diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95a2991..4b273fe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.0.3 - 2026-10-18
+
+- Add `docs/maintenance.md`. It tells you who maintains the package, how CI
+  checks each change, how a release is published, what you keep if
+  maintenance stops, and how to become a maintainer. The README and the
+  comparison pages now link to this page. They and `docs/versioning.md` no
+  longer state a count of maintainers. A new test fails when a page states
+  one.
+
 ## 1.0.2 - 2026-10-15
 
 - Add four comparison pages in `docs/compare/`: Restate virtual objects, DBOS
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c948db9..855bf50 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ explains the model and when to use it.
 
 **Status.** Version 1.0: the public API follows semantic versioning and does
 not break before 2.0. [Versioning](docs/versioning.md) gives the limits of the
-promise. First public release: August 13, 2026. One maintainer.
+promise. First public release: August 13, 2026.
 
 **Production use.** One first-party application with more than 100,000 users
 runs it in production. That is a count of users, not a measure of load. No
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ then shows a tested Solid Objects version with its limits:
 - [Operations and recovery](docs/operations.md)
 - [Observability and diagnostics](docs/observability.md)
 - [Detailed architecture](docs/architecture.md)
+- [Maintenance and continuity](docs/maintenance.md)
 - [Detailed documentation](docs/)
 
 The benchmarks, parity ledger, dashboard, browser setup, and exhaustive API
diff --git a/docs/compare/dbos.md b/docs/compare/dbos.md
index 8b2f2b1..0d1b7c7 100644
--- a/docs/compare/dbos.md
+++ b/docs/compare/dbos.md
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ How it works:
 
 - First public release of the npm package: August 13, 2026.
 - Version 1.0.0: October 13, 2026. The public API follows [semantic versioning](../versioning.md).
-- One maintainer.
+- [Maintenance and continuity](../maintenance.md) tells you who maintains the project and how a release is made.
 - One first-party application with more than 100,000 users runs it in production. That is a count of users, not a measure of load. No production use by other people is known.
 - The [benchmarks](../benchmarks.md) are development measurements. Longer soak tests are open work.
 
diff --git a/docs/compare/graphile-worker.md b/docs/compare/graphile-worker.md
index 90a5b95..be8c181 100644
--- a/docs/compare/graphile-worker.md
+++ b/docs/compare/graphile-worker.md
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ How it works:
 
 - First public release of the npm package: August 13, 2026.
 - Version 1.0.0: October 13, 2026. The public API follows [semantic versioning](../versioning.md).
-- One maintainer.
+- [Maintenance and continuity](../maintenance.md) tells you who maintains the project and how a release is made.
 - One first-party application with more than 100,000 users runs it in production. That is a count of users, not a measure of load. No production use by other people is known.
 - The [benchmarks](../benchmarks.md) are development measurements. Longer soak tests are open work.
 
diff --git a/docs/compare/restate.md b/docs/compare/restate.md
index a36e3b8..6d2fb52 100644
--- a/docs/compare/restate.md
+++ b/docs/compare/restate.md
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ A model call can run again after a crash, because effects run at least once. If
 
 - First public release of the npm package: August 13, 2026.
 - Version 1.0.0: October 13, 2026. The public API follows [semantic versioning](../versioning.md).
-- One maintainer.
+- [Maintenance and continuity](../maintenance.md) tells you who maintains the project and how a release is made.
 - One first-party application with more than 100,000 users runs it in production. That is a count of users, not a measure of load. No production use by other people is known.
 - The [benchmarks](../benchmarks.md) are development measurements. Longer soak tests are open work.
 
diff --git a/docs/compare/rivetkit.md b/docs/compare/rivetkit.md
index b66cd4b..2dcb68e 100644
--- a/docs/compare/rivetkit.md
+++ b/docs/compare/rivetkit.md
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ How it works:
 
 - First public release of the npm package: August 13, 2026.
 - Version 1.0.0: October 13, 2026. The public API follows [semantic versioning](../versioning.md).
-- One maintainer.
+- [Maintenance and continuity](../maintenance.md) tells you who maintains the project and how a release is made.
 - One first-party application with more than 100,000 users runs it in production. That is a count of users, not a measure of load. No production use by other people is known.
 - The [benchmarks](../benchmarks.md) are development measurements. Longer soak tests are open work.
 
