Your codes and standards are the backbone. Your catalog is the business.

For a Codes & Standards organization, the Codebook is the backbone — the canonical, consensus-built standard everything else derives from.

But the Codebook alone isn't the product line. The product line is everything built from it: commentary editions with expert annotation, jurisdictional editions adapted for a specific state or city, redline editions showing exactly what changed between cycles, errata, and digital formats for end-user platforms. Each one serves a different audience, and each new product is a revenue opportunity.

Your committees and experts author that content — the commentary, the jurisdictional judgment, the technical decisions. That's human work, and it should be. The limit usually isn't ideas for new products. It's production: when every derivative is assembled by hand, the cost of each one is high enough that many never get made — products you could be selling.

What we do

Wrycan automates that production. One managed source of content becomes every edition and format — page-perfect, generated rather than hand-assembled. Supplemental products stop trailing the core release. Jurisdictional variants stay true to the standard they derive from. Redlines are produced on demand, not over weeks.

This is powered by ContentBase, our content engineering platform. It wasn't a general-purpose CMS pointed at standards work — it was designed around the way one source of content becomes many products, and the approach is proven and repeatable, not reinvented for every engagement.

How it fits depends on what you need. For some organizations, ContentBase is the whole content management layer — committee review, public comment, edition tracking, the full workflow. For others, it's the product-enablement layer that sits on top of the systems they already have, generating the editions and formats without replacing what works. Either way, your committees keep authoring the way they author, and the full product line is generated from a single source of truth.

Proof

NFPA publishes hundreds of fire and electrical safety codes and standards. Producing a redline edition — showing every change between cycles — took around 70 hours by hand, so only a few of their most important codebooks ever got one. Wrycan automated it. Now any publication in their catalog can be redlined on demand, page-perfect, at the push of a button.

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