Agentic Index
Certo vs RegASK (2026)
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Both turn changing regulation into work that gets done. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
RegASK is regulatory intelligence for life sciences and consumer products, with specialized agents that triage regulatory change and orchestrate the compliance workflows that follow. Certo is narrower and deeper on consumer goods, turning global regulations into automated product specific checks across ingredients, formulas, claims and labels, with auditable reasoning and source citations on every finding. RegASK tells you what changed. Certo tells you which of your products just became non compliant.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Certo and RegASK are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Certo if
- You need product level checks across ingredients, formulas, claims and labels.
- Source citations on every finding are what make the result defensible to a regulator.
- Consumer goods is your whole business and life sciences breadth is not useful to you.
Choose RegASK if
- Regulatory intelligence should flow by API into your quality systems and dashboards.
- Life sciences alongside consumer products matches your portfolio.
- Orchestrating the workflow after the alert is where your process actually breaks.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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CertoIntegrations & Tool Calling Customers upload product, supplier and regulatory documents to the platform. Certo maintains its own live regulatory feed as a data source. Certo names no connector catalog, custom tool support or authenticated action into outside systems, and its site has no docs or developer link. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKIntegrations & Tool Calling The integrations act in the customer's systems. Structured assessments and prioritized actions are delivered into Veeva Vault RIM as the customer's system of record. An Esko integration lets a label compliance finding update the artwork workflow. Structured outputs also go into QMS, labeling and product lifecycle workflows, and an API routes intelligence into quality systems and orchestration workflows. Customers have no framework for adding their own tools, and the catalog is short. SourceRegASK, regask.com/partnerships-and-integrations and regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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CertoWorkflow Orchestration The flow runs in several steps across many agents. Documents are ingested and structured, and the product is automatically mapped to the regulations and retailer policies that apply in each market. The applicable checks then run automatically, and regulator grade documents such as SDS, PIF and CPSR are generated. Rechecks cascade when anything changes. Every rule is a separate programmable agent. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKWorkflow Orchestration Structured workflows assess impact, assign tasks and manage execution with timelines. ActionHub is a command center from which changes are tracked and actions triggered. Agents translate, summarize, triage and structure regulatory content so a change moves from signal to assessment to coordinated action. SourceRegASK, regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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CertoTriggers & Channel Coverage Regulations are monitored daily from official sources. When a product or a regulation changes, the related checks run again automatically and surface impacted products, effective dates and required actions. Certo names no webhooks or inbound communication channels. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKTriggers & Channel Coverage Detected regulatory change is what sets the platform to work. Near real time monitoring across more than 160 markets raises alerts tagged by impact on the customer's products and markets. ActionHub tracks the change and triggers the downstream actions, with structured outputs delivered into Veeva RIM and other systems. Besides those event driven starts, work comes in through the web application, the RegGenius assistant and MCP access from a customer's copilot. Customers cannot configure a schedule or webhook. SourceRegASK, regask.com/product and regask.com/partnerships-and-integrationsread 2026-09-06 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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CertoKnowledge Grounding & RAG Checks run against a proprietary regulatory database that covers more than seventy markets and is refreshed daily from official sources. The customer's own raw material and supplier records are structured and unified by INCI and supplier, with versions retained. Both are kept up to date and stay queryable, and every finding returns exact source citations. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKKnowledge Grounding & RAG RegGenius answers are grounded in a curated, continuously maintained regulatory content library of more than six million data points across 160 markets, filtered to the customer's products, markets and risk areas. They also draw on Vault, the customer's own workspace holding source documents, internal SOPs and external guidances. Answers come back as live, contextual responses with full source citations. Both the vendor's corpus and the customer's own knowledge persist and stay queryable. SourceRegASK, regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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CertoMemory & State Persistence Product records, raw material versions and approvals live in the application's own data. Certo names no memory layer and no conversational session state. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKMemory & State Persistence RegGenius is a conversational assistant, but RegASK describes no conversation state within or across sessions and no memory layer with a stated scope and lifetime. The customer's products, markets and risk areas that tailor alerts, and the Vault holding its source documents and SOPs, make up the customer's knowledge and profile. The regulatory content library is RegASK's own corpus. SourceRegASK, regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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CertoHuman Oversight & Guardrails The raw materials module tracks versions and approvals with a full audit trail. Customers' regulatory experts keep full control over final determinations, with Certo supplying evidence and analysis. Certo does not say how approvals work outside the materials module. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKHuman Oversight & Guardrails Governance runs through structured workflows and role based controls, so every regulatory action is controlled, approved and accountable. Human in the loop controls keep regulatory experts in the decision path under the ISO 42001 framework. The approval workflow is RegASK's own mechanism. The community of 1,800 experts who validate critical insights on demand is human expertise the customer engages, not a platform control. SourceRegASK, regask.com/product and regask.com/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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CertoSecurity, Identity & Governance Certo is SOC 2 compliant by its own account and shows an AICPA SOC 2 badge, but does not say which type. It also runs a trust center at trust.askcerto.com. Certo names no SSO, SAML, SCIM, roles or permissions for customers. