For Manufacturers & Brands
Submit a product for honest review.
We review gear that actually helps households through real disruptions. If your product is genuinely useful, we want to know about it.
We publish independent reviews. Submitting a product does not guarantee a review, a positive review, or any review at all. You won't see a draft before it goes up, you don't get a say in what it says, and we don't sell coverage. If we find problems, we say so.
What we look for
Real household utility
Does it work for a household dealing with a power outage, a boil advisory, or a quick evacuation? That's the test.
Safety and certification
We check UL listings, NSF certifications, and real-world safety records — not just spec sheets.
Honest value
We evaluate whether the price makes sense for what you get. Budget gear that works beats expensive gear that doesn't.
How it works
Submit the form
Send us your product details using the form below.
We review it
Our editorial team looks over your submission. This usually takes 2–3 weeks.
We arrange testing
If selected, we set up hands-on product testing or an AI-research review.
We publish honestly
You get an honest review — positive, mixed, or critical.
How we label every review
We tell readers exactly how we got the product and how we evaluated it. Here are the three ways that happens.
Purchased independently
We bought it ourselves. No manufacturer involvement.
Provided for review
You send us the product. We test it independently. You have no input on the outcome.
Researched
We aggregate verified purchase reviews and editorial sources. Editorially verified by our team.
What you're agreeing to
Plain language, no surprises. Send us something and these are the ground rules.
Coverage is never guaranteed
A package showing up doesn't buy an article, a video, or a mention. We pick what to cover based on whether it helps a household get through a real disruption, and nothing else. Plenty of good products never get written up simply because we had something more useful to publish that month.
No previews, no vetoes
You won't see a draft, a video cut, our testing notes, or a rating before it publishes. You can't request changes and you can't pull a review once it's up. That isn't us being difficult — a review a manufacturer can edit isn't worth reading, and our readers can tell the difference.
Warts and all
If the fan is loud, the app is a mess, the latches feel flimsy, or it trips under a load it claims to handle, we write that down. We don't soften test results to keep anyone happy. Send us hardware knowing a critical review is a real possible outcome.
No paid reviews, ever
We don't sell review slots, sponsored verdicts, or placement tied to positive coverage. If your team wants paid consulting, that's a separate conversation.
What happens to the unit
Unless we've agreed otherwise in writing before you ship, we keep it. Retained gear goes into our working reference lab for long-term testing, gets compared against newer models, gets run until it fails, gets donated to local volunteer emergency groups, or goes to a reader in our monthly subscriber drawing. We're not a warehouse, and packing and shipping returns is real work.
If you need it back
Tell us in writing before you ship, and cover the whole return: prepaid, insured freight labels and packaging that will survive the trip, within 90 days of testing wrapping up. We'll hold it and send it back. What we won't do is absorb the cost or the admin of a return nobody arranged in advance.
Normal testing wear isn't our liability
Real testing means heat, discharge cycles, repeated charging, and actual use outdoors. Expect a returned unit to show it: scuffs, a battery that no longer holds its first-day capacity, honest signs of work. We're careful with other people's property, but we won't pretend testing is cost-free.
Pre-market hardware stays private
If you want engineering feedback on something unreleased, we'll test it under an NDA and give you our notes directly. We won't publish a review of a product a household can't walk out and buy. Once the retail version ships, we're glad to look at the finished thing.
Safety compliance and holding us harmlessUnder legal review
High-voltage batteries, fuel-burning equipment, and water treatment gear carry real physical risk. By sending a product you're confirming it meets the federal safety standards that apply to it — UL, ETL, FCC, whichever fit — and you're agreeing that Prepping-Essentials and our parent company, Divi Media, aren't liable for a battery fire, property damage, or equipment failure during evaluation.
Honest criticism is not disparagementUnder legal review
By submitting, your company gives up any right to bring a commercial disparagement claim over accurate, good-faith test results and honest critical opinion. This exists so an unflattering review can't be answered with a lawyer's letter. It does not cover getting a fact wrong. If we do, tell us — we'll check it against the source, and where we're wrong we'll fix the page and say what changed. Raising a factual error is not something you give up here, and it's the fastest way to get it corrected.
Unsolicited shipmentsUnder legal review
Please write first. Anything that turns up without us confirming it in writing is treated as abandoned property, and we'll handle it the same way we handle retained gear. We can't track, store, or return packages we never agreed to receive.
Photos and marketing images you send usUnder legal review
If you send us product photos, you're confirming your company actually owns them or has full rights to hand them to a press outlet like us — and you're giving us permission to use them in our coverage. If a photo came from an outside photographer that never signed those rights over to you, that's on your side to sort out before sending it our way.
These terms: submission-terms-2026-09-19. We record which version you agreed to and when. The three sections marked under legal review are plain-language summaries of the formal wording our attorney is finalizing — the substance won't change, but the exact language will, and we'll bump this version when it does.
Tell us about your product
The more clearly you can describe what it does in a real moment, the better. There are no fees, and filling this out doesn't commit you to anything.
We are not a pay-to-play platform. There are no listing fees, no guaranteed placement, and no sponsored review packages. Our editorial independence is the only thing that makes our reviews worth reading.