6058mm (20FT) 2591mm MSCU 447821-3 GUANGDONG, CN → ROTTERDAM CUSTOMS HOLD — REF: 44821 MANUFACTURER DISTRIBUTOR WAREHOUSE RETAILER REF: HUB-FBP-001 TYPE: SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK SCALE 1:50 · SIDE ELEVATION

Solutions for Offline Brand Protection Teams

Every Seizure Is a Window Into
a Larger Physical Network.

Human Expertise. Amplified.

Customs holds a shipment. Your field team seizes product from a warehouse. A test purchase arrives from an address that appears in three different investigations. Each event looks standalone — because the people, locations, suppliers, and distributors behind them are held in different systems across different teams. Hubstream connects them. So the field report, the seizure record, the distributor file, and the prior investigation become one picture of the physical network behind counterfeit products.

Used across
Customs & Trade Teams Field Investigators Outside Counsel Regional Teams Enforcement Partners

Patterns · 01–08

Sound Familiar?

Every offline brand protection team has had these conversations

"We've seized the same supplier's products twice. They're filed as two separate incidents."
"The field report, the lab test, and the customs record are in three different systems."
"Our investigators in different regions can't share what they know about the same target."
"We found the warehouse. We have no way to connect it to last year's seizure."
"Outside counsel has the legal file. Our team has the investigation. Neither has the full picture."
"The same distributor appears in three investigations across two regions. Nobody knows."
"Test purchases and customs seizures should be the same investigation. They're treated as separate."
"We're building an evidence package from six different folders across two regions."
"We've seized the same supplier's products twice. They're filed as two separate incidents."
"The field report, the lab test, and the customs record are in three different systems."
"Our investigators in different regions can't share what they know about the same target."
"We found the warehouse. We have no way to connect it to last year's seizure."
"Outside counsel has the legal file. Our team has the investigation. Neither has the full picture."
"The same distributor appears in three investigations across two regions. Nobody knows."
"Test purchases and customs seizures should be the same investigation. They're treated as separate."
"We're building an evidence package from six different folders across two regions."
Before · After

From Disconnected Field Incidents
to the Distribution Network Behind Them

Each participant holds a different part of the investigation. Hubstream connects them — so the warehouse, the distributor, the shipper, and the prior seizures become one picture.

Before Hubstream

Fragmented Across
Every Team and System

Customs Seizure Records Field Investigation Reports Test Purchase Results Photographs & Evidence Distributor Records Warehouse Information Legal Files Regional Spreadsheets

Related incidents treated as separate — the distribution network stays invisible

After Hubstream

A Connected View of the
Physical Distribution Network

MFGR DISTR. WHOUSE RETAILER Seizure A Seizure B Field Rpt Test Buy
Outcomes · 01–04

What Changes After Hubstream

Four outcomes for offline brand protection teams — that disconnected field systems, legal files, and regional spreadsheets can't deliver.

01 / Incident Intelligence · Pattern Recognition

Connect Related Seizures
and Incidents

Two seizures from the same source shouldn't look like two separate problems.

Customs seizures, field investigations, and test-purchase results held in separate systems mean related incidents are never connected. Hubstream links them — by shared subjects, locations, products, routes, distributors, or contact details — so the pattern becomes visible before the third seizure happens.

  • Identify shared subjects, locations, or products across incidents
  • Connect seizures to prior investigations automatically
  • Surface repeat suppliers, distributors, and shipping routes
02 / Supply Chain Intelligence · Network Mapping

Reveal the Physical
Distribution Network

The warehouse is a node. The network is the investigation.

Counterfeit product reaches markets through people, businesses, warehouses, shipping routes, and distributors — many of whom appear in multiple investigations without anyone knowing it. Hubstream maps those connections, making the supply chain visible as a network rather than a sequence of isolated incidents.

  • Map manufacturers, distributors, warehouses, and retailers as connected entities
  • Identify shared logistics routes and fulfilment infrastructure
  • Understand how products, people, and businesses connect across investigations
03 / Regional Coordination · Partner Intelligence

Coordinate Across Regions
and Partners

What your EU team knows, your APAC team should too.

Offline brand protection involves many participants — regional teams, outside counsel, investigators, customs contacts, law enforcement — each holding different parts of the same investigation. Hubstream preserves investigation history and makes relevant intelligence available to authorised participants, without replacing the systems they already use.

  • Preserve intelligence across team and regional boundaries
  • Provide controlled access to relevant investigation records for outside counsel and partners
  • Ensure prior seizures and enforcement actions are visible to the full team
04 / Evidence Quality · Prosecution Support

Build Stronger
Evidence Packages

An evidence package assembled from memory is a liability.

Enforcement actions and prosecutions require well-organised, traceable evidence — field reports, photographs, product samples, chain-of-custody records, prior actions, and relationship documentation. Hubstream brings all of it into a structured investigation record, so the evidence package is built from a connected record, not assembled from scattered folders at the last minute.

  • Organise reports, photographs, and product evidence within one investigation record
  • Maintain relationship documentation for enforcement and prosecution
  • Connect prior actions and outcomes to current investigation context
Templates

Start with Proven Brand Protection
Workflow Templates

Structured starting points for offline brand protection investigations — built around customs coordination, field investigation, and evidence management workflows.

  • 01 / Customs Seizures — Seizure record and investigation linkage
  • 02 / Report a Fake — Intake, field report, and evidence triage
  • 03 / Takedown Management — End-to-end enforcement tracking
Brand Protection Templates

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Pre-built investigation workflows for brand protection teams — customs coordination, field investigation, and evidence management.

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