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What’s New in Specright: Fall 2026 Release

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  Karthik Rajagopal

  Chief Product Officer (CPO), Specright

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Every organization measures “good” a little differently. Your retailers have their own requirements, your sustainability team has its own targets, and your packaging standards reflect years of hard-won experience. Our Fall 2026 release (Release 35) is built to help you hold your whole portfolio to those standards — and see, at a glance, where you stand.

This release brings a new portfolio-wide view of compliance, expands what Supplier Network can collect from your suppliers, and continues to strengthen the core platform, the Workbenches, and Specright AI.

Here’s a look at the highlights.

Compliance, Measured Your Way — Introducing the Compliance Portfolio Dashboard

In Spring 2026, we introduced Custom Compliance Rules, giving teams a way to define their own compliance criteria — a retailer’s material restriction, a recycled-content goal, an internal packaging standard — and check specifications against them. But checking one record at a time only tells part of the story. The bigger question is: how is the whole portfolio doing?

The new Compliance Portfolio Dashboard answers that question in one view. It shows every record your compliance rules cover and whether it has been evaluated, along with an overall compliance percentage and a breakdown by object type — finished goods, packaging, and more. See compliance for each rule at a glance, then drill into a filterable list of non-compliant records to see which rules failed and how many issues each has. Need fresh results? Kick off a bulk evaluation on demand, or set a schedule so the view stays current without anyone having to remember to re-check.

Most importantly, the dashboard reflects the rules your organization has created. It isn’t a prescriptive checklist of what we think you should care about — it’s a live picture of how your portfolio measures up against your own retailer requirements, internal policies, and sustainability goals.

And it’s designed for everyone, not just power users. Packaging managers can open the dashboard and see exactly which records need attention. Sustainability leaders can measure progress against a goal instead of estimating it. And administrators get a clear history of every evaluation run.

Supplier Network Goes Beyond Flat Data

We introduced Supplier Network in Summer 2026 as an AI-powered front door for supplier data — accepting whatever format suppliers already use, and mapping it into Specright. This release takes it beyond simple, single-object requests to the connected specifications you work with every day.

Suppliers can now return a full bill of materials structure in a single request — for example, a finished good with its packaging and materials, or a formula with its ingredients — including the values that live on the links between records, like material mass and recycled content. They can also attach the documents that back up their data, such as certificates and test reports, so the evidence arrives alongside the claim.

And There’s More

Release 35 also brings updates across the platform:

• Spec Grid: More powerful, more configurable data grids.
• Workbenches: New capabilities for both the R&D Workbench for Food & Beverage and the Personal Care Workbench.
• Spec Export: More polished, flexible document exports, including Word and multi-language support.
• Specright AI: New administrator controls and accuracy improvements for the AI Assistant.

New features require the latest version of Specright. Customers can find full details in the release notes on the Specright Support Portal. New to Specright? Talk to our team to see how these updates can work for your organization.