Functionalities
of THFLR.
Structured Demand Articulation
We provide a demand function that enables organizations to clearly express their information needs and query multiple providers of data and IT products in a unified, consistent way.
Machine-Readable Agreements
Contracts and legal agreements are translated into machine-readable formats, enabling compliance-by-design. This ensures secure and reliable data transactions, while making legal conditions and evidence reusable across interactions.
Integrated Risk Management
With built-in mechanisms for Rating, Reporting, Audit, and Enforcement, our platform offers all the tools needed to apply the most effective risk controls tailored to each data transaction.
Principles
behind THFLR.
Framework Flexibility.
We remain agnostic to specific data exchange frameworks by not intervening in data fulfillment. This allows support for multiple Identity, Authentication, and Authorization (IAA) models and ensures broad interoperability.
Legal Reusability.
We actively promote the reuse of legal outcomes — including evidence, clauses, and audit mechanisms — to reduce overhead and accelerate secure, compliant transactions.
Demand-Driven Market Creation.
We start from real information needs and build a broad, reliable marketplace around them. This ensures that data supply is both relevant and trustworthy, tailored to actual demand.
Who can benefit from using THFLR?
Exchange facilities.
Exchange Facilities enable secure, transparent, and scalable data transactions via:
- Data exchange execution:
via standardized connectors, ensuring interoperability without moving data. - Access rights registration:
through an authorization registry, defining who can access what under which conditions. - Offering catalog functionality:
to make data supply and demand visible, enabling better matchmaking and encouraging data reuse.
Beneftis from THFLR.
- Registration of data products and conditions
THFLR receives and signs metadata, including legal and technical terms, to pre-validate transactions. - Interactive dialogue for input retrieval
THFLR offers interactive checks ensure accurate, complete information before a transaction occurs. - Publish supply and demand
Needs and offerings are exchanged in an open transparant market for traceable, compliant exchanges.
(Ecocsystem) Authorities.
The (Ecosystem) Authority ensures compliance and trust between participants through:
- Verification of credentials:
Checking and recording organizational attributes, and legal indicator. - Dispute coordination:
In case of conflicts, facilitates structured resolution to prevent escalation. - Onboarding and registration:
Guide participants through onboarding and formal registration, establishing their identity and role within the system.
Benefits from THFLR.
- Interpretation and validation of agreements
Agreements are translated into machine-readable rules and continuously monitored, with automated compliance reporting. - Participant rating system
Each participant receives a fact-based rating that reflects compliance behavior and dispute history. - Fact registration and audit support
Relevant facts are securely recorded, linked for automatic policy validation and made available for audits.
Market Makers.
The Market Maker helps users define their data needs.
- Uses standard “recipes” — combinations of applications, features, data products, and conditions — to guide demand formulation.
- Understands market offerings and knows which providers can deliver under what terms.
- Accelerates the tender process and increases the likelihood of successful, compliant transactions.
Benefits from THFLR.
Transform your business model from an hourly rate focused on workshops and reports to revenue shares by solving data needs from you customer leveraging reusable templates.
Compliance experts,
The Compliance Expert ensures trustworthy, auditable data transactions.
- Uses THFLR’s notary function to build complete audit trails and request additional logs from connected parties.
- Translates contracts into reusable templates, enabling policy makers to ensure broad, verifiable compliance.
- Supports efficient, multi-purpose audits by securely registering and exposing relevant facts for compliance checks.
Benefits from THFLR.
Work more efficient by lowering the barrier to access audit logs in a secure way and allowing more parties to use your policies to setup new data transaction agreements.
How does THFLR work.
- Authentication and authorization are based on the iSHARE trust framework.
- All APIs are available via an OpenAPI specification.
- Detailed documentation is available upon request via our contact page.
- Policies are defined using eFLINT, a domain-specific language for machine-readable compliance developed by the University of Amsterdam.
How do you pay for using THFLR?
Per transaction.
When you publish demand through THFLR, a small percentage is added to the provider’s price and paid by the exchange facility to Abykys.Additional fees may apply for services from system integrators, authorities, or market makers.
These are transparently listed in the transaction.
Ready to publish your demand? Start participating through your connected FLR and unlock compliant, traceable data transactions.
Per connection.
Looking to grow your business as an exchange facility by connecting to THFLR?
We offer access to our basic policy mechanisms, enabling you to serve participants efficiently and build trust. Pricing is based on the number of participants you support. You can also offer ratings to users and allow SMEs to self-assess. Premium policies can be resold with a fee.
Contact us to get started.
Via License fee.
Planning to serve a specific region or audience not yet supported by existing templates or services?
We offer a license to THFLR, giving you access to the latest software, all available policy templates and recipes, and the ability to publish your demand across other FLRs.
Ready to setup your own FLR?
Contact us for pricing and more information.