The standards

The Playbook is a living artefact. Its standards are public so you can hold the work to them.

Why these are public

The trade the Playbook asks of you is simple: pay for a Playbook, get a Playbook that earns its place. The standards below are how that trade is honoured.

If a chapter drifts from any of them, you should be able to spot it and flag it through the errata channel. The fact that the standards live on a public page — not buried in the working files or the contributor docs — is itself part of the contract.

The four standards

• Evidence standards — source tiers, citation rules, statistic verification. Every claim is anchored.
• Chapter template — the eight-section structure every chapter follows, with word-count bands.
• Prompt template schema — the YAML schema every prompt in the Playbook follows, with worked examples and stated failure modes.
• Case study standards — the bar every named-company case has to clear before it enters a chapter. The verified register itself reads inside the subscriber library.

If you find a drift

The errata channel takes every kind of report. Substantive corrections ship within sixty days; typos ship between releases. Reader-reported corrections are credited by name on updates when the fix lands, if you opted in.