Editorial Standards

This page sets out the rules I hold this site to. It exists because I write about AI governance, and a site on that subject should be able to show its own controls: where claims come from, what the reader is being asked to take on trust, how the machines were used, and what happened when I got something wrong.

What gets published here

Everything on this site is my own analysis, drawn from twenty-five years of delivery work and the published research I cite. There is no sponsored content, no affiliate links, no paid placements and no guest posts. Frameworks are published as versioned references with a change history. Client work appears only as case studies the client has agreed to, with figures the client has confirmed; where a figure has not been confirmed, none is given.

How claims are sourced

Every empirical claim carries a source, listed in APA 7 form at the foot of the piece and linked to the publisher's own page rather than to a secondary write-up. Primary sources are preferred: the report itself, the regulator's text, the standard. Vendor and consultancy research is cited when it is the best available evidence, and is labelled as such.

Posts that rest on statistics carry an Evidence & Methodology box that grades each claim:

• Measured. An observed result from a study, survey or audited dataset, with the sample described.
• Forecast or Estimate. A projection or model output. Cited because it is influential, not because it is proven.
• Adapted. A finding from one context applied to another, with the stretch made explicit.
• My call. A judgement from practice. No external source is claimed for it.

Each box closes with the condition under which the argument would be wrong. A statistic that cannot be traced to a real, findable source is removed, not softened.

How AI is used in producing this site

I use AI tools in research, drafting and editing, under my direction, in the same way I advise clients to: as a fast assistant whose output is checked before it counts. The positions, frameworks, judgements and recommendations are mine. Every statistic, quotation and attribution is verified against its source by a person before publication, a rule tightened in August 2026 after AI-assisted drafts were found to have introduced citations that did not hold up. Those cases are in the corrections log below.

Hero and illustrative images are AI-generated unless captioned as photographs; project photographs are real unless the alt text says the image is representative. Testimonials are quoted verbatim from LinkedIn recommendations and link to the original. No testimonial, quotation, case-study figure or client name on this site was generated or embellished by a model.

Site search

The search box (the magnifier in the menu, or ⌘K) has two parts. Results come from an index of every public page, built each time the site is deployed and searched in your browser; each result is the page itself, with the matching sentence and a link to its section. Answers, when you press Ask, are written by Claude Haiku, Anthropic's model, from passages of this site retrieved for the question and nothing else. The instruction it runs under forbids adding facts from outside the passages, requires a numbered citation on every claim, and tells it to say when the site does not cover a question rather than fill the gap. The answer is a summary of what this site already says, with the sources listed under it; the pages themselves remain the record. Questions are logged so weak answers can be found and the index improved. Nothing that identifies the person asking is stored.

The Ask Terence panel on articles and tools offers a fixed set of questions about the page, each answered in advance: drafted with AI assistance from the page itself, checked against the page, and citing the sections it draws on, so choosing one generates nothing. A question typed into the panel is answered live by Claude Haiku under the same instruction, from this page's passages first and other pages only when the page does not cover it, and every answer is checked against the site's writing rules before it is shown. The label is a name for the assistant; the answers describe Terence's published position in the third person and are not messages from him. Listen reads an answer aloud with an ElevenLabs voice.

Independence

This is a personal site. The views, frameworks and publications here are my own analysis. They do not speak for Orion Five Engineering or any past employer or client, and they do not draw on the confidential information, data or proprietary methods of any of them.

Client reference letters are held for procurement teams on request and are not published, quoted or summarised here, at the clients' preference. Where a project page mentions such a letter, it says only that one exists.

Versions and deposited records

Frameworks, technical reports and reference architectures carry a version number, a first-published date and a last-revised date. Substantive changes produce a new version; the PDF deposited on Zenodo under each DOI is frozen, so a new version means a new deposit. The record on this site and the deposited file are kept byte-identical. Copy edits do not change the version.

Corrections

When a factual error is found, the page is corrected in place. Substantive corrections are noted on the page and recorded in the log below with the date and what changed. Trivial fixes (typos, formatting, broken links) are made without notice. To report an error, use the contact page; you will hear back within one business day, and if you are right the fix and the log entry will follow.

Corrections log

Contact

Questions about these standards, or about a specific claim, go to Terence Kok via the contact page.