Trust
How we use AI
We ask institutions to disclose when a machine took part in a decision. This is us doing the same, for our own website and our own work.
- Effective
- 27 August 2026
- Version
- 1.0
On this website
Written entries we publish are produced in one of three ways, and every entry says which, on the page, above the fold of its footer:
- Written by a person. No agent involved.
- Drafted by an agent, edited by a person. An agent produced the draft; a named person edited and approved it and is accountable for every claim in it.
- Written by an agent. Reserved for mechanical content — changelogs, generated summaries. Still reviewed before publishing.
Where an agent was involved, the page names the charter and version that ran, and the person who reviewed it. That is not a nicety: the database refuses to publish agent-drafted content without a named human reviewer and a timestamp. The control is a constraint, not a checklist item.
What a person always does
- Decides what is worth writing about.
- Verifies every factual and numeric claim against its source.
- Approves publication, by name.
- Owns the consequences if it is wrong.
No agent publishes to this site. Nothing reaches a reader without a person having read it first.
What we will not do
- Fabricate a reference. If a claim has a source, the source is linked. If it does not, the claim is marked as our opinion.
- Generate a case study. Case studies describe work we actually did, with the customer’s agreement.
- Use a synthetic image of a person or an invented quote, in any context.
- Pass off a statistic we have not verified. Numbers in our writing come with a source or come with the word “roughly”.
In our client work
The same rule applies at a larger scale, and it is the product: an agent proposes, a named officer approves, and the record shows what the agent saw, what it concluded, why, and who signed. We do not deploy agents that make consequential determinations about people without a human gate, and we will decline work that asks us to.
Why publish this
Because a company that sells accountability infrastructure and does not disclose its own use of AI has a credibility problem it cannot argue its way out of. And because writing it down is the only way to be held to it.