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What you can search

Six things, one box

Every query resolves to one of these, and every one of them links to the others.

Brand13,900 tracked

Who owns the name, who makes the hardware, and whether 66 of the 110 assessed so far have any licensed owner at all.

Packwoods
Consumers, regulators, law firms
Factory1,269 plants

Production licence, filed capacity, patents and court record, across six Pearl River Delta cities.

Shenzhen factory
Brands, hardware makers, funds
Importer623 companies

Bills of lading, ports of entry, monthly units, and how many state licences each one actually holds.

who imports CCELL
Regulators, investigators
Seller261 outlets

Dispensaries, smoke shops and online stores across 12 states, 167 with no licence found.

Stiiizy near me
Brands, enforcement
Hardware model10 models

Which factory moulds a device, which brands ship it, and what the same shell sells for under each label.

Nano-510
Hardware makers, funds
Product3,918 SKUs

One SKU, with its price at each of five chain steps and the records that priced it.

Muha Meds 1g cart
Consumers, journalists
What happens when you search

Every search either returns a profile or creates one

There is no empty-results page.

1Search

A brand, a factory, an importer, a hardware model, or a plain question.

2Match

The query is resolved against the database and the records behind it.

3Answer

A profile if we hold the entity; a partial page and a request button if we do not.

4Email

Requested entities are built within 24 hours and the requester is mailed the page.

In the database

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.

Not yet

Whatever we already hold, plus a one-click request. We build the entity within 24 hours and email the finished page.

Every miss is demand data, the most requested brands get built first.
How a record gets here

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.

01Sources · 38lossless
CN 12US 19INTL 7
0 records requested across 38 live sources
02Fetch−2.2%
97.8% of requests answered, record-weighted
03Snapshotlossless
sha256:9f2c41a7
sha256:b70d8e35
sha256:4ac1f0d9
sha256:e58b2314
sha256:1d6fa8c0
Regulatory filing captured0.0h ago
0 dropped · kept whole, byte for byte
04Parse & translate−8.2%
Company registry
Company registry
Company registry
Company registry
Licence record
Licence record
original retained on every field
0 held, OCR failed, or no confident translation
05Extract−12.6%
4 fields read per record
06Entity-resolve−19.4%
Vaporesso Technology Co., Ltd.9144038327…
Vaporesso Tech. Co Ltd9144038327…
credit codeexact
address0.94
legal rep0.88
review queue · 0
held for a person, never silently merged
07Link−6.0%
every edge carries a confidence, a date range and its source ids
08Publish−0.5%
Vaporesso Technology Co., Ltd.
Published
深圳市华宝科技有限公司
CityShenzhen, Guangdong
STMA licenceheld
Patents75
Sources5 cited
0 records published of 1,230,638

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.

Read the methodology

01 · Sources · 38

38 public sources: Chinese registries and licences, customs feeds, court filings, patents, bills of lading, state portals and marketplaces.

Where it comes from

Guangdong to a US port, traced

34 plants in six Pearl River Delta cities feed 30 US consignees.

Guangdong to the US dock
53 lanes, 12 months of landed volume annualised, and 15 US states measured.
Click to pin
Where vape hardware enters the United States, which Guangdong city it left from, and what the graph holds in each state it reaches.
Each mark: One arc is one city-to-port lane, width by units a year; one polygon is one country or state, fill by the measure above.
Units a year, attributed to the consignee's own state. World fill is coverage, not intensity: the graph holds records in 2 of 176 countries. The gradient is on 13 US states and the six origin cities. Attributed to where the importer is registered, not where the units were sold.
Origin side, ChinaLanding side, United StatesCovered, nothing for this measureNo record in the graph
Six busiest lanes · monthly, shared scale
Shenzhen → Houston
5.6M a year · -44% over 12 mo
Zhongshan → Houston
5.4M a year · -41% over 12 mo
Dongguan → Houston
4.8M a year · -50% over 12 mo
Zhongshan → Chicago (air)
4.7M a year · -51% over 12 mo
Dongguan → Seattle
4.2M a year · -47% over 12 mo
Shenzhen → Miami
3.6M a year · -47% over 12 mo
Busiest lane: Shenzhen to Houston, 5.6M units a year, 5.7% of all landed units. Busiest month: Feb 26, 10.9M units.
Source: Bill-of-lading, importer, licence and menu records (synthetic demonstration data). Port assignment is apportioned evenly across each importer's declared ports of entry, not observed per shipment. The six Guangdong cities sit within 150 km of each other, so they are fanned onto a ring around the cross marking where they really are. Coastlines are Natural Earth 1:110m; Alaska and Hawaii sit in corner boxes at their own scale, and neither holds a record.
Units landed a year
97.3M
12 months of records, annualised
Top origin city
Zhongshan
5 factories · 21.2M units a year
Top port of entry
Houston
23.3M units a year · 13 importers
Through the top three ports
52%
of 97.3M units landed a year
To an unlicensed consignee
53%
importer holds no state licence on any register
Busiest month
Feb 26
10.9M units landed
City-to-port lanes
53
6 cities × 9 ports, 53 observed
US states measured
15
carry a consignee, an outlet or a price
What a result page shows

Free answers the question. Paid shows the chain.

Anyone can check whether a product is real. Everything behind it is the paid product.

FreeNo account
  • 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.
PaidBelow the fold
  • 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.
Plans

Four ways in

Starting prices we are testing, not market rates, and not a quote.

Free$0forever

Consumers and journalists checking whether one product is real.

Pro$199 to 499per month

Small brands, investigators and solo lawyers working case by case.

Team$2K-5Kper month

Hardware makers, large brands and law firms with standing questions.

Data feed$25K-100Kper year

Funds and large hardware companies pulling the database directly.

One-off custom investigations, $3K-15K. A single question taken through the records end to end.

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.