Designing tax
at the pace of regulation.
Compliance moves only as fast as the platform that carries it. EY's tax practice ships some of the most-used compliance software in the country, into a regulatory environment that rewrites itself every few weeks.
The relationship began as design work. UI and UX across the platform's core modules — TDS, GST, Transfer Pricing, the compliance dashboard — rebuilt over time to read as one product rather than four. We started with a tax person, not a designer. From the workflow they actually worked through, we drew the spine the platform should have had.
As the engagement grew, the work moved into production. Design and engineering as one motion, with Two Words holding both sides. The current phase folds in our Co-Pilot — new surfaces generate inside EY's own design tokens, and tax-compliance agents read CBDT and GST changes as they're published, surfacing what the platform needs to absorb.
The cycle from a new regulation to a shipped change now shortens by an order of magnitude. The platform stays current without the team staying late.