The Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner for all users.
Solo Founder Chris Edwards’ Day 1 approach to defining any such system started with a question: If a system with any principles is universal, then who actually counts as covered by them? Who are the users?
Inclusivity as Infrastructure.
· AI AGENTS ARE THE NEW ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ·
AI-powered shopping is no longer a roadmap item. Major platforms have already shipped autonomous purchasing agents that navigate, compare, and transact on the open web. When those agents encounter the same barriers that trip up screen readers — the same locked-down iframes, the same CAPTCHA walls, the same unstable DOM — the sale simply doesn’t happen. This overlap is the opportunity.
Every fix that makes your checkout navigable for assistive technology also makes it navigable for commerce agents, and billions of users, for an inclusive economy.
Built ahead of the market to make that inclusive future a reality — by design.
Sovereign Canadian tech, built for EU and Canadian access.
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Here is the difference most checkout tools cannot claim: our compute and our EEA data routing run on sovereign Canadian infrastructure, while the AI layer stays vendor-neutral — not locked to any one US model provider. That combination is what lets a single platform serve EU and Canadian buyers lawfully, instead of a US-only stack hoping an adequacy framework survives its next court challenge.
Privacy, AI, and accessibility law — the EU and Canada align; a US-only solution has to clear all three from the outside.
Jurisdiction
Data privacy & EU transfer
AI & automated decisions
Checkout accessibility
🇨🇦🇪🇺Canada + EUCross-adequacy aligned
✓AlignedGDPR · Canada is EU-adequate (Art. 45)
✓In forceEU AI Act · Québec Law 25
✓CoveredEAA · Accessible Canada Act
🌍Can a US-only solution clear all three on its own?
🇺🇸United StatesUS-only stack
✗GapNo general EU adequacy (DPF conditional, contested)
✗GapNo federal AI law — state patchwork only
◐PartialADA, but no codified checkout standard
How we clear it: EEA traffic is routed through Canadian infrastructure (mastwoods.ca), received under GDPR Article 45 adequacy — live since December 2025. Built by a dual Canadian–American citizen, so the platform holds a lawful EU path and a US operating presence at the same time.
US-built AI does not get an automatic EU pass: Apple withheld Apple Intelligence from EU users in 2024 over regulatory uncertainty. Sovereignty is not a tagline — it decides whether you can ship.
🇺🇳THE RESILIENT MEASURE
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are not regulation. They are the measure that survives politics.
Regulations shift with elections and court rulings. The 17 SDGs are the most widely adopted, government-backed framework on Earth — adopted by 193 UN member states. We map audits to them so buyers, regulators, and AI agents can reason against one durable, internationally understood standard, not a vendor scorecard that resets every cycle.
Voluntary vision, enforceable law — built to use both.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a voluntary, global framework designed for advocacy, benchmarking, and long-term resilience, completely lacking enforcement power. In contrast, regional frameworks in places like Canada and the USA are legally binding, enforceable regulations with specific compliance penalties.
Key Differences to Note
–Authority: UN SDGs rely on voluntary global adoption. National regulations carry the force of law.
–Purpose: SDGs act as a visionary blueprint for sustainability. Regional laws dictate strict, immediate compliance boundaries.
–Metrics: SDGs use high-level, macro-indicators. Regional laws require precise, auditable data tracking.
UN SDGs as a Resilience Measure
–Forward-Looking Catalyst: They help organizations identify future macro-trends, risks, and opportunities beyond current legal requirements.
–Universal Language: They provide a standardized framework to communicate sustainability efforts to global stakeholders and investors.
–Holistic Scope: They bridge environmental targets with social and economic pillars, which narrow regional laws often omit.
The Role of Regional Regulations (Canada & USA as examples)
–Strict Legal Compliance: Examples include Canada’s Impact Assessment Act or the US EPA Clean Air Act mandates.
–Enforcement Mechanisms: Violations result in direct financial penalties, litigation, or operational shutdowns.
–Geographic Specificity: They address local ecological zones, political priorities, and distinct economic realities.
