{
  "$schema": "https://kosprotocol.dev/v1/schema.json",
  "entity": {
    "name": "IA Authority",
    "type": "WebSite",
    "id": "kos:iaauthority",
    "url": "https://iaauthority.com",
    "description": "The canonical reference for Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization. Published by Niseus LLC as institutional publishing project. One of three content satellites of the Tridente ecosystem, with niseus.com as the commercial handle. Edition 01.",
    "identifiers": {
      "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/#website",
      "publisher_id": "https://niseus.com/#organization"
    }
  },
  "knowledge": [
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-canonical-register",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "The Canonical Register",
      "description": "The institutional publishing project of IA Authority — a canonical reference for AEO and GEO published as Schema.org structured data and KOS Protocol knowledge. Three sub-structures: a five-pillar cluster (Fundamentals), a twelve-entry register (Glossary), and a three-essay collection (Editorials). Reviewed every edition.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/",
        "edition": "01",
        "published_structures": 3,
        "pillars_planned": 5,
        "terms_planned": 12,
        "essays_planned": 3
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-fundamentals-cluster",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains the pillar cluster"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-glossary-register",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains the term register"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-editorials-collection",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains the essay collection"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Published by Niseus LLC"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "reference",
        "register",
        "aeo",
        "geo",
        "institutional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-fundamentals-cluster",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "The Five Pillars — Fundamentals Cluster",
      "description": "A Schema.org ItemList of five canonical pillar articles that define Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization. The conceptual spine of the reference. Pillar 01 (What is AEO) is published in Edition 01; pillars 02 through 05 are editorial commitments scheduled for future editions.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.9
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/fundamentals",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/fundamentals#cluster",
        "schema_org_type": "ItemList",
        "items_total": 5,
        "items_published": 1,
        "items_forthcoming": 4
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-pillar-what-is-aeo",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains Pillar 01"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-canonical-register",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of the canonical register"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cluster",
        "pillars",
        "fundamentals",
        "itemlist"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-pillar-what-is-aeo",
      "type": "content",
      "label": "What is AEO? — Pillar 01",
      "description": "The canonical definition of Answer Engine Optimization. AEO is the discipline of structuring digital assets so that answer engines such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews can extract, cite and recommend a business or resource when users ask questions. Unlike SEO, which optimizes for ranking position, AEO optimizes for citation in synthesized answers.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/fundamentals/what-is-aeo",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/fundamentals/what-is-aeo#article",
        "schema_org_type": "Article",
        "word_count": 1280,
        "language": "en",
        "edition": "01",
        "status": "published",
        "sections": 6,
        "mentions_entities": [
          "ChatGPT",
          "Claude",
          "Perplexity",
          "Gemini",
          "Google AI Overviews"
        ]
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-term-aeo",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Defines the canonical term"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-fundamentals-cluster",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of Fundamentals cluster"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Authored by Niseus LLC"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "pillar",
        "article",
        "aeo",
        "canonical",
        "published",
        "definedterm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-glossary-register",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "The Canonical Register — Glossary",
      "description": "A Schema.org DefinedTermSet of twelve canonical DefinedTerm entries that define the vocabulary of AI visibility. Every entry has a stable @id, a canonical definition and cross-references to the Fundamentals cluster. Term 01 (AEO) is published in Edition 01; terms 02 through 12 are editorial commitments for future editions.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.9
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/glossary",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/glossary/#set",
        "schema_org_type": "DefinedTermSet",
        "terms_total": 12,
        "terms_published": 1,
        "terms_forthcoming": 11
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-term-aeo",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains Term 01"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-canonical-register",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of the canonical register"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "glossary",
        "register",
        "definedterm",
        "definedtermset"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-term-aeo",
      "type": "content",
      "label": "AEO — Answer Engine Optimization (DefinedTerm)",
      "description": "The canonical DefinedTerm entry for Answer Engine Optimization. The discipline of structuring digital assets so that answer engines can extract, cite and recommend a business or resource when users ask questions. Alternate names include AI answer optimization and Answer optimization. Position 01 of 12 in the canonical register.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/glossary/aeo",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/glossary/aeo#term",
        "schema_org_type": "DefinedTerm",
        "term_code": "AEO",
        "alternate_names": [
          "AI answer optimization",
          "Answer optimization"
        ],
        "position": "01/12",
        "status": "published",
        "language": "en"
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-pillar-what-is-aeo",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Defined in the pillar article"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-glossary-register",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of glossary register"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Authored by Niseus LLC"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "definedterm",
        "aeo",
        "canonical",
        "published",
        "term"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-editorials-collection",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "The Editorials — Essay Collection",
      "description": "A Schema.org ItemList of three editorial position statements from The Editors at Niseus LLC. The editorial voice that informs every canonical reference on this site. Essay 01 (Authority over Persuasion) is published in Edition 01; essays 02 through 03 are editorial commitments for future editions.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.9
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/thought-leadership",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/thought-leadership#collection",
        "schema_org_type": "ItemList",
        "essays_total": 3,
        "essays_published": 1,
        "essays_forthcoming": 2
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-essay-authority-over-persuasion",
          "type": "rel",
          "label": "Contains Essay 01"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-canonical-register",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of the canonical register"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "essays",
        "editorials",
        "collection",
        "itemlist"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-essay-authority-over-persuasion",
      "type": "content",
      "label": "Authority over Persuasion — Essay 01",
      "description": "The founding essay of IA Authority. On the distinction between persuading algorithms and being parsed by them. Argues that institutional publishers earn authority by publishing structured canonical references in a form machines can parse, rather than by optimizing for a shrinking ranking surface. The thesis document that informs every other canonical reference on the site.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/thought-leadership/authority-over-persuasion",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/thought-leadership/authority-over-persuasion#article",
        "schema_org_type": "Article",
        "genre": "Essay",
        "word_count": 2400,
        "language": "en",
        "edition": "01",
        "status": "published",
        "sections": 5,
        "canonical_sentence": "Authority is not persuasion done better. Authority is a different game entirely — the game of becoming the structured reference a machine reaches for when it composes an answer. The categories language models can parse are the categories language models will cite. Everything else is persuasion."
