Product compliance checks across every state and regulated vertical
FDA, FTC, FINRA, OSHA, and Prop 65 rules applied to every product attribute — at ingest, at conflict resolution, and before anything ships to a channel.
The problem
You sell supplements in California, in Massachusetts, beauty products in Texas, and OTC pharma everywhere. The FDA requires structure-function language for supplement claims. California requires specific Prop 65 warnings. Massachusetts has its own dosage and efficacy language restrictions. The FTC wants every claim substantiated. The categories of tools that touch this each handle a slice.
Your PIM validates against marketplace spec — Google Shopping required fields, Meta Catalog format — which catches typos and missing fields but does not catch "this supplement claim is FDA-actionable." Enterprise product compliance suites (Assent Compliance, Source Intelligence, 3E Company, Sphera) handle supply-chain compliance — chemical inventory, REACH, RoHS, conflict minerals — at industrial scale, but barely touch the marketing-content side. Vertical specialty tools (Veeva Vault for life sciences, Esko for packaging, Reed Tech for FDA submissions) are deeply built for their vertical but isolated from your marketing operations. Feed management tools (Feedonomics, GoDataFeed, DataFeedWatch, Channable) validate marketplace formatting only. Your in-house regulatory reviewer is three weeks behind.
The gap is per-vertical schema validation that loads your regulatory rule libraries (FDA structure-function, FTC substantiation, FINRA suitability, OSHA, Prop 65) and checks every catalog attribute as it moves through the system.
What success looks like
Your active vertical rule libraries — FDA structure-function for supplements and cosmetics, FTC claim substantiation, state-by- restrictions, FINRA suitability for financial services, OSHA chemical labeling, FCC RF compliance, California Prop 65, EU Cosmetic Regulation — check every catalog attribute at three points.
At ingest: data coming in from your POS, ERP, PIM, supplier feeds, and marketplace feeds gets checked before it reaches your canonical product record. Non-compliant attributes route to a review queue.
At conflict resolution: when the system picks a winning source for an attribute, the choice gets rechecked. Resolutions that pick a non-compliant source surface for review.
At emission: before any change goes out to a downstream channel, the attribute gets checked against the channel's compliance requirements. dosage variants emit only to subscribers in the right states. Prop 65 warnings flow to California-bound variants only.
Regulatory updates keep your rule libraries current. Every validation decision is captured in the product's history for regulator inquiry response. Assent Compliance and Veeva Vault keep working for their deep-vertical operations; this covers the marketing-content validation layer they do not.
How most operators solve this today
A few categories of tools touch this problem, but none of them check every catalog attribute against your regulatory rule libraries at every stage:
Enterprise product compliance suites (Assent Compliance, Source Intelligence, 3E Company, Sphera, Compliance & Risks)
$25,000 to $200,000+/year
Built for supply-chain compliance — chemical inventory, REACH, RoHS, conflict minerals — at industrial scale. Barely touch the marketing-content side.
PIM-bundled compliance modules (Salsify, Productsup, Akeneo, inriver, Syndigo)
Bundled with PIM license
Validates against marketplace spec (Google Shopping required fields, Meta Catalog format). Per-vertical regulatory schemas require custom configuration.
Vertical specialty compliance (Veeva Vault life sciences, Esko packaging, Reed Tech FDA, per- vendors)
$20,000 to $200,000+/year
Deeply built for their vertical but isolated from your marketing operations. Does not validate marketing attributes against your rule libraries.
Marketplace policy validation (Feedonomics, GoDataFeed, DataFeedWatch, Channable)
$39 to $5,000+/month
Validates marketplace formatting only (Google Merchant Center disapproval reasons, Meta Catalog errors). Not your operator-specific compliance rules.
In-house regulatory reviewer
$120,000 to $250,000/year salary
Single reviewer bottleneck. Manual review against applicable regulations. Falls behind past 1,000 SKUs or 3+ regulated verticals.
Build it in-house
Compliance engineer + outside counsel + ongoing rule maintenance
Each rule library is a multi-month build. Keeping them current with FDA, FTC, and state-AG updates is a permanent task.
What changes when this is an agent skill
Your active rule libraries — FDA structure-function for supplements and cosmetics, FTC claim substantiation restrictions, FINRA suitability, OSHA chemical labeling, FCC RF compliance, California Prop 65, EU Cosmetic Regulation — check every product attribute at three points.
At ingest, raw attributes from your POS, ERP, PIM, supplier feeds, and marketplace feeds get checked before they reach your canonical record. Non-compliant attributes route to a review queue.
At conflict resolution, the chosen winning source gets rechecked. A resolution that picks a non-compliant source surfaces for review.
At emission, every change gets checked against the target channel's compliance requirements. variants emit only to in-state subscribers. Prop 65 warnings flow to California-bound variants only.
Regulatory updates keep your rule libraries current. Every validation decision is captured in the product's history for regulator inquiry response. Assent Compliance and Veeva Vault keep working for their deep-vertical operations; this covers the marketing-content validation layer they do not.
Agents that include this skill
Skills live inside agent rentals. To get this skill in production, hire any of the agents below — context-tuning at onboarding is included in the first month.
Product Catalog Canonicalization Agent
Use-case foundation agent that produces the canonical product catalog every retail-persona surface agent consumes.
FAQ
- What does this actually check?
- Every product attribute — description, claim, label, ingredient, dosage, comparative claim — gets checked against the regulations that apply to that product in that state. FDA, FTC, FINRA, OSHA, Prop 65. Checks happen at ingest, at conflict resolution, and at emission.
- How is this different from Assent Compliance or Source Intelligence?
- Those are built for supply-chain compliance — chemical inventory, REACH, RoHS, conflict minerals — at industrial scale. This checks marketing-side product attributes against your regulatory rule libraries.
- How is this different from PIM-bundled validation in Salsify or Akeneo?
- PIM modules check marketplace spec — Google Shopping required fields, Meta Catalog format. This checks against the regulations that apply (FDA structure-function, FTC substantiation).
- How is this different from Veeva Vault or Esko?
- Those are deeply built for their vertical (life sciences, packaging) but isolated from marketing operations. This brings the per-vertical libraries together with your canonical product record and feeds validated attributes to every AI content agent.
- What rule libraries does it validate against?
- FDA structure-function (supplements, cosmetics), FTC claim substantiation (all verticals) restrictions, FINRA suitability (financial), OSHA chemical labeling, FCC RF compliance (electronics), California Prop 65, New York pricing display requirements, EU Cosmetic Regulation 1223/2009 where applicable.
- How does this work alongside catalog ingest?
- Validation runs at ingest. Non-compliant attributes route to a review queue before they reach your canonical product record.
- How does this work alongside change event emission?
- Validation runs again before the event fires downstream. variants emit only to subscribers in the right states.
- How does this work alongside per-vertical compliance for content?
- Content compliance enforces rules across every AI content agent (page generator, ads, social, email). This validates the underlying catalog data those agents render. Same rule library, different enforcement layer.