Welcome to 3E
The world’s leading brands choose 3E to unlock
innovation confidence, speed to market, workplace safety, supply chain transparency, and a future proof compliance strategy – delivered through our…
Unmatched regulatory & chemical expertise
Our team includes 160+ regulatory analysts, chemists, toxicologists, EHS specialists and other compliance experts
World-class, proprietary regulatory and chemical content
We deliver proprietary regulatory and chemical content, curated and verified by our experts for accuracy, relevance, and global coverage.
Secure generative and agentic AI technologies
Our market-leading AI-first technologies accelerate compliance decisions while maintaining trust, control, and transparency.
Premium customer experience for any workflow
Our solutions integrate into your workflows to drive efficiency and operational excellence in your EHS, sustainability and stewardship work.
"3E is revolutionizing the concept of compliance as a data science challenge."
Quoted from Fast Company’s overview of 100 Most Innovative Companies where 3E ranked in the top 10 in the Data Science category.
Trusted intelligence for an increasingly complex world
Our purpose
To enable a safer, more sustainable world by protecting people, safeguarding products, and helping businesses grow. This guides everything we do: from how we build our solutions to how we partner with customers around the world.
Trusted expertise, differentiated data, exceptional experience
For 35+ years we've helped our customers succeed
We serve 5,000+ customers globally
3E provides access to 20M+ SDS
The only provider in the industry to guarantee your SDS data — and back it with financial accountability.
We guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, and coverage of your SDS data. If we fall short, we issue a $50 reward or charitable donation for every confirmed error.
We are the leader in flexible compliance solutions
Due to our unique combination of regulatory and chemical data, expertise and technology our extensive global reach – 3E is a Leader in Environmental, Health and Safety and Sustainability solutions for chemically-intensive industries.
Expert-led AI you can trust
3E is pioneering a new class of expert-led, purpose-built AI for regulatory compliance, product stewardship and supply chain data collection. Unlike generic AI tools, 3E’s solutions are designed specifically for business-critical compliance decisions. The result is AI you can trust—built to support confident, defensible decisions in highly regulated environments. Our approach ensures accuracy, transparency, and accountability, helping organizations achieve compliance with speed and confidence while reducing risk.
Trusted partnerships. Real-world impact.
3E is SAP’s chosen regulatory content provider and strategic development partner, helping unlock the full power of SAP EHS and SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance. We also partner with leading ERP, EHS, and PLM platforms to embed trusted regulatory intelligence directly into customer workflows. Our partners—and our customers—rely on 3E’s expertise, data, and technology to enable safety, sustainability, and compliance at scale.
A commitment to customer success
As regulatory complexity, ESG expectations, and chemical transparency demands continue to grow, 3E remains focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences. We help organizations reduce risk, accelerate time to market, and operate more responsibly—creating lasting value for your businesses and for the world.
Our global footprint
Our global reach expands to our physical locations too. We’re proud of our 1000+ team members worldwide spanning across 14 locations.
Frequently asked questions
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What does 3E do?
3E is an AI-driven software and data company that enables organizations to confidently navigate regulatory complexity, reduce risk, and bring compliant, safer, more sustainable products to market faster. For more than 35 years, our chemical, regulatory, and data science experts have continuously curated and cataloged our proprietary chemical regulatory data and content library. This trusted intelligence powers 3E’s purpose-built software and expert-governed AI solutions, built to retrieve, interpret, and connect regulatory information at scale so your teams can decide faster and defend the decision afterwards. The result is acceleration for product compliance workflows to empower safety, elevate stewardship, and enable sustainability.
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How is 3E different from other compliance and AI vendors?
3E builds expert-led, purpose-built AI for regulatory compliance, product stewardship, and supply chain data collection.
We combine more than three decades of proprietary regulatory content and world-class expertise with AI, embedding trusted intelligence into your workflows so your teams can deliver on safety, sustainability, and speed to market. What sets our solutions apart is secure generative and agentic AI working on expert-curated content, with subject-matter expert oversight and validation.
The result is data you can trust, supporting confident, defensible decisions in highly regulated environments, with the accuracy, transparency, and accountability that regulated work demands.
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How is 3E different from using a general-purpose AI tool for compliance work?
General-purpose AI tools are useful for drafting, summarizing, and open-ended research. Regulated compliance work asks something different: an answer tied to a specific regulation, in a specific jurisdiction, for a specific substance, that someone can still explain and defend months later.
That is the work 3E is built for. Our AI draws on regulatory and chemical content that in-house experts curate and maintain continuously across global jurisdictions, backed by more than 35 years of regulatory experience. Answers cite the regulation behind them and link to the source, so a reviewer can see what a decision was based on rather than taking an output on trust. A qualified person still makes the call; 3E’s role is to make sure they have authoritative information when they make it.
The bigger shift is what that intelligence can be applied to. A general-purpose assistant may already reach your product, material, supplier, and market data, but it has no authoritative regulatory content behind it. 3E Agent brings that content into the enterprise AI environment where your data already sits, under your organization’s existing access controls, so a question can be answered against both. That is the difference between what a regulation requires and what it means for your portfolio. Inside 3E products, embedded AI supports specialists working in purpose-built compliance workflows on the same trusted foundation.
For more on how 3E differs from general-purpose AI, see our AI solutions page.
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Why is 3E trusted for regulatory and chemical intelligence?
Trust in regulatory intelligence comes down to three things: who maintains the content, how it is validated, and whether you can see where an answer came from.
3E has been building and maintaining global regulatory and chemical content for more than 35 years. Our in-house chemical, regulatory, and data science experts curate that content and revalidate it as requirements change, rather than working from general web sources or point-in-time extracts.
That same curated content sits behind our AI. Outputs cite the regulation and version they draw on and link back to the source, so your specialists can check the reasoning and stand behind the decision they make from it. 3E is also certified to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, the international standard for AI management systems, and operates a responsible AI governance framework aligned with the EU AI Act and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Details of our information security and data protection program are in the 3E Trust Center.
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Why 3E?
Product compliance is fragmented. Regulatory change touches product design, sourcing, safety, market access, and operations, but the intelligence needed to act on it sits apart from the teams making those decisions.
For more than 35 years, 3E has built the regulatory and chemical intelligence that closes that gap, so organizations in the world’s most regulated industries can understand impact sooner and decide with confidence.
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What does 3E deliver to its customers?
3E delivers trusted intelligence via best-in-class:
- Expertise. In-house chemical, regulatory, and data science experts who monitor regulatory change continuously, so your specialists aren’t tracking it alone.
- Data. Curated regulatory and chemical content covering substance-level status across global jurisdictions, maintained and revalidated as requirements change rather than pulled as point-in-time extracts.
- Innovation. Governed AI built on the same curated content, with outputs that cite their source and can be reviewed, so teams can move faster on regulatory work without giving up explainability or accountability.
- Customer experience. Delivery through 3E applications, integrations into the workflows and enterprise systems your teams already use, and enterprise AI environments through 3E Agent.
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