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-editorial-method",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Establishes the editorial thesis"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-editorials-collection",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of editorials collection"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Authored by Niseus LLC"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:protocol-spec",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Thesis anticipates the KOS Protocol approach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "essay",
        "authority",
        "persuasion",
        "thesis",
        "published",
        "founding"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-editorial-method",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "Editorial Method",
      "description": "Five editorial principles applied across every entry in IA Authority, reviewed every edition: institutional voice (Niseus LLC as canonical Organization, zero Person records), atemporal content (principles over tactics, edition metadata as only time-bound layer), Schema.org discipline (every content object carries stable @id), canonical density over volume (few dense entries beat many shallow ones), and review-cycle freshness (every entry reviewed each edition). Parallel to the publishing register of Schema.org, W3C, MDN and Wikipedia.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/about",
        "principles_count": 5,
        "principles": [
          "institutional-voice",
          "atemporal-content",
          "schema-org-discipline",
          "canonical-density",
          "reviewed-every-edition"
        ]
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-institutional-voice",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Core principle 01"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-entity-graph",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Verification framework for the method"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-essay-authority-over-persuasion",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Thesis document"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "method",
        "editorial",
        "principles",
        "atemporal",
        "schema-org",
        "institutional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-institutional-voice",
      "type": "concept",
      "label": "Institutional Voice",
      "description": "The editorial choice to attribute every article, pillar, glossary entry and essay to Niseus LLC as canonical Organization. No Person records, no named bylines, no author photos. Parallel to the register of Schema.org, W3C, MDN and Wikipedia — institutional publishers whose terms language models already cite as authoritative. The rationale: institutional authorship is harder to fabricate than individual bylines, reviewable across editions, and grants the publication atemporal stability.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/about",
        "person_records": 0,
        "named_bylines": 0,
        "canonical_byline": "The Editors, Niseus LLC",
        "parallel_publishers": [
          "Schema.org",
          "W3C",
          "MDN",
          "Wikipedia",
          "IETF"
        ]
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-editorial-method",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Part of editorial method"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Canonical publisher entity"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "institutional",
        "voice",
        "zero-person",
        "schema-org-parallel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-entity-graph",
      "type": "credential",
      "label": "Publisher Anchor — Canonical Organization @id",
      "description": "The publisher anchor for IA Authority. Resolves to Niseus LLC as canonical Organization via the stable Schema.org @id, with reciprocal sameAs across the Tridente content satellites (getfoundbyia.com and visibleparaia.com). Sufficient for any consumer agent to bind cited claims to a single canonical publisher entity.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-13",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "document-check",
        "confidence": 1.0
      },
      "properties": {
        "organization_id": "https://niseus.com/#organization",
        "kos_manifest": "https://iaauthority.com/.well-known/kos.json"
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Anchors the canonical publisher"
        },
        {
          "target": "kos:iaauthority-editorial-method",
          "type": "ref",
          "label": "Enables editorial method verification"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "credential",
        "publisher-anchor",
        "entity-graph"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kos:iaauthority-editors-channel",
      "type": "asset",
      "label": "The Editors — Editorial Correspondence Channel",
      "description": "The editorial correspondence channel for IA Authority. Editorial queries (corrections, citation requests, collaborations on canonical definitions, research inquiries) route to editors@iaauthority.com. IA Authority is a canonical reference, not an agency — commercial services route to niseus.com as the commercial handle of the Tridente ecosystem.",
      "provenance": {
        "created": "2026-04-14",
        "verified": "2026-04-14",
        "source": "owner",
