CapabilitiesSignature practice
Shape the standard instead of reacting to it.
How do we shape the standard instead of reacting to it?
The standards being written now will decide which products interoperate, which claims are trusted and who sets the terms of a market. We put clients in the room, with positions that become adopted text.
The path a position takes to become adopted text, as followed for the AI disclosure assertion. Source: C2PA; Hkdolts.
The organizations that shape a standard are the ones that bring adoptable text, answer reviewers and stay through publication. Hkdolts took the AI disclosure assertion from proposal to the published C2PA 2.4 specification.
Standards follow demonstrated need. The Metaverse Standards Forum curates an open repository of use cases precisely to direct interoperability work; whoever frames the use case frames the requirement.
Source: Metaverse Standards Forum, Standards Register Working Group
With dozens of bodies working on overlapping specifications, the forum built a public register so adopters can see where to focus. Clients who read that landscape early choose the right seats and avoid the wrong fights.
Source: Metaverse Standards Forum, Launch of the Metaverse Standards Register
Five capabilities, each defined by what the client receives.
The working groups where the client’s roadmap and the standard meet, and a plan to earn influence there.
A fixed-fee route for founders into governance leadership and representation across standards bodies.
Positions turned into normative text, schemas and reviewer responses, carried through to adoption.
Governance frameworks and principles, with conformance assessments that score how an ecosystem measures up.
Convening series, task-force launches, community reviews and futures research that keep the client ahead of the agenda.
A recognized voice in the bodies that govern the market, and standards that reflect the client’s roadmap.
A fixed-fee representation programme for founders, or a retainer for organizations shaping several standards at once.
Selected work behind this practice.
What we didA fixed-fee route into governance leadership and representation across standards bodies
The impactFounders gain a seat without hourly advisory cost
What we didCharter and a twelve-month roadmap in three phases for a new creator-identity task force
The impactThe task force started with scope, sequence and owners agreed
What we didA community review of a governance metamodel, with a path to a machine-readable edition
The impactThe framework has a dated plan to stabilize and evolve
What we didHosted for a standards forum working group
The impactStandards bodies and policy makers meet on shared governance questions
Published perspectives on the questions behind this practice.
A profile of Nvidia’s role in the industrial metaverse: its platforms, the applications they enable, and use cases from digital twins to robotics simulation.
An overview of Meta’s metaverse strategy, its virtual and augmented reality devices, and the social and enterprise platforms built on them.
What Universal Scene Description is, how its object model composes a scene from layers, and the features that let it scale across production pipelines.
Tell us where you stand. We will reply with how we would approach it.
From the United States to leadership teams worldwide, virtually or on site.
