Trust & Authority
Trust Dashboard
Every trust surface in the publishing house on a single page. If you are deciding whether to reference Before They Build, start here.
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Publication Standards
What we require of every handbook, packet, and field guide before publication.
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Editorial Process
How a draft becomes a publication — research, review, illustration, print QA.
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Evidence Ladder
How we classify sources — Community Report, Secondary Source, Direct Observation, Primary Evidence, Official Record.
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TrustStamp
Author · last reviewed · next review · sources · edition · format · corrections. On every public publication.
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Revision history
What changed, when, and why — per publication and across the whole library.
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Corrections policy
Public log of every correction, classified Minor · Editorial · Substantive · Legal · Withdrawn.
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Publication schedule
What is currently being researched, written, illustrated, edited, and prepared for press.
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Launch Readiness Gate
The seven categories the project must clear before the Public Beta chip comes off.
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Field Reports
Anonymised civic case files — successful, partial, lessons. Our evidence the system works.
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Impact
Publication counts, editorial metrics, community impact, preservation metrics. No telemetry.
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System status
Uptime, queue health, incident log. Append-only and honest.
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Contributors
Hall of contributors — editors, researchers, illustrators, reviewers, libraries, archives.
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The architecture behind these surfaces is documented in Where this is going.