How They Work Together
–Using the SDGs as a resilient benchmark allows you to build a proactive strategy that outlasts changing local political climates.
First principles, ahead of the market.
Our foundational commit (git 56559b2) is dated March 3, 2026 — we were already defining agentic commerce as a supply-chain and accessibility problem. The agentic-commerce launches now reshaping US retail — OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, PayPal Agent Ready, Amazon “Buy for Me,” Shopify agentic storefronts — run into the same EU privacy, AI, and accessibility law shown above. A US-built agent does not clear it for free. Sovereign Canadian routing does.
Inclusion happens at the checkout. Auditing whether every user — a screen-reader user, an AI shopping agent, a customer in Canada or the Euro Zone — can actually finish a purchase is the problem we solved first. If you want to sell into the EU or Canada, that is not optional, and arguing otherwise is arguing against disability law. We would rather you trust the platform that fixed the actual problem than the dashboards that only measure the damage.
Live · Across the portfolio
Agentic commerce mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Mapping agentic commerce to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) redefines autonomous AI transactions from mere efficiency boosters into engines for global sustainability.
By programming AI agents with strict ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) constraints, businesses can systematically integrate the 2030 Agenda into consumer delegation and supply-chain operations.
First-party SDG mapping is live in GroundTruth— ESG claim verification + UN SDG alignment scoring across the audit corpus — and runs across the entire portfolio.
SEVEN TOOLS · ONE PLATFORM
Every risk line. One subscription.
Stop paying fragmented vendors. SmarterTariff consolidates regulatory, operational, and reputational risk scanning into a single predictable bill.
· HOW GOOGLE’S AI DESCRIBES IT ·
“By treating compliance, supply chain traceability (EU CSRD / CSDDD), and checkout layout as the exact same data pipeline, a single automated scan replaces what normally requires three separate enterprise software vendor contracts.”
— Google’s AI (non-personalized result), summarizing SmarterTariff
“A fascinating shift in how enterprise risk software has to operate today. Because the U.S. regulatory landscape relies so heavily on shifting Executive Orders rather than codified UN charters, traditional static ESG frameworks struggle to keep up. By anchoring directly to the UN’s deterministic definitions and overlaying active U.S. Executive Orders alongside international mandates like the EAA, SmarterTariff essentially built a compliance bridge that adapts dynamically to geopolitics. For a cosmetics business navigating global supply chains and digital storefronts, that resilience is exactly what keeps you from being blindsided by sudden policy shifts.”
— Google’s AI (non-personalized result), on SmarterTariff’s regulatory approach
Building this as a solo product manager in Maine, founder Christopher Edwards bypassed the bloated feature creep of massive compliance software companies.
SmarterTariff functions as a zero-integration, non-invasive compliance scanner that relies on a dual-engine architecture. The ultimate differentiator of founder Chris Edwards’ approach is that he reframed web accessibility from a purely human legal checkbox into an infrastructure requirement for AI shopping agents (Agentic Commerce).
By proving that the “data pipeline” for human-focused web accessibility is identical to the one needed for AI-readiness and global supply-chain ethics, Edwards collapsed several disconnected corporate tasks into a single dashboard.
Reputation
Brand trust — for shoppers, agents, and the press.
How your charge may appear on a customer’s bank statement.
When AI shopping agents complete a purchase, the bank-statement descriptor may render with the payment processor’s identifier rather than your brand. That delta can contribute to chargebacks, phantom invoices, and customer-support tickets. SmarterTariff is exploring a Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner that surfaces signals like this on every audit. Actual descriptors vary by merchant configuration.
Merchant of Record Intelligence
Proprietary
AI-agent purchases may render on the bank statement with the payment processor's descriptor rather than the brand name. This can contribute to phantom-invoice risk and customer confusion. We observed signals consistent with PayPal on https://ecoflow.com.
Rather than "ecoflow.com" — descriptor mismatches like this can contribute to chargebacks and support tickets
MoR Intelligence is based on known payment processor descriptor patterns. Actual descriptors may vary by merchant configuration.
Example only — merchant identity blurred. Run your own scan to see your real descriptor risk surface.
