Foresight

What Foresight does

Foresight is a Belfast-based SaaS startup that provides an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform for chemical regulatory compliance. The platform continuously monitors regulatory developments across more than 120 countries, 100 sub-national regions, and 12 trade blocs, covering 780+ topics including PFAS, REACH, TSCA, CLP, microplastics, supply chain due diligence, and Digital Product Passport. Its customers are regulatory, EHS, and product stewardship teams at large global manufacturers — including named logos such as Boeing, Siemens, PepsiCo, SpaceX, AstraZeneca, Shell, and Unilever — who use the platform to map regulatory changes to specific substance portfolios and bills of materials with full source-backed audit trails.

The product combines AI-powered NLP for regulatory document processing with human expert validation, surfacing only relevant signals for each customer's portfolio and filtering out noise from thousands of official sources (ECHA, EPA, EFSA, Federal Register, EUR-Lex, WTO, HSE, EU Commission). It is delivered as a multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform with three subscription tiers (Monitor, Intelligence, Enterprise), role-based access controls, SOC 2 Type I certification (Type II in progress), and EU/US data residency. Distribution is primarily direct enterprise field sales with demo-only conversion, supported by a product-led free Exposure Assessment, the Foresight Weekly newsletter (3,500+ subscribers), webinars, and ROI-focused content marketing.

The company was founded in 2024 by Dr. Steven Brennan (CEO, former Rolls-Royce materials engineer and ECHA SEAC co-opted member) and Jonny Campbell (CPO, ex-carwow), with Kieran Graham as CTO. It employs 1-10 people, is operated by the UK-incorporated Compliance and Sustainability Ltd, and closed its first institutional funding round of £500,000 from Invest NI's Techstart Ventures fund in March 2026.

Name

Foresight

Legal name

Compliance and Sustainability Ltd

Website

https://useforesight.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Foresight is a Belfast-based SaaS startup offering an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform that monitors chemical, product safety, ESG, and supply chain regulations across 120+ countries for compliance, EHS, and product stewardship teams at large global manufacturers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regulatory Compliance Software (Chemical Regulatory Intelligence)

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

ESG, Sustainability Reporting & Compliance (BPAEAPAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

ESG Data Platforms, Controls & Audit Readiness (Data quality, internal controls) (EUAHAJAN), Third-Party Risk, Vendor Due Diligence & Supply Chain Compliance (BPAEAPAG)

Keywords

• Chemical regulatory compliance
• Regulatory intelligence software
• Compliance monitoring platform
• Substance tracking software
• EHS compliance tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Belfast

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Foresight operates on a subscription SaaS model with three plan tiers: Monitor (source monitoring), Intelligence (portfolio intelligence and team workflow), and Enterprise (governance, cross-team reporting, and dedicated rollout support). Pricing scales with plan tier and likely team/user count. No public pricing is listed — prospective customers must book a demo or contact sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Foresight is a SaaS regulatory intelligence platform that continuously monitors chemical and product-safety regulations across 120+ countries and 100+ sub-national regions. It uses AI to filter noise, map regulatory changes to customer-specific substance and product portfolios, and provides a shared workspace with tasks, ownership tracking, and full audit trails for regulatory, EHS, and product stewardship teams.

Product overview

Foresight is a regulatory intelligence SaaS platform designed for compliance, product stewardship, EHS, and HSE teams at manufacturing organizations. The platform operates on a tiered plan structure (Monitor, Intelligence, and Enterprise) and is offered alongside complementary tools including an Exposure Assessment, ROI Calculator, Regulatory Signals Map, Readiness Assessment, and a weekly newsletter. Foresight's core platform monitors regulatory sources across 120+ countries and 100+ sub-national regions, using AI-powered filtering and NLP to extract structured regulatory context, match changes to customer portfolios, and generate source-backed alerts with citations. The platform includes team collaboration workflows with task assignment, deadline tracking, and full audit trails for compliance action management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Foresight Regulatory Intelligence Platform SaaS regulatory intelligence platform that monitors thousands of official regulatory sources across 120+ countries, uses AI to filter and map changes to customer-specific substance and product portfolios, and provides a shared workspace with tasks, comments, ownership, status tracking, and a full audit trail for regulatory, EHS, product stewardship, and HSE teams at global manufacturers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 80% reduction in manual regulatory monitoring effort
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ECHA (European Chemicals Agency)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSteven Brennan, CEO and Co-Founder of Foresight, is a co-opted member of the SEAC (Social and Economic Analysis Committee) at ECHA. This advisory relationship provides Foresight with direct insight into EU regulatory assessment processes and committee perspectives, enhancing the platform's regulatory intelligence capabilities and credibility.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Intelex Technologies: Intelex is an established EHS and quality management SaaS platform with chemical regulatory content modules, serving similar enterprise buyer personas but as part of a broader compliance suite.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights (IHS Markit): S&P Global (formerly IHS Markit) provides broad regulatory and standards intelligence across chemicals, energy, and trade — overlapping with Foresight but as part of a much larger portfolio serving multiple verticals.

Direct peers

• Enhesa: Enhesa is a direct competitor offering regulatory intelligence services for chemical, product, and environmental compliance globally, with similar buyer personas (EHS, product stewardship, regulatory affairs teams at large manufacturers).
• Verisk 3E: Verisk 3E (formerly 3E Company) provides substance-level regulatory data, safety data sheets, and chemical compliance content for global manufacturers — competing head-to-head with Foresight on chemical/regulatory intelligence.
• Sphera: Sphera (formerly Sphera Solutions) provides EHS, ESG, and product stewardship software including regulatory compliance content for chemicals and product safety — overlapping squarely with Foresight's substance monitoring and portfolio mapping.
• Assent Inc. Assent provides supply chain compliance and product regulatory intelligence (including chemical substance tracking) for manufacturers — directly comparable to Foresight's supply chain due diligence and product compliance use cases.
• UL Solutions (formerly UL Chemical & Regulatory Compliance): UL's Chemical and Regulatory Compliance division offers global regulatory monitoring and substance compliance tools for manufacturers, making it one of the closest direct competitors to Foresight in chemical regulatory intelligence.

Emerging players

• RegASK: RegASK is an AI-driven regulatory intelligence platform for life sciences and consumer products compliance, with overlapping GTM toward regulated enterprises and similar AI-first positioning.
• GreenSoft Sustainability / GreenSoft Data Services: GreenSoft provides regulatory compliance and substance tracking for electronics manufacturers, with product-level compliance monitoring comparable to Foresight's BOM-level mapping use case.
• IntegrityNext: IntegrityNext offers supply chain compliance monitoring including chemical and ESG regulations, with a SaaS platform serving manufacturers — adjacent competitor in regulatory intelligence and supplier compliance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/useforesight

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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