SdbHub
SdbHub is a German AI platform that reads supplier safety data sheets, extracts and validates over 100 data points across all sixteen sections, then versions them and pushes verified hazardous-substance data into EHS, ERP and SAP systems.
What is SdbHub?
SdbHub is a vertical AI platform built around a single document: the safety data sheet that chemical suppliers issue for every substance and mixture they sell. Those sheets carry sixteen mandatory sections, arrive as PDFs in wildly different layouts and languages, and change without warning — which is why most companies still retype them into spreadsheets. SdbHub automates that whole chain, from the moment a sheet arrives to the moment verified values land in the systems that consume them. Documents can enter through drag-and-drop or bulk upload, folder synchronisation, a dedicated mailbox that picks attachments off incoming emails, a supplier portal where manufacturers maintain their own sheets, the mobile capture app, or the REST interface from an existing EHS or ERP system. Each file is first screened for malware, hidden instructions, tampered content and dangerous file structure, then put through a readability and gap analysis before any extraction happens, so incomplete documents are flagged rather than silently turned into bad data. Extraction itself is layout-independent and covers more than a hundred fields: CAS and EC numbers, H and P statements, GHS pictograms, storage classes, water-hazard classes, flash points, UN numbers and transport classes, and much else. Every value gets a traffic-light validation status — green checked, amber to review, red faulty — cross-checked against reference databases, and stays linked to the exact position in the source PDF where it was read. Each record carries its own quality metrics, a confidence score and a full audit trail across the pipeline. On top of that sit the analyses the platform is really sold for: risk screening against critical-substance lists, revision comparison, microplastic checks, co-storage compatibility, exposure-limit alignment, sustainability reporting data and major-accident thresholds. Outputs feed hazardous-substance registers per site, compliance alerts, workplace instruction data, dangerous-goods paperwork and third-party systems through the API. The vendor is explicit about the boundary: SdbHub supplies data, and the technical and regulatory assessment stays with the customer. It is a data foundation for specialists, not a substitute for them.
What it does
- Extract more than 100 data points from all sixteen sections of a safety data sheet, whatever the document layout
- Validate every value with a traffic-light status and a link back to the exact place it was read in the original PDF
- Collect sheets from upload, folder sync, a dedicated mailbox, the supplier portal, the mobile app or the ERP
- Detect new supplier revisions, compare versions and refresh the hazardous-substance register automatically
- Screen every substance against SVHC, CMR, POP, SOC, PFAS and REACH Annex XVII microplastic restrictions
- Check co-storage compatibility and occupational exposure limits, and prepare workplace instruction and ADR transport data
- Deliver everything as JSON, XML, Excel or a REST feed into EHS, ERP, PDM, PIM and SAP
When to use SdbHub / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if SdbHub is the right fit.
When to use SdbHub
- Health and safety managers in plants handling more than a hundred hazardous substances, who need an always-current register and workplace instruction data
- Compliance and audit teams that must evidence every value down to its source for CSRD, ESRS and regulatory inspections
- Environmental officers dealing with water-hazard classes, plant permits and waste routes for each substance
- Dangerous-goods and warehouse coordinators checking co-storage rules, transport classes and UN numbers before shipping
- EHS and PIM software vendors that want to embed proven safety-data-sheet automation inside their own product instead of building it
When not to use SdbHub
- Small workshops with a handful of chemicals, for whom a manual folder is cheaper than an enterprise onboarding
- Anyone who wants to buy online: there is no free plan, no self-service signup and no published price, only a demo and a quotation
- Teams looking for someone to take over the regulatory judgement call, which the vendor explicitly leaves with the customer
- Companies that need to author or publish their own safety data sheets, since the platform reads them rather than writing them
- Buyers needing a working system within days, because a basic rollout is announced at one to six weeks and full integration at eight to twelve
How to use SdbHub
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demo through the form, by email or by phone, stating roughly how many safety data sheets you currently manage
- Bring a handful of your own sheets to the sixty-minute session and watch them processed live
- Agree the scope and the package tier with the vendor, since every quotation is built individually
- Load the existing stock and stand up the hazardous-substance register, a step announced at one to six weeks
- Connect the input channels you need: upload, folder sync, mailbox, supplier portal, mobile capture or API
- For technical integration, take the documentation, Swagger interface and sandbox environment handed over at project start
