Methodology
How SOSCO turns regulation into source-backed compliance workflows.
SOSCO separates official source context, company facts, evidence records, AI assistance, and professional review so compliance work remains explainable and defensible.
SOSCO uses a source-backed methodology: identify relevant official sources, map them to company and product facts, collect evidence, route ownership, and keep AI assistance reviewable instead of treating it as legal advice.
Inputs
Official sources, company facts, product data, supplier evidence
Controls
Source trail, assumptions, evidence owners, review state
Limit
Compliance intelligence and workflow support, not legal advice
Source hierarchy
SOSCO prioritizes official and authoritative materials when organizing compliance context.
- Use European Commission, EFRAG, EU policy, and official regulation pages where possible.
- Keep source links visible beside regulation and workflow explanations.
- Separate source-backed statements from operational assumptions that need review.
Applicability and evidence
Compliance work depends on the facts a company can prove, not only on a generic regulation summary.
- Map company size, market presence, activities, products, suppliers, and materials to possible exposure.
- Convert obligations and requests into evidence records with owners and status.
- Reuse evidence across reports, customer responses, tenders, and audits when the context matches.
AI with human review
AI is useful when it organizes and explains work while keeping sources, uncertainty, and review expectations visible.
- Use AI to summarize, route, and draft source-grounded guidance.
- Flag uncertainty, missing facts, and areas requiring qualified professional judgement.
- Treat outputs as decision support that should be reviewed before regulatory reliance.
Method controls SOSCO uses across compliance work
These controls make SOSCO easier to trust for users, search engines, and AI answer systems.
Core control
Official-source grounding
Public pages and workflows cite official source pages where they support the topic.
Core control
Applicability screening
Company, product, supplier, and market facts are used to separate likely exposure from generic information.
Core control
Evidence mapping
Requirements become evidence records, owners, missing-data states, and reviewable outputs.
Core control
AI assistance boundaries
AI support remains source-grounded, reviewable, and framed as decision support instead of legal advice.
Readiness control
Upcoming regulation pilots
Upcoming rules such as DPP are handled as preparation and pilot workflows before final pressure arrives.
Outcome control
Reusable operating map
Approved evidence can support reporting, procurement, product compliance, tenders, audits, and customer requests.
The SOSCO methodology in practice
Understand context
Collect company, product, market, supplier, and reporting facts before deciding what applies.
Create evidence work
Turn requirements and requests into owners, evidence, deadlines, and source-backed context.
Review and reuse
Review assumptions and reuse approved evidence where the same context supports another request.
Representative official sources behind the methodology
European Commission - Corporate sustainability reporting
EFRAG - ESRS workstreams
EFRAG - SMEs and sustainability reporting
European Commission - EU Taxonomy
European Commission - Green Claims
European Commission - Corporate sustainability due diligence
European Commission - Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
European Commission - Deforestation-free products
Related SOSCO pages
Compliance coverage
See the public source-backed coverage map.
Sustainability compliance
See how methodology applies to sustainability workflows.
Product compliance
See how methodology applies to product and DPP readiness.
Procurement compliance
See how methodology applies to supplier evidence exchange.
AI source index
See the canonical public page map for AI systems.
Turn scattered regulatory questions into a defensible operating method.
Use SOSCO to centralize source context, evidence, owners, and review workflows so compliance work becomes faster and easier to explain.