Which of your distributors are quietly adding your competitor’s products?
EPA publishes the US pesticide register one record at a time. Dantive reads all of it at once and tells your team where the market is moving: who registered what, who bought whose portfolio, and which distributors are switching.
Name your company and one competitor. Within two business days you get a one-page brief showing the shared distributors where they are gaining and you are not.
| Registration | Product type | Supplier | Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| •••-114-••••• | Turf herbicide, 2-way | You | Feb 2023 |
| •••-87-••••• | Pre-emergent granular | Competitor | Jun 2024 |
| •••-121-••••• | Broadleaf concentrate | You | Nov 2024 |
| •••-93-••••• | Post-emergent amine | Competitor | Mar 2025 |
| •••-95-••••• | Sedge control | Competitor | Aug 2026 |
Everyone has access to the data. Hardly anyone has time to read it.
Every week competitors register products, change labels and buy each other's portfolios. It is all public. But it sits in separate EPA systems, bulk files and thousands of PDF labels, and joining it up takes days that most teams do not have.
You hear about it late
A competitor launched, a portfolio changed hands, a distributor switched. By the time it reaches you, the decision has been made.
The detail is buried in PDFs
Rates, PPE, restrictions and storage rules live inside labels that run to sixty pages or more. Reading them one by one takes a week.
There is no single view of the market
Who competes where, with what, through which distributors? The answer is spread across sources that do not talk to each other.
One company at a time
Search tools look up one product or one company. Comparing three competitors across an ingredient class becomes a spreadsheet project.
History is hard to see
Labels change over the years, and so do owners. Without the history it is hard to tell a real trend from a single filing.
Sustainability is hard to compare
Buyers and retailers ask for greener portfolios, but seeing how your portfolio compares on signal words, restricted use and biologicals has meant days of manual work.
The same question, two ways
“Which companies hold the most active imidacloprid products, and how do the top two compare?”
The usual way
Dozens of searches, record by record. Spreadsheets to cross-check, cancelled products to weed out, distributor labels that hide who actually makes the product. And at the end, no real certainty you caught everything.
Days of analyst timeWith Dantive
Ask the question. You get the ranking of active products by company in seconds, with the records behind it. Then ask the next one and put the top two side by side on the ingredients they share.
SecondsSee where you are losing ground, account by account
Distributors sell registered products under their own brands, and every one of those labels is filed with EPA. Dantive compares two or three companies across those filings and turns the result into a list your sales team can work through.
In one real comparison between two turf and ornamental suppliers, Dantive found 67 shared distributors. At 13 of them, only the competitor had added products since 2023.
Dantive shows where and when a distributor added products. Why they did it is the conversation your sales team gets to have.
- Head-to-head comparison
- Two or three companies side by side: shared ingredients, shared distributors and who is gaining where.
- Switch watch list
- Every shared distributor where your competitor is adding products and you are not, with dates.
- Product equivalents
- Your closest match for each competitor product, as a starting point your team confirms against the labels.
- Label-change windows
- When a master label changes, every distributor selling it has to update. A natural moment to call.
- Portfolio gaps
- What your competitor sells where you have nothing comparable.
Ask anything. See the answer it gives.
These are real Dantive answers, shortened and with company names removed. Ask follow-up questions and it keeps the context.
Which companies have the most active products containing imidacloprid?
| Company | Active products |
|---|---|
| Company A | 62 |
| Company B | 37 |
| Company C | 32 |
| Company D | 26 |
| Company E | 25 |
Active products only. Imidacloprid matched under every name it is registered under.
Compare these two companies on the active ingredients they share.
They share 28 active ingredients, but the overlap is lopsided. Each company dominates a different half of it, so the shared list is really a map of where each one is strong.
| Shared ingredient | Company A | Company B |
|---|---|---|
| Difenoconazole | 42 | 2 |
| Propiconazole | 33 | 1 |
| Mesotrione | 29 | 3 |
| Imidacloprid | 1 | 29 |
| Prothioconazole | 1 | 25 |
Company A leads in fungicides and selected herbicides, Company B in insecticides and glyphosate salts. Trait proteins in corn and cotton are the one area where both are genuinely active.
What PPE does the label for this herbicide require?
All mixers, loaders, applicators and other handlers must wear a long-sleeved shirt and long pants, shoes plus socks, and chemical-resistant gloves (barrier laminate, or nitrile, neoprene or Viton of at least 14 mils).
- Mixers and loaders supporting aerial application also need coveralls and chemical-resistant footwear.
