Purpose

Ensure every intellectual asset follows one controlled lifecycle. Nothing exists without status; nothing disappears without history; nothing is deleted without traceability. Architecture only — it never permanently deletes verified assets or overwrites historical versions.

Intellectual Assets

Books, articles, research papers, working papers, policy briefs, strategic reports, datasets, courses, programs, modules, lessons, certificates, presentations, videos, podcasts, training programs, consulting frameworks, AI drafts, knowledge nodes.

Lifecycle Model

Concept → Draft → Internal Review → Academic Review → Editorial Review → Approved → Published → Maintained → Updated → Superseded → Archived → Historical Record.

Stage Details

• Concept: idea, source, author, priority, related school & program, target audience, expected output
• Draft: working draft, version, editor, creation date, revision notes, AI support log
• Review: academic, editorial, research, publishing, AI, and CEO review (if required)

Approval

• Options: Approved, Approved with Revision, Rejected, Deferred, Merged, Archived
• Every decision records: reviewer, date, reason

Publication

After approval: register asset, generate metadata & relationships, update knowledge graph, library, discovery, and recommendations.

Maintenance & Update Management

• Monitor: broken links, outdated references, new editions, related publications, metadata quality, academic relevance
• Updates: minor revision, major revision, new edition, translation, expanded version, merged version

Version Control

Maintain original version, revision history, editor, date, reason, and change summary.

Retirement & Knowledge Preservation

• Retirement: Superseded, Withdrawn, Historical Archive, Restricted Access, Deleted (only by governance approval)
• Preservation: never destroy intellectual history — keep previous versions, historical metadata, original publication date, original relationships

Automation

Automatically monitor status, detect updates, notify editors, update metadata, refresh relationships, and generate daily reports.

CEO Alerts

Notify CEO when: critical publication updated, major book released, important research added, duplicate found, asset requires decision.

Quality Control (report only)

Detect orphan assets, missing metadata, missing relationships, broken lifecycle, missing approval, duplicate versions.

Administration

Move lifecycle stage, approve, reject, archive, restore, merge, rollback.

WordPress Implementation

• Custom status, revision history
• REST API, workflow automation
• Knowledge Registry

Restrictions

• Never permanently delete verified intellectual assets.
• Never overwrite historical versions.
• Never bypass approval workflow.

Codex Handover

Deliver lifecycle architecture, status model, version framework, update & archive & governance workflows. Enforcement wired by Codex. Stop.

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Content status: Draft. Architecture specification only — no verified assets deleted, no historical versions overwritten, no approval bypassed, no data fabricated. Domain: kba13academy.com. System: OP02 Knowledge Lifecycle Management. Handover: Codex / Owner.