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Rulemapping – A Breakthrough Innovation in the World of Rules and Regulations
Accelerating bureaucratic processes and ensuring the traceability of the resulting decisions and outcomes are among the most pressing challenges of our time. Rule Mapping helps visualize regulatory processes, rules, and laws. This methodology transforms linear text into consistent, machine-readable decision trees, ensuring clarity and compliance.
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Rulemapping Method
Developed by Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach and his team, Rulemapping is a proven, time-tested, and validated method for the intuitive visualization of complex rule structures. Since 2022, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIN-D) has supported the further development of the Rulemapping standard, which is available as an open and freely accessible method.
Understanding a set of rules does not come from reading alone. It requires tracing each individual regulatory directive—every if/then relationship—and mentally assembling them into an evaluative or operational structure. The challenge is then deciding how and in what order the structure must be processed and evaluated to address the regulated claims or questions.
Through visualization, Rulemapping makes this cognitive process explicit and comprehensible. The Rulemap is constructed into a visual evaluation architecture that corresponds to the rule, ensuring a complete assessment of questions with all their conditions and exceptions. As a result, this visualization serves as a readable application that delivers deterministic evaluation results.
Based on this method, the Rulemapping Automation Suite provides a digital no-code ecosystem that brings the methodology into any environment through digital applications. Rules and laws are visualized and automated into traceable decision-making processes and workflows.
Rethinking Legislation
How do we shape legislation and its implementation for an increasingly digital world? Rather than visualizing an existing legal text retrospectively, it is also possible to conceive laws initially in visual form, followed by or in parallel with the text version. This approach to digital legislation has been practiced at the Federal Ministry of Justice using the Rulemapping method for some time. For the first time globally, this provides an integrated digital legislative and administrative implementation pathway.
The Rulemapping technology does not require complex programming but relies on configurations, making it a user-friendly and interface-compatible no-code solution.
Rulemapping Academy
Through the trainings offered by the Rulemapping Academy, we empower legislators around the world to learn and apply the Rulemapping method in their specific contexts. Additionally, we train consultants, as well as public sector and corporate employees, in its practical application.
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If you are interested in working with or learning the open Rule Mapping method, feel free to contact us.
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Rulemapping Products:

Rule Based AI
Rulemapping Automation
Rulemapping Legislation