Accelerate Innovation with Verified, Sustainable Materials
Design faster. Build smarter. Stay compliant. CommonShare empowers R&D and product development teams to move from concept to prototype with verified, regulation-ready materials and components. With AI-curated sourcing intelligence and dynamic traceability, you can bring new products to market with speed and confidence.
The Challenge
Modern product innovation is bound by more than just creativity. R&D teams are now tasked with meeting regulatory thresholds (like REACH and ZDHC), sourcing low-carbon materials, and aligning with corporate sustainability goals without slowing down development cycles.
Common Pain Points
- Time-consuming compliance checks for new materials
- Uncertainty around supplier readiness or lead times
- Lack of access to verified, sustainable components
- Redesign loops due to spec changes or late-stage compliance issues
How CommonShare Helps
With CommonShare, your development process becomes traceable from the start powered by AI insights, verified supplier data, and a dynamic Bill of Materials that evolves with your goals.
Traceable Bill of Materials (BOM)
Design with confidence using a configurable BOM that surfaces REACH-compliant, lead-free, and low-carbon components backed by third-party data.
Verified Supplier & Material Screening
Instantly see which materials meet your performance and compliance requirements and which suppliers are already onboarded and trusted by your team.
Impact & Footprint Tracking
Make smarter design decisions with built-in visibility into carbon impact, sourcing region, and certification status.
Key Features
- AI-powered material filtering for REACH, ZDHC, and other standards
- Sustainability scorecards and carbon impact ranking
- Integrated supplier data from procurement and supply chain teams
- Dynamic updates as regulations and specs evolve
- Fast go/no-go decision support on new materials
Case Study: Building Low-Carbon Products, Faster
Industry: Consumer Goods / Apparel / Packaging Focus: Sustainable innovation, supplier validation, regulatory alignment
Keywords: low-carbon design, REACH compliance, traceable materials, sustainable product development
An R&D team at a leading consumer brand needed to launch a new product line under tight sustainability guidelines:
- All materials had to be REACH-compliant
- No paints or coatings could contain lead
- The final product needed to meet carbon footprint benchmarks
- Ideally, suppliers would be already onboarded to avoid delays
- 1Design with Verified Components Using CommonShare’s BOM tool, the team:
- Filtered materials for REACH and lead compliance
- Ranked polymers and textiles by carbon impact
- Avoided design rework by validating specs upfront
- "– Product Innovation Lead
Knowing a material is REACH-compliant before we spec it saves us from redesign loops later.
" - 2Leverage Existing Supplier Intelligence Instead of starting from scratch, the team tapped into supplier data from Procurement and Supply Chain:
- Reused three suppliers with proven performance
- Avoided delays and renegotiations
- Kept timelines on track for launch
- "– Senior R&D Manager
We used 3 existing suppliers who had the exact specs reducing our development time without compromising on standards.
" - 3Faster Vendor Decisions via the Ecosystem Directory Rather than onboard new suppliers, the team filtered existing partners using:
- Identify pre-verified suppliers with the needed material
- Check certifications, environmental impact, and sourcing region
- Make confident go/no-go decisions before finalizing the spec