ABOUT
Advice for location-independent people is dominated by affiliate content and personality-driven selling — confident faces, outdated facts, and a paid call at the end. flagwise is built as the opposite: a process you can inspect, instead of a person you have to believe. Free to read, nothing gated, and always information, not advice.
Every fact on a country report sits on one of three rungs — and the rung is always visible:
Advisor review will become an additional rung once vetted advisors join the platform.
Verified facts and community reports are never blended. A forum thread can never silently become a “fact” — and an official source is never watered down by anecdotes.
Data collection is automated where automation is safe, and human where judgement is needed. Pipelines pull from official sources (regulators, government portals, the providers themselves); language models only extract — they never decide what becomes a verified fact. Every single promotion to the verified layer passes a human editorial review.Community reports are paraphrased, stripped of personal data, weighted by independence (one loud thread can’t dominate a country) and age out of scoring after nine months, so the picture reflects the recent state, not old lore.
Original datasets we publish under the FLAGWISE RESEARCH label — like the Non-Resident Banking Reality Index— come with the full methodology, a CSV export and a CC BY 4.0 licence: free to cite, quote and republish with attribution. If you can’t check it, we don’t call it research.
— No affiliate links. No bank, visa agency or law firm pays to appear anywhere in the data.
— No paid rankings. When vetted advisors join, listings will be clearly labelled and never influence country scores.
— No advice. flagwise gives general information with sources — decisions about your taxes and residence belong with you and, where it matters, a qualified professional.
— No gated content. Reading is free, no account required; the project runs on donations.
flagwise is built and curated by Wolfgang — location-independent himself, he lives this setup in his own life, which is exactly why the data has to stay honest. flagwise is deliberately process-first: no face selling you a dream. The person keeps the process honest; the process keeps the data honest. It is operated by MAKOA LLC (see imprint).
Found an error? Every report has a bug button, and every fact has a source you can check. Been somewhere yourself? Adding a report takes about a minute. For everything else: hello@flagwise.me.