Method & Trust

Where information comes from, who checks it, and its limits

This page builds credibility by stating plainly where information comes from, who checks it and where its limits lie.

The Interoperability Methodology v0.1 will be linked here once it is adopted.

Sources and provenance

Every provision cites its framework, edition and locator. EU acts use ELI identifiers; other sources use DOIs or official pages.

Review

Human-reviewed: a named reviewer has recorded a decision, date and note. Approved: a second, independent reviewer has confirmed it (DR-S015). Reviewers are listed with name and role.

Seph Ziling Wang, Founder and Director, SUSTIN C.I.C. (recorded as “Seph”)

The role of AI

AI proposes relationships and drafts summaries; every AI output is labelled with its method and tool. Live AI features say so when people interact with them.

The request analysis on the home page shows a sample analysis computed from the release, without AI; when the AI analysis opens, its chat says so in its first message and every AI-written passage is tagged “AI-generated”. The worked example is preset.

Content rights

EU legal text is shown with attribution. Licensed standards appear as identifiers and Sustin's own summaries. Open exchange formats do not make third-party content free to use.

Limits

Relationships help prepare and reuse information. They are not legal advice, equivalence or conformity statements. Compliance conclusions and assurance rest with organisations and their auditors.

Data protection

Organisation data stays in the Sustin profile workspace. The engine processes requests with minimal logging. Roles under data-protection law follow the actual processing.

Corrections and changes

To report an issue, write to [email protected]. A public change log is kept by release; the change log of the release this site is built from follows.

Release 2026.6 · CHANGES.md

Release 2026.6: changes for consumers

Schema version 0.9. Copied into the release as CHANGES.md. Earlier releases are unchanged; i5Benchmark keeps its pin on 2026.1 until it changes it.

Applicability rules (new record type)

Guidance on when a framework or edition is likely to concern an organisation, stored as registry data (DR-S006) instead of site code. Each rule in data/applicability/ (released as data/applicability.json) has:

the framework (framework_id) and, where it rests on one, the edition (edition_id);
conditions: countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, or EU for every member state), size_bands (up-to-10, 11-to-1000, over-1000 employees) and value_chain_roles (supplier, reporting-company); an absent condition matches any value;
basis in own words, source_url and source_locator;
review_status: draft or reviewed. A reviewed rule names a reviewer listed in docs/reviewers.md, the date and a note; drafting by AI never sets reviewed (DR-S015).

Rules are guidance, not legal advice or a compliance assessment. Consumers show draft rules as draft guidance.

15 rules, all draft, for ESRS, the EU Taxonomy, VSME (two), CSDDD (two), Directive (EU) 2024/825, UK SRS, California SB 253, the SSBJ Standards, Australia's Chapter 2M and AASB S2, China's trial standards, IFRS S1 and S2, and the GRI Universal Standards. The thresholds of the CSRD, the value-chain cap and the CSDDD were read from Directive (EU) 2026/470 and the application date of Directive (EU) 2024/825 from its Article 4(1), both on the Publications Office (Cellar), 28 October 2026. Owner review: docs/review/applicability-rules.md.

Data

Frameworks, editions, provisions, concepts and mappings are unchanged from 2026.5: 102 frameworks, 122 editions, 70 reviewed and 434 suggested mappings. Applicability rules: 15 (new).