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKSecurity, Identity & Governance Independently audited certifications cover ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type II, alongside GDPR compliance. Customers get SAML and OIDC SSO, SCIM provisioning, role based access control, scoped API keys and IP allow listing. Audit reports and control evidence sit in a trust center shared under NDA. SourceRegASK, regask.com/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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CertoObservability & Auditability Every finding carries the regulation and rule citation, exact source page references and step by step reasoning that a regulatory team can verify. The materials module keeps a full audit trail of versions and approvals. Together they show why each check reached its result. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKObservability & Auditability Admin and data access logs are comprehensive, with immutable trails. Every signal, decision and change is traceable through a complete audit trail maintained across systems and workflows. Every assistant answer carries full source citations. SourceRegASK, regask.com/security and regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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CertoDeployment & Data Residency The platform runs on the web with no on site installation, by Certo's account. No hosting region is published, and Certo names no region choice, VPC or on premise option. SourceCerto, askcerto.com/about-us-for-airead 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKDeployment & Data Residency Hosting options are regional, aligned to the customer's jurisdiction, with a transparent sub processor inventory, and the hosting platform is Microsoft Azure. Beyond that one statement, RegASK offers no region list, customer cloud, on premises or customer tenant option, or way to choose a region, and the sub processor inventory that would name regions is shared under NDA. SourceRegASK, regask.com/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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CertoPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Every regulatory rule ships as a prebuilt agent. A customer adopts rule sets by choosing target markets, and they include EU 1223/2009, IFRA, CLP Annex VI, REACH, FDA MoCRA, ISO 22716, MFDS Korea, SFDA, GSO GCC, Health Canada, ANVISA and COFEPRIS. Industry specific workflows, rule sets and documentation paths cover personal care, supplements, pet, flavors and fragrances and home care. Each market's rule set runs as a whole check on its own. There is no browsable catalog page, and customers select markets, not individual agents. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Alerts, Insights, RegGenius, ActionHub and Vault are capabilities of one operating system a customer buys whole, not products adopted separately. The agents that translate, summarize, triage and structure regulatory content are RegASK's own machinery, which the customer never selects. RegASK publishes no catalog of prebuilt packs. SourceRegASK, regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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CertoModel Flexibility & Routing The checks run against Certo's own auditable regulatory database instead of a general model's reading of regulatory text. No model provider is named, and Certo does not say whether customers or admins can choose a model. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKModel Flexibility & Routing Model use is restricted to approved model providers, in the plural, each backed by a documented risk assessment under ISO 42001. Customer data never trains a model. No provider is named, and neither customers nor admins can select a model or route by task. The sub processor inventory that names providers is shared under NDA. SourceRegASK, regask.com/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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CertoAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility No API, SDK, MCP server or developer documentation is published. The SDS, PIF and CPSR files the platform generates are exports. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility An API routes regulatory intelligence into dashboards, quality systems and orchestration workflows, and RegASK also connects through agent to agent coordination and through MCP into compatible copilots and agent environments. Scoped API keys are among its security controls, so an API for the platform exists. There is no published reference documentation, endpoint list, SDK or agent card, the product page's "Explore integrations and APIs" link is an empty anchor, and there is no developer site. Agent to agent support without a published agent card is a claim, not a documented interface. SourceRegASK, regask.com/partnerships-and-integrations and regask.com/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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CertoTesting, Debugging & Optimization Citations and reasoning let a regulatory team verify a finding. The change impact preview simulates the customer's product change. Certo names no evaluation harness, test cases or optimization loop for the agents. SourceCerto, askcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKTesting, Debugging & Optimization Customers have no evaluation harness, test cases, quality gate or optimization loop for the workflows they configure. Expert validation of critical insights is a human gate on outputs. The ISO 42001 management system with documented model risk assessments is RegASK's own release practice. The static and dynamic testing in its secure development practice is software assurance, not agent evaluation. SourceRegASK, regask.com/security and regask.com/productread 2026-09-06 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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CertoBrowser & Computer Use Certo names no browser or computer use. Sourceaskcerto.comread 2026-09-06 |
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RegASKBrowser & Computer Use People use RegASK through its web application, the RegGenius assistant and integrations into the customer's systems. Continuous monitoring of regulatory authorities across 160 markets builds the content library the platform later queries, which is ingestion, not computer use at run time. The Esko label review works on artwork delivered through an integration. There is no browser, desktop or computer control. SourceRegASK, regask.com/product and regask.com/partnerships-and-integrationsread 2026-09-06 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not public; sold as software as a service to consumer goods brands, quoted through sales | Contact for pricing |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
software as a service, scaled to products, markets, and modules | — |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
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RegASK
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· Workflow orchestration
Automation Builder lets regulatory teams set up workflows that start from a regulatory alert or on a schedule.
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· Workflow orchestration
RegASK launched an updated RegGenius Workspace, a governed AI environment that consolidates regulatory research, analysis, and reporting.
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· Workflow orchestration
RegASK introduced an end-to-end agentic AI label compliance workflow that transitions product labels from draft to market-ready compliance in a single governed system.
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