[your-domain]/publishingpolicy
A public, checkable record of your publishing standards, at one address for your domain. Readable by humans, structured for machines.
Bring the standards you already wrote, or write them here.
Free. No credit card required.
For Platforms · Publications · Institutions · Corporations · Nonprofits · Governments
A publishing policy is a public statement of the standards someone holds themselves to when they publish.
You write the rules. Whether you run a tabloid or an academic journal, what matters is stating your commitments clearly.
Move beyond hidden style guides. Your policy lives at your domain’s own public address, built specifically for the audiences who rely on your work.
Every policy is timestamped and CC-BY licensed. Anyone can reference your commitments, in your current version and past versions.
Is it like a Privacy Policy?
Similar — and both work because of a public promise you can be held to. A privacy policy covers what information you collect from your users. A publishing policy covers what you put in front of them.
In a low-trust web, a published standard is your best defense.
Fact-checkers, ratings, moderation boards.
When your standards are internal, readers assume the worst. Every editorial decision looks like bias, and every mistake looks intentional. The argument is always about your motives.
Written by you, dated, in public.
When your standards are public and versioned, you control the narrative. Readers can see what you promised and when, version by version, each with its date. The argument becomes about the facts.
Nobody has to agree on what good publishing is. Only that you should do what you said.
A standard URL can't prove what you said yesterday. Our registry gives every official version a fingerprint, so anyone can check what your standards said and when.
When a version becomes official, we record a unique mathematical fingerprint of its exact text. A copy that matches the fingerprint matches the text on the record for that date.
Every official version stays on the record with its date while the record stands. When someone questions your standards, you can point to what the record says.
Readers can download the current version's receipt and re-check its fingerprint with standard tools on their own computer.
Verify ownership with a single DNS record. No engineering required.
Bring your existing standards, select a community template, or test drive the Sandbox.
Readers find your record at its address and can check a copy against its fingerprint. The browser extension is not released yet.
Every organization that wants to give its audience a trust signal they can check.
Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, AI tools
Newsrooms, podcasts, newsletters
Federal agencies, municipalities, libraries
Universities, journals, think tanks
PR, marketing, internal comms
Foundations, advocacy workspaces, faith workspaces
Attorney advertising, bar compliance, legal marketing
FDA guidelines, patient communications, health information
Personal sites with their own domain
AI systems now read the web on people’s behalf — summarizing sites, comparing them, answering questions about them. Every record carries structured data naming the organization, its address and its dates, so a machine can read it as well as a person can. We make no claim about what any search engine or AI system does with it.
If the platform you create on has nothing on record here, ask them to put it there. Audiences deserve a clear record of the public promises an organization has made — and the ability to see when something changes, and to understand the difference.
Free. No credit card required.