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KPW Tech Brief

Methodology

How these briefs are researched, sourced, corrected, and updated.

What this is, and is not

The KPW Tech Brief is educational technology commentary. It is not investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and it never recommends buying, selling, or holding anything. Where a topic touches regulated markets, we describe what the rules and filings actually say, and stop there.

Source hierarchy

Every brief is written from the highest tier that can answer the question. Each published article lists its sources with tier, publisher, date, and the specific claim each one supports.

Tier 1 — Primary and officialGovernment, regulators, legislation, official filings. SEC releases and approval orders, the Federal Register, Congress.gov bill records, Federal Reserve publications, exchange rule filings.
Tier 2 — Direct participantsExchanges, issuers, transfer agents, custodians, and official platform documentation.
Tier 3 — Research and data platformsNamed institutional research and data platforms such as RWA.xyz, always with an as-of date.
Tier 4 — Contextual reportingUsed for background only. Never the sole support for a material claim.

Never used as primary evidence: social posts, influencer claims, anonymous sources, press releases restating someone else's claim, or another AI's summary.

Verification rules

  • Every dynamic figure carries its source, a link, and an explicit "as of" date.
  • A claim that cannot be verified against a primary source is removed, not softened into a hedge.
  • Legislation is described by its actual procedural posture. Filing cloture, committee passage, and a scheduled vote are not passage.
  • Approved-and-operating is distinguished from proposed-or-piloted.
  • Dashboard data is never described as audited.
  • We do not invent numbers, quotations, citations, or images.

Corrections

Errors are corrected in place, and the correction is noted in the article with its date. We do not quietly edit a claim out of existence. If you find something wrong, tell us and we will check it against the source.

Updates and data freshness

Briefs carry dated data that goes stale. Each article shows when its data was last checked. When a figure or a legal status changes materially, we update the article, update dateModified, and note what changed. We do not silently refresh numbers underneath a conclusion that depended on the old ones.

AI use disclosure

We use AI tools to help scan primary sources and produce first drafts. Every published brief is reviewed by a human before it goes out, every source is checked, and nothing publishes automatically on a schedule. The judgments, the framing, and the responsibility are ours.

Who writes this

Kansas Prairie Webworks is a web design, local SEO, and AI automation studio in Salina, Kansas. We build and operate the kinds of systems these briefs describe, for small businesses across Central Kansas. More about us.