Author profile
Andre Granito
Software engineer, founder, and lead reviewer at ReviewsAlly. Andre leads product research, hands-on testing, evidence review, and editorial decisions across the site’s VPN, business software, and online-service coverage.
Last updated: October 8, 2026
Founder & Lead Reviewer at ReviewsAlly
Andre Granito is a software engineer and the founder and lead reviewer of ReviewsAlly.com. His background spans software engineering, web development, digital marketing, and online publishing, with nearly a decade of practical work building and operating websites and evaluating software and online services.
At ReviewsAlly, Andre is responsible for defining research methods, reviewing evidence, performing hands-on tests where appropriate, comparing products, documenting limitations, and making final editorial decisions about rankings and recommendations.
His approach is straightforward: separate what a company says from what the evidence actually shows, document the conditions behind a test, and avoid turning one result into a broader claim than the research can support.
What Andre Covers
ReviewsAlly focuses on categories where the buying decision becomes more useful when marketing claims are checked against pricing, documentation, technical evidence, real workflows, or structured verification.
Paid VPN testing, speed measurement, protocols, DNS and WebRTC checks, kill switches, streaming workflows, apps, pricing, renewals, support, cancellations, and refunds.
Pricing, client-facing workflows, permissions, files, branding, integrations, billing features, security documentation, and practical fit for service businesses.
Structured verification of pricing, locations, mail-handling rules, scanning and forwarding limits, fees, apps, policies, checkout information, and provider support.
Tracking and attribution, commissions, partner management, payouts, integrations, APIs, marketplaces, automation, pricing, and fit for SaaS, ecommerce, and performance programs.
How Andre Reviews Products
The level of testing changes with the product. ReviewsAlly does not pretend that every service can be researched in exactly the same way.
When direct testing adds meaningful evidence, Andre may purchase the product, use the application, collect measurements, contact support, or complete customer workflows. When purchasing or completing a workflow is not appropriate, the research may instead rely on structured verification, authenticated demos or trials, official documentation, pricing pages, policies, technical sources, and support responses.
The important distinction is not whether every page uses the same research method. It is whether the wording stays inside the evidence that was actually collected.
- Primary sources first: pricing pages, terms, policies, documentation, dashboards, apps, checkout flows, and support responses.
- Hands-on claims require hands-on evidence: a company describing a feature does not prove that ReviewsAlly tested it.
- Conditions matter: device, operating system, server, protocol, plan, location, date, baseline, or workflow are recorded when they materially affect the result.
- Unknown is different from failed: an inconclusive check is not silently converted into a pass or a failure.
- Limitations stay visible: inconvenient findings, conflicting evidence, pricing surprises, failed checks, and unverified claims belong in the finished review when they matter to the buyer.
The broader standards behind this process are documented in ReviewsAlly’s Editorial Policy and How We Rank.
A Hands-On Example: Nine Paid VPNs
ReviewsAlly’s 2026 VPN research is the clearest example of Andre’s hands-on methodology. ReviewsAlly purchased nine paid VPN subscriptions and tested them rather than building the comparison from provider feature pages alone.
The documented research includes:
- 9 paid VPN subscriptions;
- 268 recorded speed-test measurements;
- 45 streaming playback checks across the nine providers;
- protocol and app testing;
- DNS and WebRTC-oriented privacy checks;
- kill-switch and other security-feature checks where supported;
- support interactions;
- checkout, introductory pricing, and renewal research;
- real cancellation and refund workflows across all nine paid accounts.
Those results are not treated as permanent universal benchmarks. VPN performance varies with connection, location, server, protocol, device, congestion, and time. ReviewsAlly therefore publishes the test conditions and limitations alongside the results.
See the underlying methodology in How We Test VPNs.
Selected ReviewsAlly Research
These pages show different parts of the research process, from full product comparisons to supporting methodology and datasets.
- Best VPN Services of 2026 — the current paid hands-on VPN comparison.
- How We Test VPNs — evidence levels, testing conditions, methodology, and limitations.
- VPN Cost, Pricing & Renewal Research — checkout commitments, introductory prices, and renewal costs.
- VPN Speed Test & Speed-Loss Research — methodology for comparing VPN performance against a local baseline.
- VPN Free Trials & Money-Back Guarantees — trial conditions and documented refund workflows.
- Best Client Portal Software — business-software comparison based on pricing, workflows, features, documentation, and buyer fit.
- Best Virtual Mailbox Services — structured verification of mailbox pricing, locations, policies, fees, and mail-handling workflows.
- Best Affiliate Management Software — comparison of tracking, partner management, commissions, payouts, integrations, pricing, and program fit.
Published Work and Editorial Features
Andre’s VPN pricing research has also appeared outside ReviewsAlly. The article What nine paid VPNs actually cost at checkout and renewal has been published or republished by the following outlets:
Additional public profiles, company listings, press mentions, and third-party references are collected on ReviewsAlly Around the Web.
Editorial Independence
ReviewsAlly may earn affiliate commissions from some companies covered on the site. A commercial relationship is not evidence that a product deserves a positive result, a higher ranking, or the removal of a material limitation.
Andre’s editorial responsibility includes keeping provider claims, documented findings, external evidence, and interpretation separate. Providers can send corrections or updated evidence, but commercial relationships do not give them editorial control over ReviewsAlly conclusions.
Read the Advertising Disclosure for details about affiliate relationships.
Corrections and Contact
Product details change, and research can occasionally need correction. If you find a factual problem in a ReviewsAlly page, include the page URL, the statement in question, and a current source or explanation that helps verify the correction.
Email: info@reviewsally.com
You can also connect with Andre on LinkedIn.