Industries

Built to the rules your category plays by.

The same six disciplines, applied under very different constraints. We start from what regulators, platforms and customers already expect of your industry — then design the brand, the product and the systems to meet it.

Industries
41
Sectors
11
Sub-industries: The sub-industries listed across every industry, each counted once.
218
Rulebook entries: Rule lines across the industry rulebooks; an instrument several industries use is counted in each.
313

Every industry we serve

Forty-one industries. Find yours, then see what applies.

Grouped into eleven sectors, each with the sub-industries where the work lands. Search by name, by sub-industry or by the words your team uses, narrow by sector, and tick up to three to put them side by side.

  • Consumer & retail

    8 industries · GICS: Consumer Discretionary · Consumer Staples

    The brands people buy every week, and the stores, sites and apps they buy them from.

  • Flagship: Full rulebook and a working deliverable

    Consumer & retail

    Retail & commerce

    A season ships in days.

    • Omnichannel retail
    • Marketplace sellers
    • Quick commerce
    • D2C brands
    • Department & specialty stores
  • Consumer & retail

    Fashion & apparel

    Fit decides the return.

    • Apparel brands
    • Footwear
    • Accessories
    • D2C labels & marketplaces
    • Ethnic & occasion wear
    • Textiles & sourcing
  • Consumer & retail

    Luxury & jewellery

    Purity is now proved piece by piece.

    • Fine jewellery
    • Bridal & gold retail
    • Diamonds & gemstones
    • Watches
    • Luxury fashion & leather goods
    • Pre-owned & authentication
  • Consumer & retail

    Consumer electronics

    Repairability is now part of the spec.

    • Phones & devices
    • Home appliances
    • Audio & wearables
    • Electronics retail
    • After-sales & repair
    • Smart home & IoT
  • Consumer & retail

    Home & living

    The room sells the piece.

    • Furniture
    • Mattresses & sleep
    • Décor & furnishings
    • Kitchen & homeware
    • Home improvement
    • Handcrafted & artisan goods
  • Consumer & retail

    Restaurants & food service

    The menu is a regulated document.

    • Quick-service restaurants
    • Casual & fine dining
    • Cloud kitchens
    • Cafés & bakeries
    • Delivery partnerships
    • Institutional catering

Tick “Compare” on up to three industries to put them side by side.

Side by side

Tick “Compare” on up to three industries. With none ticked, the six flagship industries are shown.

The flagship industries, side by side: the sub-industries, the number each moves, the way in, the disciplines that lead, the rules mapped, where the rules bite hardest, the frameworks beyond the baseline, the challenges and the AI use cases.
Consumer & retail Retail & commerce Health & life sciences Consumer health Finance & insurance Financial services Technology B2B technology Media, telecom & entertainment Telecom & media Travel, hospitality & leisure Hospitality
Sub-industries Omnichannel retail, Marketplace sellers, Quick commerce, D2C brands, Department & specialty stores OTC medicines, Vitamins & supplements, Derma & personal care, Wellness brands, E-pharmacy Retail & digital banking, Digital lending & NBFCs, Payments & fintech, Cards & credit, Microfinance & small-business credit SaaS, Enterprise software, Developer platforms, Data & AI platforms, Vertical software Mobile operators, Broadband & fibre, DTH & cable TV, Streaming (OTT), Enterprise connectivity Hotel groups & brands, Resorts, Independent & boutique hotels, Serviced apartments, Villas & homestays
The number we move Time to ship a season First-time claims approval Onboarding completion Qualified pipeline Self-service resolution Direct booking share
The way in Checkout and consent auditSprint · 1–2 weeks Claims and channel diagnosticSprint · 2–3 weeks Disclosure and journey auditSprint · 2–3 weeks Buyer-question and evidence auditSprint · 2–3 weeks Care-intent and messaging auditSprint · 2–3 weeks Direct-booking diagnosticSprint · 2–3 weeks
Disciplines that lead Technology & Intelligence, Campaign & Content Design Brand Design, Campaign & Content Design Technology & Intelligence, Product & Experience Design, Marketing Technology Brand Design, AI Design, Product & Experience Design Technology & Intelligence, AI Design, Marketing Technology Product & Experience Design, Marketing Technology
Rules mapped 7 rules · 5 areas 9 rules · 3 areas 9 rules · 6 areas 7 rules · 3 areas 7 rules · 4 areas 7 rules · 5 areas
Shapes most of the work Payments, Personal data Advertising & claims, Sector regulator Sector regulator, Payments, Personal data, Security & incidents Personal data, Security & incidents, AI governance Sector regulator, Personal data, Security & incidents Payments, Personal data
Frameworks beyond the baseline Baseline: the standards every programme meets + GDPR · PCI DSS v4.0.1 Baseline: the standards every programme meets Baseline: the standards every programme meets + PCI DSS v4.0.1 · GDPR Baseline: the standards every programme meets + SOC 2 · EU AI Act · GDPR Baseline: the standards every programme meets Baseline: the standards every programme meets + PCI DSS v4.0.1 · GDPR
Challenges Consent at scale, Payments on the page, Discovery in AI answers, Content at scale, Owning the relationship Regulated claims, Consent at scale, Discovery in AI answers, Content at scale, Governed AI Regulated claims, Consent at scale, Payments on the page, Service at scale, Audit-ready evidence, Governed AI Discovery in AI answers, Audit-ready evidence, Governed AI Regulated claims, Consent at scale, Content at scale, Service at scale, Audit-ready evidence, Governed AI Consent at scale, Payments on the page, Discovery in AI answers, Service at scale, Owning the relationship
AI use cases Variant production with brand checks, Product data enrichment, Shopping assistant Claims-safe drafting, Health-question answers, Creator content checks Service assistant that cites policy, Disclosure checker, Plain-language hardship messages Sales and support assistant, Security questionnaire drafting, In-product AI with evals Care assistant with network context, Pre-send template and consent check, Offer copy from one source Concierge assistant, Rate and content parity checks, Review replies in the brand’s voice

