diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/components/FrontPage.tsx b/dotcom-rendering/src/components/FrontPage.tsx
index c7e9aa095f3..6e98976db7b 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/components/FrontPage.tsx
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/components/FrontPage.tsx
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ export const FrontPage = ({ front, NAV }: Props) => {
 			</Island>
 			<Island priority="critical">
 				<SetABTests
+					editorialAbTests={front.editorialAbTests}
 					serverSideABTests={front.config.serverSideABTests}
 				/>
 			</Island>
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/components/SetABTests.island.tsx b/dotcom-rendering/src/components/SetABTests.island.tsx
index 480188fc896..47569faa840 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/components/SetABTests.island.tsx
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/components/SetABTests.island.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ import { getOphan } from '../client/ophan/ophan';
 import { ABTests } from '../experiments/lib/ab-tests';
 import { isServer } from '../lib/isServer';
 import { setABTests } from '../lib/useAB';
+import type { EditorialAbTest } from '../types/front';
 import { useConfig } from './ConfigContext';
 
 type Props = {
 	serverSideABTests: Record<string, string>;
+	editorialAbTests?: EditorialAbTest[];
 };
 
 const errorReporter = (e: unknown) =>
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ const errorReporter = (e: unknown) =>
  *
  * Does not render **anything**.
  */
-export const SetABTests = ({ serverSideABTests }: Props) => {
+export const SetABTests = ({ serverSideABTests, editorialAbTests }: Props) => {
 	const { renderingTarget } = useConfig();
 	const [ophan, setOphan] = useState<Awaited<ReturnType<typeof getOphan>>>();
 
@@ -46,14 +48,15 @@ export const SetABTests = ({ serverSideABTests }: Props) => {
 		const abTests = new ABTests(
 			isServer
 				? {
+						editorialAbTests,
 						serverSideABTests,
 						isServer: true,
 					}
-				: { isServer: false },
+				: { editorialAbTests, isServer: false },
 		);
 		setABTests(abTests);
 		return abTests;
-	}, [serverSideABTests]);
+	}, [serverSideABTests, editorialAbTests]);
 
 	useEffect(() => {
 		if (!ophan) {
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/experiments/lib/ab-tests.ts b/dotcom-rendering/src/experiments/lib/ab-tests.ts
index e8154630036..4d0ac092ff1 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/experiments/lib/ab-tests.ts
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/experiments/lib/ab-tests.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { activeABtests } from '@guardian/ab-testing-config';
 import { isUndefined } from '@guardian/libs';
 import { getABTestParticipations } from '../../client/abTesting';
+import { EditorialAbTest } from '../../types/front';
 
 export interface ABTestAPI {
 	getParticipations: () => ABParticipations;
@@ -28,7 +29,9 @@ type OphanRecordFunction = (send: Record<string, OphanABPayload>) => void;
 
 type ErrorReporter = (e: unknown) => void;
 
-type ABTestsConfig =
+type ABTestsConfig = {
+	editorialAbTests?: EditorialAbTest[];
+} & (
 	| {
 			isServer: true;
 			serverSideABTests: Record<string, string>;
@@ -36,7 +39,8 @@ type ABTestsConfig =
 	| {
 			isServer: false;
 			serverSideABTests?: never;
-	  };
+	  }
+);
 
 /**
  * generate an A/B event for Ophan
@@ -52,8 +56,15 @@ const makeABEvent = (variantName: string, complete: boolean): OphanABEvent => {
 
 export class ABTests implements ABTestAPI {
 	private participations: ABParticipations;
+	private editorialParticipations: EditorialAbTest[] | undefined;
+
+	constructor({
+		isServer,
+		serverSideABTests,
+		editorialAbTests,
+	}: ABTestsConfig) {
+		this.editorialParticipations = editorialAbTests;
 
-	constructor({ isServer, serverSideABTests }: ABTestsConfig) {
 		if (isServer) {
 			this.participations = serverSideABTests;
 		} else {
@@ -79,9 +90,25 @@ export class ABTests implements ABTestAPI {
 	): void {
 		ophanRecord({
 			abTestRegister: this.buildOphanPayload(errorReporter),
+			editorialAbTestRegister: this.buildOphanEditorialPayload(),
 		});
 	}
 
