PRODUCT
Edge Shield
A managed protection layer in front of every environment.
Application firewallFlood and bot defenceCertificates per environment
BUSINESS NEED
5 of 5PRODUCT ROADMAP
What's coming,H2 2026.
Three products being released this half year, and the opportunities we rate highest after that.
H2 2026Niels Aers, CPOJuly 2026
READ THIS FIRST
This roadmap is not final yet.
Now is committed and in build. Later is a shortlist we are still considering. The full picture for the rest of 2026 is locked at the end of September, and your input influences it.
Included means it comes with your platform
Product means a separately priced product
NOW, IN BUILD
Three products being released this half year.
PRODUCT
Trusted Answers
An answer engine grounded in your own published content.
Sourced answersBounded by designLive in production
BUSINESS NEED
4 of 5PRODUCT
Code Scanning
Continuous checking of your repositories and dependencies.
Every commitRanked by exposureLinked from Platform
BUSINESS NEED
4 of 5How to read this
We rate every idea 1 to 5 on business need. Everything on this slide is committed for this half year.
EDGE SHIELD / PRODUCT
Your site stays up when traffic turns hostile.
A managed protection layer in front of every environment, run by us. Moving from managed beta to a product you can order, this half year.
BUSINESS NEED 5 OF 5Application firewall
Known attack patterns are blocked before they ever reach your site.
Flood and bot defence
Volumetric attacks and aggressive scrapers are absorbed at the edge, well ahead of your servers.
Certificates and delivery per environment
Request a certificate, get the DNS steps, and watch its status. Staging included.
TRUSTED ANSWERS / PRODUCT
Visitors ask a question and get your answer.
Multilingual, source-grounded answers built from your own published content.
BUSINESS NEED 4 OF 5Grounded and cited
Every answer is assembled from your pages and documents, with the source shown alongside.
Sensitive topics routed to people
Questions that need a human are handed to your channels by design, not answered by a model.
Running in production today
Live at EPSO, Pidpa and UZA, on the same platform and hosting region as the rest of your DXP.
NEXT / MONITORING / INCLUDED
Debug your own site without waiting for us.
Logs and metrics from your environments, opened up to you and your developers.
BUSINESS NEED 4 OF 5Your project, and only yours
Sign in from the platform and see your own environments: web server, PHP and Drupal, scoped to you.
Dashboards we maintain
A standard set of dashboards per environment, kept current by us, so there is nothing for you to build.
Alerts on your own environments
Set an alert on your project and it reaches your technical contact by email.
LATER, UNDER REVIEW
Rated highest by business need.
Rated 5 of 5 on business need
AI-generated page layouts
Describe the page, pick from options.
Live co-editing
You and a colleague in the same layout.
See your personalisation
Know what each visitor is shown.
Conversion at a glance
Results and last deploy in one view.
Lower AI cost
More usage for the same budget.
Rated 4 of 5 on business need
Visual page buildingA/B testing in the CMSAI campaign generationSocial post derivativesIn-browser art directionTeams and permissionsFull self-provisioningContainers in productionYour own encryption keys
Nothing below 3 reached this deck
We score every idea 1 to 5 on business need. Tell us which of these matters most to you and it influences what we commit to in September.
TIMELINE
How we finalise the roadmap.
Now to September
Build continues
The three products keep moving, and we collect your feedback on what matters most to you.
End of September
The roadmap locks
We publish the full roadmap for the rest of 2026, with the shortlist confirmed or parked.
October to December
Delivery
What made the cut gets built, in a sequence you can plan around.
What we need from you
Tell us which items matter most to your organisation before the end of September. Client needs and demand influence this roadmap directly, so your feedback really can change what we deliver.
LET'S TALK
Which items matter most to you?
Tell us before the end of September and it feeds straight into what we commit to for the rest of the year.
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