’ll still answer the email, and if the argument is good it tends to show up in the next revision.
Older articles get revisited as things change, including affiliate links that stop pointing anywhere useful. Some of what’s on this site was published before these rules were written down, and I’m working back through it in order.
8. What I Promise You
- I don’t sell coverage, and I’ve never accepted payment for a positive review.
- Every affiliate and advertising relationship gets disclosed, in the article and here.
- If a subject needs a licensed professional, the article says so instead of guessing.
- If I get something wrong, it gets corrected in public rather than edited away.
The point of this site is to help you make a decision you don’t regret. Selling you something you don’t need would defeat the whole exercise.
9. Related Policies
For how data is collected and used, see the Privacy Policy. For your rights and responsibilities when using the site, including the limits on what the content here is and isn’t, see the Terms of Use.
10. Contact
Questions about any of this come straight to me at [email protected]. It’s my inbox, not a department. For anything about privacy or your data, use [email protected].