Your standard. Their submission. No spreadsheets.
If your organization publishes a standard, runs a certification, or maintains a product directory, you need members to send you data that actually fits it.
We fix that at the source. We build you a system where members submit against the standard itself — guided through every field, validated as they go — so what comes back is complete, valid, and ready to use, instead of a pile of mismatched spreadsheets and PDFs.
The problem
Right now, collecting that data probably looks something like this:
You send out a spreadsheet template. It comes back half-filled, in formats no two members agree on. Someone on your team checks each submission by hand against your requirements — catching what they can. And the information ends up trapped inside documents: readable by a person, but not usable as data.
It works, barely. It doesn't scale. And the frustrating part is that your standard already defines exactly what a good submission looks like — it's just never been put to work.
What we do
We start from the thing you already own: your standard.
Instead of asking members to interpret a spec and fill in a spreadsheet, we put the standard itself to work. Submitting becomes a guided process built directly from it — the right input for every field, help text where people get stuck, validation as they go. Members fill it in; what comes out the other side is structured, complete data that already conforms to your standard.
Your team stops transcribing and correcting, and starts working with clean data from the moment it arrives.
The submission system is usually the heart of the engagement, but it isn't the boundary of it. If your standard needs more to do its job in the world — the registry the data publishes to, the review workflow behind it, the directory your industry searches — we build that too.
What this looks like for you
The same approach, shaped to what you actually do.
If you run a certification or accreditation program
You certify that something — a product, a professional, a building, a company — meets your standard. Today, applicants send evidence however they can, and your team checks it by hand. We turn your criteria into a guided application: applicants submit structured evidence against each requirement, your staff review and approve in one place, and everyone who passes lands in a registry of certified members you can publish with confidence.
If you maintain a buyer's guide or product directory
Today it's probably a list of names and logos — useful for finding a company, useless for comparing what they actually offer. We turn it into a real product registry: your members submit structured, validated product data against your categories, and buyers can search, filter, and compare on the specifications that matter.
If you publish a standard for members to submit against
You've done the hard work of defining the standard; the friction is getting submissions that actually conform to it. We generate the submission tool directly from your standard, so what comes back is valid by construction — checked against the spec before it ever reaches your desk.
Your standard, ready for what's next
Because every submission comes out as clean, validated, structured data — not a PDF or a spreadsheet — it's ready to flow wherever you need it: a public registry, a product directory, downstream simulation or design tools, and increasingly the AI systems that now query structured data directly to compare, recommend, and even transact.
The data world is shifting from documents people read to data machines act on. The work your members do once, in a tool built from your standard, becomes data the whole ecosystem can trust. Doing the structured thing now is how you stay usable as that shift accelerates.
We've built this before
The EMerge Alliance writes the standards meant to take DC power mainstream. Their Interoperability Data Model gives microgrid equipment — batteries, converters, breakers, made by dozens of manufacturers — one shared, machine-readable format. But the data had to come from the manufacturers themselves, and asking them to hand-write technical files against a specification was never going to happen at scale. The standard was ready; the data wasn't.
So we turned the standard itself into a simple, guided form. A manufacturer fills in their product details — the right fields, helpful prompts, built-in checking — and out comes clean, standardized data that's correct by construction, alongside a spec sheet that's readable at a glance. What once needed an engineer now takes anyone a few minutes.
How we work
This isn't a product you sign up for, and we're not here to sell you software. We build the solution with you and set it up for you — translating your standard into a working submission system, tailoring it to how your program actually runs, and refining it as your needs evolve. What makes us fast is that we've built the hard parts before: Standards Studio, our platform for turning published standards into submission tools, grew out of exactly this work. When it fits your program, we build on it and you start most of the way there. When it doesn't, we build custom.
Tell us about your standard, your certification, or your directory — and we'll show you what this could look like for you.
Every organization's standard is different, so the best place to start is a conversation. Book a short intro call and we'll walk through your situation and where this could help.
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