12 suppliers
Leather weekender bag
Full-grain hide, hand-finished edge paint and solid brass hardware. Small-run workshop capacity for DTC brands.
SourcingGPT runs the sourcing process end to end — discovery, supplier due diligence, RFQ and follow-up, quote normalisation, landed cost, sampling and QC, purchase order, and the finance and logistics that follow. It writes the work, chases it and records it. You approve every step.
Built for Shopify, Amazon and DTC brands
Sample data shown for illustration. Live results depend on your brief.
SourcingGPT works across the whole range of supplier capability — twenty live categories, from mass-market volume factories to premium workshops most directories never surface. These are the categories buyers actually ask us to source, not a demo list.
12 suppliers
Full-grain hide, hand-finished edge paint and solid brass hardware. Small-run workshop capacity for DTC brands.
31 suppliers
Fabric-mesh wrapped enclosure with existing IPX7 tooling, so no new mould cost and a fast first run.
54 suppliers
18/8 stainless, double-wall vacuum construction, powder-coat or laser-etched branding options.
14 suppliers
Natural cork over a rubber base, non-slip when wet. Batch-to-batch colour consistency is the hard part, not the mat.
11 suppliers
End-grain walnut with a recessed juice groove. Small workshops, hand finishing and a genuinely variable quality curve.
86 suppliers
Twelve stocked colourways, existing moulds for every major handset and low tooling risk on a first order.
47 suppliers
Compact charging case, 32-hour total playback, stable Bluetooth 5.4. Plenty of factories already hold CE, FCC and RoHS here.
42 suppliers
FSC-certified bamboo with 304 stainless fittings. Volume pricing available from 2,000 units upward.
18 suppliers
Brushless motor, six speeds and four heads. Certified battery cells and a compliant charger are the real qualification, not the housing.
58 suppliers
Food-grade silicone in a nested two-piece set. An easy volume line with very low tooling and a fast first run.
24 suppliers
Aluminium body, tunable white output and USB-C. Plenty of factories already hold the electronics certifications.
46 suppliers
Soft-touch handle, stainless comb head and a one-touch fur release. High turnover, slim margin, unforgiving on defects.
9 suppliers
Matte glaze, food-safe certified stoneware with tight colour consistency across production batches.
71 suppliers
Five-metre reel, controller and remote. CE and RoHS, plus a real app-compatibility test across both ecosystems.
27 suppliers
Anodised aluminium with ventilation cut-outs. Finish consistency between anodising batches is where the risk sits.
38 suppliers
Soy wax, three-jar gift box with custom sleeve printing. Fast turnaround for seasonal launches.
39 suppliers
Ceramic or PP housing, 300 ml tank and a quiet ultrasonic core. Food-safe materials matter if it ships into the EU.
34 suppliers
Food-grade silicone with a moulded maze. Chew resistance and a genuinely non-slip base are the two real tests.
52 suppliers
Three-layer film bags with a hand pump. Seal integrity is the entire product — worth testing before a volume order.
63 suppliers
Five graduated latex loops with a printed carry pouch. Low tooling, fast turnaround and a healthy margin at volume.
A supplier directory gives you thousands of names and leaves the work where it was: in your inbox, your spreadsheets and your calendar. SourcingGPT takes the workflow itself — brief, discovery, due diligence, outreach, comparison, sampling, purchase order, and the finance and logistics that follow — and runs it as one controlled record.
One sentence, a specification file, an image or a link, plus the numbers that actually decide the outcome: your target price point, order quantity, destination country, lead time and whether you need inspection. The agent asks only for what is genuinely missing.
You own: the requirement and the commercial limits. Nothing is assumed on your behalf.
We go through global marketplace listings, trade and customs shipment records, certification registries, factory-audit databases and trade-show exhibitor records — then screen every candidate against your brief and your commercial limits. A factory that cannot meet your price at your volume is not a match, however impressive its listing looks.
You own: the trade-off. We show you which constraint each candidate fails, and you decide what is negotiable.
Every shortlisted supplier carries its source, the date we saw it, what was checked and what could not be. Four named tiers, no averaging, no green tick you cannot trace.
You own: the shortlist decision, and any on-site audit or physical verification before a material order.
Currency, unit basis, MOQ, tooling, sampling, Incoterm, lead time, payment terms and exclusions reconciled onto one basis. Anything that cannot honestly be compared is flagged rather than averaged.
Duty, tax, freight and currency timing for your destination and quantity, with every assumption and its date shown and editable. An estimate, labelled as one.
You own: HS classification and independent verification before a material commitment.
Written, translated and addressed per supplier, with the recipient list and the message waiting for your approval. Nothing reaches a supplier without your sign-off.
You own: every send. The approval boundary is a product feature, not a setting.
Follow-ups tracked and scheduled, replies preserved with translations, deviations from your brief identified and surfaced instead of buried in a thread.
SourcingGPT holds the checklist, instructs the inspection, captures the AQL result and files the report against the PO and the supplier.
Performed by: third-party inspection agencies. SourcingGPT is not a certification body and does not perform inspections itself.
Generated from the winning quotation and the agreed terms, versioned, recorded and tracked to acknowledgement — so the PO that was approved is the PO that was sent.
