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    Solution

    AI software for ingredients, built around the substance itself.

    Worldover is the AI-native operating system for ingredient suppliers, distributors and formulation teams. INCI and CAS data, technical and regulatory documentation, SDS authoring, customer documentation packs and portfolio-wide regulatory monitoring, all reasoned over by AI agents that understand chemistry and regulation.

    Quick answer

    AI software for ingredients is enterprise software that treats each ingredient as a regulated substance (with CAS, EC, INCI, function, origin and jurisdictional status) rather than a generic SKU, and layers AI agents on top of that model. The best fit drafts technical data sheets and Safety Data Sheets from the live record, monitors REACH, SVHC, CLP, INCI and cosmetics regulations against the full portfolio, generates customer-specific documentation packs, and answers ingredient questions from downstream formulators with citations. Worldover replaces the typical stack of generic ERP plus SDS authoring, regulatory monitoring, PIM and customer portal tools with one AI operating system, custom-built to how each ingredient business works.

    • One record per ingredient across chemistry, regulation and documentation
    • AI drafting for TDS, SDS and customer letters
    • Portfolio-wide REACH, SVHC, CLP and INCI monitoring
    • Customer-specific documentation packs on demand
    • Willow answers formulator and regulator questions with citations
    • 30% software saving, guaranteed

    How this connects to Worldover

    Serving regulated customers where every buyer asks for the same data in a different shape?

    Worldover holds substance, safety and regulatory data as one live record, generating customer-specific declarations, SDS and dossiers without retyping.

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    How Worldover compares to generic ERP and PIM plus point tools

    Most ingredient businesses run a generic ERP or PIM alongside separate SDS authoring, regulatory monitoring and customer portal tools. Here is how that stack compares to one AI-native ingredient platform.

    CapabilityWorldoverGeneric ERP or PIM plus point tools
    Ingredient recordCAS, EC, INCI, function, origin, jurisdictional status in one modelGeneric SKU plus custom fields, INCI in a spreadsheet
    AI agentsGrounded in chemical and cosmetics regulation, reasoning over live dataGeneral copilots with no regulatory grounding
    Technical data sheetsDrafted by AI from the live ingredient recordWord templates maintained by hand
    SDS authoringMulti-region, drafted from composition and hazard dataSeparate tool, resynced manually
    Regulatory monitoringREACH, SVHC, CLP, INCI and cosmetics rule changes matched to your portfolioECHA and trade newsletters read by hand
    Customer documentation packsGenerated per customer, per region, on demandStitched together from shared drives
    ImplementationLive in three months12 to 24 months across multiple vendors

    Source: Worldover internal analysis of common ingredient-business technology stacks. Verify against your specific tools with the Worldover team.

    Why do ingredient businesses need AI-native software, not a bolt-on copilot?

    A generic ERP or PIM sees an ingredient as a row with a code, a description and a price. It does not know that the substance has a CAS number, an INCI name, a REACH registration scope, a jurisdictional status that differs between the EU, UK, US, China and Japan, and a set of downstream customer obligations. Bolting a copilot on top of that model gives you a copilot that also cannot see any of that.

    Worldover treats the substance itself as the core record. The AI agents reason over chemistry, regulation and documentation directly, which is what makes portfolio-wide monitoring, on-demand customer packs and first-pass TDS and SDS drafting realistic instead of aspirational.

    What do the AI agents actually do for an ingredient business?

    Willow, the engine behind Worldover, reads regulatory text, reasons over your live ingredient data and drafts the work. It produces first-pass technical data sheets and Safety Data Sheets, matches every ECHA and cosmetics regulatory update to the specific ingredients affected, drafts customer notifications and Article 33 letters, and answers technical or compliance questions from downstream formulators with citations back to source. Your team reviews and signs off.

    How is INCI, CAS and jurisdictional data connected?

    Every ingredient carries CAS, EC, INCI, function, botanical or synthetic origin and jurisdictional status per market. That single record drives INCI decks for cosmetics customers, hazard classification for SDS, permitted-use checks for cosmetics regulations, and downstream formulator queries, without re-keying between systems.

    How does portfolio-wide regulatory monitoring work?

    Every ECHA update, SVHC candidate list change, CLP reclassification and cosmetics annex change is read against your full portfolio. You see exactly which ingredients are affected, which customers received them and what your notification obligations look like. The AI drafts the outbound customer letters; your regulatory lead reviews and sends.

    How are customer documentation packs generated?

    Customer-specific documentation packs (TDS, SDS, allergen statements, non-GMO, halal, kosher, RSPO, IFRA, Prop 65, animal testing, origin, technical letters) are generated on demand from the ingredient record and your customer profile, in the format each customer expects. No more digging through shared drives and re-formatting per request.

    FAQs

    Common questions.

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    A 20-minute working session. Your SKUs, your customers, your documentation. No slide deck.

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    Worldover, AI operating system for chemicals and cosmetics companies

    The AI operating system for substances.

    Worldover is one system that replaces your ERP, PLM, QMS, LIMS, regulatory tools and more – and uses AI to orchestrate every workflow, at enterprise level. Designed for chemical, cosmetic and substance-based businesses.

