Upload your CAD. We put it in front of shops we have stood inside, come back with up to three quotes a person has actually read, and tell you which one we would use — and where it will hurt.
Most sourcing starts with three rounds of email before anyone can quote anything. This is that conversation, done once, in the right order.
Drop in your CAD and drawings. STEP, SLDPRT, DXF, PDF, or a zip of all of it.
One row per part: process, material, tolerance, quantity.
Origin, timing, target price, the documents you need signed.
Your questions go to the shop that will actually cut the part.
Where it ships and who moves it. You keep your forwarder.
Not sure about a field? Every step has an I don't know button. Not knowing is not a reason to stop.
"The agent said it was their own factory. Turned out they were quoting a shop two provinces away. We found out at the defect batch."
"Their 5-axis queue runs three weeks deep through Q4 and anodizing is subcontracted 40km out — that is 3 days their quoted lead time does not show. Use them for the housing, not the shaft."
"Golden sample was perfect. Mass production came back 8% out of tolerance. Nobody could tell me which line actually ran it."
The middle column is a real message from a live programme, not a slogan. That is the whole difference: an opinion with a machine list behind it.
Every sourcing platform scores suppliers on behaviour: response speed, quote speed, on-time rate, acceptance rate. All of it is computed from a distance, and all of it is the easiest thing in the world for a trading company to score well on. Answering a message in two hours costs nothing.
A real supplier profile. Straight A's on everything with data.
Verdict: SUSPECT — no tooling, no deposit. Signed, Owen Weng.
A platform sells you this shop has been performing well.
We sell you: I went, I signed, and here is where it will break.
Every verdict carries a person's name, the evidence behind it, and the risks we could not close.
No service menu to decode. The factory issues the first four. The fifth is ours, and it is the only one where somebody was in the building.
Not a rep, not a mailbox. And if you are not sure what to ask, these four cover most of what a DFM conversation is actually made of:
We sit in the thread and translate in both directions — millimetres one way, deadlines the other.
Illustration of a live account. Yours starts empty — this is what it fills up with.
YOUR ACCOUNT
NPI engineering — Foxconn, Airtac · Kovelta Limited, Hong Kong · on the floor in Shenzhen & Taichung
Every verdict in your account carries my name. If a call in there turns out to be wrong, it is mine to answer for. That is the thing you are paying for — not the dashboard.
No account to set up, no commitment to production. Send one drawing and see what comes back.
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No spam. Only human-reviewed quotes.
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