Propylon

Name: Propylon
Address: 810 Pennsylvania Street, Suite 224, Lawrence, KS, 66044, US
Telephone: +18557767956

People. Platforms. Progress. Creating the architecture of progress for rule-makers and rule-takers.

Providing innovative software products that prioritize the needs of our clients in the legal and regulatory publishing marketplace since 1999.

10/30/2025

AI is reshaping how audit and tax professionals discover and apply technical guidance — and the way we structure that content now determines how effective it will be in the future.

In Propylon’s latest blog, we share a practical framework to make firm methodology clear, compliant, and AI-ready — designed for both practitioners and machines.

“The goal isn’t to write for AI, but to create guidance that’s structured clearly enough for both machines and professionals to interpret consistently.”

Explore how structured methodology enhances clarity, discoverability, and trust across your audit and tax teams.

👇 Read the full article:
https://hubs.li/Q03QVbMv0

10/22/2025

🌟 We’re proud to be a sponsor of the 2025 ANSI Innovation Summit in Rockville, MD! 🌟

The ANSI Innovation Summit brings together leaders from across the standards and conformity assessment communities to collaborate, innovate, and celebrate the power of standardization.

If you’re attending, don’t miss the chance to connect with our standards experts Breiffni O Domhnaill and Caoimhin Hamill — they’ll be on-site and ready to discuss:

🛡️The risk to standards bodies’ IP and how organizations can protect their valuable standards.
📝 How to optimize tables and functions to improve standards development.
🏗️How organizations can better control downstream consumption of standards.

Let’s talk innovation, technology, and the future of standards!

10/17/2025

The synergy between Java and XML | how open source helped popularise XML

In our latest episode of Rule-Breakers Sean McGrath sits down with Tony Coates, a leading XML expert involved in financial data standards like FpML and ISO 20022, with over 25 years of experience across major financial institutions.

Tony shares some fascinating insights into the early days of XML — how http port 80 enabled XML to be interchanged between organizations, how Sun Microsystems helped popularize XML as an agnostic portable data format for use with Java, and how the open-source movement pushed XML into the mainstream by making many XML tools and libraries available free of charge.

Watch the full episode now:
https://hubs.li/Q03P8FBs0

10/16/2025

Diwali is a moment to slow down, take a breath, and appreciate the light — in our lives and in the people we work with.

This time of year reminds us why that matters.

We had a wonderful time celebrating Diwali together at our Dublin office today, where our team savored some delicious Indian cuisine and shared great moments.

Wishing you a Diwali full of warmth and peace.
From all of us at Propylon 🪔

10/07/2025

In the latest episode of Rule-breakers, Sean and our latest guest, Anthony Coates, take a deep dive into the history and necessity of structured content. Drawing on his experience at Reuters and his work on major financial standards such as FPML, Tony recounts the various factors that allowed XML to break out and become successful, how FPML played a role in encouraging XML tool vendors to fully support W3C XML Schema language standard. In this wide ranging episode, other topics include Tony's thoughts on literate programming and vibe coding for AI.

Catch up: https://hubs.li/Q03Mxh_K0

10/01/2025

Standards bodies help manage the rules that shape society. These standards go through extensive review processes informed by experts, making valuable intellectual property. So what are the risks to this IP?

09/22/2025

"The systems that traditionally underpin standards development are oriented toward documents and while paper and PDFs are not going anywhere for the foreseeable, it is crucial that standards development shift from document-centric to data-centric in order to meet the demands of increasingly intelligent workflows."

Read the full blog post here
➡️https://hubs.ly/Q03KlDrY0

09/19/2025

For our most recent episode of Rule-breakers, we were joined by James Clarke, programmer, XML pioneer, and one of the architects of the modern web.

Having shaped the hidden rules that keep websites and apps organized, James now explores why structure still matters in an AI-driven world.

Tune in to hear how James' on XML transformed the internet and why his vision of a blueprint is more relevant than ever.

Full Episode:
➡️https://hubs.li/Q03Kbjgf0

09/18/2025

We are delighted to welcome attendees across the U.S. to Nashville for this year's Legislative Management Technology Summit.

The summit is an insightful event facilitating innovative discussions and workshops, with sessions such as AI in practice and successful software implementation, and expert insights from Kotter led by Eric Ellis. MBA.

09/09/2025

The problem with HTML | an email from Jon Bosak.

In the latest episode of Rule-breakers, Sean talks to James Clark about his involvement in the World Wide Web Consortium. James shares the story of how an email from Jon Bosak led to their collaboration on the W3C. They both saw a significant opportunity to fix the unnecessary complexity of HTML and get the industry on board with a simpler version.

Whether you're a developer, a web historian, or just curious about how the internet as we know it was built, this episode is full of insights from a quiet innovator whose work helped shape digital information management and the modern web.

Don't miss out: https://hubs.li/Q03HtqBk0

08/29/2025

AI in the legal world: "The fog has lifted. The future is quite literally now."

In the latest installment of our Innovators interview series, we spoke with Nicole Stone, JD and Director, Product Management at Wolters Kluwer Legal and Regulatory US. In this interview, Nicole discusses her journey and how her love for creating great customer experiences ultimately led her to an alternative legal career and the opportunity to unlock new value from legal and regulatory content.

Nicole tells us:
⏩ How Gen AI is accelerating product roadmaps and making previously impossible solutions a reality
👑 Why content is king in today's tech landscape
🔎Her prediction that, within three years, legal and regulatory workflows will be driven by multi-agent task-based solutions

What do you think?

Read the full interview: https://hubs.li/Q03Gdt1Z0

08/27/2025

📝Sign up for our Audit and Accounting in the Age of AI webinar

Join us to learn how firms can approach AI strategically while protecting their knowledge and staying compliant.

📅September 2nd

Register today
➡️https://hubs.li/Q03FSCcg0

Don't worry if you can't make it on the day as we'll forward a recording of the session to all registrants!

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810 Pennsylvania Street, Suite 224
Lawrence, KS
66044

Telephone

+18557767956

Website

http://www.propylon.com/

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