diff --git a/docs/maintenance.md b/docs/maintenance.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d51b604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/maintenance.md
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Maintenance and continuity
+
+This page tells you who maintains Solid Objects, how a release is made, and
+what you keep if maintenance stops. It also tells you how to help maintain the
+project.
+
+## Who maintains it
+
+Lucas Carlson ([@cardmagic](https://github.com/cardmagic)) is the lead
+maintainer of the npm package `solid-objects` and of the Ruby gem
+[`solid_objects`](https://github.com/cardmagic/solid-objects-ruby). The two
+packages use the same model and the same correctness contract. A change to the
+model goes into both packages, and the [parity ledger](parity.md) records each
+difference between them.
+
+The same maintainer sells [Solid Objects Pro](https://solidobjects.pro), a
+commercial package that batches operations at scale. Pro depends on this
+package. This package does not depend on Pro, and it needs no account, license
+key, or service from the maintainer.
+
+## How a change is checked
+
+CI runs on each push and each pull request:
+
+- Types, formatting, documentation links, the unit tests with coverage, and
+  the packaged artifact.
+- The suite on the oldest supported Node.js version.
+- The database suites on PostgreSQL and MySQL, and the Redis wake-up suite.
+- The browser runtime in Chromium.
+
+[Supported versions](support.md) lists the CI matrix. The
+[correctness contract](correctness.md) lists the guarantees that the tests
+check.
+
+## How a release is made
+
+1. The maintainer pushes a version tag, for example `v1.0.3`.
+2. GitHub Actions runs all test jobs again on that tag.
+3. If all test jobs pass, GitHub Actions publishes the package to npm with
+   trusted publishing. The repository keeps no npm token, and npm shows a
+   provenance attestation for each version.
+4. The same job makes a GitHub release from the changelog.
+
+[Releasing](releasing.md) gives the full procedure. [Versioning](versioning.md)
+tells you what a release can change. [CHANGELOG.md](../CHANGELOG.md) lists each
+release.
+
+## What you keep if maintenance stops
+
+- **Your data.** With the SQL runtime, actor state, mailboxes, reminders, and
+  effects are rows in your application's database. No service of the
+  maintainer holds your data.
+- **The code.** The [MIT License](../MIT-LICENSE) lets anyone use, change,
+  fork, and publish the code.
+- **The checks.** The tests and the CI configuration are in this repository. A
+  fork can check its changes with the same suite.
+
+## Help maintain Solid Objects
+
+The project wants more maintainers. Experience with TypeScript and Node.js,
+with locks and transactions in PostgreSQL or MySQL, or with Rails helps.
+
+1. Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md).
+2. Send a small pull request: a fix, a test, or a correction to a guide.
+3. After some of your pull requests are merged, open an
+   [issue](https://github.com/cardmagic/solid-objects-js/issues) to ask to
+   become a maintainer.
+
+To report a vulnerability, use the private process in
+[SECURITY.md](../SECURITY.md).
diff --git a/docs/versioning.md b/docs/versioning.md
index 1898a46..d0d3e07 100644
--- a/docs/versioning.md
+++ b/docs/versioning.md
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ change. A patch release does not raise a minimum version.
 
 Version 1.0 is a promise about the API. It is not a claim of measured scale.
 The [benchmarks](benchmarks.md) are development measurements and do not
-guarantee capacity. Longer soak tests are open work. The project has one
-maintainer, and no production use by other people is known.
+guarantee capacity. Longer soak tests are open work. No production use by
+other people is known.
 
 ## Releases before 1.0
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6b045ea..a4e8edf 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "solid-objects",
-  "version": "1.0.2",
+  "version": "1.0.3",
   "description": "Fix race conditions across Node.js processes: ordered operations, expiring holds, and state that survives a restart, in your SQL database. A SQL-backed virtual actor library for TypeScript and Node.js.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/version.ts b/src/version.ts
index d688532..44dcd98 100644
--- a/src/version.ts
+++ b/src/version.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const VERSION = "1.0.2"
+export const VERSION = "1.0.3"
diff --git a/test/maintenance-guide.test.ts b/test/maintenance-guide.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a2522f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/maintenance-guide.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs"
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"
+
+const root = new URL("../", import.meta.url)
+const maintainerCount =
+  /\b(?:\d+|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|ten|only|sole|single)\s+maintainers?\b/i
+const documentationPaths = [
+  "README.md",
+  "CONTRIBUTING.md",
+  "SECURITY.md",
+  ...readdirSync(new URL("docs/", root), { encoding: "utf8", recursive: true })
+    .filter((path) => path.endsWith(".md"))
+    .sort()
+    .map((path) => `docs/${path}`),
+]
+
+function read(path: string): string {
+  return existsSync(new URL(path, root)) ? readFileSync(new URL(path, root), "utf8") : ""
+}
+
+describe("maintenance guide", () => {
+  it("is linked from the README", () => {
+    expect(read("README.md")).toContain("(docs/maintenance.md)")
+  })
+
+  it("names the lead maintainer", () => {
+    expect(read("docs/maintenance.md")).toMatch(
+      /Lucas Carlson \(\[@cardmagic\]\(https:\/\/github\.com\/cardmagic\)\) is the lead\s+maintainer/,
+    )
+  })
+
+  it("has a count pattern that finds a count of maintainers in each form", () => {
+    for (const text of [
+      "One maintainer.",
+      "1 maintainer",
+      "two maintainers",
+      "the only\nmaintainer",
+    ]) {
+      expect(text).toMatch(maintainerCount)
+    }
+    for (const text of ["the lead maintainer", "wants more maintainers", "become a maintainer"]) {
+      expect(text).not.toMatch(maintainerCount)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it("has no page in the documentation that states a count of maintainers", () => {
+    const pages = documentationPaths.filter((path) => maintainerCount.test(read(path)))
+    expect(pages).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("tells a contributor how to start", () => {
+    expect(read("docs/maintenance.md")).toContain("(../CONTRIBUTING.md)")
+  })
+})