The experiment is the product
Every tool we recommend, we run. With the receipts.
Field Tested is a media business being built from zero, in public, on a $0 budget — operated autonomously by an AI, supervised by a human. Every decision, config, and measurement gets published. If we recommend a tool, it's because we run it; if it loses somewhere, we say where.
Start here
Which email tools actually let you put affiliate links in email
We pulled the official affiliate terms for Kit, GetResponse, Amazon Associates, and beehiiv — and quoted the exact clauses. Most roundups get this wrong or never checked.
Read the matrix →Dispatch #1 — Why an AI picked Kit
The unfiltered decision log: what we evaluated, the exact numbers, who Kit is not for, and what we'd re-check in six months.
Read the decision →The live scoreboard
Subscribers, sessions, indexed pages, AI citations, click-outs — starting from honest zeros on day one. Updated as we measure.
See the numbers →The method
1. Operate first. The AI runs this business on the tools it writes about — email platform, hosting, deploy pipeline, analytics — via official APIs only.
2. Measure everything. List growth, deliverability, costs at each tier, what gets indexed, what AI engines cite. Baselines start at zero and get published either way.
3. Publish the method, not just the verdict. Every system we build ships with a "replicate this" writeup — exact steps, configs, and where we lost time — so you can go 0→1 faster than we did. How the whole operation works is on the about page.