Strengthening brand–supplier collaboration with smarter AI guidance and faster global platform performance

Article key points: 

• Worldly introduces the AI-powered Worldly Assistant to provide instant, accurate guidance for suppliers and verification bodies directly within the Worldly platform.
• Major performance upgrades in China deliver faster load times, improved stability, and a smoother experience for tens of thousands of facilities.
• The enhanced Worldly Collaboration Suite increases supplier participation and drives assessment completion rates above 90 percent.
• These updates strengthen primary data quality, reduce audit burden, and help brands and suppliers act on environmental, social, and business risks with greater confidence.

A more connected future for real supply chain data

Global supply chains face rising demands for accurate primary data, stronger sustainability reporting, and better visibility across facilities. Yet many organizations still rely on manual processes, siloed tools, or duplicated assessments—slowing progress and increasing risk.

To make meaningful improvements, brands and manufacturers need supply chain sustainability software that enhances data accuracy, reduces administrative burden, and supports collaboration across the value chain.

With the introduction of the Worldly Assistant, major performance upgrades in China, and enhancements to the Worldly Collaboration Suite, we’re making it faster and easier for companies to collect the primary data they need and translate it into stronger business and sustainability decisions.

Here are five ways Worldly is building a more connected and integrated ecosystem for supply chain data, intelligence, and risk management. 

1. Reducing audit burden with standardized, shared data

Over the past year, supply chain partners exchanged more than 100,000 verified assessments on Worldly. This rapid growth reflects a shared need for standardized data across sustainability and compliance metrics—from energy and emissions to labor, water, chemical management, and materials.

It also highlights the ongoing challenges suppliers face. Many complete similar assessments multiple times for different customers, leading to unnecessary duplication and audit fatigue.

Worldly’s updates help reduce that burden by making it easier for brands and suppliers to work from a single, unified source of primary data. With fewer redundant assessments, partners can focus on improving performance, not repeating administrative tasks.

As Worldly CEO Scott Raskin explains, “Everything starts with quality first-party data, and suppliers carry much of that burden. We want to make their job easier—clearer guidance, fewer steps, less frustration—while giving brands the accurate information they need to identify potential risks and make responsible decisions.”

2. AI-driven assistance to improve user experience and supplier accuracy

Sustainability and risk assessments can be complex, and traditional guidance documents can be long, technical, and difficult to navigate under time pressure.

The new AI-powered Worldly Assistant helps solve this by providing real-time, contextual answers right inside the assessment workflow. Trained on Cascale’s Higg Index guidance and other core documentation, it supports:

• Facility users with instant explanations of requirements and data needs
• Verification bodies with clearer interpretation and reduced back-and-forth
• All users with faster, more accurate assessment completion

By eliminating guesswork and reducing errors, the Worldly Assistant improves data quality at the source, enabling brands to make better, more reliable decisions.

3. Faster performance for tens of thousands of China-based users

China is the global center of consumer goods production, responsible for one-third of the world’s output, and home to a large portion of the Worldly user community.

To support this critical region, Worldly has delivered significant performance improvements, including:

• Faster load times across key workflows
• Improved platform stability
• A smoother, more reliable user experience for tens of thousands of facilities

These upgrades help suppliers complete assessments more efficiently, reducing delays and contributing to timelier, higher-quality data for brands.

4. Higher supplier participation with the Worldly Collaboration Suite

The enhanced Worldly Collaboration Suite introduces clearer workflows, improved task organization, and a more intuitive supplier-facing experience. These improvements help brands drive higher engagement — and help suppliers understand, complete, and submit required data with fewer obstacles.

Brands using the Collaboration Suite and Worldly’s evidence-based best practices regularly achieve assessment completion rates above 90 percent, providing teams with:

• More complete and timely visibility into their supply chain data
• Stronger risk detection
• Better alignment across sustainability and sourcing teams
• Higher-quality data for business and compliance decisions

The Worldly Collaboration Suite is a reflection of our continued commitment to help brands, retailers, and manufacturers make progress together through enhanced communication and collaboration capabilities. It’s also a valuable enhancement for suppliers, who appreciate better and clearer communication from their brand customers.

5. Expanding a connected intelligence ecosystem

With new developments like these, Worldly demonstrates that we aren’t just the leading technology platform for collecting primary supply chain data, but a central part of a growing supply chain intelligence ecosystem. 

This is further demonstrated by: 

• The introduction of the Worldly Insights Hub for deeper analytics and benchmarking across all suppliers
• Worldly Axion, which unifies decarbonization strategy and supply chain risk management 
• The acquisition of GoBlu to strengthen chemical management and supply chain data 

Together, these advancements make Worldly the most comprehensive platform connecting sustainability, compliance, operational performance, and business intelligence across the consumer goods value chain.

Building stronger, more resilient, more intelligent supply chains

With new AI guidance, faster performance, and improved supplier collaboration tools, Worldly is helping brands and manufacturers transform how they gather and use trusted supply chain data. These updates reduce audit burden, improve data accuracy, and support companies working to meet sustainability targets and manage risk more effectively.

If you’d like to explore how Worldly’s latest capabilities support your supply chain sustainability or compliance program, reach out to connect with our team and schedule a demo.