Currawong Web VS Opalstack

Currawong Web's answer

Overseas buyers and sourcing teams who need to check a Chinese supplier and cannot reliably reach the Chinese official portals themselves — importers placing a first order, procurement teams onboarding a new factory, and small distributors without a China office or Chinese-language staff.

It suits one-supplier, one-decision checks rather than continuous screening at scale. A team already running a subscription database and reading Chinese records in-house does not need us.

Currawong Web's answer

It is staffed from inside China, and it publishes its own limits.

Every delivered line names the platform it came from and the date it was queried, because a Chinese registry record is a dated fact and stops being current the moment something is filed. Person names are withheld by default and unlocking them is a separate flat fee, so a routine supplier check does not quietly become a file on individuals.

The part most buyers never hear about: the registry API this industry runs on does fuzzy matching. Ask for a company it cannot find and it returns the closest one it has — silently, with a complete-looking record. We reject any result whose registered name is not character-for-character the one ordered, and say so, rather than delivering another company's records under your supplier's name.

Currawong Web's answer

Because you can check our work before you pay us anything.

The registry snapshot — scope, status, capital, established date, address — is free. Two tools run entirely in your browser with no account and no upload: a factory-or-trader read of a registered business scope, and a Unified Social Credit Code checker that validates the check character against GB 32100-2015.

Beyond that, our measurements are published as open datasets under DOIs, with methods and limits stated, including one conclusion we withdrew after a paired control experiment showed our first reading was wrong. Anyone can download the data and judge whether we are careful. That is a different offer from a report you can only assess after buying it.

Currawong Web's answer

It began with a measurement rather than a plan. We were testing whether China's official company registry could be reached, and the first reading looked clear-cut. A paired control — same machine, same moment, the only variable being whether the request went through a proxy — showed the failure was in our own network path, not at the target, including for an Australian government host that answered fine on a direct connection. So we withdrew the conclusion and published the correction.

That set how the desk works: state the vantage point, state the date, state what the observation cannot support. Buyers who cannot check China-side records themselves are exactly the people who cannot audit an overconfident answer, so the limits have to travel with the figures.

Currawong Web's answer

A static site with serverless functions and a serverless SQL database at the edge, with no third-party runtime dependencies in the request path. The two public tools are plain browser JavaScript — nothing is uploaded and no account is created to use them.

Registry data comes from one licensed Chinese business-information platform. We do not query, proxy, embed or scrape the official government portals from a buyer's browser, and we do not work around access controls on them; when an official source has to be read, a person in China reads it and reports the source, the query date and the limits.