Rego

Rego is a material intelligence platform aimed at the teams responsible for running buildings — facilities, sustainability, procurement, property management, municipal and operations staff. Its software replaces manual waste audits: instead of hand-sorting trash, users photograph waste in bins, dumpsters or audit settings with an ordinary phone camera, and Rego's AI identifies the visible materials and recurring products, organizes them into consistent categories, and produces structured data, findings and recommended actions.

The product is positioned as broader than a waste audit tool. Outputs are framed as financial and operational decisions: identifying over-purchased or wasted consumables for procurement and contract review, right-sizing hauling pickups and containers, reducing contamination fees and validating service levels, and providing photo-backed evidence to hold janitorial vendors, haulers and tenants accountable. It also supports diversion, contamination and emissions tracking and documentation for LEED, TRUE, ESG and internal reporting. The platform functions as a shared workspace where locations, material streams, service information and documents are loaded, and internal teams plus approved partners such as foodservice providers, haulers and consultants collaborate, with assigned actions, threaded discussion and report exports. Rego states deployment takes less than two weeks.

Rego pairs automated material analysis with human-in-the-loop review by waste experts, including Certified TRUE Waste Advisors. The company also runs a K-12 donation matching program under which adding a facility, audit or property to Rego helps provide the platform to K-12 STEM clubs so students can work with real material data.

Founding story

According to co-founder and CEO Josh Mastromatto, he and his co-founder surveyed the climate and sustainability landscape and concluded that waste was one of the few areas where doing the right thing costs more money. The product began during the COVID-19 pandemic as a consumer-facing effort to route Philadelphia waste to proper disposal sites: version one had users photograph furniture so the software could assess whether items would be accepted by organizations such as Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Philly AIDS Thrift or The Philadelphia Furniture Bank, and then help arrange transportation. As the pandemic ended and demand shifted to other waste streams, the company moved into waste auditing. The founders describe building Rego because waste audits had become one-time exercises disconnected from operations, procurement and reporting.

Business model

Rego sells software to organizations that operate buildings and portfolios, onboarding customer locations, material streams and documents into a shared workspace used by internal teams and approved external partners. Customer acquisition is driven through booked demos on the company website.

Traction

The University of Pennsylvania uses Rego for its furniture diversion and off-campus move-out diversion programs; Penn's sustainability director Nina Morris said Rego provided the "one-stop shop" process the university had sought and was able to scale a program the school had struggled to run with other local partners, while Scott Filkin of Penn's Office of Social Equity and Community said the system let students identify a furniture item so Rego could determine its size, the truck required and the logistics of collection. The company has also worked with local universities during move-out periods and with Philadelphia-area donation outlets including Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Philly AIDS Thrift and The Philadelphia Furniture Bank.

Latest developments

A November 2025 profile described Rego's shift from its pandemic-era furniture donation and moving use case to waste auditing for organizations, and its work with the University of Pennsylvania on furniture and off-campus move-out diversion. The current website presents the company as a material intelligence platform covering procurement, hauling, vendor accountability and compliance reporting, alongside a K-12 STEM donation matching program.