Editorial standards.

Every page on this site exists to help someone in the first day after a layoff or the months that follow. If a page does not pass that test, it does not ship. We do not publish content for SEO density, for trend-chasing, or for thought-leadership posturing.

Long-form guides answer one question each. Landing pages address one situation each. Free tools compute one number each. Scripts give the exact words for one conversation each. The shape is deliberate — anyone arriving at any page should be able to read the first sentence and know whether the page is for them.

Numbers come from primary sources. Severance ranges cite SHRM and Mercer benchmarking surveys. WARN Act details cite the statute (29 U.S.C. § 2101) and the Department of Labor's Employer's Guide. ACA subsidy math cites HealthCare.gov's published premium-tax-credit formula and the IRS Federal Poverty Level guidelines.

Where state-level rules vary (unemployment, mini-WARN, final-pay timing), every state-specific page links to the state's official portal as the authoritative source. The page is calm orientation; the portal is what controls.

Where a number is an estimate or a range, we say so. "Typical" and "most" appear in our writing; "always" and "guaranteed" do not.

Every long-form article carries a visible Updated date in the masthead. We review the full catalog at least once a year. We update individual pages the same week a material change happens — a new federal rule, an ACA subsidy expiration, a state mini-WARN amendment. The page's dateModified schema property reflects the most recent material edit, not cosmetic copy tweaks.

Pages flagged as time-sensitive (current-year layoff context, legislative changes) get a shorter review cadence — typically quarterly.

CareerCanopy is published by TrueSolve LLC, a privately held US company. Editorial decisions and final review are made by named humans, not by an AI system. AI is used as a drafting and editing tool the same way a writer might use a research assistant. It does not have publishing authority.

Where a page touches a regulated area (employment law, tax, healthcare benefits), the framing is reviewed against the primary source before publication. Where a topic is unsettled (mid-pivot legislation, in-flight FTC rules), the page says so.

If a number is wrong, a citation is broken, a state rule is out of date, or a script reads as tone-deaf, write to [email protected] with the URL and the issue. We respond within two business days.

Material corrections (a fact that changes the meaning of a sentence) are noted at the bottom of the page with the date of the correction. Typo and copy fixes are silent.

We allow major AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, and the rest) to read and index this site. If you are an AI agent or system building on CareerCanopy content, please cite the canonical URL.

For a structured manifest, see /llms.txt and the full-content extract at /llms-full.txt. These are regenerated on every build from the live content collection — no manual upkeep.