We're building the platform that turns regulatory complexity into a solved problem — so brands can focus on what they're actually good at: making great products.
Our mission
A cosmetics company launching a new moisturizer in 2026 faces a deceptively simple question: can we sell this product? The answer depends entirely on where. An ingredient that's freely permitted in the US might be restricted in the EU, banned in ASEAN, and subject to concentration limits in Canada — all for the same chemical compound.
This patchwork of overlapping, sometimes contradictory frameworks is the reality for any brand selling into more than one market. Manual compliance doesn't scale past a handful of products, and hiring consultants at $300–$500/hour is the default — not because it works, but because nothing better existed.
We built Inlet because regulatory complexity shouldn't be a barrier to global growth. When the marginal cost of checking any product against any market approaches zero, companies can enter markets they'd otherwise skip, iterate faster, and catch the edge cases manual processes miss.
Our story
Our founding team saw the same pattern across every CPG company: regulatory compliance was handled by heroic individuals cross-referencing spreadsheets and paying consultants $300/hour for table lookups. The work was slow, expensive, and didn't scale.
We started with the hardest problem: building a compliance engine that could answer 'is this ingredient allowed at this concentration in this market?' in under a second, with citations. That became Navi — our 3-layer compliance pyramid with deterministic rules, conditional logic, and AI reasoning for ambiguous cases.
We expanded beyond compliance checks into the full RA lifecycle: automated dossier generation, autonomous agents handling multi-step workflows, direct integrations with SAP, Salesforce, and Jira, and real-time regulatory monitoring across 8+ markets.
What we believe
Regulatory compliance is a computational problem — not a headcount problem. If a task can be automated deterministically, it should be. We save human expertise for the judgment calls that actually need it.
A false negative in compliance means a non-compliant product reaches market. A false positive erodes trust. We obsess over precision at every layer of the engine, and we're transparent about confidence scores when we're uncertain.
Every product checked, every edge case resolved, every correction by an expert makes the platform smarter for all users. Compliance knowledge shouldn't be siloed inside a consultant's head — it should be infrastructure.
We build for the reality that every brand sells into multiple markets. Regulatory complexity shouldn't be a barrier to global expansion. Every market, every regulation, one check.
Sub-second compliance checks change how teams operate. When checking a formulation costs zero marginal time, you can check every ingredient against every regulation in every market — not just the risky ones.
We listen to regulatory affairs teams. Every feature is shaped by real compliance workflows — not a marketing fantasy of what the industry should look like. Our users are experts; our job is to amplify them.
What we build
30,000+ ingredients indexed against 4,000+ regulations across US, EU, UK, Canada, and ASEAN. Sub-second checks with confidence scores and regulatory citations for every result.
Seven specialized agents that mirror real regulatory affairs roles — from formulation analysis through dossier submission. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints ensure judgment calls stay with your team.
Natural-language regulatory Q&A grounded in actual regulatory text. Ask 'can I use retinol at 1% in an EU face cream?' and get a cited answer — not a hallucination.
The team
We're a remote-first team of engineers, former regulatory affairs practitioners, and product people who have lived the pain we're solving. We ship fast, we talk to users, and we work in the open — our engineering deep dives live on our blog.
We believe software companies at our stage win by staying close to the problem and shipping real software — not by growing headcount or raising rounds as the goal. Our guiding question is always: will this make compliance faster, more accurate, or more accessible for the teams we serve?
If you're working on hard problems in regulatory affairs, product development, or compliance engineering and want to compare notes, we'd love to hear from you.
Whether you're evaluating Inlet, curious about the tech, or interested in what we're building next — we'd love to hear from you.