You own: the contract. SourcingGPT is not a party to the sale and does not act as a purchasing principal.
Registries, filings, trade records and payment history assembled into one evidence pack, with the gaps shown rather than smoothed over.
Performed by: licensed information providers. SourcingGPT does not issue credit ratings and does not guarantee a supplier's solvency or performance.
The PO, the evidence pack and the shipping documents prepared in a fundable form, then introduced to finance partners who can advance against it — so a small brand is not held back by the working capital a large buyer never has to think about.
Funded and underwritten by: licensed finance partners. SourcingGPT does not lend, advance, fund, underwrite or insure, and is not a financial institution.
Freight quoted, booked and tracked, with the documents and milestones held against the PO so the order, the money and the shipment stay in one record.
Carried by: licensed freight forwarders, carriers and customs brokers. SourcingGPT is not a forwarder and does not clear goods.
Discovery is not where a buyer loses money or time. The hours disappear in the middle: chasing a supplier who has gone quiet, rebuilding a comparison because one quote came back per carton, re-keying an order into a different system, waiting on a sample nobody scheduled, and then finding the working capital to pay for a PO that a large buyer would simply absorb.
Automating only the first step moves the problem. Running the whole workflow is what makes sourcing faster, clearer and cheaper — and it is the difference between a search tool and an operating system for sourcing.
An estimate based on our own workflow modelling, not an audited measurement. See the time-saved model for the step-by-step basis.
We are extending SourcingGPT from sourcing software into the full buyer workflow: purchase orders, quality control, supplier financial due diligence, trade finance against the PO, and logistics.
Being precise about this matters. We build the workflow, the evidence and the record. Regulated activities are performed by licensed partners, and we name them rather than implying we do it ourselves. Any platform claiming to be a sourcing tool, an inspector, a lender and a freight forwarder at once is describing four licences it does not hold.
| Capability | What SourcingGPT does | Who carries the licence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourcing workflow | Runs brief, discovery, outreach, comparison, landed cost and decision records on one controlled workflow with an exportable audit trail. | Software and information. No licence required. | Live |
| Supplier discovery and evidence | Searches marketplaces, trade and customs records, then publishes the source, the date and an evidence tier for every claim. | Software and information. We do not guarantee a supplier's suitability, solvency or performance. | Live |
| Quote normalisation and landed cost | Reconciles quotes onto one basis, flags what cannot be compared, and models duty, freight, tax and currency for your destination. | Estimates only. Not a binding quotation, customs ruling or duty advice. | Live |
| Purchase order issuance | Generates the PO from the approved quotation and terms, versions every amendment, and tracks acknowledgement and delivery against it. | You remain the buyer and the contracting party. SourcingGPT is not a purchasing principal and is not party to the sale. | In build |
| QA and QC inspection | Holds the inspection checklist and AQL plan, instructs the agency, captures the report and files it against the PO and supplier. | Third-party inspection agencies. SourcingGPT is not an inspection body and does not certify goods. | In build |
| Supplier financial due diligence | Assembles registries, filings, trade and payment records into one evidence pack, with gaps shown rather than smoothed. | Licensed information providers. SourcingGPT does not issue credit ratings or guarantee solvency. | In build |
| Trade finance on the PO | Prepares the PO, evidence pack and shipping documents in a fundable form, then introduces licensed finance partners who can advance against it. | Licensed finance partners. SourcingGPT does not lend, advance, fund, underwrite or insure, and is not a financial institution. | In build |
| Logistics and delivery | Quotes, books and tracks freight, and holds the documents and milestones against the order so money and shipment stay in one record. | Licensed freight forwarders, carriers and customs brokers. SourcingGPT is not a forwarder and does not clear goods. | In build |
Availability reviewed 6 October 2026. “Live” means available in the product today; “In build” means in development with no release date committed. Nothing on this page is an offer of credit, insurance, inspection, customs or carriage services, and nothing here changes the terms of the platform agreement.
Because a buyer who is about to move $40,000 needs to know exactly where our software stops and a licensed professional starts. A platform that blurs that line is asking for trust it has not earned.
Today SourcingGPT makes you faster and better informed. With PO, QC, finance and logistics in the same workflow, it removes the working-capital and coordination barriers that keep small brands from sourcing at all.
Each capability moves to “Live” on this page only when it is generally available and its partner arrangement is contracted. No dates are published that we have not committed to internally.
Suppliers answer in different units, currencies, Incoterms and terms. Each reply is parsed into one schema, anything that cannot honestly be compared is flagged rather than averaged, and the original message stays beside every number.
| Field | Ningbo Yinzhou Precision Mfg | Shenzhen Ruixin Industrial | Hai Phong Precision Manufacturing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit price | $18.40 | $17.90 | $16.75 |
| Quoted basis | Per unit, FOB Ningbo | Per carton of 20⚠ normalised | Per unit, FOB Hai Phong |
| MOQ | 500 | 1,000⚠ above your run | 500 |
| Tooling / sample | $0 / $85 | $1,200 tooling⚠ adds $4.00/unit | $0 / $60 |
| Lead time | 28 days | 24 days | 31 days |
| Payment terms | 30% deposit, 70% on B/L | 50% deposit⚠ not comparable | 30 / 70 L/C at sight |
| Incoterm | FOB Ningbo | FOB Shenzhen | FOB Hai Phong |
| Certification | CE, RoHS on file | CE only⚠ RoHS missing | CE, RoHS, FCC |
| Landed cost / unit | $22.10 best | $23.86 | $22.90 |
Hai Phong quoted the lowest unit price at $16.75. Once freight, duty and the EUR rate are applied it lands at $22.90 — second place. Headline unit price is the least reliable number in sourcing.
