See what happens between packaging and purchase.
Pearpin closes the gap between what brands ship and what actually happens in the market — verification, scan intelligence, safer escalation and brand-controlled next steps for every unit.
Brands fly blind between the print line and the consumer.
Sales reports tell you what shipped. Loyalty programs tell you who came back. Nothing tells you whether the product in someone's hand is actually yours.
What brands see
In the dashboard- Sales numbers, channel reports, dashboards.
- Generic QR campaigns that go silent after print.
- Counterfeit complaints arriving weeks late.
- No idea who scanned, where or what happened next.
What actually happens
On the ground- Codes get photocopied across gray markets.
- Real consumers can't tell originals from fakes.
- Retail intelligence lives in spreadsheets, not systems.
- Every scan is a moment of trust — and brands miss it.
Five layers between the unit and the next best action.
Pearpin is more than a code generator. It's a stack — identity at the bottom, capture and intelligence in the middle, action and APIs on top.
Identity
Unit-level digital identitygraph layerEvery unit gets a unique, unguessable ID bound to a batch, SKU, region and lifecycle. The identity, not the print, is the source of truth.
Capture
Scan and event ingestionevent layerScans become structured events with time, place, device class, code state and channel — not just a redirect.
Intelligence
Risk scoring and signalstrust layerPer-unit, per-event scoring with named signals — geo-impossible, scan-velocity, code-state-mismatch, batch-outlier — that brands can tune.
Action
Brand-controlled hand-offcommerce layerVerified scans drive the next best action — buy-again, warranty, support, loyalty or report-issue — fully owned by the brand.
Surface
APIs, webhooks and agentsplatform layerREST APIs, webhook event streams and an agent-ready trust layer — so future systems can reason about authenticity programmatically.
Four steps. No new printer. No app install.
Pearpin slots into your existing print and pack workflow. Your team starts in the dashboard or via the API; the consumer just opens a camera.
- 01
Generate identities
Create unit identities in bulk via API or CSV. No new printers, no new applicators, no line speed changes.
- 02
Apply to packaging
Codes drop into your existing print or pack workflow. Pearpin works alongside your current vendor.
- 03
Capture every scan
Consumers scan with any camera — no app required. Pearpin renders a brand-controlled trust page in milliseconds.
- 04
Decide and act
Risk signals route the scan: verify, warn, escalate or convert. Your team sees the pattern, the consumer sees trust.
Volume is never the price lever — paid tiers keep history longer and unlock deeper intelligence. No app required. Works with your existing QR workflows.
What the trust layer looks like in product.
Five surfaces, one platform — verification, intelligence, route-to-market, API, commerce. The screens below are illustrative mock-ups that match the product we're building.
Brand-controlled trust page, opened by a phone camera.
No app install, no friction. The consumer sees a verified status, batch and expiry context and the next best action — fully branded for your product experience.
- Authentic status — verified against Pearpin's identity graph.
- Brand-owned actions — buy-again, warranty, support, report.
- Risk-aware messaging — quietly escalates when patterns turn off-baseline.
Layered signals. Tunable thresholds. Honest escalation.
Pearpin doesn't claim QR is uncopyable. It detects the patterns counterfeiters create and routes risk through a five-tier ladder you control.
Five-tier risk ladder
authority · brand → platform → humanBaseline. Continue.
One signal off-pattern. Logged. No consumer warning.
Multiple signals. Internal alert. Optional consumer message.
Strong signals. Brand decides whether to warn or block the action.
Human-in-the-loop. Inspector workflow on Enterprise.
Same unit scanned in two cities within a window that physical travel cannot satisfy.
Unusual scan frequency on a single unit — possible code reuse or photographed code.
A code marked sold or returned is scanned in a new retail context.
Scan footprint of one unit diverges sharply from its batch's normal pattern.
Scan originates from a marketplace or region where the SKU was never shipped.
First-scan timestamp drifts far outside the expected manufacture-to-retail window.
Brand-controlled escalation. Every signal is logged, but only your team decides when a consumer hears about it. Watch tiers stay silent. Suspicious tiers can show a soft message. High-risk can warn or block. Brand review unlocks the inspector workflow on Enterprise.
Built like infrastructure, not a QR campaign tool.
The trust layer sits between unit identity and the next best action. Most tools own one slice; Pearpin owns the whole layer.
- Unit-level digital identity
- Priced by intelligence depth, not code or scan volume
- Founding-cohort review (first 50 brands or first 12 months)
- REST API + webhooks on landing
- Named signal types + tunable risk
- Brand-controlled scan experience
- Buy-again commerce hand-off
- Agent-ready trust layer
- Unit-level digital identity
- Priced by intelligence depth, not code or scan volume
- Founding-cohort review (first 50 brands or first 12 months)
- REST API + webhooks on landing
- Named signal types + tunable risk
- Brand-controlled scan experience
- Buy-again commerce hand-off
- Agent-ready trust layer
- Unit-level digital identity
- Priced by intelligence depth, not code or scan volume
- Founding-cohort review (first 50 brands or first 12 months)
- REST API + webhooks on landing
- Named signal types + tunable risk
- Brand-controlled scan experience
- Buy-again commerce hand-off
- Agent-ready trust layer
Ready to see the trust layer in your category?
Get early access for the first cohort or book a demo where we walk through Pearpin against your real catalog and channel mix.