TSRGD / Compliance software
Six hundred pages of the law made searchable
Compliance software that makes every page of the UK’s traffic signs regulations searchable.
Product design
UX architecture
Brand identity
- 440
- hours saved per team, per year
- 600
- pages of law made searchable
- 1
- screen, not three tabs
The Challenge
TSRGD
Statutory compliance software
Product design, UX architecture, brand, marketing site
Free, authoritative, and close to unusable for the job it exists to do.
TSRGD sells a searchable version of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, the statutory reference every UK highways team works to on signs, markings and signals. Getting it wrong is not a design problem, it is a legal one.
They came to us to turn a free government PDF into a product people would pay for.
On site
Projects, signs and notes on a phone
Sign checks do not always happen at a desk. Projects, saved sign items and notes go with the engineer, with a mobile dashboard for recent work and My Projects one swipe away. Cards for projects, signs and notes share one pattern, so moving between them never means learning a new screen. Getting in is just as plain. Sign-in uses a magic link, so there is no password to remember, and the dashboard loads straight after with projects, recently viewed signs and pinned notes ready.
The problem
The regulation was never the problem
Engineers knew roughly where things lived, scrolled to find them, then cross-checked schedules against items against amendments by hand. An afternoon went on confirming something they already half knew. The workflow was entrenched because there was no alternative, not because anyone defended it. Nobody in the sector was arguing that a six hundred page PDF was a good way to check a sign face. Two constraints made this harder than it looks. Statutory accuracy could not move by a single word, so nothing could be simplified in the way most software simplifies things. And the product had to persuade four different audiences to pay for something they were used to getting free, which is a commercial problem before it is a design one. That is the position most regulatory and compliance software starts from: the source material is authoritative and dense, the buyer is an expert who does not want the content changed, and the value has to come entirely from how it is reached rather than from what it says. Get that wrong and you have built an expensive copy of a free document. So search became the front door and the document structure became a result rather than a route. Schedules, items and amendments resolved into one view. Twelve hundred diagrams indexed alongside the text they belong to. Interface patterns engineers already knew, because a novel interaction is the last thing a regulatory tool needs.
The front door
Search first, structure second
The old workflow started with the document and hunted for the answer. This starts with the answer. Search returns the clause, the diagram and the amendment history together, and the document structure appears as context around the result rather than as the route to it. The marketing site makes the same argument before anyone signs up. The homepage hero pairs each benefit with the product screen that proves it, an audience carousel speaks to each kind of buyer in turn, and a savings calculator turns the case for paying into the buyer's own figures.
One view
Three tabs became one screen
Cross-checking a schedule against an item against an amendment used to mean three references open at once and a manual reconciliation nobody enjoyed. They now resolve into a single view, with twelve hundred diagrams indexed alongside the text they belong to. Notes live inside projects too. An engineer can write, save, close and reopen a note against the work it belongs to, so the reasoning behind a decision stays with the sign it was about.
The budget case
Priced so the paid version is cheaper
An engineer had to walk into a budget conversation and justify paying for something the government publishes free. Per seat would have pushed teams back to sharing the PDF, so we priced per team, and built a savings calculator that makes the case in the buyer's own numbers.
Results
Compliance software that saves 440 hours per team
TSRGD saves 440 hours per team, per year. It is the clearest measure of what the product is for: the cross-checking that used to take an afternoon now resolves into a single view. It also answers the question the whole product depends on. A free document is hard to compete with on price, so the paid version has to win on time. Per-team pricing and a calculator that shows the saving in the buyer's own numbers let the engineer make that case for themselves.
One senior team, from the information architecture to the marketing site
- Product
- Search and information architectureInterface designMobile UIProjects and notes
- Website
- Marketing siteSavings calculator
- Commercial
- Per-team pricing
FAQs
Questions about compliance software design
TSRGD sells a searchable version of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, the statutory reference every UK highways team works to for signs, markings and signals. Grid Design designed the product, its information architecture and the marketing site, turning a six hundred page government PDF into a tool teams pay for.
Put all the value in how people reach it. TSRGD's wording could not move by a single word, so search became the front door and the document structure became context around each result. Interface patterns are deliberately familiar, because a regulatory tool is the last place for a novel interaction.
Search returns the clause, the diagram and the amendment history together. The schedules, items and amendments engineers used to cross-check across three references now resolve into a single view, with twelve hundred diagrams indexed alongside the text they belong to, and TSM guidance a click away.
An engineer has to justify paying for something the government publishes free. Per-seat pricing would push teams back to sharing the PDF, so pricing is per team. The website's savings calculator makes the case in the buyer's own numbers, and the product saves 440 hours per team, per year.
Yes. Projects, saved sign items and notes are all available on a phone, with a mobile dashboard for recent work and My Projects. Sign-in uses a magic link, so there is no password to remember on site, and the same cards for projects, signs and notes work on desktop and mobile.