Swipe the table sideways for every industry.

Industry × discipline

Thirty-six cells. Each one says what we would build.

Our six flagship industries down the side, the six disciplines across the top. Pick a cell to see what that discipline builds for that industry, the capabilities that do the work and the programmes it belongs to.

Flagship industries down the side, disciplines across the top. Each cell is that discipline's role in that industry; choose one to see what it builds there.
01Brand (Brand Design) 02Technology (Technology & Intelligence) 03Campaign (Campaign & Content Design) 04AI (AI Design) 05Product (Product & Experience Design) 06Marketing (Marketing Technology)
01Retail & commerce Supports — Brand Design in Retail & commerce Leads — Technology & Intelligence in Retail & commerce Leads — Campaign & Content Design in Retail & commerce Core — AI Design in Retail & commerce Core — Product & Experience Design in Retail & commerce Core — Marketing Technology in Retail & commerce
02Consumer health Leads — Brand Design in Consumer health Supports — Technology & Intelligence in Consumer health Leads — Campaign & Content Design in Consumer health Core — AI Design in Consumer health Supports — Product & Experience Design in Consumer health Core — Marketing Technology in Consumer health
03Financial services Core — Brand Design in Financial services Leads — Technology & Intelligence in Financial services Supports — Campaign & Content Design in Financial services Supports — AI Design in Financial services Leads — Product & Experience Design in Financial services Leads — Marketing Technology in Financial services
04B2B technology Leads — Brand Design in B2B technology Core — Technology & Intelligence in B2B technology Supports — Campaign & Content Design in B2B technology Leads — AI Design in B2B technology Leads — Product & Experience Design in B2B technology Core — Marketing Technology in B2B technology
05Telecom & media Supports — Brand Design in Telecom & media Leads — Technology & Intelligence in Telecom & media Core — Campaign & Content Design in Telecom & media Leads — AI Design in Telecom & media Core — Product & Experience Design in Telecom & media Leads — Marketing Technology in Telecom & media
06Hospitality Core — Brand Design in Hospitality Core — Technology & Intelligence in Hospitality Core — Campaign & Content Design in Hospitality Supports — AI Design in Hospitality Leads — Product & Experience Design in Hospitality Leads — Marketing Technology in Hospitality
Leads Core Supports Roles describe a typical programme: illustrative, never a fixed recipe.

01Retail & commerceTechnology & Intelligence

Technology & Intelligence leads in retail & commerce.

Leads — the largest share of a typical programme

Storefronts, product-data pipelines and search and AI visibility.

Programmes it belongs to

  1. Checkout and consent auditSprint · 1–2 weeks · the way in
  2. Product data and search/AI visibilityProject · 8–12 weeks

Regulation map

Where the rules bite, industry by industry.

Our reading of how heavily each area of regulation shapes a typical programme in each of the forty-one industries, sector by sector, and how many rules we have mapped there. Every cell with rules opens that industry’s rulebook at the right place.

