ULTRUS® Product Insights unifies the essential tools that technical and commercial teams need to discover materials, reach buyers and enhance data.
ULTRUS® Product Insights
Accelerate material selection, digitally promote materials to industry professionals and leverage trusted data to enhance your workflows with ULTRUS® Product Insights.
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Our Product Insights offerings deliver quality data and technical information, helping you get products to market as efficiently as possible:
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As part of the ULTRUS® software portfolio, Product Insights delivers trusted data and connected intelligence, embedding practical, decision‑ready insights into the daily work of product development, engineering and marketing teams.
Make faster, more confident decisions
Search 260,000+ materials across 10 industries, compare products side‑by‑side, access technical documentation, contact suppliers, and request samples — all from a single interface available in eight languages.
Generate qualified demand
Reach a qualified audience, actively researching materials. List your products, execute targeted digital campaigns and receive high‑quality insights to drive the bottom line.
Reduce risk with unified data
Securely merge your internal product data with the Prospector® data using APIs and custom solutions. Apply your own rules and filters to standardize evaluations, accelerate material substitutions and maintain full privacy — your proprietary data always stays protected.
Rely on trusted, technical and proprietary data
Prospector® has been a trusted material resource for over 20 years, attracting over 1 million monthly visits and 50 million page views — delivering proven reliability backed by safety‑science expertise.
Prospector® Material Search
keyboard_arrow_down- Description: A global materials search engine for product developers and formulators. Find materials by keyword, manufacturer or product name. Review technical data, contact suppliers and request samples.
- How it connects industry professionals: Discover – Accelerate research and material selection across industries.
- How it connects material suppliers: List – Showcase your products on Prospector®. Gain visibility with a vetted, high-intent audience of hundreds of thousands of formulators and leverage unmatched engagement.
Prospector® Digital Marketing
keyboard_arrow_down- Description: Digital marketing services to reach an exclusive, qualified audience of industry professionals actively researching materials. List products, run targeted campaigns, and receive complete, detailed information on potential interested buyers in real-time and in multiple formats.
- How it connects material suppliers: Quickly follow up with potential buyers using detailed engagement insights from campaigns and product listings. See who views your materials and technical documents, follow up with complete prospect information and integrate lead intelligence directly into your customer relationship management (CRM) to help keep teams aligned and responsive.
- How it connects (suppliers): Proactively target industry professionals through segmented digital campaigns. Deliver impact with tailored emails, high-performing newsletter ads, on-site ads and webinar packages, all designed to deliver your content to the right audience at the right time.
Prospector® Data Integrations
keyboard_arrow_down- Description: A flexible, API‑driven solution that connects your proprietary product data with Prospector’s materials data in a customizable interface. Apply your own filters, rules, and constraints so teams see only the options that meet your requirements. Throughout the process, your internal data always remains private and secure within your organization.
- How it connects: Centralize – Centralize your technical data with a single source of truth across many departments and tools. Update information once and apply it everywhere, reduce manual overhead and errors, and use customizable APIs to seamlessly integrate Prospector material data into your internal systems. Automatically generate branded technical data sheets with live updates, supporting consistency at scale.
Prospector® Material Search
- Description: A global materials search engine for product developers and formulators. Find materials by keyword, manufacturer or product name. Review technical data, contact suppliers and request samples.
- How it connects industry professionals: Discover – Accelerate research and material selection across industries.
- How it connects material suppliers: List – Showcase your products on Prospector®. Gain visibility with a vetted, high-intent audience of hundreds of thousands of formulators and leverage unmatched engagement.
Prospector® Digital Marketing
- Description: Digital marketing services to reach an exclusive, qualified audience of industry professionals actively researching materials. List products, run targeted campaigns, and receive complete, detailed information on potential interested buyers in real-time and in multiple formats.
- How it connects material suppliers: Quickly follow up with potential buyers using detailed engagement insights from campaigns and product listings. See who views your materials and technical documents, follow up with complete prospect information and integrate lead intelligence directly into your customer relationship management (CRM) to help keep teams aligned and responsive.
- How it connects (suppliers): Proactively target industry professionals through segmented digital campaigns. Deliver impact with tailored emails, high-performing newsletter ads, on-site ads and webinar packages, all designed to deliver your content to the right audience at the right time.
Prospector® Data Integrations
- Description: A flexible, API‑driven solution that connects your proprietary product data with Prospector’s materials data in a customizable interface. Apply your own filters, rules, and constraints so teams see only the options that meet your requirements. Throughout the process, your internal data always remains private and secure within your organization.
- How it connects: Centralize – Centralize your technical data with a single source of truth across many departments and tools. Update information once and apply it everywhere, reduce manual overhead and errors, and use customizable APIs to seamlessly integrate Prospector material data into your internal systems. Automatically generate branded technical data sheets with live updates, supporting consistency at scale.
FAQs
What is ULTRUS® Prospector®?
Prospector® is a materials search engine used by product developers, engineers and formulators to identify and compare materials, access technical documentation, contact suppliers, and request samples across 10 industries.
Is there a free account?
Yes — create a complimentary account to access core Prospector features.
Which languages are supported?
Prospector® is available in eight languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Japanese
How is this different from marketplace or catalog sites?
ULTRUS® Product Insights unites discovery plus verified demand generation plus enterprise data integration — so teams can find, reach and standardize decisions on the same data.
Can we push Prospector® engagement data to our CRM?
Yes. Prospector® Digital Marketing can send qualified marketing lead details and activity to your CRM.
Do you support plastics compliance workflows?
Prospector® for plastics includes direct access to UL Yellow Cards (UL Certified performance information) and very detailed property data to support material selection.
Can we centralize our technical data sheets?
ULTRUS® Product Insights focuses on discovery, demand and data integration. UL Solutions also offers technical datasheet services. Please contact us to confirm the scope and availability for your program.