What you can trust here — and what we will not claim.
A learning site is only as good as its honesty about its own limits. This page explains how briefs are written and checked, what “source-backed” actually means, and which reviews have not happened. Nothing here is legal, compliance, or implementation advice.
- 198learning briefs
- 69referenced sources
- 71curriculum topics
- 103playable flows
WHAT “SOURCE-BACKED” MEANS
Every material explanation, diagram, glossary term, and scenario carries a reference into a registry of official operator, standards, and regulatory sources — each recording the canonical document and the date it was last checked. Where a claim is our own didactic construction rather than a rule, it is marked as an educational illustration, not dressed up as an authority. You can browse the whole registry on the Sources page, and every brief links the specific references it relies on.
HOW A BRIEF IS MADE
Each brief is written in a consistent house voice — plain language first, acronyms expanded on first use, the money kept separate from the messages that describe it. Facts about a scheme are checked against that scheme’s official source before publishing. Where a real system is more complex than the teaching model, the brief says so in an explicit what this simplifies note rather than pretending completeness.
WHAT REVIEW HAS — AND HAS NOT — HAPPENED
Content has passed automated editorial and adversarial-factual checks: consistency of voice, internal-link integrity, sourcing coverage, and a deliberate second pass that tries to find factual errors. Those checks are real, and they catch things.
They are not a substitute for human sign-off. Two gates remain open and are reported as blocked, not quietly skipped:
- BLOCKEDSubject-matter-expert review. No qualified human domain reviewer has signed off on this content. “Reviewed” in our coverage registry means the automated pass ran — never that an expert approved it.
- BLOCKEDLearner validation. No real beginner cohort has been tested against these lessons. Claims about how well they teach are, for now, unproven.
The full per-object status — what is drafted, machine-checked, or blocked — is public on the coverage registry. The site never awards itself a credential it has not earned.
The reviewer registry is built and empty by design. Every brief carries an Awaiting SME review byline until a qualified reviewer genuinely signs off; the moment a real review is recorded, that brief’s byline shows the reviewer, their credentials, and the date — automatically, and never before. If you are a qualified payments or sanctions-screening practitioner and would review, the contact details are the way in.
FICTION IS LABELED; SIMPLIFICATION IS DISCLOSED
Every worked scenario uses invented people and institutions and is marked SYNTHETIC — TRAINING ONLY. Screening and financial-crime material is written strictly from the defender’s side — how controls are designed and how alerts are worked — and never as a guide to avoiding them. Statistics that move (volumes, shares, member counts) are avoided unless tied to a dated source.