Adept Group Recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI and Data Tools for Packaging EPR Reports
November 26,2025
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov. 14, 2025 — Adept Group today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in AI and Data Tools for Packaging EPR Reports. We believe this inclusion reflects Adept’s continued focus on helping organizations manage the growing complexity of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation through AdeptEPR AI, the company’s enterprise-grade platform for packaging compliance, sustainability strategy, and data accuracy.
As packaging legislation expands across the U.S. and Europe, brand owners face new expectations for detailed, audit-ready packaging data. AdeptEPR AI combines regulatory expertise, AI-powered search, and intelligent data governance to help packaging, sustainability, and supply chain teams quickly understand evolving requirements — including exemptions, reporting rules, fee calculations, eco-modulation considerations, and jurisdiction-specific deadlines.
“Adept has always been focused on solving the industry’s hardest packaging and sustainability challenges,” said Prateek Lal, CEO of Adept Group. “To us, being included in the Cool Vendors report highlights the value AdeptEPR AI brings to companies working through complex and rapidly changing EPR regulations.”
AdeptEPR AI is built on proprietary models trained by Adept’s packaging, sustainability, and regulatory teams. The platform uses natural-language search to interpret legislation and return precise, citation-backed answers. It also provides fee forecasting, impact modeling, and automated alerts for regulatory changes, submission timelines, and data anomalies.
Companies across consumer goods, food & beverage, retail, healthcare, and industrial markets rely on Adept to interpret packaging laws and improve the quality of the data required for EPR compliance. Many organizations lack complete specifications or traceability. AdeptEPR AI helps address these challenges by:
According to the report 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in AI and Data Tools for Packaging EPR Reports (John Blake, 28 October 2025), “packaging legislation, such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), taxes, recycled content mandates, and European regulations, has exposed specification data gaps for many organizations.” AdeptEPR AI supports these efforts by offering a centralized platform that helps manufacturers, packaging teams, procurement leaders, sustainability executives, and finance teams understand requirements and reduce reporting risk.
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Adept Group is a global leader in packaging engineering, sustainability, and compliance solutions. Trusted by many of the world’s most recognized brands, Adept provides consulting, digital transformation, staffing, strategy, and enterprise technology services that enable companies to accelerate innovation, reduce waste, and achieve regulatory compliance. AdeptEPR AI, the company’s AI-powered EPR intelligence platform, helps organizations interpret complex packaging legislation with real-time insights, regulatory citations, fee modeling, and audit-ready reporting.
For more information, visit www.adeptpackaging.com and www.adepteprai.com.
As packaging legislation expands across the U.S. and Europe, brand owners face new expectations for detailed, audit-ready packaging data. AdeptEPR AI combines regulatory expertise, AI-powered search, and intelligent data governance to help packaging, sustainability, and supply chain teams quickly understand evolving requirements — including exemptions, reporting rules, fee calculations, eco-modulation considerations, and jurisdiction-specific deadlines.
AI-Powered Compliance, Designed by Packaging Experts
“Adept has always been focused on solving the industry’s hardest packaging and sustainability challenges,” said Prateek Lal, CEO of Adept Group. “To us, being included in the Cool Vendors report highlights the value AdeptEPR AI brings to companies working through complex and rapidly changing EPR regulations.”AdeptEPR AI is built on proprietary models trained by Adept’s packaging, sustainability, and regulatory teams. The platform uses natural-language search to interpret legislation and return precise, citation-backed answers. It also provides fee forecasting, impact modeling, and automated alerts for regulatory changes, submission timelines, and data anomalies.
Addressing Industry-Wide Data and Reporting Challenges
Companies across consumer goods, food & beverage, retail, healthcare, and industrial markets rely on Adept to interpret packaging laws and improve the quality of the data required for EPR compliance. Many organizations lack complete specifications or traceability. AdeptEPR AI helps address these challenges by:
- Digitizing and normalizing packaging specifications from disparate systems
- Mapping components to jurisdiction-specific rules
- Identifying missing or inaccurate data
- Producing audit-ready reporting outputs for each EPR state
- Modeling cost exposure and potential fee reductions through eco-modulation
EPR Compliance at a Critical Moment for the Industry
According to the report 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in AI and Data Tools for Packaging EPR Reports (John Blake, 28 October 2025), “packaging legislation, such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), taxes, recycled content mandates, and European regulations, has exposed specification data gaps for many organizations.” AdeptEPR AI supports these efforts by offering a centralized platform that helps manufacturers, packaging teams, procurement leaders, sustainability executives, and finance teams understand requirements and reduce reporting risk.
Gartner, Cool Vendors in AI and Data Tools for Packaging EPR Reports, John Blake, 28 October 2025
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About Adept Group
Adept Group is a global leader in packaging engineering, sustainability, and compliance solutions. Trusted by many of the world’s most recognized brands, Adept provides consulting, digital transformation, staffing, strategy, and enterprise technology services that enable companies to accelerate innovation, reduce waste, and achieve regulatory compliance. AdeptEPR AI, the company’s AI-powered EPR intelligence platform, helps organizations interpret complex packaging legislation with real-time insights, regulatory citations, fee modeling, and audit-ready reporting.For more information, visit www.adeptpackaging.com and www.adepteprai.com.