Editorial standards

How a guide is written

Each guide is drafted with AI assistance against a brief that fixes the subject, the question it must answer, and the ground it must not repeat from neighbouring guides. Drafting is the cheap part. It is what happens next that decides whether a guide publishes.

Every checkable claim is verified

A separate review pass reads the draft against its sources and sorts every factual statement into one of three kinds. A checkable claim — a case holding, a rule or standard number, a statute, a statistic, a date, an attribution — must be supported by a cited source, or the sentence does not publish. A definitional statement needs no citation but must be accurate. An illustrative example must be labelled as one, so a worked scenario is never mistaken for a real matter.

The check fails closed. An unsupported claim is rewritten or removed; it is never published with a hedge bolted on.

Where the sources come from

Citations are restricted to an allowlist: courts and court records, government and law-enforcement agencies, standards bodies, and open-access scholarship. It currently holds 20 approved domains, and a citation to anything outside it fails the check — the count is read from the allowlist itself, so this page cannot overstate it.

Vendor marketing, content farms, and SEO blogs are not acceptable sources for anything a reader might rely on — including ours. Sources are listed in full at the foot of every guide, so you can check the reasoning rather than take our word for it.

What we will not say

A guide may not claim this product is certified or accredited by any standards body, may not promise any particular outcome in court, and may not overstate what the hash chain does. None of those would be true. Our records are tamper-evident — alteration is detectable, not prevented — and the design is informed by FRE 901 and NIST SP 800-86, which describes what we read rather than a conformance assessment anyone has performed. What a court makes of a record remains a question for the court.

These limits are enforced automatically. Every guide, and every page of this marketing site, is scanned before it can publish, and a prohibited claim fails the build rather than reaching a reader.

Corrections and updates

Guides are revised in place, keeping their original URL, and the revision date is published in each page's structured data. If you find an error — particularly a misstated holding, rule number, or standard — please tell us and we will correct it.