RSL Monitoring: A new solution to accelerate sustainable and safe personal care and household product development.

Today marks a significant leap forward in the personal care and household product industry with the launch of SmarterX’s RSL Insights Platform, a generative AI tool that revolutionizes the way brands navigate the complex terrain of sustainability, chemical compliance, and consumer demands. Developed for the critical task of formulating environmentally friendly and compliant products, RSL Insights is the beacon of innovation for companies striving to stay ahead in a market that increasingly values ethical and safe products.

SmarterX harnesses the power of advanced generative AI, including capabilities of ChatGPT, Nomic Atlas, and more, to parse Retailer Restricted Substance Lists (RSLs) and offer a comprehensive solution for understanding and managing these chemicals of concern. These lists, often vast and varied across retailers, pose a significant challenge to product developers due to their intricate rules and restrictions. SmarterX’s RSL Insights elegantly demystifies these complexities, providing clarity and actionable insights that accelerate product development and ensure compliance with the most stringent standards.

So, how did we do this?

First, we developed tools for AI-assisted parsing of top retailer restricted substance lists. As there is no standardization across the market for these RSLs’ formatting, content, update schedule, or even existence in a public-facing sphere, this is a monumental development on the path to making sense of and complying with retailer restrictions.

Our AI tools allow us to parse, understand, and organize the vast landscape of potential restrictions and complex chemical names and functions, ensuring your product development is both efficient and compliant.

We then highlight key impacts in your product catalog

• Step 1: We may already have your product in our platform, but if we don’t, simply upload a your products (a simple .csv with UPC, brand and product name, and ingredients){" "}
• Step 2: Our technology goes through the list of ingredients in each of the products and maps it to groupings or aliases in retailers’ RSLs
• Step 3: It indicates which of your products may be impacted by an RSL, and we also show possible competitive products – based on similarity in names, formulations, and intended use – and if/how they are impacted by any RSLs.
• Step 4: When you do encounter restricted chemicals in your products, you may want to know more about them. We have trained our GPT assistant with knowledge of the HCPA Dictionary, California’s Proposition 65 Chemicals List, the ECHA/REACH Substances of Very High Concern List, and the EPA’s Safer Chemicals Dictionary so that you can ask questions about reasoning for restrictions, known accepted thresholds, and even ingredients’ functions, common names, and potential alternatives.

Unlock Unprecedented Value

All this helps you

• Save Time: Automate the RSL review process with personalized reports that clearly show how your products align with retailer requirements, freeing up valuable time and resources.
• Gain Strategic Sales Insights: Use our intuitive platform to quickly adapt your products to meet various retailers' RSLs, enabling you to strategically position your products and choose your sales targets wisely.
• Gain Market-Specific Insights: Get rapid access to essential ingredient-level insights for targeted product development. RSL Insights offers a clear path to formulating products that not only meet but exceed retailer and consumer expectations.

With our RSL Insights & Monitoring, you're not just keeping up with the market; you're setting the pace. This is your key to unlocking a world of possibilities in sustainable and compliant product development. Lead the pack of companies making informed, strategic decisions with confidence and ease.

Get started today

• Sign up on platform.smarterx.com
• Subscribe for Monitoring - a monthly subscription
• Upload your product data as a .csv, following our template
• Add any of your team members
• Quickly see where your products’ ingredients conflict with RSLs from 29 major retailers

For more insights on how SmarterX’s RSL Insights can elevate your business, contact our product team at product@smarterx.com.