Benchvale

Contact

One person reads everything sent here. Bug reports are the most useful thing you can send, particularly if a tool gave you a wrong answer, and every fix that comes out of one goes in the changelog with the date.

Email

hello@benchvale.com

There is no contact form, on purpose. A form needs a server to receive it, and that would be the only server-side thing on this site. An address does the same job without the contradiction.

Reporting a wrong answer

This is the one worth doing properly, because a calculator that is confidently wrong is worse than no calculator. If you can, include:

That last one matters more than it sounds. A good share of reported bugs turn out to be a disagreement about the rule rather than a mistake in applying it, and knowing which rule you expected is what makes the difference clear. Either way the page gets better: a real bug gets fixed, and a rule that people reasonably expected differently gets explained on the page.

Most tools here have a share button that puts the state in the link, so pasting one is the fastest way to show exactly what you were doing.

Requesting a tool

Worth sending. The roster is planned out for a while, but the plan is a guess about what people want and a specific request from someone who actually needs the thing beats a guess. Tell us what you are trying to do rather than what the tool should be called.

Accessibility problems

Please send these. Automated checks run on every build, but they only catch part of it, and a report from someone actually using a screen reader or keyboard navigation is worth more than the whole audit. These get priority over feature work. What the automated pass does and does not cover is set out in how we build tools.

Before you write about a wrong number

Check the method first. Every calculator states the formula it uses and cites the standard it came from, so a disagreement is often a difference in rounding or in which standard applies rather than a bug. The formulas are on how we build tools, the correction rules are in the editorial policy, and the tools themselves are in color tools. If it still looks wrong after that, it probably is, and it is worth sending.

What happens next

Aaron Wilson reads it. There is no ticketing system, no autoresponder and no support tier. Small fixes usually happen in a day or two; larger ones wait for the next cluster. Anything that gets fixed appears in the changelog, so you can check whether your report landed without waiting for a reply.

Last updated . Only changed when something material changed, which is why some of these dates are old.