One platform.
Configured for every deployment environment.
Authentific is deployed across commercial, regulated, and government environments. Each industry operates under different risk profiles, compliance obligations, and supply chain structures. The platform's core cryptographic infrastructure is the same in every deployment — configuration, outputs, and integration points change to fit the sector.
How to evaluate fit for your industry
Three deployment tracks. Your starting point depends on whether you are protecting a brand, enforcing a regulation, or managing a hybrid compliance and brand environment.
Commercial Brand Owner
Protecting products against counterfeiting, grey-market diversion, or parallel import? Start with TrueBrand. Covers FMCG, spirits, cosmetics, consumer electronics, and luxury goods.
Government or Regulatory Authority
Deploying a tax stamp or excise compliance program? Start with TrueTax. Built for revenue authorities managing tobacco, spirits, and other excisable product categories.
Regulated or Industrial Enterprise
Operating in pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive, or industrial manufacturing where compliance and component integrity intersect? A hybrid deployment is likely required. Speak to a solutions engineer.
Jump to your sector
Pharmaceuticals
DSCSA · EU FMD · Serialization
View →FMCG & Spirits
Brand Protection · Diversion · Excise
View →Government & Excise
Tax Stamp · Illicit Trade · TrueTax
View →Cosmetics & Personal Care
Consumer Safety · Lot Traceability
Read more ↓Consumer Electronics
Warranty · Parallel Import · Auth
Read more ↓Luxury Goods
Premium UX · Resale · Provenance
Read more ↓Regulated & Industrial
Safety-Critical · MRO · Components
Read more ↓The core platform does not change. The deployment does.
Every Authentific deployment runs on the same cryptographic engine, the same authentication API, and the same scan event infrastructure. What changes by industry is how codes are applied, who scans them, what data is surfaced, and which compliance outputs are generated.
Shared Core Infrastructure
HSM-backed key management, cryptographic QR signing, and edge-deployed verification APIs are consistent across all industry deployments. Performance and security guarantees do not vary by sector.
Deployment Configuration
Code application method, scan permissions, data visibility rules, and alert logic are configured per deployment. A government excise deployment and a luxury brand deployment are fundamentally different in operation — on the same platform.
Sector-Specific Outputs
Compliance exports, dashboard views, and integration targets differ by industry. Pharmaceutical deployments generate DSCSA and EU FMD records. Government excise deployments generate enforcement audit trails and tax stamp registry outputs.
Where Authentific is deployed
High-value products, regulated categories, and government fiscal programs share one structural problem: product identity cannot be trusted without cryptographic verification. These are the markets where that matters most.
Pharmaceuticals
Drug counterfeiting is a direct patient safety risk and a supply chain compliance crisis. Regulations including the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) require serialized, unit-level traceability across every supply chain handoff — from manufacturer to dispenser. Enforcement timelines are active and penalties are material.
Authentific provides the serialization engine, scan event recording, and compliance reporting infrastructure that drug manufacturers, wholesalers, and dispensers need to meet these requirements — and to detect supply chain anomalies before they become regulatory incidents.
FMCG & Spirits
Premium spirits are among the most consistently counterfeited product categories globally. The threat ranges from refilling genuine bottles with inferior or hazardous product to mass-produced fake closures and labels. For FMCG brands operating across multiple international markets, grey-market diversion and parallel imports create both revenue leakage and brand equity damage that is difficult to quantify without scan intelligence.
Authentific provides bottle-level and pack-level serialization, territory control rules, and consumer-facing brand verification — typically deployed through TrueBrand for commercial brand protection programs. For spirits operating in regulated fiscal markets, TrueTax extends the deployment with national excise and tax stamp integration.
Cosmetics & Personal Care
Counterfeit cosmetics and personal care products represent a consumer safety risk that extends well beyond brand damage. Fake products often contain unregulated or hazardous substitutes for active ingredients. Regulatory pressure on cosmetics traceability is increasing in the EU, UK, and Gulf markets. Brands selling through multi-channel retail — including third-party e-commerce — face significant exposure to grey-market and counterfeit infiltration.
Authentific provides unit-level authentication at the SKU level, consumer verification through a branded scan experience, lot traceability for safety recall response, and channel monitoring for unauthorized retail activity. Cosmetics brands typically deploy through TrueBrand, which adds commercial diversion monitoring and multi-market verification configuration.
Consumer Electronics
The consumer electronics market operates at a scale that makes per-unit authentication commercially viable only with high-throughput code generation infrastructure. Counterfeit accessories and components — cables, batteries, adapters, replacement parts — generate warranty liability and safety incidents. Parallel import diversion undermines distributor agreements and erodes regional pricing strategy.
Authentific's code generation pipeline handles billions of units annually without performance degradation. Warranty activation verification integrates directly with after-sales service platforms. Geographic scan mapping surfaces parallel import patterns at the distributor level before they escalate. Electronics brands typically deploy through TrueBrand, which includes market diversion control and channel compliance tools alongside core authentication.
Luxury Goods
For luxury brands, the authentication experience is not separate from the brand experience — it is part of it. Counterfeiting damages brand exclusivity and consumer trust in ways that generic "authentic / not authentic" scan responses make worse, not better. The secondary and resale market also requires verifiable product provenance for buyers to act with confidence.
Authentific's consumer scan response pages are fully brandable — typography, imagery, copy, and interaction design are all configurable. Product provenance and ownership history are surfaced for resale contexts. NFC and QR hybrid encoding supports premium packaging formats where printed codes would be inconsistent with product aesthetics. Luxury deployments are configured through TrueBrand, which provides the premium consumer scan experience, resale transfer workflow, and regional exclusivity controls that luxury brand teams require.
