Verifiable records
Primary or institutional evidence: court records, official histories, finding aids, archival scans, technical documents, and proximate reporting.
Sources / Receipts
This is how the site handles truth claims.
The audience should never have to guess what kind of claim they are reading.
Symbolic or sacred narrative
Mythic texts, cosmological frameworks, storyworld canon, and symbolic meaning clearly identified as such.
Synthesis and argument
The studio's framing, cross-reading, and inference layer. This is where ideas get connected, not disguised as pure record.
Evidence ladder
How a strong piece should cite itself
Level 1 — Primary or official
Patents, court cases, official site histories, library records, oral-history archives, maps, and source documents.
Level 2 — Secondary support
Reliable scholarship, institutional biographies, synthesis essays, and responsible explainers.
Level 3 — Studio interpretation
The part where the project says what the record means, what the tension is, and why the story matters now.
Level 4 — Creative canon
Storyworld rules, symbolic echoes, and fictional translation layers that should be clearly marked when they appear.
UI pattern
Make the trust layer visible
Use pills, sidebars, accordions, footnotes, or source drawers. The audience should see how the piece is built while they read it.
LabelHistory / Myth / Interpretation
Receipt1 to 3 source anchors on the page
NoteWhy this source matters
BridgeHow the argument moves beyond the source