§1 — What a byline on this site actually claims
When a Weaver page declares a byline (“By Rafi Seddiqi” under the title), four things are simultaneously true:
- The named person reviewed the published claims and stands behind them. If the post says “sub-second queries on live operational state,” the named author has run that query.
- Every quantitative claim on the page is reproducible from the methodology declared on /trust/methodology (or, until that page ships, the inline methodology footnotes on the page itself).
- The page emits Schema.org
ArticleJSON-LD whoseauthorfield references a Schema.orgPersonentity by canonical@id. - The same Person entity is fully defined on the page, with external identity verification (LinkedIn, ORCID, the publisher organization — whatever the author has registered) emitted as Schema.org
sameAs.
These four signals are not optional. They land together via the same component layer (Byline, ArticlePersonJsonLd) so a page either has all four or none.
§2 — How an author gets onto this index
Three checks have to pass before a person can be listed:
- External identity. At least one Google-resolvable profile (LinkedIn, Crunchbase, ORCID, GitHub, a personal site, or the K3 Labs team page). Listed under “Verifiable identity” on each author profile.
- Stated areas of expertise. Topics the author claims to know, expressed as Schema.org
knowsAbouton the Person entity. These are visible on the profile and searchable. - Auditable work. The author’s prior work is linked from the profile. No ghost-bylines: every page attributed to an author has to land a row in
PAGE_AUTHORSin this codebase before the byline component renders the name.
§3 — Current named authors
1 named author.
- Verified
Rafi Seddiqi
Founder, K3 Labs
Founder of K3 Labs and the Weaver platform; researcher on the Single Data Backbone and algebraic accounting; inventor on three USPTO provisional patents; production deployment lead at customers including ARC.
Verifiable identity
Auditable work (19 attributed pages)
§4 — How to corroborate a byline from outside this site
Pick any author above. Click through to one of their Verifiable identity links. Confirm that the external profile names them, lists the same affiliation (K3 Labs / Weaver), and states overlapping topical interests. That cross-domain agreement is the trust signal Google’s entity disambiguator uses, and it is what we rely on for E-E-A-T evaluation.
If you find a conflict between a byline on this site and a claim on an external profile, write to [email protected]. We will publish a correction or a clarification under the same byline rather than silently edit the page.
§5 — Press & citations
Third-party publications that cite a Weaver author or work from this site land in each author’s “Press & citations” block on their profile, and are simultaneously declared as Person.subjectOf in the JSON-LD on every page that carries that byline. The registry is append-only — rotted links are kept, marked rotted, never removed.