STANDARDS · LAYER 1 OF START
Compliance alignment and risk mapping. We show you exactly where your products stand against the regulation that's already here and the regulation that's coming — and we close the gaps while they're still cheap to close.
The regulatory ground under fashion is shifting faster than most teams can track — and every gap now carries a price. The EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — brings textiles into scope for mandatory Digital Product Passports. Extended Producer Responsibility schemes are landing across Europe. Carbon disclosure rules are tightening. The UK, the USA and the UAE are each moving on their own timelines, with their own definitions. The EU's DPP Registry goes live on 19 July 2026, with the textile requirements following in 2027 — the clock is no longer hypothetical.
The danger isn't any single rule. It's the stack — overlapping, cross-border, and arriving on different clocks. A garment designed in one jurisdiction, manufactured in a second and sold in a third can satisfy none of them while appearing to satisfy all. And the bill doesn't arrive as a letter. It arrives as goods held at customs, a retail partner pulling your listing, a fine measured against turnover, or an investor's due-diligence flag that stalls a round. Most organisations don't find the gap until an auditor, a customs officer or an investor does.
Standards is where you find it first — while it's still a line item, not a loss.
We map your full regulatory exposure and turn it into a plan you can act on — and budget for.
Regulatory gap analysis — We assess your products, data and processes against current and incoming regulation — ESPR, EPR, Digital Product Passport mandates, carbon disclosure — and identify precisely where you fall short of the rule as written, not as approximated. You get certainty about where you actually stand, before someone else decides for you.
Cross-jurisdictional alignment (EU / UK / USA / UAE) — Regulation rarely stops at a border, and neither do your products. We reconcile the requirements of every market you sell into, so a single product strategy satisfies all of them — instead of paying to solve the same problem four times.
Product compliance assessment — We work at the level that decides outcomes — the product. We assess individual categories and lines against the obligations that apply to them, so you know which products are exposed, to what, and by when — and which are safe to keep selling.
Risk exposure mapping — We translate the findings into a clear picture of risk: what you're exposed to, how material each gap is in money and deadline terms, and the order in which to close them. Not a list of everything that's wrong — a prioritised route that spends your budget where it buys the most protection.
START is a sequence, not a menu. Standards is Layer 1 because every layer above it depends on knowing the rules you are building toward. There is no commercial sense in designing a Digital Product Passport, building a measurement system or shaping policy if you have not first established which standards govern them. Get this layer wrong and everything above it inherits the error — and you pay to build it twice.
NEXT LAYER
Once you know what you are measured against, the next question is how you prove it. That is Transparency — digital product identity and Digital Product Passport strategy.