AGENTIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Agentic Procurement
for Specialty
Ingredients

Valent Systems provides autonomous procurement intelligence for cosmetic and personal care CMOs. We unlock 11-17% margin expansion through ingredient-level volume optimization and regulatory automation.

80% of Your COGS
Is Trapped in Formula Silos

Your R&D chemists quote based on catalog prices. Your procurement team buys based on volume tiers. Valent's agents interrogate the delta between these two systems in real-time, capturing hidden synergies that traditional procurement can't see.

$1.8M
Average annual delta between quoted and achievable pricing
60+ SKUs/month
Each formula quoted independently without cross-formula intelligence
Zero visibility
Into live procurement volume when R&D generates quotes
engine@valent:~/optimization
$ valent --analyze-synergy --quotes ./q1_pending
→ Parsing INCI declarations...
→ SKU-2847: Hyaluronic Acid (50 kg) @ $1,240/kg
→ SKU-2851: Hyaluronic Acid (75 kg) @ $1,285/kg
→ SKU-2863: Phenoxyethanol (200 kg) @ $18.50/kg
→ Scanning active production runs...
→ Current PO: Hyaluronic Acid (45 kg/month recurring)
→ VOLUME TIER ANALYSIS:
→ Combined HA volume: 170 kg
→ Supplier tier: 150+ kg → 22% discount activated
→ Catalog pricing: $217,625
→ Valent pricing: $142,013
SYNERGY POINT IDENTIFIED: $75,612 (34.7%)
→ Forwarding to automated negotiation pipeline...

The Infrastructure
Stack.

Three precision-engineered modules working in concert to eliminate regulatory bottlenecks, capture volume synergies, and unlock secondary-market liquidity.

Audit

Autonomous MoCRA/EPA compliance and INCI-level contract risk validation. Automates ingredient substantiation and facility registration to eliminate regulatory bottlenecks.

  • Real-time CAS registry validation
  • NLP-based INCI compliance verification
  • Automated FDA facility listing generation

Optimizer

Multi-formula combinatorial engine. Identifies and aggregates volume synergies across Phase A and Phase B components to trigger price-tier jumps during the quoting phase.

  • Real-time cross-formula aggregation
  • Volume-tier jump detection
  • MOI (Master Operating Ingredient) aggregation

Exchange

Zero-knowledge (ZKP) liquidity network. Facilitates anonymous inventory matching and secondary-market clearing for specialty actives without exposing proprietary formula IDs.

  • Cryptographic inventory matching for high-end actives
  • Private secondary market clearing
  • ZKP-preserved data sovereignty

Phase-Level Optimization

FORMULA_A_SERUM
$62,000
Hyaluronic Acid (50 kg)
Catalog pricing
+
FORMULA_B_CREAM
$96,375
Hyaluronic Acid (75 kg)
Catalog pricing
OPTIMIZER_AGGREGATED
$97,500
Combined HA volume (125 kg)
22% tier discount applied automatically
+$60,875
Margin expansion
→ Traditional approach: $158,375 total cost
→ Valent approach: $97,500 total cost
→ Synergy Point: 38.4% ($60,875)