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Procurement assurance

The part after you find the factory.

Finding a supplier is the easy half. The hard half is proving the sample, catching the drift mid-run, and having a file that survives the argument when the container arrives wrong. This engine is the one that turns a directory into a service.

Send a brief → What we do not do

Ten services in four stages. No laboratory of our own yet — we commission accredited labs and read their reports.

01Ten services

Find, prove, watch, move.

Each one produces a document. If a service does not end in a document you can send to someone, it is not a service, it is a phone call.

01

Find

Supplier discoveryShortlist against the drawing, not against a category page.
Supplier verificationEntity, licence, certificate and equipment checks before you send a drawing.
02

Prove

Factory auditA visit with a checklist: machines, processes, inspection, records, capacity.
Sample approvalA signed sample, photographed and kept, so "like the sample" means something later.
First article inspectionDimensional report on the first part off the line, against the drawing.
03

Watch

Production inspectionMid-run check while the line can still be corrected.
Pre-shipment inspectionQuantity, workmanship, packing and marks before the container closes.
04

Move

Freight quote reviewLine-by-line comparison against the agreed scope.
Route verificationWhether the lane that was sold is the lane that is booked.
Shipment complianceMode, routing and sub-contracting checked against what the order says.

02Order-level evidence

Four gates between a drawing and a container.

Each gate can stop the order. That is what makes the last one worth anything.

Gate 1

Sample approval

A physical sample, photographed, signed and kept by both sides. "Like the sample" only means something if the sample still exists.

Gate 2

First article

The first part off the line, measured against the drawing, before the rest of the batch is run.

Gate 3

Production check

A mid-run visit while the line can still be corrected — the cheapest moment to find a drift.

Gate 4

Pre-shipment

Quantity, workmanship, packing and marks, before the container closes. After this, every fix costs freight.

03Boundary

What an inspection report is not.

A report describes the sample that was inspected, on the day it was inspected, against the criteria written in the order. It is evidence, not a guarantee of the batch you did not see.

We do not certify a factory as “good”. We do not accept liability for a supplier’s defect. We do make sure that when a defect appears, someone can prove what was agreed and what was delivered.

We commissionAccredited third-party labs for material and performance testing.
We attendSite visits and inspections, with a checklist written before we arrive.
We writeThe report: what was checked, what was found, what was not covered.
We do notGuarantee a batch, insure a defect, or act as your buying agent of record.

04How a project runs

Five steps, one file.

  • Brief — what you are buying, the volume, the standard, the date. One page.
  • Shortlist — suppliers with the level of evidence stated next to each name, not a badge.
  • Prove — sample and first article, with the reports in the same folder as the drawing.
  • Watch — production and pre-shipment checks, scheduled against the supplier’s own plan.
  • Move — the logistics side takes over with the mode and route consents already on file.

Status today

Projects run: 0. This engine is in design: the checklists and report templates exist, the audit partners do not yet. It opens after the manufacturer and logistics profiles have something to check against.

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05What we do not do

The list that makes the other list believable.

A booking engine

We do not sell the ticket, the container slot or the hotel room. We help you choose and then check what happened.

A laboratory

We do not test materials ourselves. We commission accredited labs and read the report.

A credit score

No algorithm decides whether a factory is good. A person signs a record with a date on it.

A payment escrow

Money movement, guarantees and liability need a licensed entity and a contract. Not this.

A walled garden

Suppliers do not have to buy a shop, an English website or an advert to be listed.

A promise of approval

A subsidy exists when it is in a published notice and you meet every condition in it. We quote the notice.

Lobbying

We have no influence over an approval and will not pretend to.

Every industry at once

Three categories in three cities first. A directory that covers everything verifies nothing.