From Brief to Build: A Corporate AI Workshop
The EU's Digital Product Passport regulation is coming. For most companies, the question is no longer whether to prepare, but how to start. FutureHabits.Tech brought a group of corporate leaders into a room to answer that question in real time.
The Problem the Session Was Built Around
The Digital Product Passport is a structured data requirement being introduced across the EU under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. It requires businesses to maintain and share verified information about a product's origin, materials, carbon footprint, lifecycle impact, and end-of-life handling. Batteries face a mandatory deadline from February 2027. Textiles, electronics, and materials follow under a phased rollout.
The challenge most organizations face is not understanding the regulation on paper. It is everything underneath it. Product data is typically scattered across ERP systems, supplier portals, quality management tools, and procurement records, with no single source of truth. Declarations are missing. Audit trails are inconsistent. Many organizations do not have structured lifecycle data at all, which makes building a compliant passport difficult even before the regulatory deadline arrives.
Most teams know what is coming. Few have a clear first step for getting there.
What the Workshop Set Out to Do
FutureHabits.Tech designed a 120-minute online session specifically for corporate leadership teams grappling with this gap. The goal was direct: give participants a clear understanding of what DPP actually requires, then move immediately into building something they could use.
More than ten participants joined from corporate leadership backgrounds. The session was part of a broader series called AI for Environment, focused on applying AI tools to sustainability and regulatory challenges that businesses are actively facing.
How the Session Ran
The first part of the session covered the regulatory landscape. Participants worked through what the Digital Product Passport is, which sectors are affected first, what information needs to go into a passport, and where most organizations currently fall short in their data infrastructure. The framing was practical: not a policy briefing, but a working understanding of the problem a compliance team actually has to solve.
The second part moved straight into a live build. Using Lovable, an AI tool that generates working applications from plain-language descriptions, participants built a dashboard for tracking Digital Product Passport data. No prior technical experience was required. The build was guided by FutureHabits.Tech founder Kasia Sadowska, who led participants through the process of turning a compliance requirement into a functional first version of a tracking tool.
The Impact
The session was structured around a specific belief: that corporate teams should not have to wait for a development cycle to start making progress on a regulatory requirement they already understand.
By the end of the 120 minutes, participants had moved from a policy brief to a working dashboard. The session demonstrated that the distance between receiving a compliance requirement and having something operational to build on does not have to be measured in quarters. A team that is clear on the problem can close that gap in an afternoon.
For organizations facing DPP deadlines, that is a meaningful shift in what preparation looks like.
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