- Restricted-entry interval: 12 hours. Early entry requires coveralls, gloves and shoes plus socks.
From the current label, pages 8 and 10 of 63, with links to the label pages.
Follow-up, same product: “And the storage and disposal rules?”
Which registrations changed owner in the last 90 days?
68 registrations moved between 12 pairs of companies. They fall into two groups. Some are internal reorganisations, where the name changes but the corporate family does not. Others are real changes of owner, such as a complete line of seven biofungicide products that moved to a new owner in a single day in October.
The real ownership changes are where brand, distribution and technical support are most likely to change for customers.
Each transfer listed with registration number, old and new owner, and date.
Browse the whole market, six ways
In the Dantive web app, the Data Browser lets you explore the register without writing a question. Pick a view, filter, and drill down to the companies and products behind every number.
Market segments
From agriculture to public health
See where products are used and which segments are crowded or thin.
About 10,600 active products are labelled for crops and agriculture. Public health and vector control has around 110.
Target pests
7,500+ pests on active labels
Which pests attract the most products, and where competition thins out.
Common weeds such as henbit and velvetleaf each appear on close to 2,000 active products.
Product types
Herbicides to virucides
How each category splits between crowded incumbents and room to differentiate.
Herbicides and insecticides each account for well over 5,000 active products.
Use sites
23,000+ sites on active labels
Individual crops, structures and sites, where the small gaps show up.
Soybeans and tomatoes each appear on around 1,700 active products.
Active ingredients
1,200+ in active products
Which chemistries move the market, searchable by any name, trade name or CAS number.
24,000+ alternative names resolve to the right ingredient.
Formulations
24 formulation types
Which physical forms dominate each segment, and why it matters for positioning.
Granular, liquid concentrate, ready-to-use and more.
Know when the market moves
Pick the companies, ingredients and segments you care about. Dantive checks the register every day and tells you what changed, daily or weekly.
New registrations
A competitor enters your segment, with the ingredient, pests and sites already pulled out.
Changes of owner
Registrations moving between companies, often the first public sign of a deal.
Distributor expansion
A company adding product lines at distributors, including the ones you supply.
New entrants on an ingredient
A wave of new registrants on an active ingredient, typical after a patent expires.
In the last 30 days Dantive flagged 38 transfers of registrations between owners, 28 companies expanding their distributor networks and 18 active ingredients drawing new registrants.
Counted on 22 October 2026. See the register in numbers for the longer view.
Already using Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude? Ask Dantive from there.
Dantive plugs into the AI assistant your company already uses, the way other business tools do. Your IT team adds it once. After that, anyone can ask about the EPA register in the tool they use every day, and combine the answers with the rest of their work.
In your AI assistant
Any question about the register: market counts, head-to-head comparisons, distributor analyses, ownership changes, label content.
In the Dantive web app
Plain-English questions, plus the Data Browser and drill-down into any company or product.
Why teams use Dantive instead of the alternatives
EPA's own tools are free and authoritative. Consultants bring judgment. Market reports bring sales figures. Dantive does something none of them do: it reads the whole register at once, every day, and answers in plain English.
| EPA's own search tools | Spreadsheets and analysts | Dantive | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope | One product or company per search | Whatever someone had time to collect | The whole register at once |
| Distributor labels | Listed, not connected | Rarely traced | Traced back to the source product |
| Comparing companies | Manual | Days per comparison | Seconds, two or three at a time |
| Staying current | Check again yourself | Out of date when finished | Daily, with alerts |
| Cost | Free | Analyst time | Annual subscription, priced by portfolio |
Built for the people who need it most
- Sales and business development
- Know which distributors are drifting toward a competitor, and walk in with your equivalent product already identified.
- Market intelligence
- One view of who competes where, with what, and how that is changing, without stitching exports together.
- Portfolio and product management
- Find where competitors have products and you do not, and where the next registration could stand out.
- Regulatory affairs
- Answers from labels and registration records in seconds, with the source attached so you can check before you rely on it.
Vincent Founder, DantiveI have spent 25 years inside global chemical companies, in finance, commercial excellence, CRM and, most recently, enterprise AI. In the last few years regulatory scrutiny kept rising in the US and Europe, and data became one of the most valuable things a company owns. Yet almost everywhere I saw the same gap. The data was there, but teams could not reach it, or could not turn it into information, let alone insight.
Dantive closes that gap for the US EPA market. The whole register, readable in seconds, by the people who need it.
Name one competitor. We will show you where they are gaining.
The Distributor Switch Snapshot is free. You get a one-page brief from the founder within two business days, with no obligation.