whatt.io launches Global Custom Fields and ISO-aligned Product Data Templates — advancing the Digital Product Passport era

Malmö, Sweden — whatt.io today announced two major upgrades to its Digital Product Passport (DPP) platform: Global Custom Fields (GCF) and a new Product Data Template (PDT) engine aligned with EN ISO 23386 and EN ISO 23387. Together, these innovations make whatt.io one of the most standards-native infrastructures in the Digital Product Passport ecosystem — enabling manufacturers, regulators, and digital twins to speak the same structured language.

“With GCF and the ISO-aligned PDT engine, we’re giving companies a way to stay compliant and interoperable without losing flexibility,” said Stefan Larsson, founder and CEO of whatt.io. “As regulations like ESPR and CIRPASS-2 evolve, our users can adapt instantly — no migration, no redevelopment, just smarter data.”

Global Custom Fields: a semantic leap for interoperability

Global Custom Fields (GCF) add a new semantic layer to whatt.io.
They allow administrators to define, manage, and distribute standardized data fields directly inside the cloud platform — extending core product data models across materials, parts, products, teams, and categories.

Instead of forcing organizations to conform to fixed schemas, whatt.io adapts to the data itself.
Each field — whether it originates from ISO standards, industry taxonomies, or internal datasets — becomes reusable, validated, and instantly available across all Digital Product Passports in the environment.

This makes whatt.io ready for CIRPASS-2, ESPR, and upcoming delegated acts defining new mandatory DPP attributes.
Because the system is built around open vocabularies, GCFs can be imported directly from public datasets without licensing restrictions, maintaining semantic provenance and full transparency.

Product Data Templates: ISO 23386 / 23387 compliance built in

The upgraded Product Data Template (PDT) engine brings full alignment with EN ISO 23386 (governance and versioning of properties) and EN ISO 23387 (structure of product data dictionaries).
Each template defines every property — its ID, name, unit, datatype, definition, and allowed values — ensuring clarity and interoperability.

In practice, this means a single product can now hold multiple templates simultaneously:

• Technical specifications (ETIM or Uniclass as example)

• Environmental data (ISO 14067 CFP, ESG metrics)

• Regulatory properties (Ecodesign delegated acts)

• Repairability, maintenance, or company-defined fields

The PDT engine uses a native JSON import pipeline, letting manufacturers and standards bodies ingest complete property dictionaries direct or with the help of AI assistant Bernard that today is updated with this new knowledge.

Open standards as the backbone

By combining flexible semantics with structured governance, whatt.io now connects traditional classification ecosystems with the new legal and technical demands of the Digital Product Passport.
Manufacturers can model and maintain compliant data; regulators can validate and trace it; and customers gain verifiable transparency from raw material to product end-of-life.

Controlled rollout and availability

The new features are first available to Super Admins, enabling controlled management of classifications, templates, and governance frameworks. Enterprise customers within the Diamond Service Tier will gain access in the following rollout phase, empowering them to manage their own standards and vocabularies directly inside whatt.io’s Backoffice.