Tamats vs spreadsheets and a regulatory consultant

The default stack for most indie and scaling brands: a formula workbook, a folder of PDFs, and a consultant on retainer or per project.

Where they differ

Cost shape: Tamats$149 or $249 per member per month, cancellable, with a free tier and an ungated scan.; spreadsheets and a regulatory consultantConsultant time billed per project or per hour, which makes each additional what-if question a decision about money.
Iteration speed: TamatsScreen a formula against any of the tracked markets and retailer standards in a single pass, as many times as you want.; spreadsheets and a regulatory consultantDays per round trip, so teams batch questions and stop exploring alternatives.
What it does not replace: TamatsNothing about a qualified safety assessor. A CPSR and MoCRA safety substantiation still need one — Tamats gets the formula to them with the ingredient work already cited.; spreadsheets and a regulatory consultantThe assessor is the point, and that part stays.

Choose spreadsheets and a regulatory consultant when

You need a signed safety assessment, a Responsible Person, or a submission filed — those are human, accountable roles and software does not take them.
One market, one launch, one time: a consultant is cheaper than any subscription.

Choose Tamats when

You are screening constantly — every new ingredient, every retailer brief, every new market — and the per-question cost is what is throttling you.
You want the consultant's hours spent on the judgement calls, not on looking up whether an ingredient is annexed.

Settle it without a demo

Paste your INCI list into the free compliance scan and read the citations yourself — no account, no key. Then compare it to whatever the other tool tells you.