Write for us
We publish guides about certificates of deposit for people deciding what to do with their own savings. If you can explain the mechanics accurately and show your arithmetic, we would like to read your pitch.
- Byline + profile link
- No affiliate links
- Editor checks the maths
- At maturity
- $10,450.00
- Interest
- $450.00
Term length
$10,000.00 for 1 year, compounded daily. Runs in your browser.
Topics
What we are looking for
CD mechanics we have not covered
Anything about how certificates of deposit actually work that is missing from the guides — unusual term structures, renewal mechanics, institution-specific rules.
Comparisons against other products
CDs against instruments we have not written up yet. The comparison has to be numerical, not a list of adjectives.
Rate environment and strategy
How savers should think about term selection when rates are moving, with the arithmetic shown rather than asserted.
Deposit products outside the US
Term deposits, fixed deposits and their local insurance schemes. This is the biggest genuine gap on the site.
Every guide has to earn its place next to a working calculator. If a claim in your piece can be checked against the interest calculator or the ladder calculator, we will check it — and the published figure will be whatever the formula returns, not whatever the draft said. Our methodology page documents exactly how that verification works.
Editorial standards
What we ask of a submission
Original and unpublished. We run a copy check before anything goes live, and syndicated pieces are declined.
Every number must be reproducible. If you state a figure, state the inputs and the formula that produced it — we re-derive each one before publishing.
Cite primary sources. FDIC, NCUA, CFPB, Federal Reserve and the text of Regulation DD. Not another blog's summary of them.
No affiliate links, no bank placements, no rate-table sponsorships. This is a calculation site and that has to stay true.
1,200–2,500 words, written for someone deciding what to do with their own money — not for a keyword target.
You keep the byline, with a link to one profile of your choice. Nothing is published under a house pseudonym.
How to pitch
Send it here
- 1
Email a working title and a three-to-five bullet outline. Not a full draft — we would rather agree the angle before you spend the hours.
- 2
Include the primary sources you intend to cite, and one link to something you have written before.
- 3
If we commission it, you get a deadline and a style note. Drafts are edited for accuracy first and house voice second.
- 4
You approve the final edit before it publishes, and the byline links wherever you choose.
For anything that is not a contribution — a calculation that looks wrong, a translation that reads badly, a topic gap — the contact page is the faster route. Corrections to a published figure are prioritised over everything else.
Questions
Before you pitch
Not currently. What we offer is a byline, a link to a profile of your choice, and an editor who will actually check your arithmetic before it goes out. If your goal is a paid placement, this is not that.
Formulas and content last reviewed . Bank rates change frequently — confirm current rates directly with your institution.
Know the subject? Try the tools first
The best pitches come from people who have used the calculators and found the gap themselves. Run a few scenarios, then tell us what is missing.