Supply chain intelligence platform Worldly added 58 brand and retailer customers this year, including Pepco, The White Company and MUJI, and closed two acquisitions, as compliance and sourcing teams increasingly drive purchasing once owned by sustainability departments.
Worldly, the supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry, added 58 new brand and retailer customers over the past year, a 45 percent increase from the prior year and the strongest single quarter in the company’s history. About 20 of those wins came from outside Worldly’s core apparel and footwear base, signaling a shift toward a cross-industry, horizontal platform.
The bigger shift is who is buying. Worldly says demand is increasingly led by compliance, legal and sourcing teams facing direct regulatory exposure, not only by sustainability departments. That aligns with the current regulatory landscape: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is already mandatory for large companies, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) obligations are taking shape, and the Digital Product Passport under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is moving toward product level disclosure.
In the US, forced labor enforcement under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) continues to expand. For compliance leaders, that turns supply chain data from a reporting exercise into legal risk management.
Worldly CEO Scott Raskin: buyers “need evidence, not estimates.”
Worldly supported that pitch with product updates.
It launched Worldly Axion, an AI driven risk tool that draws on more than 30 external data sets, and a Supplier Compliance Management module for tracking suppliers against multiple regulations at once. It also expanded its Product Impact Calculator to more than 260 product categories, with brands using it to model Scope 3 emissions on more than 400,000 products, an expansion SGIE tracked in February when the calculator grew from 40 to 260 categories.
Two acquisitions extended the platform’s reach: Bendi, which provides multi tier supplier traceability supporting UFLPA and CSDDD due diligence evidence, and GoBlu, which adds chemical compliance and conformance data. SGIE covered both deals at the time, including an interview with Chief Strategy Officer James Schaffer describing the company’s shift from a measurement tool to compliance infrastructure.
The scale that shapes transparency
The company’s core commercial argument remains its network: more than 45,000 factories across 97 countries feed the platform, and last year alone, brands and manufacturers exchanged more than 100,000 verified assessments through it. That is the same scale SGIE cited when Worldly was named a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications.
More experts aboard
In March, Worldly hired Kathryn Smith as VP of Human Rights Risk Solutions after 11 years on Walmart’s responsible sourcing team, and Léyoh Goodall as SVP of Growth.
