About
Who writes this, and why you should care
Preparedness writing has a trust problem. Most of it is fear with an affiliate link attached. Here is how this one is different, stated plainly enough that you can hold us to it.
What OutpostCore covers
Household preparedness for the United States: water, power, food, communications, offline knowledge, kits, hazards, medical supplies, shelter and the drills that prove any of it works. Ten pillars, and we go deepest on communications and offline knowledge because those are the two nobody else covers well.
What it refuses to cover
No medication dosing, diagnosis or treatment instructions. No legal advice. No predictions about when society ends. No encouragement to hoard during an active emergency, which hurts your neighbours and does not help you.
The rules the writing follows
- Every factual claim carries a source, listed at the bottom of the article.
- Recommendations come in three tiers, and the free or nearly free option is listed first, even when it earns us nothing.
- Where the evidence is thin or contested, we say so. Naming the limits of what is known is the difference between a guide and a sales page.
- Every article names a human author and a human reviewer, and shows the date it was last checked.
Who writes it
A small named group. We claim no certifications, because we hold none worth claiming here, and implying otherwise would be exactly the thing this site exists to avoid. Authority comes from citing better sources than the next site and from testing things ourselves and publishing the failures.
Ryan Byrd
Editor
Ryan builds software and runs the tests behind the drills published here. He reviews and edits every article on OutpostCore before it goes live, and writes the ones based on his own testing.
How it pays for itself
Right now it does not. There are no ads, no sponsors and no paid placements, and there will be no newsletter sponsorships. In time some gear guides will carry affiliate links, which will be disclosed at the top of the page and next to the links themselves, and the free option will still be listed first. We also build a few other things, and any link to one of those says so.
If you spot a claim that is wrong, a source that does not say what we say it says, or a link that has gone dark, tell us. Corrections get appended to the article with a date rather than made quietly.