Contract Manufacturing
Vetted factories. Accountability baked in. Supplier control, not supplier introduction.
The Moat
Most people have vendor contacts. We have factory relationships that go back to 2001 — at the ownership level.
Our lead China relationship began in 2001, as co-founder of the Guangzhou predecessor that became today's partner group. That is not a supplier list you buy access to. It is trust built over two decades, at the level where the owner picks up the phone — and it is why a factory takes our call about your problem before it takes anyone else's.
We pair that with the other half most consultants don't have: we've been the U.S. buyer on the receiving end. We ran a U.S. import business at 20–40+ containers a month — PO intake, factory POs, load calculations, customs documentation, invoicing — and managed a home center import program at 40+ containers a month.
So when a factory misses a spec three weeks before ship date, when an engineering change lands late, when a QC failure shows up at final inspection — we've been the one who had to solve it, not email about it. Ownership-level relationships get the fix moving fast; U.S.-side operating experience means we know exactly what's at stake for you when that freight lands.