Who owns the name, who makes the hardware, and whether 66 of the 110 assessed so far have any licensed owner at all.
The supply chain map of the cannabis vape market.
Every factory, importer, brand and seller, linked by public records on both sides of the Pacific. See who supplies the gray market, who’s taking share, and where the fakes come from.
Six things, one box
Every query resolves to one of these, and every one of them links to the others.
Production licence, filed capacity, patents and court record, across six Pearl River Delta cities.
Bills of lading, ports of entry, monthly units, and how many state licences each one actually holds.
Dispensaries, smoke shops and online stores across 12 states, 167 with no licence found.
Which factory moulds a device, which brands ship it, and what the same shell sells for under each label.
One SKU, with its price at each of five chain steps and the records that priced it.
Every search either returns a profile or creates one
There is no empty-results page.
A brand, a factory, an importer, a hardware model, or a plain question.
The query is resolved against the database and the records behind it.
A profile if we hold the entity; a partial page and a request button if we do not.
Requested entities are built within 24 hours and the requester is mailed the page.
A full profile page. The verdict, licence check and red flags are free; hardware, supply chain, sales footprint and the source records sit below the paywall.
Whatever we already hold, plus a one-click request. We build the entity within 24 hours and email the finished page.
Eight stages, and what each one loses
1,230,638 records requested, 727,711 published, 59% survive the whole stack. Scroll to build it.
38 public sources: Chinese registries and licences, customs feeds, court filings, patents, bills of lading, state portals and marketplaces.
Nothing. This is the inflow every later ratio is measured against.
727,711 published of 1,230,638, 59% survive all 8 stages.
Every surviving record still carries the snapshot it came from, so any published claim can be read back to the page it was taken off.
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38 public sources: Chinese registries and licences, customs feeds, court filings, patents, bills of lading, state portals and marketplaces.
Guangdong to a US port, traced
34 plants in six Pearl River Delta cities feed 30 US consignees.
Free answers the question. Paid shows the chain.
Anyone can check whether a product is real. Everything behind it is the paid product.
- Verdict. Real, gray-market, or no owner found.
- Licence check. Every state list we hold, with the date it was checked.
- Red flags. What the records disagree about.
- Price range. What it sells for, licensed and off-licence.
- Seller count. How many outlets carry it.
- Hardware. The model, the mould, and the plant that makes it.
- Supply chain. Factory, exporter, importer and brand, each link dated and graded.
- Where it is sold. Every observed outlet, by state and licence status.
- Operator network. Other brands run by the same people.
- Related brands. Copies, near-marks and shared hardware.
- Timeline. First seen, filings, enforcement, changes of owner.
- Records. Every underlying document, downloadable.
Four ways in
Starting prices we are testing, not market rates, and not a quote.
Consumers and journalists checking whether one product is real.
Small brands, investigators and solo lawyers working case by case.
Hardware makers, large brands and law firms with standing questions.
Funds and large hardware companies pulling the database directly.
Start with one name
13,900 brands, 1,269 manufacturers and 623 importers are already in the index. Anything missing is built within 24 hours.