Government & Excise
Illicit trade in tobacco, spirits, and other excisable product categories represents a material source of fiscal revenue loss for governments and a direct enabler of organized criminal activity. Tax stamp programs that rely on printed holograms or static barcodes are routinely defeated by sophisticated illicit operators who replicate marks at scale. Digital serialization is the intervention that makes stamp forgery economically non-viable.
Through TrueTax, Authentific provides government revenue authorities and national regulators with a serialized digital tax stamp infrastructure: unique cryptographic identities per stamp, enforcement officer verification apps, real-time registry synchronization, and illicit trade analytics from scan event aggregation.
Regulated & Industrial
Counterfeit components in aerospace, defence, automotive, and industrial manufacturing create catastrophic safety and legal liability. The problem is compounded by the length and opacity of industrial supply chains, where third-tier and fourth-tier subcontractors are outside the direct visibility of the OEM. A single substandard part installed in a safety-critical assembly can trigger product recalls, liability litigation, and regulatory action.
Authentific provides component-level serialization and track and trace that integrates with maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) workflows. Every part carries a verifiable identity — confirmed as genuine at the point of installation, with a full manufacturing audit trail accessible on demand.
Two distinct deployment tracks
Authentific serves both commercial brand protection programs and government regulatory programs. The underlying platform is shared. The deployment configuration, access model, scan permissions, and output requirements are structured differently for each.
Commercial & Brand Protection Deployments
Deployed by manufacturers and brand owners to protect product integrity, control market distribution, and provide consumers with a direct authentication channel. Configured through TrueBrand for FMCG, cosmetics, electronics, luxury goods, and pharmaceutical brand protection use cases.
Government & Regulatory Deployments
Deployed by government revenue authorities and national regulatory bodies to enforce excise and fiscal marking programs, monitor illicit trade, and verify supply chain compliance. Configured through TrueTax for tax stamp, excise control, and traceability mandates across tobacco, spirits, and other excisable categories.
How deployment changes by industry
The same platform operates very differently depending on the sector. Four dimensions define how each deployment is structured — and why a single configuration does not work across all industries.
Code Application Method
How the authenticated code reaches the physical product varies significantly by category and production environment.
- → Pharmaceuticals & Regulated: Direct print or label application at line speed, with batch aggregation and pallet-level parent-child linking.
- → Spirits & FMCG: Closure-integrated codes, label print, or tamper-evident overlay labels applied during capping or labelling operations.
- → Luxury Goods: NFC and QR hybrid on premium packaging materials where printed codes are not appropriate for product aesthetics.
- → Government & Excise: Pre-printed or digitally issued tax stamps issued centrally; applied at production or import point by the regulated party.
- → Industrial Components: Durable label or direct part marking (DPM) — laser engraving or dot peen — for long-lifecycle parts in harsh environments.
Who Scans
The scanning actor determines what verification interface is provided, what data is surfaced, and what permissions control the response.
- → Consumers: Native phone camera, branded web response page, no app required. Optimized for speed and consumer trust signals.
- → Supply chain operators: Handheld scanner or mobile app with elevated data access — batch info, scan history, custody events.
- → Government enforcement officers: Dedicated enforcement app with full registry access, stamp status, and seizure logging capability.
- → Maintenance engineers: MRO workflow app with part authentication result, manufacturing data, and service history access.
What Data Is Surfaced
The scan response is not a single format. Data visibility is controlled by deployment configuration and the role of the scanning party.
- → Consumer-facing: Authentic / alert verdict, product origin, manufacturing date, brand messaging — no supply chain operational data.
- → Pharma/compliance: Full serialization data, chain-of-custody events, batch number, expiry date, DSCSA T3 records.
- → Government/excise: Stamp status, registered importer/manufacturer, excise category, scan geography, duty-paid status.
- → Industrial/MRO: Part number, OEM certification, manufacturing facility, date of manufacture, service history.
Which Outputs Matter Most
The downstream output from scan intelligence is the measure of platform value. Each industry prioritizes different output types.
- → Pharmaceuticals: DSCSA / EU FMD submission-ready files, chain-of-custody records, recall-scope identification reports.
- → FMCG/brand: Diversion intelligence reports, counterfeit incident logs, consumer scan engagement data.
- → Government/excise: Illicit trade analytics, enforcement action logs, national registry audit trails, evasion rate estimates.
- → Industrial: Counterfeit component incident reports, per-part audit trails, supplier compliance dashboards.
Authentication is one capability. The platform covers the full lifecycle.
Anti-counterfeit code generation and product authentication are the foundation. Track and trace, market diversion control, regulatory compliance, consumer verification, warranty validation, and ERP integration are all available from the same deployment — without additional infrastructure.
Explore All Applications →Product Authentication
Cryptographic identity per unit. Verified in under 80ms, anywhere in the world.
Track & Trace
Complete chain-of-custody from manufacture to consumer. Recall-ready and compliance-auditable.
Market Diversion Control
Detect products crossing unauthorized territories. Evidence-grade reports for enforcement action.
Regulatory Compliance
DSCSA, EU FMD, and GS1 EPCIS outputs built in. Submission-ready — not a manual export.
Understand whether Authentific fits your deployment requirements.
A solutions engineer will scope your specific environment — production volumes, regulatory obligations, integration constraints, and consumer channel requirements — in a single session. No sales pitch. A direct, technical conversation.