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Koydo Research · Reference document · v1.0 · Final
By Koydo Lyceum · with Petra Vance
What is the Koydo editorial-custodian cadence?
The Koydo editorial-custodian cadence is the operating reference for how Koydo stewards review, sign off on, and version every public-facing surface across the wiki, the platform, and the satellite repos. Six stewards (Microschool Operator, Compliance, Wisdom, Direction-Document, Curatorial, and Founder) carry sign-off authority for the surfaces in their remit; every public-facing artifact crosses a named-steward sign-off gate before publication. The cadence is continuous (stewards review every artifact before it ships) and quarterly (each steward runs a back-catalog review every ninety days, version-logged on the surfaces they own). The named-author moat is operational, not decorative — every byline resolves to a real person at /about/{slug} with a real bio, real expert areas, and real verifiable references where they exist.
Each Koydo public surface is owned by one named steward who carries sign-off authority. The matrix below maps surface area to steward. Surfaces that span domains require both stewards' sign-off; a single steward never single-signs a cross-domain change.
Continuous review runs at the per-artifact level. Every blog post, every public page change, every direction-document edit, every research-report version log entry crosses the owning steward's sign-off before publication. Sign-off is recorded in the version log of the artifact itself; the surface ships with the steward's byline either as primary author or as named editor.
When an artifact spans steward domains, both stewards sign — primary author plus the secondary-domain steward as named editor. The sign-off record on the surface notes both stewards.
Every ninety days each steward runs a back-catalog review of the surfaces in their remit. The review covers: factual currency (any claim with a date or number is re-checked), version-log accuracy (every published change is recorded), broken-citation sweep (every outbound link is validated), and AIO doctrine compliance (every surface still satisfies the per-content-type checklist).
Findings publish to the version log of the affected surface. Surfaces that fail the AIO doctrine compliance check are queued for revision with a named owner and a due date; the quarterly review report enumerates them.
Steward roles are durable but not permanent. When a steward role transfers, the surfaces in the steward's remit do not change byline retroactively; the original steward's name stays on the version-log entries they signed. Forward-going sign-offs carry the new steward's byline. The transition publishes to the editorial-custodian cadence version log on this page so external auditors can trace the role change cleanly.
Margaux Bellfort (Microschool Operator Steward), Rashida Washington (Compliance Steward), Petra Vance (Wisdom Steward), Sigrun Halvarsson (Direction-Document Custodian), Lior Feranzo (Curatorial Steward), and Robert Waltos (Founder). Each carries sign-off authority for the surfaces in their remit; each has a public profile at /about/{slug}.
Every public-facing artifact crosses a named-steward sign-off gate before publication. The steward who owns the surface area is primary author or named editor on the byline. Cross-domain artifacts require both stewards' sign-off, recorded in the version log of the artifact itself.
Every ninety days each steward runs a back-catalog review of the surfaces in their remit: factual currency, version-log accuracy, broken-citation sweep, AIO doctrine compliance. Findings publish to the version log of the affected surface; surfaces that fail compliance are queued for revision with a named owner.
Steward roles transfer with a public version-log entry on this page. The original steward's byline stays on the artifacts they already signed; forward-going sign-offs carry the new steward's byline. External auditors can trace the role change cleanly from this page's version log.
Koydo's public surface area spans four domains that require different operating expertise: microschool operations, education compliance, named-method editorial, curatorial framing of public-domain primary sources, structural direction documents, and founder-level entity records. A single editor-in-chief cannot carry the sign-off ceiling across all six. Six stewards with explicit remits and a cross-domain co-sign rule preserve the quality bar without bottlenecking publication.
Methodology questions reach research@koydo.app; press inquiries reach press@koydo.app. A reported sign-off failure triggers a version-log entry on the affected surface and a back-catalog review entry on this page if the failure spans multiple surfaces in the steward's remit.
The editorial-custodian cadence governs steward sign-off on Koydo-authored surfaces; the Quarterly Citation Audit (under Sentinel and the Niche-Domination Strategist) governs how Koydo properties perform in AI-assistant citation surfaces. Findings from the Citation Audit feed steward review queues; the two cadences interlock but report separately.
Authored by Koydo Lyceum, the editorial and research authority for Koydo public content. Methodology questions reach lyceum@koydo.app.
Editorial steward
Petra Vance
Wisdom Steward — KOYDO LLC
Eleven years homeschooling four children; sixteen years writing for homeschool curriculum publishers. Named editor of the Koydo Method Library and the editorial custodian for the homeschool-parent voice across Koydo public surfaces.
Profile: /about/petra-vance
KOYDO LLC, Wylie, Texas (Collin County). Published under CC BY 4.0. Last modified 2026-05-14.