The pattern book
- “3,419 errors found!” — count inflation with no defined unit. Honest: “the 12 settings this tool changes are…”
- “AI-powered optimization” — models can't know your restore boundary. Honest: previously-saved state plus a deterministic catalog.
- “Boosts FPS by 37%” — any percentage without workload, hardware, and meaned methodology is decoration. Honest: bounded per-value diff with measurement notes.
- “Disables unused services safely” — “unused” without dependency analysis is a services.msc roulette simulator.
- “Installs a tiny helper driver” — no user-per-account tuning needs kernel code.
- “24/7 monitoring included free” — monetization finds its path through the agent, eventually.
- “4.8 stars ★” — no volume metric attached; if reviews all mention the installer upsell funnel, that's the review too.
The one-line detector
“Tell me exactly which bytes change, and how I revert them.” The category's answer to that specific question, in 30 seconds of product page reading, is the entire evaluation.
ProofTune ProjectEngineering notes — every claim here names the bytes a real tool touches. Verify first, install second.