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2026-27 cycle · Product, content architecture

COD annual update, productised

Turning the yearly Common Origination and Disbursement technical update into readable, gated, brand-owned segments.

Award year
2026-27
Format
Segmented briefs
Access
Gated

Problem

  • Annual COD technical updates arrive as long, dense documents that each institution re-reads and re-summarises on its own.
  • The useful part — what actually changed and what it means operationally — is buried.

Constraints

  • Proprietary detail such as message classes and internal specifics must be redacted or gated.
  • The logic and interpretation still has to be complete enough to act on.

What I shipped

  • Segmented updates by award year, each with a change summary, operational impact, and open questions.
  • A gated access model so sensitive detail is not published openly.

Evidence

Structure
One segment per award-year update, consistently formatted for scanning.
Governance
Redaction and gating applied before publication.

What I would do next

  • Cross-link COD segments to the SOR engine behaviour they affect.

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