CustodyLine is the record every organization in your supply chain can finally agree on.
A single shared record, sealed the moment it's written, where immutability isn't just a technical detail, it's both a security and a compliance feature.
The problem
A component made in one country, assembled in a second, finished in a third. Three tiers and three jurisdictions before the part ever reaches the organization that has to answer for it.
Every organization keeps its own records, and they rarely fully agree. When a recall, an audit, or a compliance request needs a real answer, everyone is reconciling spreadsheets and hoping nothing was missed.
Blanket recalls because nobody can pinpoint the affected units. Audits with no shared evidence. Vendor SLA claims nobody outside the company can independently verify.
How it works
Every organization that touches a part writes one entry into a shared record the moment something happens to it — manufactured, shipped, received, recalled. That entry is sealed to the one written before it, so a change made later doesn't just get rejected, it becomes visible as a break to everyone holding a copy of the record.
And everyone does hold a copy: the record is kept independently by every participating organization, not stored on one company's server that someone could quietly access alone. Because each entry is sealed at the moment it's written, the only trust required is right there, at entry — not months later, when an auditor has to reconstruct what actually happened from five companies' separate paperwork.
Permission narrows what each party actually sees: the hub gets full visibility across its network; each supplier sees only its own slice. Trace a part back to its origin batch, or search forward from a defect to find only the units actually affected — not every unit from that model year.
6 days → 2.2 seconds
What tracing a contaminated shipment back to its source farm took for Walmart before a shared, sealed record like this existed — and after.
Catch it before it's a problem
Set a trigger on any supplier's output: if production slips below a threshold you define against their own trailing average, CustodyLine flags it — before a shortage reaches your line, not after.
Every supplier gets a free, plain view of their own throughput and on-time history. Joining the network isn't just a favor to the hub.
Why now
The regulatory floor under manufacturing just moved, with dated deadlines, not someday ones: the EU's battery passport in 2027, UFLPA already shifting the burden of proof onto the importer, DSCSA's unit-level rules already in force. A large OEM can throw a compliance department at this by hand and survive. A 200-person manufacturer can't — and faces the same clock.
What it returns
2.5–4.5%
of vehicle revenue is what warranty accrual already costs you. This cuts directly into that line.
Narrower
recalls, traced to the exact lot instead of a full model year sweep.
Fewer audits
for demonstrated, verifiable compliance — the same relief NOAA's own compliant-importer program already grants.