Framework Studio: Build Any Compliance Framework by Talking to CORA
Framework Studio is a new Certivo capability that lets compliance, legal, and procurement teams build a custom compliance framework in plain language and put it live the same day. You describe the rule, and CORA collects the evidence, reads it, checks it, and reports on it.
By Kunal Chopra, CEO, Certivo
Trust signals: Deterministic by design · Human-in-the-loop escalation · Source-to-rule traceability · 130+ regulations across 10 categories
On this page: What it is · How it works · Deterministic · Your regulations · What you can build · Why we built it · FAQ · Get started
Every compliance platform has a ceiling. It is the list of frameworks the vendor ships.
REACH, RoHS, CBAM, the EU CRA. If your requirement is on the list, you are covered. If it is anything else, an internal quality policy, a customer specific code of conduct, an insurance carrier requirement, a government procurement standard, you are back to spreadsheets, email chains, and reading documents line by line.
Today we are removing that ceiling. Framework Studio is live.
See it on your own requirements. Bring your hardest framework and we will build it with you, live. → Book a walkthrough
Framework Studio guided build flow with CORA stepper and a human-in-the-loop compliance decision.
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What Framework Studio is
Framework Studio lets you build your own compliance framework by talking to CORA, Certivo's AI. Tell her what you want to stay on top of, and she builds it with you as you talk.
There is no rules language to learn and no implementation project to scope. You describe what you want to check in plain words. CORA assembles the framework in front of you, asks the questions she needs answered along the way, and keeps a running list of next steps and every change made so far. When the framework looks right, you review it and hit publish. From that moment it is live and running.
How it works
A framework in Framework Studio is built from a few simple parts.
Documents, forms, and questionnaires. Start with the paperwork you rely on: certificates, declarations, test reports, disclosures. When there is no document, CORA asks for a few answers in a short form instead. You choose who provides each piece, your vendors or your own team, and CORA requests it, collects it, and follows up on whatever is missing.
The details that matter. CORA reads each document for exactly what you care about: dates, amounts, signatures, and simple yes or no answers. Nobody on your team reads line by line anymore.
Your rules, in plain words. Say what a good result looks like, and CORA turns it into checkpoints that pass or fail on their own. "Total is above $500" becomes a check that runs on every submission. "A Full Material Disclosure has been received" becomes a check that runs on each part or material, and when it fails, the framework tells you exactly what is missing or invalid.
A safety net. You define what happens when a check fails or evidence is unclear, so nothing slips through silently and every exception lands in front of the right person.
Charts and summaries. Every framework generates visuals built from what your checks find, so you can see status across vendors, parts, and requirements at a glance.
The build moves through a guided flow: getting started, documents, samples, checkpoints, safety net, visuals, review, and live. CORA walks you through each stage in conversation. Along the way she makes the calls she can make on her own and brings you the ones that need your judgment, like how your vendors typically provide a document. Always as an upload, always as a form, or either.
The guided build flow: 1. Getting started → 2. Documents → 3. Samples → 4. Checkpoints → 5. Safety net → 6. Visuals → 7. Review → 8. Live
Completed custom compliance framework in Framework Studio with documents, checkpoints, and summary charts.
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Deterministic by design
Everything CORA builds in Framework Studio runs on the same principles as the rest of the Certivo platform. Checkpoints are deterministic. The same evidence produces the same result every time, every pass or fail traces back to the source document and the specific rule applied, and ambiguous cases escalate to a person instead of getting guessed at.
In compliance, a confidently wrong answer is worse than no answer.
That principle shaped how we architected CORA from the beginning, and Framework Studio inherits it fully. You write the rules. The system enforces them, consistently, on every submission.
Your regulations, your rules
Framework Studio also works on the frameworks Certivo already ships.
Open PPWR, REACH, the EU CRA, or any of the 130+ regulations on the platform, and tailor how it runs to match your business requirements. Tighten a threshold beyond the regulatory minimum. Add an internal signoff before evidence counts as complete. Change who provides a document, what CORA reads from it, or where an exception escalates.
Take PPWR, which takes effect this August. The regulation defines what compliant packaging looks like. It does not define how your organization collects supplier evidence, who reviews it, or when a gap gets escalated to legal. Those are business decisions, and Framework Studio puts them in the hands of your legal and compliance teams, with full control over the process while CORA keeps the underlying regulatory logic current as the rules evolve.
