Editorial standards

The three voices

• Catalog — reference. Neutral, factual, structured. The reader is looking up what a framework is and when it applies. No personal opinions, no recent-news framing.
• Academy — teaching. Long-form tutorials with a single author byline. Opinions allowed where they sharpen the lesson, always marked as such.
• Blog — commentary. Field reports and arguments. Opinions are the point. Tone is direct; claims are sourced when they go beyond the author's own experience.

Sourcing

Any specific claim about a person, company, or quantitative fact is sourced inline. Where a framework's history matters — Eisenhower's quote, Humphrey at SRI for SWOT, the Cynefin paper — we cite the origin. Anecdotal observations from the author's own work are marked as such and not cited.

Corrections policy

When we get something wrong, we fix it inline and append a short correction note dated to when the fix shipped. Substantial corrections trigger a bumped last reviewed date on the page. We don't silently rewrite history.

Spot something off? The Suggest an edit link at the bottom of every Academy article goes to the GitHub source, or email [email protected].

Attribution

Every Academy and Blog post is bylined to a real person — see authors. "Framework team" is not used as a hidden byline. If an outside guest writes, they get a byline of their own.

AI disclosure

AI tools are used as drafting and proofreading assistants. No published article is AI-generated end-to-end. A human author writes the argument, picks the examples, and signs off. See Methodology for how this maps to the catalog vs. Academy distinction.