Editorial standards
Our Methodology
Kadence Editorial publishes guides, glossary entries, and research for people who run life insurance distribution: independent producers, agency principals, and the IMOs and MGAs behind them. This page documents exactly how that content is produced, checked, and kept current, so you can judge it on more than its conclusions.
How we research
Every piece starts from live, cited research, not from a model’s memory. We break a topic into a cluster of specific sub-questions and run each one against a web-grounded research engine that returns source-backed prose with real citation URLs. We keep the primary and regulatory sources, prefer original data over secondhand summaries, and carry those exact sources into the draft so the writer works from evidence rather than recall.
How we fact-check
Before a piece publishes, a deterministic verification pass checks every statistic and named claim against the retrieved source text, not against the model’s own judgment. Self-critique is unreliable for this, so the check is grounded: a figure that does not trace to a real source is stripped, softened, or replaced from the research, and a piece whose core claims cannot be supported does not publish. Every source link is tested for a live response, and dead links are dropped rather than shipped. Our lane is operational guidance for running and growing an insurance business, never individualized financial, tax, or legal advice.
Sourcing standards
We cite primary sources: regulators, official exam and licensing materials, industry bodies, and first-party data over aggregators and content farms. Regulatory claims are checked against current rules, not older copies of them. Statistics are attributed to the source that produced them, and each published piece carries a visible Sources section so you can follow any claim back to where it came from.
How we keep content current
Content decays. We review and refresh published pieces on a rolling basis, prioritizing the ones where the facts or the market have moved. A refresh only ships when it materially changes the piece; a cosmetic date bump with no substantive edit is treated as a non-change and is skipped, so a page’s last-updated date reflects real revision rather than churn.
Corrections policy
We get things wrong sometimes, and when we do we fix them. If you spot an error, an out-of-date figure, or a broken source, email hi@startkadence.com with the page and the issue. We review every report, correct substantive errors promptly, and update the piece so the fix reaches everyone who reads it next. Corrections that change a piece’s meaning update its last-modified date.