Here is where this shows up in practice:
An automotive supplier extends the shipped REACH framework with a customer's restricted substances list, which cuts the disclosure threshold in half and adds substances the ECHA candidate list does not cover. One framework now enforces the regulation and the customer requirement at the same time.
A medical device manufacturer adds a quality engineering signoff to RoHS declarations, because their notified body expects documented internal review before a declaration counts as accepted evidence.
A consumer goods company tightens PPWR's empty space ratio from the regulatory 50 percent to an internal 30 percent, so a supplier drifting toward the line gets flagged long before a shipment is at risk.
An exporter routes CBAM emissions evidence to finance in parallel with compliance, because the same data drives their carbon cost forecasting.
In each case the regulation stays the regulation. What changes is the process around it: the thresholds, the signoffs, the routing, and the escalation paths, all set by the team that owns the outcome.
Framework Studio checkpoint verifying a Full Material Disclosure was received in a custom compliance framework.
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The ceiling, and what replaces it
Traditional compliance platform | Certivo Framework Studio | |
|---|---|---|
Coverage | Fixed to the vendor's shipped framework list | Any rule you can describe in plain words |
Getting started | Scoped implementation project | A guided conversation with CORA, no rules language |
Internal & customer requirements | Spreadsheets, email, line-by-line reading | Collected, read, and checked automatically |
Consistency | Varies by reviewer | Deterministic: same evidence, same result |
Time to live | Wait for the next release or a custom build | The same day, when you hit publish |
Exceptions | Easy to miss | Safety net routes each one to the right person |
What you can build
The frameworks our platform ships with cover 130+ regulations across ten compliance categories. Framework Studio is for everything else, which for most organizations is the larger half of the problem.
An aerospace manufacturer can codify hundreds of pages of internal engineering and quality policies and have them enforced across the supply chain with the same rigor as a federal regulation.
An insurance company can turn each carrier's underwriting and policy requirements into frameworks that validate evidence automatically, carrier by carrier.
A government agency can codify procurement standards and vendor obligations and have every supplier and every submission evaluated against the actual requirements.
A manufacturer can take a key customer's supplier requirements, the kind that arrive as a 40 page PDF with an audit date attached, and turn them into a living framework the same afternoon.
A procurement team can replace its vendor onboarding checklist with a framework: tax forms, insurance certificates, NDAs, banking details, and code of conduct acknowledgments, all requested, collected, and verified by CORA before a vendor is activated.
And when a new state PFAS law passes on a Monday, a compliance team can have a working framework enforcing it by Friday, without waiting on any vendor roadmap, including ours.
Vendor onboarding packages. Quality and safety certificates. Sustainability reporting across the supply chain. If you can describe the rule, CORA can run it.
Why we built this
Rules are rules. A federal regulation, an internal policy, a customer requirement, and a carrier standard all reduce to the same structure: evidence to collect, details to read, and conditions to satisfy. Once a requirement is expressed that way, one engine can run all of them, with the same collection, the same validation, the same follow up, and the same reporting.
The industry is converging on this idea. Regulation stops being a document that people interpret and becomes code that systems execute. We have believed that from day one, and Framework Studio is that belief turned into a product anyone can use.
Compliance platforms have always asked customers to wait: for the vendor to support a regulation, for a custom build, for the next release. Framework Studio ends the waiting. Your requirements go live when you decide they do.
Get started
Framework Studio is available now in the Certivo platform. Open it, tell CORA what you want to stay on top of, and build your first framework today.
If you are new to Certivo, reach out and we will show you Framework Studio live on your own requirements. Bring us your hardest one.
Kunal Chopra
Kunal Chopra is the CEO of Certivo, an AI-driven compliance management platform revolutionizing how manufacturers navigate regulatory challenges. With a career spanning over two decades, Kunal is a seasoned technology leader, 3x tech CEO, product innovator, and board member with a passion for driving transformative growth and innovation.
Before leading Certivo, Kunal spearheaded successful transformations at renowned companies like Beckett Collectibles, Kaspien, Amazon, and Microsoft. His strategic vision and operational excellence have led to achievements such as a 25x EBITDA valuation increase at Beckett Collectibles and a 450% shareholder return at Kaspien. He has a track record of turning challenges into opportunities, delivering operational efficiencies, and driving market expansions.