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TrendinTech publishes contributed articles from people who work in technology and have something specific to say about it. If you have built, deployed, secured, benchmarked or shipped something and can explain what you learned, we would like to hear from you. This page explains what we accept, what we turn down and how to pitch.

1. Who we are looking for

Our best contributors are practitioners: engineers, security researchers, infrastructure people, founders, product managers, game developers and hardware specialists who write from direct experience. You do not need to be a professional writer. You do need to know your subject well enough to be precise about it, because our editors will ask.

2. What we publish

Contributed pieces run across our eight desks: AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Startups, Hardware, Software, Gaming and Mobile. The formats that work best are:

  • Explainers that make a complicated technology or decision understandable.
  • Hands-on analysis: what happened when you used, deployed or tested something, with the numbers.
  • Technical deep dives on a specific problem, design or vulnerability.
  • Industry analysis that takes a clear position and supports it with evidence.
  • Post-mortems and lessons learned, including the parts that went wrong.

Typical length is 1,200 to 2,500 words. Longer is fine if the material justifies it.

3. Our standards

Contributed articles are held to the same editorial policy as staff work. That means:

  • Original. The piece must be written for TrendinTech and not published elsewhere, including on your own blog or on LinkedIn, before or after it runs with us, unless agreed in writing.
  • Sourced. Every factual claim, figure and quote needs a source we can check. Link to primary sources: documentation, papers, filings, advisories, your own data. “Studies show” without a study is cut.
  • Specific. Say which version, which configuration, which workload, which date. Vague claims that cannot be tested are not useful to readers.
  • Honest about limits. If your results only apply in certain conditions, say so. If you did not test something, do not imply you did.
  • Disclosed. If you work for, advise, invest in or are paid by any company or product mentioned in the piece, tell us in the pitch. The disclosure will appear on the article. Undisclosed conflicts that come to light after publication result in the piece being removed and the contributor not being published again.

4. What we do not accept

  • Press releases, product announcements or thinly rewritten marketing copy.
  • Sponsored or paid-for articles submitted as independent contributions. Labelled sponsored content goes through the commercial side of the business, not this page.
  • Articles written to place a link. If the reason for the piece is a backlink to your company or client, the answer is no. We decide which links stay.
  • AI-generated or AI-spun text submitted as your own work. We use AI-assisted tools ourselves in parts of our process and say so in our editorial policy, but a contributed article has to represent your actual knowledge and experience. If you used a tool to help with drafting or editing, say so in your submission; that is not disqualifying on its own, but hiding it is.
  • Personal attacks and unverified allegations about named people or companies.
  • Generic listicles with no testing behind them.

5. How to pitch

Email [email protected] with “Pitch” in the subject line. Pitch before you write; a full unsolicited draft is harder for us to place and harder for you to rework. A good pitch fits in a few paragraphs and covers:

  • the working headline and the argument or finding in two or three sentences;
  • why it matters now and who it is for;
  • what you bring to it: your role, your direct experience with the subject and any data you have;
  • any relationship with companies or products that would be mentioned;
  • links to things you have written before, if you have them.

Please send one pitch at a time.

6. What happens next

  1. Review. An editor on the relevant desk reads the pitch. We aim to reply within five business days. We read every pitch, though we cannot always explain a pass in detail.
  2. Commission. If we accept, we agree a brief: angle, length, deadline and any disclosures that will run with the piece.
  3. Draft. You send the draft as plain text or a document, with sources linked inline and any images attached with their source and licence.
  4. Edit. An editor edits for clarity, structure and accuracy, and checks the sources. Substantive changes are sent back to you for approval; copy edits are not.
  5. Publish. The piece runs under your name with a short bio and any disclosure. We may change the headline. Corrections after publication follow the editorial policy.

7. Rights and payment

By submitting a contributed article you grant Orkatek, as the publisher of TrendinTech, the right to publish, edit, archive and promote it. You keep the copyright. Republishing elsewhere requires our written agreement and a link back to the original. Whether a piece is paid for is agreed in writing at the commissioning stage; an accepted pitch does not imply payment unless we have said so.

8. Author bio

Published contributors get a short factual bio under the article: name, role, organisation and one link to a personal site or professional profile. We do not run promotional bios or describe credentials we cannot verify.

9. Frequently asked questions

Can I include a link to my company or product? If it is directly relevant and useful to the reader, usually yes, with your relationship disclosed. If the piece exists to carry the link, no.

Do you accept articles from PR agencies on behalf of clients? Only if the named author is the actual expert and the agency relationship is disclosed.

Can I republish the article on my blog later? Ask us; we often agree after a period.

Can I write anonymously? Normally no. The editor must know who you are.

10. Contact

Pitches and questions about contributing go to [email protected]. You can also find TrendinTech on LinkedIn. Our postal address is Orkatek, 67 West Street, Suite 34, Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States.