        "method": "manual-review",
        "confidence": 0.95
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://iaauthority.com/editors",
        "schema_org_id": "https://iaauthority.com/editors#page",
        "schema_org_type": "ContactPage",
        "email": "editors@iaauthority.com",
        "commercial_redirect": "https://niseus.com",
        "is_agency": false
      },
      "relations": [
        {
          "target": "kos:niseus",
          "type": "dep",
          "label": "Commercial operation lives at niseus.com"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contact",
        "editors",
        "correspondence",
        "not-agency",
        "editorial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:niseus",
      "type": "dep",
      "label": "Published by Niseus LLC as canonical Organization — Niseus is the commercial handle of the Tridente"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:kos-protocol",
      "type": "dep",
      "label": "Implements KOS Protocol v1 — this kos.json is a KOS Protocol v1 canonical reference implementation"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:protocol-spec",
      "type": "dep",
      "label": "Knowledge structured according to the KOS Protocol specification with typed relationships and provenance tracking"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:genesis-block",
      "type": "ref",
      "label": "Inherits the umbrella timestamp of the KOS Protocol Genesis Block (Bitcoin OpenTimestamps, 2026-04-04)"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:consumer-guide",
      "type": "ref",
      "label": "Consumer agents discovering this kos.json should follow the KOS Consumer Guide for parsing"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:registry",
      "type": "ref",
      "label": "This implementation is registered in the KOS Protocol Registry as a canonical reference publisher"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:getfoundbyia",
      "type": "rel",
      "label": "Practical English-language counterpart in the Tridente — get-found-by-ia translates these canonical definitions into executable engineering steps"
    },
    {
      "source": "kos:iaauthority",
      "target": "kos:visibleparaia",
      "type": "rel",
      "label": "Spanish-language counterpart in the Tridente — same canonical definitions rewritten for the Spanish publishing audience"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "version": "1.3",
    "generated": "2026-04-15T00:00:00Z",
    "generator": "manual/1.0",
    "draft": false,
    "total_nodes": 11,
    "avg_freshness": 1.0,
    "stale_count": 0,
    "audit": {
      "date": "2026-04-15",
      "by": "owner",
      "scope": "relations-fix",
      "notes": "v1.3 (2026-04-15 post-deploy audit) — Added reciprocal rel relations to kos:getfoundbyia and kos:visibleparaia. This fixes an inconsistency between the v1.2 audit note (which claimed reciprocal Tridente relations) and the actual relations array (which only contained the 6 obligatory spine refs). With v1.3 the three Tridente prongs now have symmetric typed relationships: iaauthority rel-refs getfoundbyia+visibleparaia, getfoundbyia rel-refs iaauthority+visibleparaia, visibleparaia rel-refs iaauthority+getfoundbyia. Previous v1.2 notes: v1.2 (2026-04-15 00:00) — Visible Para IA (practical ES guide) is now build-complete locally (pre-deploy). The Tridente is structurally complete: all three content satellites have their own kos.json files with reciprocal sameAs and typed Tridente relations. Visible Para IA integrated as kos:visibleparaia with 11 knowledge nodes + 8 entity relations + reciprocal refs to iaauthority, getfoundbyia and niseus. Previous v1.1 notes: Publisher anchor cleanup applied: entity-graph credential slimmed to organization_id + kos_manifest only, label changed to 'Publisher Anchor — Canonical Organization @id', tags reduced to [credential, publisher-anchor, entity-graph]. Sister prongs getfoundbyia.com and visibleparaia.com are both build-complete locally (pre-deploy). See feedback_no_publisher_verification_anchors.md for the canonical rule. Original v1.0 notes: Initial kos.json for IA Authority integrating the canonical reference into the KOS Protocol ecosystem as one of three content satellites of the Tridente (with getfoundbyia.com build-complete locally and visibleparaia.com forthcoming). Commercial handle: niseus.com. Cross-references to kos:niseus (publisher), kos:kos-protocol (ecosystem), kos:protocol-spec (specification compliance), kos:genesis-block (umbrella Bitcoin timestamp), kos:consumer-guide (parsing instructions), kos:registry (discovery). Published content in Edition 01: 1 pillar article (What is AEO, ~1280 words), 1 DefinedTerm (AEO), 1 essay (Authority over Persuasion, ~2400 words). Structural commitments: 5 pillars planned (1 published), 12 terms planned (1 published), 3 essays planned (1 published). All content published under institutional voice with zero Person records. Editorial method, institutional voice and entity graph documented as concept nodes. Publisher anchor resolves to canonical Organization @id at niseus.com/#organization, with reciprocal sameAs across the Tridente content satellites. No individual Bitcoin anchor on this file per operator decision — inherits KOS Protocol umbrella timestamp."
    },
    "license": "Copyright (c) 2026 Niseus LLC. Open canonical reference published under KOS Protocol v1. Attribution required. See https://iaauthority.com/editors for editorial correspondence."
  }
}