The EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and the Battery Regulation make Digital Product Passports (DPPs) mandatory category by category — batteries from 18 February 2027 under the Battery Regulation; other product groups follow on the dates set by relevant acts, such as the Toy Safety Regulation, the Detergents Regulation and the ESPR delegated acts. For large manufacturers this is a project; for the SMEs that make up most of the EU manufacturing base, it is a barrier. The hardest part is rarely the regulation itself — it is assembling verifiable product data, much of which originates upstream with suppliers.

TracePass is an AI-assisted DPP platform built precisely for those SMEs. It generates DPPs designed for EU ESPR compliance. A manufacturer uploads the documents it already has (test reports, datasheets, material declarations, environmental product declarations) and the platform's AI reads them and suggests values for each regulated field, with a confidence score and a link back to the source document. A human reviews and approves every value before the passport is published, so the output is "AI-assisted, not autonomous" compliance. A supplier portal lets data requests reach the party that actually holds the data, and every field carries provenance — who supplied it, from which document, when.

Passports are published as GS1 Digital Link QR codes, resolvable to a public multilingual viewer, with machine-readable JSON-LD for downstream and AI systems.