You carry the weight of claims you did not write, about products you did not make. Check a supplier at goods-in instead of trusting a document, and hand the same record to the customer at the till.
You touch a product at the two moments responsibility moves: when it arrives, and when it leaves with the customer. Both are moments a claim gets inherited.
Yours are the sale, and the resale or return when it comes back.
Each one is a cost you currently carry on behalf of somebody else’s claim.
Instead of a document asserting a product’s composition, you read the product’s own record and confirm it traces to the maker who claims it. A discrepancy shows up at goods-in, where it is cheap.
For example. A department store confirms a consignment of coats matches the fibre content its supplier declared, before any of it is priced.
Grey-market and counterfeit stock is hard to spot in a carton and expensive to discover on a shelf. An item with no passport, or one that does not trace to the brand it claims, is identifiable before it is ever put out.
For example. A watch retailer separates genuine returns from substituted fakes without sending anything to an authenticator.
Secondhand and trade-in only work if you can tell what an item is and what has happened to it. When it carries its own history you can price a trade-in confidently and resell it with the provenance intact.
For example. A sports retailer takes back a jersey, reads its repair history, and resells it with the record still attached.
A pallet arrives with a packing list and a folder of PDFs, and none of it proves anything on its own. The same facts on a passport can be checked at goods-in in seconds.
Packing lists, Supplier PDFs, Email claims, Spreadsheets become one record, read back as Verified origin, Compliance, Warranty, Resale.
What a retailer does at each step, and what the record answers without anyone being telephoned.
The claim you inherit is now a claim you can check, which is the difference between a document and evidence.
What sits underneath, for whoever on your side has to sign off on it. All four layers are published standards rather than our own inventions.
The identifier follows GS1 Digital Link, so the code on the carton or the item is the code that opens the record. Your existing scanning estate is the integration; there is no second system to roll out to stores.
Confirming a record is genuine is a calculation your own device performs against public data. You are not asking us whether a product is real and taking our word, which is what makes this usable as evidence.
Each entry is attributable to an organisation identified by a BSV DID, a published identity method. That turns “the supplier says it is organic cotton” into “this mill stated it, and here is the proof it was them”.
A passport’s fields follow the DPP Token Standard v1 and its life events use the native lifecycle claim format. Records you accept today stay readable if you change platform, and a supplier cannot hold your product data hostage.
Every party reads the passport for something different. If you are here on behalf of somebody else in the chain, their page is the one to send them.
Record what you made, once, at the line. Every claim stays checkable as the product changes hands.
Read their pageWhere the story is authoredYour product’s story, told by the product itself. One page a customer opens from the label and checks for themselves.
Read their pageWhere the record is readScan the label and read the recorded life of what you own: what it is made of, who made it, and its history when you pass it on.
Read their pageRun the check a goods-in team would run, on a record you had no hand in making, in your own browser. Two of the five checks go to sources neither you nor the supplier controls.
