The benevolent standard

Placeholder essay. The register and structure are shown here; the final prose is a separate writing pass.

A standard a company writes about itself is only worth the degree to which others can hold it to that standard. This essay is about writing commitments down in public, and about what changes when you do.

Written so it can be held

The point of a published standard is not reassurance. It is exposure: a fixed thing to be measured against, in the open, by anyone who cares to.

Trust is built in public, or it is not built at all.

Placeholder closing in register. The final language of any specific commitment is shaped with counsel and is not drafted here.

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