+	private buildOphanEditorialPayload(): OphanABPayload {
+		return (
+			this.editorialParticipations?.reduce<OphanABPayload>(
+				(eventLog, test) => {
+					const variantId = test.variantMeta[0]?.id;
+
+					if (!variantId) return eventLog;
+					eventLog[test.testUuid] = makeABEvent(variantId, false);
+					return eventLog;
+				},
+				{},
+			) ?? {}
+		);
+	}
+
 	private shouldReportToOphan(testId: string): boolean {
 		const activeTest = activeABtests.find(({ name }) => name === testId);
 		return activeTest?.shouldReportToOphan
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feFront.json b/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feFront.json
index 635b4daaed9..6602bfe0bdb 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feFront.json
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feFront.json
@@ -4459,4 +4459,4 @@
         }
     },
     "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feTagPage.json b/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feTagPage.json
index 5d960526579..8edae4318b9 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feTagPage.json
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/frontend/schemas/feTagPage.json
@@ -2149,4 +2149,4 @@
         }
     },
     "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/server/handler.front.web.ts b/dotcom-rendering/src/server/handler.front.web.ts
index 6e94ff02f33..82a2c747319 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/server/handler.front.web.ts
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/server/handler.front.web.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import {
 import { groupTrailsByDates } from '../model/groupTrailsByDates';
 import { getSpeedFromTrails } from '../model/slowOrFastByTrails';
 import { validateAsFEFront, validateAsFETagPage } from '../model/validate';
-import type { Front } from '../types/front';
+import type { EditorialAbTest, Front } from '../types/front';
 import type { FETagType } from '../types/tag';
 import type { TagPage } from '../types/tagPage';
 import { makePrefetchHeader } from './lib/header';
@@ -23,6 +23,94 @@ const enhanceFront = (body: unknown): Front => {
 	const data: FEFront = validateAsFEFront(body);
 
 	const serverTime = Date.now();
+	/**
+	 * mocked for spike purposes. In reality, we'd need to extract all tests available across all trails and then flatten into an array with the correct shape.
+	 */
+	const mockedEditorialAbTests: EditorialAbTest[] = [
+		{
+			testUuid: '123',
+			expiryDate: Date.now() - 10 * 60 * 1000, // ten mins ago,
+			frontsThisTestCanRunOn: ['US'],
+			hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail: false,
+			variantMeta: [
+				{
+					id: 'A',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'headline A',
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					id: 'B',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'headline B',
+					},
+				},
+			],
+		},
+		{
+			testUuid: '456',
+			expiryDate: Date.now() + 10 * 60 * 1000, // ten mins in the future,
+			frontsThisTestCanRunOn: ['UK'],
+			hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail: false,
+			variantMeta: [
+				{
+					id: 'A',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'An A headline',
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					id: 'B',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'A B headline',
+					},
+				},
+			],
+		},
+		{
+			testUuid: '789',
+			expiryDate: Date.now() + 60 * 60 * 1000, // an hour in the future,
+			frontsThisTestCanRunOn: ['US'],
+			hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail: true,
+			variantMeta: [
+				{
+					id: 'A',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'Headline from field A',
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					id: 'B',
+					meta: {
+						headline: 'Headline from field B',
+					},
+				},
+			],
+		},
+	];
+
+	const editorialAbTestBucket = 'B'; // lets pretend this was from data.config.serverSideABTests.editorialAbTest;
+	const cleanedEdAbTests = mockedEditorialAbTests.reduce(
+		(cleanedTests: EditorialAbTest[], test) => {
+			const { variantMeta, ...restOfTest } = test;
+
+			const newTest = {
+				...restOfTest,
+				variantMeta: variantMeta.filter(
+					(variant) => variant.id === editorialAbTestBucket,
+				),
+			};
+
+			return [...cleanedTests, newTest];
+		},
+		[],
+	);
+
+	const activeEditorialAbTests = cleanedEdAbTests.filter(
+		(test) =>
+			!test.hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail &&
+			(!test.expiryDate || test.expiryDate > Date.now()),
+	);
 
 	const collections = enhanceCollections({
 		collections: data.pressedPage.collections,
@@ -54,6 +142,7 @@ const enhanceFront = (body: unknown): Front => {
 		deeplyRead: data.deeplyRead?.map((trail) => decideTrail(trail)),
 		canonicalUrl: data.canonicalUrl,
 		serverTime,
+		editorialAbTests: activeEditorialAbTests,
 	};
 };
 
diff --git a/dotcom-rendering/src/types/front.ts b/dotcom-rendering/src/types/front.ts
index d69e654cd0c..63d886632c4 100644
--- a/dotcom-rendering/src/types/front.ts
+++ b/dotcom-rendering/src/types/front.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export interface Front {
 	webURL: string;
 	guardianBaseURL: string;
 	serverTime?: number;
+	editorialAbTests?: EditorialAbTest[];
 }
 
 interface PressedPage {
@@ -188,3 +189,11 @@ export type EditorialTest = {
 	frontsThisTestCanRunOn: string[];
 	hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail: boolean;
 };
+
+export type EditorialAbTest = {
+	testUuid: string;
+	expiryDate?: number;
+	variantMeta: VariantMeta[];
+	frontsThisTestCanRunOn: string[];
+	hasManuallyEndedOnThisTrail: boolean;
+};