- Test in the sandbox, then switch to production by adjusting a small number of parameters
- Roll out the remaining modules, reporting and ERP or SAP connections over a further eight to twelve weeks
- Run day to day: sheets arrive, get validated and versioned, and the data flows on to the target systems
- Lean on the dedicated customer success manager and the four-hour response commitment for critical incidents
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuine vertical specialisation: models purpose-built for this one document type rather than a general-purpose model pointed at PDFs
- Traceability to the source, with each value carrying a status, a confidence score and a pointer into the original PDF
- End-to-end coverage from collection and quality control through validation, versioning, register and reporting
- Hosting stated as exclusively in Germany, in an ISO 27001 environment, with role-based access, audit logs and encryption at rest and in transit
- Broad integration surface: preconfigured REST APIs, connectors for EHS, PIM, ERP, SAP ECC and S/4HANA, Power Automate, and Excel output for teams without IT
- Explicit service commitments, including defined SLAs, a four-hour response on critical incidents and a dedicated customer success manager
- Twelve processing languages named outright, with EU-wide language coverage at the top tier
Cons
- No published price anywhere on the site: packages are quoted individually, with no free plan and no self-service trial
- No terms and conditions are published at all, so data ownership and reuse rights rest on a single FAQ answer
- The privacy policy covers only the website, leaving platform retention, deletion and subprocessing undocumented, and no data processing agreement is offered
- The site contradicts itself on model training: one FAQ answer says the AI keeps learning from your data, another says data is never used to train third-party models
- Two site layers coexist on one domain, and the English version is the older one, still showing modules that the current German navigation no longer lists
- No public API documentation: the Swagger interface and the docs are handed over only once a project starts
- The mobile capture app is in closed beta with limited places and is not published on any app store
Pricing & Plans
No price is published anywhere on the site, in either language layer. SdbHub is sold as an individually assembled package for SMEs and enterprises, quoted according to requirements, data volume and the desired degree of automation, so the entry point can only be obtained through a sales conversation. There is no permanent free plan and no advertised free trial. The one thing offered free of charge is the sixty-minute demonstration, described as non-binding and run on the prospect's own safety data sheets. The demo request form asks how many sheets the company currently manages, across bands from under a hundred to over ten thousand, which suggests volume is a pricing driver.
- API or Excel delivery
- hosting in Germany with at least 99.5% availability
- key hazardous-substance and dangerous-goods data immediately available
- structural validation of documents
- Smart-Precision mode and data scoring for quality evaluation
- everything in Basic plus an extended structured dataset including text phrases
- an English language module
- extended validation of sections 2
- 3
- 7
- 9 and 14
- QA feedback at data-point level
- Pro-Precision mode and layout-faithful text and phrase extraction
- everything in Advanced plus complete structuring of all sections 1 to 16 including 8.1
- 11 and 12
- language modules covering all EU languages
- handling of complex structures
- multi-pack products and scanned documents
- the highest validation level
- fine-grained QA feedback on every data point
- multilingual alignment for versioning
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how SdbHub handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is claimed in plain words on both the homepage and the company page. The German privacy policy, dated 14 March 2025, names the controller (Datalyxt GmbH, represented by Dr. Sinan Sen, Karlsruhe, info@datalyxt.com), cites Article 6(1)(f) as the legal basis for web analytics, and sets out rights of access, rectification, blocking and erasure. Web analytics run on etracker without cookies by default, processed solely in Germany, with an objection toggle. Platform-side controls listed include role-based access, audit logs of every change and encryption at rest and in transit. Three things are missing: no data protection officer is named, no data processing agreement is offered, and no retention period is stated. No Article 27 representative is needed, the publisher being established in Germany.
Who owns the data?
The site publishes no terms and conditions at all: four plausible URLs for German AGB or English terms return the homepage rather than a contract. The only ownership statement anywhere is an answer in the German homepage FAQ, which says safety-data-sheet content is never used to train third-party AI models and that the data remains the customer's own. The privacy policy covers the website alone, not the SaaS platform, so it says nothing about who processes uploaded documents or under what licence. Anyone deploying SdbHub should therefore obtain written contractual terms on ownership, permitted internal use and end-of-contract return, because nothing published online settles those points.
