Intelex vs Cority: compare a multi-site EHS rollout

Consider a manufacturer replacing separate site systems. It needs a common incident process, local reporting, restricted health records and an export that preserves history. Evaluate Intelex and Cority against that complete sequence, rather than awarding points for the number of modules on a product page.

Pair-specific vendor documentation reviewed on 17 September 2026. Individual profile notes retain their own source dates below. The scenario and evaluation advice are editorial analysis; this is not a hands-on comparison.

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Which requirements should drive the decision?

The documentation shows a difference in emphasis, not a verdict. Intelex describes a tiered range from a packaged Safety Essentials entry point to scoped EHSQ and ESG applications; Cority documents EHS alongside occupational health and industrial hygiene. Neither publishes a price for enterprise scope. Decide on which of your workflows each quoted package covers: incident follow-up, permit to work, regulatory permits, offline capture, restricted health records and ESG output.

Editorial interpretation of the linked vendor documentation, checked 17 September 2026. These priorities and demo tasks are recommendations; no comparative product test was performed.

Consider Intelex when…

Your first scope is incidents, action plans and inspections, and you can check the 25-user annual commitment (US$13,200 a year at list price) against the budget before a sales call.
You will standardise safety workflows across sites and add Permit to Work, Regulatory Permit Management, Document Control or ESG later, each named as a line item.

Published scope and 4 sources

Safety Essentials is published at US$44 per user per month with a 25-user minimum, billed annually, and covers incidents, action plans and inspections; Advanced and Enterprise are quoted. Permit to Work (hazardous-work authorisation) and Permit Management (regulatory renewals and obligations) are separate applications. Document Control describes revisions, obsolete versions and acknowledgements. Essentials lists responsive web; native iOS and Android apps are listed for Advanced and Enterprise.

Consider Cority when…

Your EHS programme must connect with occupational health or industrial hygiene, and each restricted health record type can be given its own permission test.
You need electronic permit to work for high-hazard tasks, with refusal, suspension and reauthorisation demonstrated, and environmental obligations tracked separately.

Published scope and 4 sources

Cority documents incident investigation with corrective and preventive actions, electronic permit to work with configurable approvals and monitoring for conflicting active permits, and offline incident, inspection and observation capture in myCority. Occupational health and industrial hygiene programmes are part of its published scope; environmental permits and obligations sit in a separate compliance area. Its pricing page describes an initial three-year term with annual uplift and a separate one-time implementation Statement of Work; no numeric price is published.

Run these three tasks in both demos

Capture an incident with a photo offline in each proposed app and tier, reconnect and trace the assigned action through review.
Acceptance evidence: Record the tier and licensed app used; Intelex Essentials lists responsive web, so native offline access must be in the quoted tier. Inspect server receipt, attachments and duplicates, then reject incomplete closure evidence and show the retained history.
Run a high-hazard work permit and, separately, a regulatory permit obligation.
Acceptance evidence: For Intelex, use the Permit to Work application for request, authorisation and a changed condition, apart from Permit Management renewal. For Cority, show an incomplete permit refused and an active permit suspended, then configure an environmental obligation with an owner and deadline. Offline permit authorisation was not established for either.
Open a restricted health record as a supervisor, correct an ESG source value and export the agreed records.
Acceptance evidence: The supervisor is denied the restricted health details. The corrected value shows its evidence, calculation assumptions and reporting effect, with every module and interface named. Framework references do not establish compliance or external assurance.

Keep the decision open if…

Keep the decision open if a demonstrated step belongs to a tier or application that is not quoted, native offline capture is assumed for Intelex Essentials, or a restricted-record boundary remains untested. No implementation duration, supported country list, hosting region or vendor financial assessment was established for either vendor; ask for them in writing.

Align the proposals

Ask both vendors to itemise users, applications, integrations, implementation, support and renewal uplift as separate lines. For Intelex, confirm Advanced or Enterprise scope, native mobile access, API entitlement and each add-on application; for Cority, compare the subscription proposal with the implementation Statement of Work, the three-year term and the uplift. The Essentials price is not equivalent to a scoped enterprise proposal from either vendor.

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Compare the same work

Categories describe software types; processes describe work to manage. Category membership does not confirm a specific feature or included module. Check the quoted plan and workflow with each vendor.

Vendor documentation and buyer checks for the same workflow
Decision	Intelex	Cority
Primary software category	EHS Management	EHS Management
Additional software categories	Incident Management Permit to Work	Occupational Health Industrial Hygiene Incident Management Permit to Work Environmental Management
Product category	EHS Management	EHS Management
Offline classification	Documented offline workflow	Documented offline workflow
Pricing status	Published amount; check product and plan	No amount on record; request quote
Scope and buying conditions	Scope and buying conditions	Scope and buying conditions

Where the two scopes differ

The guide above sets a multi-site manufacturer against both vendors. The records show that the two contracts have different shapes, so build one table before reading any quote. At the published Essentials rate of US$44 per user per month, 25 users cost US$13,200 a year and 100 users cost US$52,800, a straight line that excludes add-ons and higher tiers. The Cority record describes no amount. It describes an initial three-year term in which the Standard edition grows with users and modules and the Enterprise edition covers the agreed modules and integrations for all employees, both with annual uplift, plus a separate one-time implementation statement of work. Compare year one, year three and the uplift for the same scope, not a list rate against an edition.

