This page records who maintains The Behavioral Layer and how its notes are made. Attribution here is provenance, not promotion.
Steward
The Behavioral Layer is curated by Joel Goldfoot, a product design and research executive. He is the author of How to Lead Design in the AI Era (2025) and the creator of the BiModal Design framework.
- blog.goldfoot.com
- bimodal.design
- linkedin.com/in/goldfoot
- How to Lead Design in the AI Era
- ORCID 0009-0007-1843-2089
How this site is made
The notes on this site are produced by a defined process, described here so that any claim can be traced and audited.
Research agents discover primary sources and draft resource notes. Each note must trace its claims to a primary source that was fetched and read. A note that cannot cite a primary source is not published.
The standards are written down. A public editorial contract, EDITORIAL.md in the repository, defines what a note must contain and how it must read. Continuous integration enforces that contract mechanically on every proposed change: it checks that each resource note cites a source, that internal links resolve, that frontmatter is valid, that freshness dates are present, and that no term on a confidentiality denylist appears.
Enforcement is not the last step. A human editor, Joel Goldfoot, reviews and verifies every note before it merges. Nothing reaches the site without that human sign-off. Every change is proposed as a pull request and recorded in the public git history at github.com/jgoldfoot/behavioral-layer, so the provenance of any sentence is inspectable.
The site as its own subject
This site is an instance of its own subject. It is maintained by AI research agents operating under a written behavioral contract, with mechanical enforcement, human oversight, and public provenance. That arrangement, an autonomous system governed by a specified contract and verified by a person, is the thesis of The Behavioral Layer applied to the site that documents it.