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FIRST COMMIT MAR 3, 2026 · GIT 56559b2

Patent Pending

Every user is the same user.

Technology is for all users — human or robot.

The Universal Commerce Compliance Scanner for all users.

· 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.

Founded ahead of the market by Chris Edwards, a new dad, to make that inclusive future a reality, by design.

Scan once. See your gaps. Sell everywhere.

Read the thesis“The Checkout Convergence”

· THE DUAL-ENGINE SCAN ·

Two ways to see your checkout. Same user gets stuck in both.

HANDS

The DOM tree

What your screen reader, keyboard, and CI script all traverse. WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA roles, focus order, form labels. The skeleton.

EYES

The rendered pixels

What your AI shopping agent — and any human using a vision-LLM assist — actually perceives. Layout, contrast cascade, focus rings, visual hierarchy. The page as it lives.

THE GAP

Where both get stuck

When the two engines disagree, both classes of user get stuck in the same place. We publish Δ — and a DRIFT signal when it matters — on every scan. Counsel-grade evidence; sales-meeting talking point.

Optimizing for WCAG 2.2 AA and the European Accessibility Act is optimizing for agentic commerce. Same surface, scanned from both sides — the only platform that does it.

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

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.

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AI Visibility

Brand presence in AI agents

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GroundTruth

ESG/SDG · evidence chain

Revenue

Keep the cart, the lane, and the warehouse moving.

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Logistics Risk

Lane, port & MoR exposure

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Disaster Risk

Climate & geo node exposure

Compliance

Stay ahead of the regulators reading your label.

Checkout A11y ReadinessPATENT PENDING

WCAG 2.2 · EAA · agent readiness

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Supply Chain

CSRD · CSDDD · UFLPA · EUDR

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Domestic Sourcing

EO & Made-in-America exposure

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Example Output

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.

BT*Braintree (PayPal)

Low Risk

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.

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UN SDG 9 · Innovation & Infrastructure

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.

UN SDG 8 · Decent Work & Economic Growth

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.

See the indicator map

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.

Vision · On the roadmap

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 in research and pilot today; foundations live in GroundTruth (ESG claim verification + UN SDG alignment scoring across the audit corpus).

SIGNALS · WHAT WE COVER

The world keeps moving. We’re already there.

Apr 29, 2026Tracked

CBP tariff refund portal opens for Section 301 reclaims — businesses can now recover overpaid tariffs.

Tariff Refund Signal Check

Updated regularly · arrow keys to navigate · space to pause

June 2025

EAA enforcement live

Across the EU + EEA

EU member states in scope

Plus UK, NO, IS, LI

85+

Domains tracked live

Continuous monitoring

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 Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal 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 AI shopping agents on OpenAI Agentic Commerce, Google Universal Commerce Protocol, PayPal "Agent Ready," Amazon "Buy for Me," and Shopify Agentic Storefronts. Industry-validated by the convergence of these five protocols (all launched 2025–2026, 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 Edwards, sole member of Renew EcoMe LLC, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Solo-founder SaaS with 205+ live audits across 58 enterprise domains.

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.

INSIGHTS FROM THE FOUNDERAnalysis on agentic commerce, compliance & accessibility — not marketing.

“I build for the people on either side of the click. Inclusion isn't a feature — it's the foundation.”

— Christopher Edwards, Founder

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