Built by practitioners who could not find the tool they needed

Regulens started with a spreadsheet, in a plant office in Pune.

Our founding team spent a combined twenty-six years inside compliance, company secretarial and EHS functions at Indian manufacturers, an NBFC and a listed pharmaceutical group. In every one of those roles, the machinery that mattered most was a workbook — forty tabs, one owner, no version control — mapping Acts to sites to people.

Everyone knew it was fragile. Nobody had a better option.

The products available were either a law firm newsletter that told you a notification existed, or a GRC platform that assumed you had already worked out what applied to you. Neither did the part that consumed the week: deciding which of the eleven plants a notification actually landed on, breaking it into things a plant HR manager could act on, and being able to show an inspector what you had done.

That gap is bigger in India than almost anywhere. One Central rule arrives with thirty-six state variants underneath it. A large share of obligations carry personal criminal liability for a named individual, and that individual usually does not know which ones. Compliance is not one rulebook — it is roughly sixty-nine thousand obligations distributed across Acts, Rules, notifications, state amendments and licence conditions, most of which exist in no single place.

We built Regulens to do that work properly.