    • 100% deployment success rate
    • Live in 3 months
    • 16 native modules, one data model

    Used by industry leaders

    HUDA Beauty, Worldover customerICONIC London, Worldover customerThe White Company, Worldover customer
    WorldoverWorldover OS
    Portfolio · 4 sites · 24 markets
    + 1,186 more ingredients
    Substance record

    Citral

    CAS5392-40-5INCICitralEC226-394-6
    GHS07GHS09
    Stock on hand
    840 kg
    Reorder point
    200 kg
    Next batch
    RUN-4821 · 14 Aug
    • F-2214Rose Attar EDP45 kg18 Aug
    • F-2287Velvet Body Lotion22 kg22 Aug
    • F-2301Signature Shower Gel38 kg29 Aug
    Willow · your AI operator
    How's supply looking on Citral?
    Ask Willow across 1,190 ingredients...

    Why Worldover

    A version of this is playing out 
    in your business , right now.

    These aren't edge cases. They're the normal operating conditions for brands, contract manufacturers, ingredient suppliers and distributors across cosmetics, specialty chemicals, food and nutraceuticals.

    Cosmetics · regulatory change

    The preservative just changed concentration in three EU markets.

    A regulatory update changes the permitted concentration of a preservative in three EU markets, effective in eleven weeks. Your quality lead searches the ERP for every affected SKU, finds seventeen, but cannot be certain the list is complete because the ingredient sits under two different INCI names across formulation records. The reformulation log lives in a spreadsheet. The brief is in a shared drive. The batch record is in a different system. By Friday evening there is a draft impact assessment. Nobody has touched the actual compliance documentation.

    Specialty chemicals · SVHC query

    The customer wants an SVHC answer by tomorrow.

    A specialty chemical distributor has just received a customer query about a substance on the SVHC candidate list. Their response depends on knowing which of their current product lines contains that substance, at what concentrations, in which formulations sold to which customers, in which markets. That data exists in four separate places: an ERP, a product database, a SharePoint folder, and a sales CRM that nobody has fully updated since the last rep left. The distributor is not short of systems. It is short of one system the business actually runs on.

    Food · FSMA 204 audit

    The traceability audit is six weeks out.

    A food contract manufacturer has a FSMA 204 traceability audit in six weeks. The regulation requires Critical Tracking Events to be logged at every point in the supply chain from grower to processor. Their current system tracks finished goods by lot. It does not log the upstream ingredient journey at the level of granularity the regulation now demands. The gap is not a data problem. It is an architecture problem. The truth the business depends on is split across too many places to be trusted.

    Nutraceuticals · NSF certification

    The reformulation needs a documentation pack, now.

    A nutraceutical brand is reformulating a product to meet NSF certification requirements for a new retail partner. The process requires identity testing documentation for every raw material, a certificate of analysis for each lot, a stability protocol, and a revised label claim review. All of that information exists. None of it is in the same system. The product manager is spending three days assembling a documentation pack that a properly designed backbone would have produced in minutes.

    The real problem isn't regulation. It's that the work is spread across too many systems – without one shared operational backbone.

    The full essay walks through why substance-based businesses are uniquely hard to run, why existing software has failed to solve it, and what an AI operating system actually means for this industry.

    Read the full essay

    Worldover connects your product, customer and regulatory data into one system.

    Then Willow, our AI layer, tells you exactly what to do with it. One platform replaces the patchwork of tools keeping chemicals and cosmetics businesses in the past. Worldover becomes the central hub for your entire operation.

    ERP

    Finance, procurement, inventory and operations in one data model.

    PLM

    Formulation, specs, versioning and change control from concept to shelf.

    QMS

    CAPA, deviations, audits and supplier quality without disconnected modules.

    CRM

    Customer relationships, orders and commercial data tied to the product record.

    LIMS

    Testing, specifications, batch release and COA management in the same workflow.

    Regulatory tools

    Ingredient restrictions, registrations, notifications and global filing status in one view.

    Compliance tools

    REACH, GHS, CLP and other substance rules checked against your live product data.

    Document authors

    SDS, PIF, dossiers, CoA and labels generated from the same source of truth.

    Implementation

    Live in 3 months.

    1. 01

      Weeks 1 to 4

      Scoping and data model

      Map your systems and configure the foundational data model.

    2. 02

      Weeks 5 to 8

      Configuration and migration

      Build modules, migrate master data and run parallel testing.

    3. 03

      Weeks 9 to 12

      Training, testing, go-live

      Train your team, run final QA and go live with support coverage.

    Backed by the world's best investors

    Chalfen Ventures, Worldover investor
    Index Ventures, Worldover investor
    Entrepreneur First, Worldover investor

    Enterprise-grade security

    SOC 2 certified

    SOC 2 certified

    Independently audited controls for security, availability and confidentiality.

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    Give us 30 minutes. We'll show you exactly how Worldover would deploy in your business, with your processes, your data and your guardrails.

    • A live tour of the platform and Willow
    • Custom modules mapped to your workflow
    • Typically replaces 4–7 point solutions

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