Enhesa Launches Enforcement Risk Insights as Research Shows 90% of Multinationals Feel the Business Impact of Regulatory Complexity

As new Enhesa research reveals the cost of keeping pace with regulatory change, Enhesa brings AI-powered, risk-based prioritization to EHS teams so they know where to act first.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhesa, the global leader in regulatory intelligence trusted by many of the leading Fortune Global 500 companies, today announced Enforcement Risk Insights. The AI-powered capability shows EHS teams at multinational companies the potential consequences of non-compliance, requirement-by-requirement and facility-by-facility, so they can decide what to fix first and demonstrate the financial value of their work.

The launch comes as new Enhesa research reveals the business cost of trying to keep pace with regulatory change. In a survey of 273 senior compliance, risk, EHS, legal and sustainability decision-makers at multinational companies, 90% reported at least one business impact from regulatory complexity in the past 12 months. Among them, 21% missed or filed late on a regulatory requirement, 19% received a regulatory fine or penalty and 18% had a failed or delayed compliance audit.

To show teams which gaps carry the most serious consequences, Enforcement Risk Insights uses Enhesa's proprietary AI engine to extract and normalize enforcement data from expert-curated regulatory content across multiple jurisdictions, languages and regulation formats with:

• Fast extraction: AI scans regulations across jurisdictions and languages, identifying every clause tied to sanctions and enforcement, including language buried in linked regulations that would take hours to trace manually.
• Customized classification: Each finding is mapped to Enhesa's enforcement taxonomy — imprisonment, site closure, fines, operational and market restrictions, and public or financial exclusion measures.
• Instant scoring: Every finding receives a severity score to rank requirements by financial exposure. Facilities, topics and countries can be compared quickly.

Regulatory teams face a growing patchwork of compliance requirements across hundreds of jurisdictions and facilities. In 2025 alone, Enhesa tracked 22,000 major regulatory changes. In 2026, it has already tracked more than 15,000 to date, with more expected as the year continues. Enforcement Risk Insights gives teams quantifiable data they can use to move from reactive tracking to risk-based prioritization.

"Our research shows nine in 10 multinationals are already paying for regulatory complexity, through fines, missed filings, failed audits and lost time," said Keith Berry, CEO of Enhesa. "EHS teams can't fix everything at once, and with requirements changing faster than they can be implemented, they need to know which gaps carry the most serious consequences. Enforcement Risk Insights gives them that answer, so they can focus where it matters most and avoid catastrophic penalties."

Enhesa's survey findings point to a prioritization problem for EHS leaders. Eighty-eight percent of respondents say regulatory requirements change again before the previous change is fully implemented, and their top challenges are too many sources to monitor manually (45%) and the growing volume and complexity of change (45%). Just 41% are very confident their team can catch compliance gaps before they become violations, and fewer than half (49%) are very confident they can communicate regulatory risk clearly to executive leadership.

The research also found that 91% of compliance leaders consider citation to the source regulatory text critical or very important before acting on AI output. Enforcement Risk Insights is built around that requirement.

"AI only earns trust in compliance when its answers can be checked," said Alex Sadovsky, Chief AI Officer at Enhesa. "Compliance leaders told us clearly that they need to see the source behind an AI answer before they act on it. Every score in Enforcement Risk Insights traces back to the regulatory text behind it and has been reviewed by our regulatory experts, so teams can see why a requirement ranks where it does and defend that decision to leadership."

Enforcement Risk Insights is part of Enhesa's Compliance Intelligence platform. It's the latest capability announced as part of Enhesa's continued growth as an AI-powered intelligence provider. The company will continue to expand its AI capabilities under Berry, who was appointed CEO earlier this year and brings nearly two decades of experience building AI compliance products at Moody's.

To learn more about Enhesa, visit www.enhesa.com. 

About the research

Enhesa's The state of AI in regulatory compliance: 2026 benchmark report is based on an online survey of 273 compliance, risk, EHS, legal and sustainability decision-makers at organizations with 5,000 or more employees operating in two or more countries. Fifty-one percent of respondents are VP-level or above. The survey was fielded in August 2026. Report: the state of AI in regulatory compliance 

About Enhesa

Enhesa is the AI-powered regulatory platform trusted by the world's largest multinationals to see every compliance risk in one place, defend every decision, and act faster. Spanning environment, health and safety (EHS), product compliance, chemicals and corporate sustainability, Enhesa combines AI-enhanced technology built on 35+ years of proprietary data validated by regulatory and chemical experts across 40+ countries, tracking requirements across 450+ jurisdictions in 65+ languages. The leading Fortune Global 500 companies rely on Enhesa to turn regulatory complexity into clear, defensible action.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Enhesa's Compliance Intelligence platform? Compliance Intelligence is Enhesa's platform for managing EHS compliance across global operations. It gives corporate and site-level teams a standardized view of what's required at each facility, tracks regulatory change and, with Enforcement Risk Insights, surfaces the enforcement consequences tied to each requirement.

What is Enhesa's enforcement taxonomy? Enhesa's enforcement taxonomy is the standardized framework it uses to classify enforcement consequences found in regulatory text, including imprisonment, site closure, fines, operational and market restrictions and public or financial exclusion measures. Enforcement Risk Insights maps every enforcement clause it identifies to this taxonomy so risk can be compared consistently across facilities, countries and topics.

Is Enforcement Risk Insights included in a subscription with Enhesa? Enforcement Risk Insights is included in Compliance Intelligence subscriptions at no additional cost, with nothing extra to configure or integrate. Compliance Intelligence customers can access it directly within the product.

How does Enforcement Risk Insights decide which compliance risks matter most? Every enforcement finding Enhesa's AI identifies is classified against its enforcement taxonomy and assigned a severity score based on real-world consequence, such as the size of a potential fine, whether a site could be forced to close, or whether criminal liability applies. Teams can then roll those scores up across facilities, topics and countries to see where their actual exposure is concentrated.

How is Enhesa's AI different from other compliance or GRC software? Enhesa tracks regulatory requirements across more than 450 jurisdictions, more than four times the jurisdictional depth of its nearest competitor. Every AI model Enhesa runs, including the one behind Enforcement Risk Insights, operates on Enhesa's own proprietary regulatory content and is reviewed by in-house regulatory experts before it reaches a customer, rather than generating answers from generalized or third-party data.

What did Enhesa's 2026 State of AI research find? Enhesa surveyed 273 senior compliance decision-makers at multinational companies in August 2026. Ninety percent reported at least one business impact from regulatory complexity in the past 12 months, and 88% say requirements change again before the previous change is fully implemented. The full report is available here: Report: the state of AI in regulatory compliance.

SOURCE Enhesa