Texobox: trusted data sharing, built to standard. EU Data Act readiness, data spaces, and AI Governance.
Four ways to start
A defined scope and a result you can act on
Data Act compliance & observability
Giving users access to their data is the easy part. Proving it is not. We help set up the evidence and compliance for data holders, and give data recipients a way to show what they received and how they processed it.3–4 weeksHow it works →For data space initiators, consortia and sector associationsData space governance & business model
A rulebook, co-created by participants, alongside the business model that makes taking part worth it. Built on our proven and extensive experience in data spaces and trust frameworks.PhasedHow it works →For data spaces, their participants and intermediariesData space architecture & conformance
The architecture that delivers your use case, complies with Article 33 and EN 18235, and automates cross-organisation business processes.PhasedHow it works →For organisations letting AI agents act across company linesAgentic data-sharing architecture
An agent is just another system, with its own identity, that can act on someone’s behalf. We architect identity, mandates, usage rules and audit for agents so they comply with Article 33 and stay observable, on open protocols.6–8 weeksHow it works →From inside the standards
Texobox founder Rajiv Rajani has been involved in writing and contributing to the specifications that trusted data sharing in Europe is built on, and has been instrumental in many of the data-sharing initiatives that use them. It is why clients can rely on our read of where the standards are heading.
What we work on
Data sharing on terms you control. Data spaces make it scale.
The means we work with
What changed
Sharing data used to be cumbersome. The Data Act made it a structured obligation.
EU Data Act, Regulation (EU) 2023/2854
- Data Act enters into force
- Applies. Users can access and share product data (Art. 4, 5)
- New smart devices accessible by design (Art. 3(1))
- Today
- Switching charges between cloud services end (Art. 29)
- Unfair-terms rules reach older long-term contracts (Art. 13)
Thousands of manufacturers and service providers now have to do what only the most committed data-sharing ecosystems did well: hand data to parties they didn’t choose, under terms they have to be able to enforce, at a scale where manual handling stops working. At the same time, sectors have been organising themselves through associations, industry bodies, community systems and, increasingly, data spaces: shared rulebooks and governance that let many organisations exchange data under common terms.
Both groups are working on the same underlying problem: keeping control over data once it leaves their hands. They need different kinds of help.
Where it’s happening
Sectors where data sharing is already moving
Agri & food
Farm, machinery and traceability data, shared with the grower deciding who sees what.Manufacturing
Machine data opened up under the Data Act, and quality data shared along the supply chain.Energy
Device data for owners and installers, flexibility data between grid parties, and control over who can reach inverters and chargers remotely.Logistics
Shipment status, documents and arrival times shared across shippers, carriers and forwarders.Mobility
Travel and vehicle data shared between mobility providers, operators and cities.Automotive
Vehicle data for owners, repairers and service providers, on terms the Data Act sets.Travel & tourism
Availability, bookings and visitor flows shared between operators and destinations.Health
Health data reused for care and research under strict terms, as the European Health Data Space takes shape.Green & ESG
Carbon footprints and other sustainability data exchanged along the value chain.Events
Ticketing, visitor and venue data shared between organisers, venues and partners.Smart cities
Urban data on mobility, energy and services, shared between the city and its partners.Smart environments
Buildings, homes and sensors whose data owners, operators and service providers can put to use.Two ways we help
Judgement where the question is open. A product where it isn’t.
On digital transformation, data sharing and data spaces
For organisations becoming data driven across their value chains. Four ways to start, backed by six areas of expertise and standards work few consultancies can match.
- Data Act compliance & observability
- Data space governance & business model
- Data space architecture & conformance
- Agentic data-sharing architecture
- Fractional CTO, CIO or CDO, and in-company workshops
DataSovi, for the obligations that repeat
The same expertise, packaged to deploy rather than design. Every request for your product data becomes a governed API call, with evidence. The Data Act is the trigger, not the whole story.
- Access for users and the third parties they choose
- Identity, usage rules and evidence on every request
- Agent-ready access for AI
- Works with the API gateway you already run
The two lines feed each other. The patterns we see repeat in consulting work become product. The product keeps our advice honest, because we have to build and run what we recommend.
What we believe
Four convictions underneath everything we do
Business decisions come first. Technology automates and governs them.
Control over shared data is decided by the rules that say who may do what with whose data. Organise your data with one catalogue and management layer that enforces them, and take part in data spaces and meet regulation without a separate solution for each.
Standards are worth waiting for, but not worth waiting on.
The standards for trusted data sharing are arriving part by part. Building in the direction they’re heading is cheaper than retrofitting once they’re done.
Compliance is a floor, not a strategy.
Organisations that use the Data Act to build trustworthy data-sharing capability will get more from it than the ones treating it as a checkbox.
Trust has to be checkable.
Rules and terms that systems can verify, and that participants are demonstrably bound to, allow automation and scale. Terms that only exist on paper or in a signed PDF don’t.
Insights
The Data Act, data spaces and the standards behind them
You shared the data. Now how do you enforce the terms?
The obligations the Data Act puts on data recipients, the four things you need to know to enforce them, and why data spaces make that workable at scale.ExplainerThe Data Act for connected products: what Articles 3, 4 and 5 actually require (and what they don't)
Users, data holders and third parties; access by design, the right to access and the right to share; and why none of it requires you to join a data space.Let’s look at your architecture.
Sharing data with partners, setting up or joining a data space, or working out your Data Act obligations? Bring what you have. We’ll tell you which parts already hold up and which ones are the real work.
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