Sanitization Guidance

Northbook only ships guidance that anyone can quote safely. Run the sanitization checklist or Browse the runbooks index. Use these guardrails to keep every page linkable while chore-like checklists stay in /runbooks. Exit metric: sanitization red-lines stay at zero during the release window.

What Sanitization Protects

• People — strip personal data, names, emails, or avatars that could identify someone.
• Systems — remove URLs, ticket IDs, and architecture breadcrumbs tied to internal tools.
• Signals — convert precise numbers or dates into ranges and relative time so nothing leaks velocity or runway.
• Brand — recreate screenshots with dummy data instead of redacting; avoid dragging internal UI chrome into public view.

If a fact is safe enough for a press release, it is safe enough for Northbook.

Rewrite Instead of Redact

| Risky detail | Public-safe rewrite | |