Real Product Origin — the transparency layer for Amazon
And who you're really paying.
Every Amazon listing quietly dodges four questions. We answer all four — where it's made, where it ships from, who the retailer is, and where the money ultimately goes — with sources for every claim, and honest confidence bands when the evidence is thin.
Free for the first 20 checks each month. Unlimited from $4.99/mo. Chrome, Edge, Brave. iOS & Android on the way.
The four questions
Every score answers four separate questions about the product. Together they tell a story that no single label — Sold by, Ships from, Manufacturer — can ever tell on its own.
Made in
Not where the seller is. Not where Amazon ships it from. The actual country the unit was built in — the fact most listings hide.
Ships from
Amazon fulfillment center in Ohio? Direct-from-China drop-ship? Different shipping experiences, different delivery times, different accountability.
Retailer
The legal seller-of-record — Amazon.com, an authorized distributor, or a third-party marketplace seller. Affects returns, consumer protection, and counterfeit risk.
Money goes to
The brand parent's country — the entity that captures the wholesale margin from every sale. A Seiko watch on Amazon: retailer is US, but the money flows to Japan.
Seeing is understanding
A watch. A dress. A backpack. Each looks like a normal Amazon listing on the surface — and each unfolds very differently once we run all four checks. This is what the badge shows you at a glance.
A recognisable Japanese brand. Retailer is Amazon US, but every dollar of the wholesale margin lands with Seiko Group in Tokyo.
The kind of brand no listing labels: a Chinese-registered trademark, drop-shipped through a US warehouse. Every red row is a signal.
A Swedish brand, manufactured in Vietnam, sold by Amazon US. Three separate countries — and the badge tells you which is which.
How it works
You shop on Amazon the way you already do. Everything else happens quietly in the background — and you see the answer inline, right where you were already looking.
Browse Amazon as usual. The extension wakes up the moment you hit a product-detail page — nothing else. No history tracking, no other sites.
We extract every visible signal — Country of Origin, ships-from text, seller storefront, brand website, reviews, trademark filings — and cross-reference them against independent sources.
Four flag-and-percent indicators appear inline. Every one has a confidence band, a colour cue, and a "How we got this" panel with every URL we relied on.
Methodology
We send the assembled evidence to Anthropic's Claude, which combines it with trained knowledge of brands and companies. When signals are thin, Claude runs live web searches against business registries, brand websites, LinkedIn, and news — and every URL is cited on the badge.
Confidence isn't fluff. A 50% / 20% confidence score means we genuinely cannot tell. We'd rather be honest than wrong-but-confident.
When we're wrong
Every score has a Contest this finding button. Tell us what you know — your name, your relationship to the product, what you've seen. We verify your email and your report enters our review queue.
When our team validates a correction, the AI score is replaced with a manually-verified one — visible to all future users with a ✓ Verified mark.
It isn't a complaint box. It's a correction mechanism. The whole point is to improve the dataset over time.
Mobile
Tap Share in the Amazon app → Product Origin Checker, and we score the product in seconds — with the same four indicators, the same honest confidence, the same full source list.
Coming to iPhone and Android alongside the extension launch.
FAQ
No — the engine identifies any country. China detection is the primary calibrated use case, since that's where seller obfuscation is most common on Amazon, but the scores work the same way for products made in Vietnam, Mexico, Germany, Korea, or anywhere else. The UI only "lights up" red when there's a high-confidence China score; everything else reads as neutral.
It varies by signal strength. When Amazon's listing has a structured "Country of Origin" field, we're typically 90–95% confident and well-calibrated. When the field is missing and we're relying on brand recognition or web search, confidence drops appropriately. The confidence band is the most important number on the screen — pay attention to it.
Hong Kong (HK), Macau (MO), and Taiwan (TW) are scored as their own countries. Never folded into mainland China (CN). This is a hard rule in our system.
No. The extension only activates on Amazon product pages, and the only data sent to our backend is the product's ASIN plus what's visible on that page. We do not collect your Amazon account info, your order history, or anything from non-Amazon sites. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
Yes, free during early access. We may introduce a paid tier later for features like unlimited bulk scoring or API access — but the core "score this Amazon product" functionality will always be free.
Click the toolbar icon → scroll to Contest this finding → fill in the form. You'll need to provide your name, email, and stated affiliation or credentials. We email you a verification link before the report enters our queue. Verified reports are typically reviewed within a few business days.
Same path: Contest this finding. We treat first-party brand corrections with high priority. Identify yourself as someone associated with the brand in the "affiliation" field, and provide a corporate email so we can verify the connection.
Install
Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox. Free for the first 20 checks each month, then unlimited from $4.99/mo. Zero tracking, zero ads, sources cited on every claim.
Early-access users: we'll email install links the moment we go live. Tell us to add you to the list.