Trace One, a global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and regulatory compliance solutions, has expanded the capabilities of its AI-powered Trace One Copilot platform for the food and beverage industry.
Integrated within Trace One Devex PLM, the enhanced platform introduces new AI-driven tools designed to streamline formulation, regulatory research, and supplier data management for product developers, regulatory teams, and supply chain professionals.
Originally launched in 2025, Trace One Copilot now offers advanced formulation intelligence, natural language-based regulatory search, and automated supplier document extraction aimed at reducing manual work and accelerating product development cycles.
According to the company, the latest enhancements are intended to address persistent operational bottlenecks in the food and beverage sector, where regulatory checks, supplier data entry, and formulation adjustments often require significant manual effort.
“Our food and beverage customers didn’t ask for another chatbot. They asked us to remove the work that keeps their best scientists, formulators, and regulatory experts stuck in manual searches, repetitive checks, and data re-entry,” said Federico Fontanella, Head of Strategic Innovation and Product Partners at Trace One.
The newly introduced Trace One Copilot Regulatory Affairs Assistant allows users to ask compliance-related questions in natural language and receive sourced answers linked directly to relevant legislation. The system is powered by Trace One’s proprietary regulatory intelligence database, which covers more than 85 countries, 400 guidelines, and over 2 million ingredient restrictions curated by regulatory specialists across 14 languages.
The company said the AI assistant enables regulatory managers to compare requirements across markets more efficiently, reducing research timelines from hours to seconds.
For research and development teams, the AI-powered formulation assistant enables users to describe product requirements — including nutritional goals, cost targets, functionality, and market specifications — in everyday language. The system then generates recommendations for ingredients, formulas, and packaging using data stored within the PLM platform.
Trace One said the platform can also support ingredient substitutions by evaluating cost implications and regulatory compliance across multiple markets, helping companies respond more quickly to supply chain disruptions and reformulation needs.
In addition, the Trace One Copilot Supply Chain Assistant automates the extraction and mapping of supplier technical documents, certificates of analysis, and specifications into PLM fields. The platform can also compare packaging artwork, validate pack copy, and verify translations to minimise manual entry errors.
“Before Trace One Copilot, reformulating a product for a new market could mean days of searching for the right ingredients, reviewing supplier information, and checking whether every requirement had been covered,” Fontanella added.
The expansion reflects the growing adoption of AI-driven automation across the food and beverage sector, as companies seek to accelerate innovation, strengthen regulatory compliance, and improve operational efficiency amid increasingly complex global supply chains.