How heavily each area of regulation shapes a typical programme in each industry, from sometimes to most of the work, and how many industry rules are mapped there. Each cell with rules opens that part of the industry's rulebook; a cell marked B is covered by the baseline standards every programme meets.
Advertising & claimsASCI, CCPA, SEBI Sector regulatorRBI, IRDAI, TRAI, CDSCO, FSSAI PaymentsPCI DSS, RBI Personal dataDPDP Act, GDPR Security & incidentsCERT-In, ISO 27001 AccessibilityWCAG 2.2, EAA AI governanceEU AI Act, OWASP LLM
Consumer & retail8 industries
Retail & commerceF (flagship)2211B1B
Food & beverage23—1B1B
Beauty & personal care33—1BBB
Fashion & apparel43—1BBB
Luxury & jewellery3211BBB
Consumer electronics15—11BB
Home & living24—1B1B
Restaurants & food service2311B1B
Health & life sciences4 industries
Consumer healthF (flagship)35—1BBB
Hospitals & care providers22—21B1
Pharma & biotech14—11BB
Medical devices & diagnostics13—11B2
Finance & insurance3 industries
Financial servicesF (flagship)22211B1
Insurance13111B1
Wealth & asset management11211B1
Technology4 industries
B2B technologyF (flagship)———22B3
Consumer internet & apps1212BB1
Cybersecurity12—13B1
IT services & capability centres—2—2211
Media, telecom & entertainment4 industries
Telecom & mediaF (flagship)13—12BB
Media & publishing1311B11
Film, music & live events23—1B11
Gaming & esports3311BBB
Travel, hospitality & leisure4 industries
HospitalityF (flagship)1311B1B
Travel & tourism1311B11
Airlines & airports1311B2B
Sports & fitness2211B1B
Industry, mobility & logistics5 industries
Automotive & mobility311111B
Manufacturing & industrial13—21B1
Logistics & supply chain13—1111
Chemicals & materials24—B1BB
Agriculture & agritech23—1BB1
Energy & utilities2 industries
Energy & utilities121121B
Renewables & climate tech24—1BBB
Real estate & infrastructure2 industries
Real estate32—1B1B
Construction & infrastructure15—1B1B
Public sector, education & impact3 industries
Education & edtech1211111
Government & public services12—1121
Non-profits & social impact1411B1B
Business & professional services2 industries
Professional services3——12B1
Staffing & HR services—4—1BB2
Shapes most of the work Often shapes the work Sometimes shapes the work rules mapped there no rule of its own: the baseline applies flagship industry Our reading of typical programmes, not legal advice. Your counsel confirms how each rule applies to you. Compiled 3 October 2026.

Rules that cross industries

Instruments that appear in more than one rulebook or framework list. Where one belongs to the baseline, it applies to every industry, and the card says which rulebooks also name it.

Across every industry

The baseline travels. Five standards every programme meets.

Industry rules differ. These apply everywhere, and we track them as they change. They are built into every brief, every build and every review, whichever category you compete in.

  1. 01

    Personal data

    72 hto send the Data Protection Board a detailed breach report, under rule 7 of the DPDP Rules (from 13 May 2027)

    Consent notices in plain language, purpose limitation, data-principal rights and breach response — designed into forms, CRMs and analytics.

    DPDP Act 2023 and Rules 2025; GDPR where EU residents’ data is processed.

    Shapes most of the work inRetail & commerce, Hospitals & care providers, Pharma & biotech, Medical devices & diagnostics and 20 more

    • DPDP Act 2023 — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
  2. 02

    Accessibility

    24 × 24CSS pixels: the smallest target a control may have, under WCAG 2.2 (2.5.8)

    WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor: visible focus that is never obscured, targets of at least 24 × 24 CSS px, accessible authentication, no drag-only controls.

    WCAG 2.2 AA; the EU Accessibility Act where you sell in the EU (since June 2025).

    Shapes most of the work inFilm, music & live events, Airlines & airports, Education & edtech and Government & public services

    • WCAG 2.2 AA — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  3. 03

    Performance

    2.5 slargest contentful paint at the 75th percentile of real visits, the “good” threshold

    Pages budgeted to the Core Web Vitals “good” thresholds at the 75th percentile of real visits.

    LCP ≤ 2.5 s · INP ≤ 200 ms · CLS ≤ 0.1.