UN SDG 10 · Reduced Inequalities
Make checkout reachable for the people inaccessible payment surfaces leave behind.
The World Health Organization reports that roughly 1.3 billion people live with a significant disability. When checkout flows fail for assistive technology, economic participation closes for a substantial share of every market. SmarterTariff audits payment iframes and embedded checkout surfaces against WCAG 2.2 AA — the standard referenced by EAA, ADA Title III, AODA, and EN 301 549 — and surfaces each finding by its success-criterion ID. Observational only; not legal advice.
Audit agentic-commerce infrastructure so the rules don't close doors.
Emerging agentic-commerce protocols introduce new iframe surfaces between merchant and buyer. SmarterTariff audits those surfaces against the same WCAG 2.2 AA criteria that govern human-facing checkout — so the AI-agent layer inherits accessibility rather than re-loses it.
Cross-border commerce that doesn't lose shoppers at the cart.
Inclusive checkout is the infrastructure of decent economic participation — for shoppers using assistive technology, for buyers crossing regulatory zones, for businesses operating across the US, Canada, and EU. SmarterTariff converts qualitative accessibility intent into a measurable weekly artifact, mapped to UN SDG indicators via GroundTruth.
SmarterTariff produces observational scan findings. Statistics and regulatory context referenced on this page are drawn from publicly reported sources and may change. Nothing on this page is legal advice; consult qualified counsel for liability analysis specific to your business.
SIGNALS · WHAT WE COVER
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June 2025
EAA enforcement live
Across the EU + EEA
27
EU member states in scope
Plus UK, NO, IS, LI
1,500+
Errors found
Across 200+ enterprise sites
1
Person built this
Solo founder
The insight your competitors are blind to
When AI agents — Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Amazon “Buy for Me” — make purchases on behalf of users, inaccessible checkouts don't just create disability discrimination risk. They create transaction failure risk for the brand.
SmarterTariff is the only product testing this today. One scan covers checkout accessibility, supply chain risk, domestic sourcing, and ethical transparency — seven dimensions, one subscription.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the scan actually check?
Seven dimensions: WCAG 2.2 checkout accessibility, supply chain transparency (CSRD/CSDDD/UFLPA/EUDR), domestic sourcing compliance, logistics risk, disaster exposure, AI Commerce Accessibility Readiness, and GroundTruth ethical transparency. We position this as the Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner — one pass covers the human screen-reader user, the EU regulator, and the AI shopping agent.
What's free to explore?
Browse curated cached audits below — see exactly what we measure on real public corporate sites with proprietary fields legally blurred. Live scans on your own domain are Pro: includes a monthly bundle of compliance scans, continuous monitoring, and REST API + OpenAPI for CI/CD. Pro and Enterprise are custom-priced while we onboard our cohort — contact us for a quote.
What makes this different from other accessibility scanners?
We scan cross-origin payment iframes — the actual payment-provider checkout components embedded on your page. No other tool tests these. We also test AI Commerce Accessibility Readiness, which no competitor addresses. This is the Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner: one tool, one pass, every user (human, regulator, AI agent).
Why "Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner"?
The same checkout barriers that block screen-reader users also block the AI shopping agents that major platforms shipped across the new agentic-commerce protocols in 2025–2026. Industry-validated by the convergence of those protocols — all launched after the cross-origin payment iframe audit was committed at git 56559b2 on Mar 3, 2026. Our Patent-pending AI audit scoring methodology measures readiness across all of them in a single scan.
Who is behind this?
SmarterTariff is built by Christopher M Edwards, sole member of Renew EcoMe LLC, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Solo-founder SaaS — 1,500+ errors found across 200+ enterprise sites since early 2026.
Is my data safe?
We scan only publicly accessible pages. PII is auto-redacted. We never store credentials. EU/EEA traffic routes through GDPR Article 45 adequate infrastructure in Canada. Full DPA available.
Can I integrate with my CI/CD pipeline?
Yes. REST API with webhook support and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server compatible with agentic commerce IDEs and chat clients. See the Developer Portal.