Most manufacturers still treat compliance as a back-office cost — a box to check before a shipment goes out. Certivo CEO Kunal Chopra makes a sharper case: compliance is market access. It's the gate that decides which markets you can sell into, which customers you can ship to, and which revenue is genuinely available versus quietly at risk. In this conversation on the Innovation in Compliance podcast, Kunal unpacks why the last-minute compliance scramble is a choice, not a necessity — and how proactive, AI-driven programs make that fire drill disappear. He explains the boardroom visibility gap where deals quietly die, why sales and procurement need a seat at the compliance table, and how deterministic AI handles messy multi-language supplier documents without hallucinated rulings. With EU enforcement tightening and major deadlines like the PPWR and Cyber Resilience Act approaching, a US-only view of regulation is already out of date. If you lead compliance, operations, or procuremen