    • Core Web Vitals — Loading, interactivity and visual stability
  4. 04

    AI governance

    LLM01prompt injection, the first of the OWASP risks every assistant is tested against

    Every AI feature ships with an eval set, guardrails, a human approval step where it matters, and an audit log of what it produced.

    OWASP LLM Top 10 (LLM01 prompt injection); ISO/IEC 42001; NIST AI RMF.

    Shapes most of the work inMedical devices & diagnostics, B2B technology, Media & publishing, Film, music & live events and 1 more

    • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications — LLM and generative AI security risks
    • ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — Artificial intelligence management systems
    • NIST AI RMF 1.0 — AI Risk Management Framework
  5. 05

    Security

    6 hto report a cyber incident to CERT-In, under its 2022 directions

    Threat-modelled builds, least-privilege access, dependency and secret scanning, and incident runbooks.

    OWASP ASVS; ISO/IEC 27001 controls; CERT-In 6-hour incident reporting.

    Shapes most of the work inConsumer electronics, Hospitals & care providers, Medical devices & diagnostics, Financial services and 9 more

    • OWASP ASVS — Application Security Verification Standard
    • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Information security management systems
    • CERT-In Directions 2022 — Cyber incident reporting directions

Frameworks we build to — not a claim of certification. Where a programme needs formal certification, we prepare the evidence your auditor will ask for.

The incident clock

One incident, several clocks.

The moment an incident is noticed, more than one reporting window starts. Choose an industry and a time to see every deadline that applies, and when each one falls.

  1. 6 h

    Report the incident to CERT-In

    Within six hours of noticing a cyber incident, or of being told about one.

    CERT-In Directions under section 70B(6), 28 April 2022Applies to: Every industry

  2. 6 h

    Report to the Department of Telecommunications

    Within six hours of becoming aware of a security incident, with its relevant details.

    Telecommunications (Telecom Cyber Security) Rules, 2024Applies to: Telecom & media

  3. 24 h

    Send the Department the further details

    Within 24 hours: the users affected, the duration, the systems involved and the action taken.

    Telecommunications (Telecom Cyber Security) Rules, 2024Applies to: Telecom & media

  4. 72 h

    Send the detailed breach report to the Data Protection Board

    The Board and each affected person are told without delay; the detailed report follows within 72 hours of becoming aware.

    DPDP Rules, 2025 · rule 7Applies to: Every industryFrom 13 May 2027

  5. 72 h

    Notify the EU supervisory authority

    Without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach.

    GDPR · Article 33Applies to: Retail & commerce, Fashion & apparel, Consumer electronics, Home & living and 15 more

Our reading of each instrument, not legal advice: your counsel confirms which windows apply and how. Times are in your own time zone.

How we engage

Every industry has a way in. Start small, with the number that matters.

The first engagement is short and fixed in scope: it maps where you stand and sets the baseline a programme is judged on. The findings are yours whether or not you continue.

  1. 01Week 0

    A first conversation

    Your industry, your rules and the number you need to move. We say plainly whether we are the right team.

  2. 02Weeks 1–3

    The way in

    A short, fixed-scope engagement for your industry, ending in findings, a baseline and a decision-ready plan.

  3. 03After the way in

    The programme

    A project, milestones or a retainer, shaped by what the way in found and judged on the same number.

The way in, for our flagship industries

What each first engagement looks at, what it hands over and the number it sets as a baseline.

Every way in is a Sprint

Pricing
Fixed fee
Typical length
1–3 weeks
  • Scope and outcome agreed before day one
  • One senior lead and the specialists the question needs
  • A working review every week
  • A decision-ready output, not a status deck
  1. 01Retail & commerce

    Checkout and consent audit

    1–2 weeks

    What we look at

    • Every step from listing to payment
    • The dark patterns the CCPA guidelines name
    • Scripts on the payment page, and the consent banner

    What it hands over

    • A dark-pattern audit with evidence for each step
    • A payment-page script inventory (PCI DSS 6.4.3)
    • A fix list ranked by risk and by conversion

    The baseline it sets

    Checkout completion

    Start here: Checkout and consent audit, retail & commerce
  2. 02Consumer health

    Claims and channel diagnostic

    2–3 weeks

    What we look at

    • Every claim on pack, listing, site and creator posts
    • Who reviews each asset, and how long it waits
    • Where AI already drafts, and what checks it

    What it hands over

    • A claims inventory, with the evidence behind each claim
    • A map of the review queue and where it stalls
    • A blocked-claims list built from Schedule J and the DMR Act

