Real Product Origin.

From Real Product Origin

Know what you're really buying.

Know what you're getting, and who you're paying.

For every Amazon product, we tell you where it's made, where it ships from, and who's behind the seller — with sources for every claim. Honest confidence bands when we're not sure. Manual verification when our users say we got it wrong.

Free during early access · Chrome, Edge, Brave · iOS & Android coming soon

Three answers Amazon won't give you

Three things you can never tell from an Amazon listing

Amazon hides the answers behind opaque seller names, dropshipping arrangements, and warehouse-fulfilled inventory. We surface them with AI, public records, and human review.

01 — Made in

Where the product was manufactured

Not where the seller is. Not where Amazon ships it from. The actual country the unit was built in.

02 — Ships from

Where the unit originates

Amazon fulfillment center in Ohio? Direct-from-China drop-ship? Different shipping experiences, different delivery times.

03 — Sold by

Who's actually getting paid

The legal seller-of-record's country of headquarters. The corporate entity behind that "Sold by" line.

Each score includes a confidence band, full methodology, and a list of sources. We deliberately keep our confidence honest — when evidence is thin, you'll see that.

What it looks like

A second opinion, inline.

The badge appears directly on every Amazon product page, right above the buy box. Click the toolbar icon for full methodology and citations.

A real Country-of-Origin field drives high confidence (95%).
When the listing doesn't tell us, we say so — not pretend.
Product Origin Checker
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Made in 🇨🇳 China · 95%
High confidence (95%)
Ships from 🇺🇸 United States · 88%
Moderate confidence (72%)
Sold by 🇨🇳 China · 93%
High confidence (88%)

Color cues at a glance: red signals a high-confidence China score, amber means we're uncertain, neutral dark means another country (or we couldn't tell). The UI only "lights up" when there's a real signal — non-China origins don't read as alarms.

How it works

Three steps, mostly invisible.

You land on a product

Browse Amazon as you normally would. The extension wakes up when you hit a product detail page.

We read the page

We extract every available signal — Country of Origin field, ships-from text, seller storefront, reviews, Q&A — and pass it to our scoring engine.

You see the result

Three flag-and-percent indicators inline, with confidence bands and a "How we got this" panel listing every source.

Methodology

Plain-English methodology, in 90 seconds.

What we read from the product page

What our AI does with it

We send the assembled evidence to Anthropic's Claude, which combines it with its training-data knowledge of brands and companies. For products where signals are thin or contradictory, Claude can perform web searches against business registries, news, and LinkedIn — citing the URLs it found.

When we don't know, we say so

Confidence isn't fluff. A 50% / 20% confidence score means we genuinely cannot tell. We'd rather be honest than wrong-but-confident.

Read the full methodology →

When we're wrong

Tell us. We'll fix the score for everyone.

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's not a complaint box. It's a correction mechanism. The whole point is to improve the dataset over time.

"Most of the trillion dollars Americans spend on Amazon each year goes through products whose origin is deliberately obscured. We think you should know." — Real Product Origin

FAQ

Common questions.

Is this only about Chinese products?

No — the engine identifies any country. China detection is the primary calibrated use case (most opaque Amazon supply chains route through China), 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.

How accurate are the scores?

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.

How does Hong Kong / Taiwan get handled?

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 prompt.

Do you collect my browsing history?

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.

Is this free?

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.

How do I contest a score?

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.

I represent a brand — how do I correct a score about my product?

Same path: Contest this finding. We treat first-party brand corrections with high priority. Be sure to identify yourself as someone associated with the brand in the "affiliation" field, and provide a corporate email so we can verify the connection.

Install

Get the browser extension.

Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox. Free during early access.

Early-access users: we'll email install links the moment we go live. Tell us to add you to the list.

Mobile

For shopping in the Amazon app.

Tap Share in the Amazon app → Product Origin Checker, and we score the product in seconds — with the same three indicators and full methodology.