The specialist programmes differ. The Cority record describes exposure assessments and surveys, laboratory requisitions and sample management, calculations and equipment calibration, and asks for restricted health records to be given a permission test. It also cites two vendor blog articles on heat stress that are not product documentation. The Intelex record lists none of these exposure or laboratory workflows, which is a statement about what was reviewed, not about the product. It lists instead a document control application with employee acknowledgements, separate nonconformance, action plan and corrective action applications, audit scheduling and a change management application.

Both records document offline capture of incidents, inspections and observations, and Intelex adds near misses, but the entitlement differs: Cority names myCority, while Intelex lists responsive web for Essentials and native apps for the higher tiers. Neither record establishes offline permit authorisation. Both separate permits that authorise a hazardous task from permits that track an obligation, which makes the quote the place to check that the right one was priced.

Intelex: status on record

Trial: Trial or demo on request.
Offline: Documented offline workflow.
Pricing: Published amount; check product and plan.
Profile record checked 14 October 2026.

Cority: status on record

Trial: No free trial established.
Offline: Documented offline workflow.
Pricing: No amount on record; request quote.
Profile record checked 14 October 2026.

When each is the safer first demo

Start with Intelex when

Intelex is the safer first demo when the first release is one incident and action process across several sites and the budget holder wants a figure. Run the demo on the tier you could buy today, mark every step that needs a higher tier or an add-on, and ask which application each later requirement, such as document acknowledgement or change management, would be sold as.

Start with Cority when

Cority is the safer first demo when a restricted health or hygiene record is part of the first release. Start with the permission test, in which a supervisor is refused the record while a health professional opens it, then follow one exposure finding to a corrective action. Ask which edition wording applies, because Standard and Enterprise scope users and modules differently.

A two-week evaluation plan

Ask Intelex

Itemise the tier, add-on applications, native mobile access, API access and services, and state what the free trial access covers and for how long.
Ask which application handles document revision with acknowledgements, and whether it is in the first-year scope.

Ask Cority

State the edition, the modules, the interfaces and the implementation statement of work, with the annual uplift for years two and three.
Ask which parts of the contractor, change and ESG material are separate modules, and which parts of a permit workflow are part of the permit module.

Week 1, the two-site incident. Record an incident at one site, with a photo and no connection, and let a second site's manager review it. Reconnect, check receipt and duplicates, then reject the first closure and see the retained history. Neither record establishes a self-service trial, so ask each vendor for a controlled environment and agree users and test data before the clock starts.

Week 2, restricted records and export. Open a restricted health record as a supervisor and as an authorised role in Cority and note what is shown to each; in Intelex ask where such a record would live and who may open it. Correct an ESG source value and trace the effect on the output. Finish by exporting an incident with attachments and history from both, and have an internal owner assigned to every configuration and migration task.

What the records do not establish

Intelex

A price for Advanced or Enterprise, or the cost of any add-on application.
Native offline entitlement at Essentials, or offline permit authorisation.
Exposure, laboratory or industrial hygiene workflows, which the record does not list either way.
That a published connection is an implemented integration for your systems.

Cority

A subscription amount, or the size of the annual uplift.
Offline permit authorisation or offline sustainability reporting.
Heat stress handling as a product capability, which rests on two blog articles.
That every module in the portfolio is in the edition you would be quoted.

Neither product

An implementation duration, supported country list or hosting region.
Total cost, usability or support quality: no equivalent implementation was run.

Written from the profile records and the decision guide above, not from a hands-on test. Where a record is silent, the page says so instead of filling the gap.

What this comparison cannot establish

We have not run equivalent implementations or measured total cost, usability or support quality. Intelex publishes an Essentials entry price, but that package is not equivalent to a scoped enterprise proposal from either vendor. Neither a broader module list nor a review average settles this decision.

Mark a requirement as demonstrated, partly demonstrated, not demonstrated, or outside the quoted scope. Record the evidence and follow-up owner. Do not treat an unanswered question as proof that a capability is absent.

Vendor sources and detailed profiles

Intelex buyer notes

Cority buyer notes

Can Intelex or Cority support a rollout across many countries?

Not established by our research. Standardising workflows across sites is part of Intelex's documented fit, but neither profile documents supported languages, countries or hosting regions. Ask each vendor in writing for interface languages, data-hosting location and reference deployments for your countries, and put data-export and exit terms in the contract.

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