How the Authority Management System site decides what to publish, where its claims come from, how AI is used in the work and how the project earns money.
What this site publishes
A framework for building digital authority, explained through pillars, supporting articles, a glossary and a series of books. The framework comes from operating real web properties. Where it describes a pattern, it says so; where it describes a rule set by a search engine or another platform, it links to that platform.
Claims and sources
Statements about how search engines, crawlers or tools behave are checked against the documentation their makers publish. Figures name their source. When something is our interpretation of the evidence rather than the evidence itself, the text says so.
Corrections
Search changes quickly. If something here is wrong or out of date, write to the address on the legal notice. Articles are corrected and their date updated.
How AI takes part
AI tools are part of the workflow: they help gather documentation, compare sources, check consistency across the framework and tidy drafts.
The framework and its conclusions are Markus Webb’s. He decides what each article argues and how it fits the system, and he reviews every page before it is published. Facts that an AI tool surfaces are verified against their original source before they are used.
Money and independence
AMS Authority Press sells the AMS books and is preparing a paid certification. Markus Webb or AMS Authority Press may also have affiliate relationships or other financial interests in some of the companies, platforms and tools that appear on the site, and may earn a commission through certain links.
Those interests do not decide what the framework says. No company pays to be included or reviews a page before it goes out, and a tool is discussed for what it does in the system, with its limits stated as clearly as its strengths. Links that earn a commission are marked, as the terms explain.