The EASA Certification Platform went live last month and SEPIAC closed for external access on 14 July. Every new Initial Airworthiness project now runs through it. Also those that were started before it.
Having followed the platform closely since its early phases, one thing stands out: it isn't just a new interface. It's a quiet check on how mature each applicant's internal process really is. Or if you like to think about it the other way around: it is also an opportunity to evaluate if your internal process is future-proof.
The platform works in structured data, events, workflows, and tracked tasks. It assumes compliance exists as objects with states and relationships — not as documents to be uploaded and folders to be navigated.
For applicants whose compliance picture is already structured in this way, in a plan, this is a natural handover. For those whose picture lives as a matrix-in-a-file and evidence-in-a-folder, the platform still works — but every interaction becomes a translation exercise, and the time required for this translation increases with project complexity.
Getting Contributor access and assigning staff to the projects was the immediate visible task last weeks, so that the type investigation could keep running. The invisible one matters more in my opinion: is your compliance data in a shape that can meet a structured system halfway? That gap doesn't close by just logging in. 😀 How ready is your internal process for a structured Authority system?