    The baseline it sets

    Time from brief to approved asset

    Start here: Claims and channel diagnostic, consumer health
  3. 03Financial services

    Disclosure and journey audit

    2–3 weeks

    What we look at

    • Every onboarding and lending journey, screen by screen
    • Each required disclosure: KFS, APR, cooling-off and partners
    • Where applicants drop, by step and by channel

    What it hands over

    • A disclosure-gap register against the RBI directions
    • Screen-by-screen evidence for your compliance review
    • A fix list ranked by risk and by lost applicants

    The baseline it sets

    Drop-off at each disclosure step

    Start here: Disclosure and journey audit, financial services
  4. 04B2B technology

    Buyer-question and evidence audit

    2–3 weeks

    What we look at

    • The questions buyers put to sales and procurement
    • What the site, the product and the docs already answer
    • The security and privacy evidence you can share

    What it hands over

    • A buyer-question map with the gaps ranked
    • A trust-page outline for procurement
    • Answers to reuse in sales and in an assistant
  5. 05Telecom & media

    Care-intent and messaging audit

    2–3 weeks

    What we look at

    • Care contacts by intent, volume and cost
    • Every commercial template and its DLT registration
    • The consent and preference checks before each send

    What it hands over

    • An intent map showing what can resolve in the app
    • A template and consent register against TCCCPR
    • A ranked plan for self-service and hand-offs

    The baseline it sets

    Contact rate per thousand subscribers

    Start here: Care-intent and messaging audit, telecom & media
  6. 06Hospitality

    Direct-booking diagnostic

    2–3 weeks

    What we look at

    • Your rooms, booked on your site, aggregators and assistants
    • All-in price, cancellation terms and speed at each step
    • What the booking flow learns about the guest

    What it hands over

    • A side-by-side of direct and aggregator booking
    • A fix list for price clarity, speed and policy
    • A plan for the guest data the booking should capture

    The baseline it sets

    Booking-flow conversion by step

    Start here: Direct-booking diagnostic, hospitality

Lengths are typical, never promised. The first conversation sets yours.

The way in for every other industry

Each industry page opens its programmes with its own first engagement: what it looks at, what it hands over, and where to start.

Questions

What industry leaders ask us first.

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly

Q.01My industry is not listed. Do you work with it?

Very likely. These forty-one industries are where we have mapped the rules and the programmes; a neighbouring category usually shares most of its rules with one of them, and the first conversation shows which. If the fit is poor, we say so.

Q.02What makes an industry a flagship?

The six flagship industries are the ones we have mapped in most depth: a full rulebook, a place in the industry × discipline matrix and a working version of a deliverable on their page. Every other industry page has the same backbone — what is shifting, the rules, what we build, programmes, AI use cases and questions.

Q.03Do you give legal or regulatory advice?

No. We design and build to the rules, and we make your legal and compliance review faster. Every rule line on these pages is our reading of the issuer’s own notice, with the date it was compiled; your counsel keeps sign-off.

Q.04How current are the rulebooks?

Each industry page shows when its rules were last compiled, and every rule cites its instrument. We aim to re-check a rulebook when an issuer publishes a change, and again with your compliance team before a programme starts.

Q.05Can one programme cover several industries?

Yes. A group with a lender and an insurer, or a retailer with a pharmacy arm, gets one brand and data foundation, with each industry’s rules applied where they bite.

Q.06Do the rulebooks only cover India?

They lead with Indian law and add the international rules your customers and partners bring: GDPR, the EU AI Act, the EU Accessibility Act, PCI DSS and WCAG. Other markets are mapped at the start of a programme.

Q.07What does AI do in these programmes?

Drafting, checking, answering and routing — always inside a guardrail, with a person approving what matters and a log a supervisor could read. Each industry page lists its use cases and the risk each one is tested for.

Q.08How does a first engagement start?

With the way in for your industry: a short, fixed-scope engagement that maps where you stand and sets the baseline the programme is judged on. The findings are yours whether or not you go further.

Let’s build what happens next.

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll answer straight.

Book a discovery call

Three ways to start

  1. 01About 2 minutes

    A quick question

    You get A reply from a lead, not a sales queue

  2. 02About 8 minutesMost useful

    A project brief

    You get Options and a first scope after one call

  3. 03About 15 minutes

    A formal RFQ or RFP

    You get Receipt confirmed and a named bid lead

Every engagement starts with a written scope and a quote agreed before work begins. How each package is priced