Welcome to the new WeDoPoints
We rebuilt the site from the ground up. Here’s what’s new, what’s not changing, and where to start.
If you’ve been following WeDoPoints, you’ll notice everything looks different today.
Same domain, same mission — but a completely new site behind it. New design, new editorial standards, new structure, and new content. We’ve spent months on this rebuild because the old site wasn’t doing right by you, and we wanted to fix that before we kept writing more content on a foundation that didn’t work.
This post is a quick tour of what’s changing, what’s not, and where to start.
Why we rebuilt
The old WeDoPoints had grown organically over years. Categories had multiplied to the point where the same topic lived in three different places. The navigation was hard to follow. The design didn’t communicate what we wanted it to. And honestly, the line between editorial content and affiliate content had gotten blurrier than we were comfortable with.
We could have kept patching it. Instead, we decided to start over — keep what worked, throw out what didn’t, and build something that looks and feels like the publication we want WeDoPoints to be: clear, useful, and worth your time even if you never apply for a card through us.
What’s new
Six concrete changes you’ll notice as you explore the site:
A real editorial brand system
New typography (Playfair Display for headlines, Source Sans for body), a consistent color palette anchored in navy and gold, and a magazine-quality layout. We hired a designer to think hard about how the site should feel, then built every page around those decisions.
A clear information architecture
Five top-level hubs — Credit Cards, Points & Miles, Travel, Guides, and Tools. Everything else lives under those. No more 25-category sidebar, no more hunting for what you need.
A foundation learning path for beginners
Four guides, designed to be read in order, that take someone from “I have no idea how points work” to “I just booked my first award flight.” Start with our Beginner’s Guide. Total reading time is about 45 minutes — and we think it’s one of the better introductions to the topic on the internet.
A published editorial methodology
Our How We Review Cards page documents exactly how we evaluate every card on the site — what factors we weight, how we score them, where the numbers come from. You shouldn’t have to take our word for our reviews; you should be able to verify the framework.
Free tools backed by transparent math
A points valuation tool showing what we think each major program’s points are worth (and why), a card comparison tool, a welcome bonus calculator, and more. No sign-up, no email required — just useful utilities.
A clear stance on AI-generated content
Every guide and review on this site is written and edited by a human. We use AI for research and copy-editing, but we don’t publish AI-generated content as our own — and we think it matters to say that out loud, given how much of the internet is becoming auto-generated noise.
What’s not changing
Two things matter to us above everything else, and neither of them changed in the rebuild:
- Honest reviews. We make money through affiliate commissions when readers apply for cards through our links — that’s how this site sustains itself. But we don’t change our reviews based on commission rates. The cards we recommend are the cards we’d recommend to family members. Period.
- Real travel. Every destination guide on this site is built from trips our team has actually taken. When a guide says “the seaplane transfer to the Maldives takes three hours,” it’s because we sat on it. We don’t write about places we haven’t been.
If you’re a returning reader: some old URLs have changed in the rebuild. We’ve set up redirects from the most-trafficked pages to their new equivalents, but if you have a bookmark that 404s, just search the site or use the menu — almost everything from the old site has a more thoughtful replacement.
A note on AI and editorial integrity
We want to address something directly, because we think it matters. AI has changed what’s possible in publishing — including in the points-and-miles space. Sites can now generate hundreds of articles a month with no human ever touching them. That content ranks. That content monetizes. And in the short term, it might even look fine to readers.
We’re not going to do that. Not because we’re philosophically opposed to AI tools — we use them for research, fact-checking, and editing support — but because the value of this site has always been the people behind it. If we let AI write our reviews, the reviews stop being ours. And then there’s no reason for you to be here instead of anywhere else.
So everything you read on WeDoPoints, going forward, is written and edited by a human who has actually used the cards, taken the trips, and learned the programs we write about. Our editorial policy spells out the specifics.
Where to start
Three suggestions, depending on where you are:
Beginner’s Guide to Points and Miles
The complete overview of how rewards programs work and why they exist. 12-minute read that anchors everything else.
Start here → If you’re ready to applyChase Sapphire Preferred Review
The card we recommend most often to beginners. $95 fee, 60K-point welcome bonus worth roughly $1,200 in travel.
Read the review → If you’re experiencedChase Ultimate Rewards Guide
Deep dive on the program, every transfer partner, and the top sweet spot redemptions worth knowing.
Explore the program →What’s coming next
The site you’re looking at today is the foundation — not the finished product. Here’s a quick preview of what we’re building over the coming months:
Next 90 days
- The remaining foundation guides — finishing the 4-guide beginner learning path so anyone can go from zero to first redemption.
- Top card reviews — Amex Platinum, Amex Gold, Capital One Venture X, Chase Freedom Unlimited, and more — built on the same review framework as our Sapphire Preferred review.
- Major loyalty program guides — World of Hyatt, Amex Membership Rewards, Delta SkyMiles, and the rest of the big programs covered the way we did Chase Ultimate Rewards.
- Trip reports from real travel — concrete walkthroughs of how we booked specific trips, what the points cost, and what we learned.
- The deals tracker — current transfer bonuses, elevated welcome offers, and time-sensitive opportunities, updated weekly.
Tell us what we’re missing
This is a foundation, not a finished site. If there’s a topic you want covered, a card you want reviewed, a destination you want explored — email us. Reader requests drive the roadmap more than anything else. Some of our most-read guides started as one-line emails.
And if you find something on the new site that’s broken, confusing, or wrong, tell us that too. We’d rather hear about it from you than read about it on social media.
Thanks for being here. Whether you’re a returning reader or you just found us — we’re glad you’re with us for what comes next.
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