What we will do, and what we won’t. Written down so you can hold us to it.
Operating
principles
Each commitment below says what we promise, how we keep it, and how you can check it for yourself. Where we don’t yet keep one fully, we say so.
We will
We will · 1
Keep reading free
No account, no paywall, no sign-up to read anything here.
- How we keep it
- Every essay, practice and page is open to anyone. A full-text feed carries every essay. Paid work with organisations is done by K4M2 AI, a separate company, and we say so openly.
- How you can check
- Open any page in a private window. Nothing should ask you to sign in or pay.
We will · 2
Ask for as little as possible
Your name and email are always optional when you write to us.
- How we keep it
- Our forms ask only for your message; name and email are optional. We use what you send only to read it and reply.
- How you can check
- Look at the contact form, or the reply box at the end of any essay. The privacy policy says what happens next.
We will · 3
Read every message
And reply when you give us a way to.
- How we keep it
- Messages from every form, and email to founders@k4m2a.com, come to one inbox, and we read them all. If you leave out your email we can still read your message, but we can’t write back.
- How you can check
- Write to us. We haven’t yet said how quickly we will reply; that is a gap. Requests about your personal information get an answer within 30 days, as the privacy policy says.
We will · 4
Credit our sources
Most of our ideas come from Madhyasth Darshan, given by Shri A. Nagraj. We say so, with page numbers, so you can check.
- How we keep it
- Each essay lists the books and pages it draws on. The glossary gives the original term behind each of our words.
- How you can check
- Look at the sources at the end of any essay, or the References page, and compare them with the books.
We will · 5
Say where we might be wrong
Every essay ends with its weak points, not only its strong ones.
- How we keep it
- Each essay has a Limitations section. First principles says, for each belief, what would show we are wrong.
- How you can check
- Scroll to the end of any essay.
We will · 6
Correct ourselves in public
When a reader changes our understanding, we update the page and record what changed and when.
- How we keep it
- We record changes to meaning, corrected claims and new evidence on the page and in the changelog; small fixes to spelling, layout or code are not always listed. How a correction happens is set out below.
- How you can check
- Each essay shows its own changes at the bottom. The changelog opens on “Changes to meaning”.
We will · 7
Report once a year
We will publish what we learned, including what didn’t work.
- How we keep it
- The first report is due in December 2026. What didn’t work will stay in.
- How you can check
- Visit 2026 in review. Until December it says the report is not yet written.
We will · 8
Welcome disagreement
A counterexample is a contribution, not an attack.
- How we keep it
- Every essay ends with a reply box. If a reply changes our understanding, the change is recorded like any other.
- How you can check
- Send us a counterexample. If we don’t change the page and you gave us an email, we will tell you why.
We won’t
We won’t · 1
Show ads
Not on this site.
- How we keep it
- There is no advertising code on any page.
- How you can check
- In your browser’s developer tools, the network tab shows every request a page makes. Pages, fonts and scripts all come from k4m2a.com.
We won’t · 2
Track you
No advertising or tracking cookies, no analytics, and no profiles of our readers.
- How we keep it
- The only thing this site stores in your browser is your light or dark theme choice, and it stays on your device. Fonts are served from our own site, so loading a page tells no font service who you are. Our host, Vercel, keeps basic technical logs, such as IP address, browser and pages requested; we use them only to keep the site running and secure.
- How you can check
- Look at the site data your browser holds for k4m2a.com: no cookies, and one stored setting for the theme. The privacy policy describes the logs.
We won’t · 3
Sell or rent your information
To anyone, ever.
- How we keep it
- We keep messages only as long as the conversation needs, then delete them. Web3Forms, which delivers form messages, keeps them for at most three years, as its own policy says.
- How you can check
- This one can’t be checked from outside. It is written into our privacy policy, and you can ask at any time to see, correct or delete what we hold about you.
We won’t · 4
Pressure anyone
The team is open, but nobody has to join anything, believe anything or buy anything.
- How we keep it
- No pop-ups, no sign-up prompts and no countdowns. Joining the team is voluntary.
- How you can check
- Read as much as you like; nothing will interrupt you to ask for anything.
We won’t · 5
Claim more than we know
Where something is untested, we will say so.
- How we keep it
- We mark what comes from Madhyasth Darshan, what is our reading of it, and what is our own proposal.
- How you can check
- See the tags on First principles and the marked extrapolations in the spec.
We won’t · 6
Hide changes
If we change an essay’s meaning, the change will be visible.
- How we keep it
- Every change to meaning gets a dated note on the page and an entry in the changelog.
- How you can check
- Compare an essay’s change notes with the changelog.
How a correction happens
- You tell us. Use the reply box on the page, the contact form, or email.
- We check it against the source and the evidence.
- We change it and log it, or tell you why we didn’t. We can only tell you if you gave us an email.
- The change shows on the page and in the changelog, with the date.
Hold us to it
Every commitment here points to a place you can look.
Where we fall short
- No yearly report yet. The site opened in November 2026, so the first report is due in December 2026.
- No reply time. We read every message, but we haven’t yet said how quickly we will answer, except for requests about your personal information.
- Not independently audited. These commitments are checked by us and by you, not by an outside body.
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