whatt.io Introduces Playground, a New Digital Product Passport Workspace for AI Harvesting and GS1 EPCIS 2.0 Event Management

whatt.io today announced the introduction of Playground, a new web application designed to help organizations manage Digital Product Passports through a visual interface, AI-supported data harvesting, and structured event management across physical products and their digital records.

Playground is built as a practical workspace for teams working with products, parts, materials, spare parts, and individual physical units. It gives organizations a clear and visual environment for managing Digital Product Passports while extending their value through AI-assisted structuring and event-based traceability. The result is a more operational way to work with DPPs across product data, manufacturing workflows, and lifecycle events.

A central capability of Playground is Agentic AI Harvesting, which transforms unstructured source material into structured, passport-ready data. Technical PDFs, external URLs, raw images, and text-based inputs can be used to extract product information, Bills of Materials, and material-related data. This reduces manual work and gives teams a faster path from fragmented documentation to structured product, part, and material records inside the whatt.io environment.

Playground also includes Bernard, whatt.io’s native AI assistant, integrated directly into the application. Bernard provides a conversational interface for working with product structures and manufacturing-related information, helping users generate variations, organize records, and interact with complex data in a more intuitive way. By embedding AI directly into the workflow, Playground creates a more dynamic environment for managing Digital Product Passport data at scale.

At its core, Playground functions as a visual DPP management interface. Users can move through products, parts, materials, and unit-level records in a clear and highly visual environment while still retaining access to the underlying technical depth. For developers, solution architects, and advanced users, the application also includes a built-in JSON explorer, making it possible to inspect the raw data structures behind each passport in a secure sandbox setting.

A key part of Playground is its role in event management for Digital Product Passports. The application supports webhook endpoints tied to Teams and brands, enabling organizations to connect event-driven data flows directly to Digital Product Passports. These endpoints are based on JSON and aligned with the GS1 EPCIS 2.0 standard, supporting both aggregated batch-level events and unit-level events. This allows Playground to act as a practical endpoint layer for receiving, managing, and demonstrating lifecycle events connected to both grouped product flows and specific physical units, strengthening traceability across different levels of the product journey.

Beyond data management and event handling, Playground can also connect directly to 3D print farms to synchronize live production data with spare part information stored inside Digital Product Passports. This creates a bridge between manufacturing operations and structured passport intelligence, allowing production environments to work more closely with the spare part and service logic already defined in the DPP.

Although named Playground, the application is built on a robust technical foundation. Authentication and authorization are managed through the whatt.io API v2, ensuring that access rights mirror the live permissions of each organization. Sensitive credentials and AI keys are kept behind secure backend proxies, supporting a decoupled architecture designed to protect operational integrity and prevent exposure in the frontend environment.

“Playground is designed to make Digital Product Passports more usable in practice,” said Albert Nielsen at whatt.io. “It gives teams a visual workspace where they can manage DPPs, harvest structured data with AI, and connect products to real lifecycle events through GS1 EPCIS 2.0-compatible endpoints at both batch and unit level.”

With Playground, whatt.io continues to expand its Digital Product Passport platform with tools that connect structured data, AI, event management, and live production workflows in one accessible environment.