Reuse rights
In practical terms the customer gets everything back. All extracted values are delivered as JSON, XML or Excel and can be loaded straight into ERP, EHS, PIM, laboratory or warehouse systems, and the REST interface works in both directions. Every value keeps a pointer to its exact position in the original PDF, so it can be re-checked at any time. What is not settled is the legal side: no published contract states whether the customer may redistribute, resell or publish the extracted data, and the underlying documents belong to the customer's suppliers rather than to SdbHub. Reuse rights therefore have to be agreed in the contract, not read off the website.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The vendor states that data is hosted exclusively in Germany, in German cloud data centres with redundant infrastructure, and describes the hosting as ISO 27001 certified — a certification attached to the hosting environment, not to the publisher itself. The entry package guarantees at least 99.5% availability. Stated controls include role-based access, audit logs of every data change, and encryption both at rest and in transit. On-premises deployment is possible where the customer already has the server infrastructure, though the vendor recommends cloud unless the data is security-critical. Jurisdiction is German and therefore EU: the privacy policy names the European Union as the processing location for the website analytics provider, which itself processes solely in Germany. No transfer outside the EU is mentioned anywhere, and no standard contractual clauses are cited. The site's own web server resolves to a German host in Cologne.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting SdbHub.
- The output is data, not a regulatory decision: the vendor says so explicitly, and treating a green light as a compliance verdict moves a real workplace-safety risk into a software screen
- A wrong hazard statement, storage class or UN number has physical consequences — fire, incompatible storage, a non-compliant shipment — not merely administrative ones, so amber and red values still need a human
- Ownership and reuse rights are covered by no published contract, so anything not nailed down in writing before deployment is simply unsettled
- No data processing agreement is offered and no retention or deletion rule is published, which is awkward for a platform aimed at regulated companies
- The vendor's own pages disagree on whether customer documents feed model improvement; assume nothing and get a contractual answer
- Lock-in grows quietly: once the register and the ERP feeds are live, leaving means reconstructing an entire version history elsewhere
- The performance figures on show come from anonymised case studies and the result screenshots are labelled as sample data, so treat them as marketing rather than as benchmarks
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
It depends entirely on which door you come in by. The lightest route needs no IT at all: results arrive as ready-made Excel templates with customisable layouts. In the middle sit upload, folder synchronisation and a mailbox, none of which require development. The technical route uses preconfigured REST interfaces, with documentation, a Swagger interface and a sandbox handed over at project start; SAP EHS goes through a partner-built connector. Expect one to six weeks for a basic register and eight to twelve for full module and ERP integration, with a dedicated customer success manager throughout.
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Behind SdbHub
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Frequently asked questions
What kind of company is SdbHub actually built for?
How does the extraction actually work?
What does it cost?
Is there an API, and is it documented?
Where is the data hosted?
Will my documents be used to train the AI?
Which safety data sheet languages are supported?
How long does implementation take?
Is there a mobile app?
Does it connect to SAP EHS?
Should you pick SdbHub?
SdbHub is one of those tools whose narrowness is the point. It does not try to be an EHS suite; it takes the one document that clogs every hazardous-substance process and turns it into structured, checked, versioned data that other systems can consume. Within that scope the depth is real: security screening and gap analysis before extraction, a hundred-plus fields across all sixteen sections, a traffic-light status on every value, a pointer back into the source PDF, revision detection, and screening against the critical-substance lists that safety and compliance teams actually get audited on. The integration story is credible too, with preconfigured REST interfaces, connectors into SAP and the major EHS platforms, and an Excel path for teams with no IT capacity at all. Hosting is stated as exclusively German, and the vendor is careful to say the regulatory judgement stays with the customer rather than with the machine. What the website does not give you is anything to sign. There are no terms and conditions of any kind, no data processing agreement, no retention or deletion policy for the platform, and no price. Data ownership rests on a single FAQ sentence, and the same FAQ contradicts itself on whether the AI learns from your documents. The English pages are an older generation of the site and no longer match the German product line, which makes the public picture harder to read than it should be. None of that is disqualifying for a buyer who is going to negotiate a contract anyway — but it means the diligence has to happen in the sales conversation, not on the website. Ask for the terms, the subprocessor list, the retention rules and a written answer on model training before the first upload.
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