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For enterprises and growing brands, we explain what the standards require, how we build to them and how we measure results. Every guide cites its sources.
The Xterra Edze journalUpdated
Lead storyConsumer health4 min read
Nine market teams redrew the same brand by hand and reused claims their market had not approved. We built design tokens, templates, a claims library and an agent that flags errors before a person reviews.
A consumer-health brand sold in nine markets
Read the case study : One consumer-health brand, kept consistent across nine marketsCase studies
Each case study is anonymised and lists what we delivered. Figures are published once the client approves them.
All 3 case studies
A B2B software company
Sales engineers answered the same product questions on every call, and the answers varied. We wrote the evaluation set first, then built an assistant that cites approved sources and hands pricing and security questions to a person.
Measured by Answer accuracy on the evaluation set +2
A digital lending platform
Loan applicants dropped out at identity checks and disclosures, and nobody knew which step lost them. We gave the Key Fact Statement its own step, rebuilt video KYC around clear instructions and measured each step.
Measured by Onboarding completion +2
Standards timeline
This timeline lists the laws, standards and measures our guides cover, each linked to the guide that explains it. Dates still to come are marked.
NIST releases the AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
Explained inAI-native brand systems: what they are and where to start
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is enacted
Consent must be free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous.
Explained inDPDP Act consent in practice: a field guide for marketing teamsReviewed 3 Oct 2026
WCAG 2.2 becomes a W3C Recommendation
Nine new success criteria; 4.1.1 Parsing is retired.
Explained inWCAG 2.2 for marketing sites: the nine new criteria, in plain termsReviewed 29 Sep 2026
INP replaces FID as a Core Web Vital
Responsiveness is judged across every interaction in a visit.
Explained inCore Web Vitals for marketing sites: the three thresholds and what moves themReviewed 28 Sep 2026
Sourceweb.dev (Google): Interaction to Next Paint becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12
Software Carbon Intensity is published as ISO/IEC 21031:2024
SCI = ((E × I) + M) per R becomes an international standard.
Explained inSoftware Carbon Intensity for web products: measure the rate, then lower it
SourceGreen Software Foundation: SCI — Software Carbon Intensity (adopted as ISO/IEC 21031:2024)
NIST publishes its Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1)
A companion to the AI Risk Management Framework, with actions for generative AI.
Explained inDesigning AI agents people can trust: limits, approvals and a way back
The European Accessibility Act applies in the EU
Many consumer-facing products and services, e-commerce among them, must now be accessible.
Explained inWCAG 2.2 for marketing sites: the nine new criteria, in plain termsReviewed 29 Sep 2026
The Design Tokens Format Module reaches its first stable version
Version 2025.10: one file format for tokens across design and code tools.
Explained inAI-native brand systems: what they are and where to start
SourceDesign Tokens Community Group (W3C): Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10
The DPDP Rules, 2025 are published in the Official Gazette
The rules on the Data Protection Board apply the same day.
Explained inDPDP Act consent in practice: a field guide for marketing teamsReviewed 3 Oct 2026
SourceMinistry of Electronics and Information Technology: Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
Next month
The Consent Manager rule applies
Rule 4, one year after the Rules were published.
Explained inDPDP Act consent in practice: a field guide for marketing teamsReviewed 3 Oct 2026
SourceMinistry of Electronics and Information Technology: Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
In 7 months
Most obligations under the DPDP Rules apply
Notices, security safeguards, breach intimation, retention and children’s data, eighteen months after publication.
Explained inDPDP Act consent in practice: a field guide for marketing teamsReviewed 3 Oct 2026
SourceMinistry of Electronics and Information Technology: Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
Each date is as precise as its source. Future dates follow published timetables and can move; when one does, we review the guide and note the change in its review log.
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Seven design rules that keep AI agents useful, honest about what they do not know and unable to cause harm on their own.
Without fixed questions and agreed answers, every prompt or model change is a matter of opinion. How we build evaluation sets, grade them and make them a release gate.
A brand whose rules are written as data: tokens, templates, approved words and checks. People and agents use them to produce on-brand work, and every decision stays with a person.
SCI turns a product’s carbon into a rate you can design against: ((E × I) + M) per R. What each term means for a website, how to choose the functional unit and which changes lower the score.
What a brief or RFQ must say to get good proposals: the problem, the measures of success, budget and time. Six sections, five mistakes and a template to copy.
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