Shenzhen's $1,200 tooling charge is $4.00 per unit across your 300-unit run. Amortised, the second-cheapest quote becomes the most expensive order. It stays visible instead of hiding in a footnote.
Shenzhen quoted per carton of 20, asked for a 50% deposit and has no RoHS certificate on file. Three things a spreadsheet would flatten. Each one is flagged, sourced and left for you to accept or reject.
A green tick tells you nothing you can act on. Every shortlisted supplier carries its evidence, the source it came from, the date we saw it, and an honest note on where the evidence stops.
Ningbo, Zhejiang, CN · matched your brief at 94%
An independent third party confirmed it, on site or against a primary record. The smallest group, and that is deliberate.
We read the document ourselves and matched it to this legal entity — not to a similarly named trading company.
Seen in a public or third-party record — customs data, a registry or a marketplace profile — without a document in hand.
We have no evidence. It is shown as missing and never scored as neutral, averaged away or quietly dropped.
Most platforms will give you the word "verified" and leave you to guess what it covers. Here is exactly what ours covers, and what it does not.
SourcingGPT is an information and workflow tool. We are not your surveyor, your insurer or your escrow provider — and where a decision needs one of those, we will say so instead of implying otherwise.
Duty, freight, port fees and last-mile all land on your unit economics. Move the sliders to see how quickly a good FOB price stops being a good deal.
Estimates only. Confirm final duty, freight and HS classification with your forwarder or customs broker before you commit to an order.
Assumes 6% port and handling on the order value. Figures are illustrative estimates, not a quotation.
A large buyer has analysts, systems, credit lines and leverage. A brand doing two million a year has a founder, a spreadsheet and a factory that stopped replying three weeks ago.
That asymmetry is not a talent problem. It is a tooling problem, and it is the reason good products never leave the drawing board. The cost of sourcing well — in hours, in working capital and in the risk of getting it wrong — is priced for companies with a procurement department.
Running the whole workflow changes the arithmetic. When discovery, comparison, QC, the purchase order, the finance and the freight sit in one controlled record, a two-person brand can buy with the same rigour as a two-hundred-person one — and without a commission taken out of their margin.
SourcingGPT is an information and workflow tool. We are not your broker, your inspector, your lender or your freight forwarder — and where a decision needs one of those, we say so and connect you to a licensed one.
Alibaba, Global Sources, Made-in-China, DHgate and IndiaMART are unbeatable for supply breadth, and the AI challengers match them on finding suppliers. What none of them do is run the rest of it — the outreach, the comparison, the sampling, the purchase order, the finance and the freight. That is where the 250 hours actually go.
Nine platforms, what each is genuinely best at, where the buyer is still handed the work — and why the workflow, not the list, is what changes the outcome.
Discovery is the one step the whole market already solved. The hours are lost afterwards — and that is the part we automate.
Every recommendation carries its source, the date and its limits — including what we could not check.
Units, MOQ, tooling, Incoterm and terms normalised into one table, with every cell traceable.
Nothing reaches a supplier without your sign-off, and the whole trail is exportable.
"I used to spend 3 weeks just identifying factories. With SourcingGPT I had a verified shortlist in 4 hours. My product launched 3 weeks ahead of schedule."
"We cut our unit cost by 23% in the first month. The AI flagged a middleman we'd been paying a premium to for two years. That alone paid for the tool ten times over."
"Thirty suppliers and a clean comparison in seconds instead of days. We would plug this straight into our procurement workflow."
Buyer quotes are company-reported and shown with attribution. Results vary by product, category and supplier market.
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It runs the sourcing workflow, not just the search: brief, supplier discovery and due diligence, RFQ drafting and follow-up, quote normalisation, landed cost, sampling and QC, purchase order, and the finance and logistics that follow.
Most tools stop at discovery and hand you a list to filter through. SourcingGPT takes over the fragmented email, spreadsheet and messaging work that fills the rest of the process, and keeps it in one record you can audit and export.
Our internal benchmark is 250–300 man-hours replaced per SKU, from discovery through purchase order.
That is a company-reported estimate from our own workflow modelling, not an audited measurement, and it depends heavily on the product, the category and how responsive your suppliers are. We publish the step-by-step basis and the method behind it rather than a single headline number.
Yes, in build. SourcingGPT generates the PO from the approved quotation and agreed terms, versions every amendment, records acknowledgement and tracks delivery against it.
You remain the buyer and the contracting party throughout. SourcingGPT is not a purchasing principal and is not party to the contract of sale.
In build. SourcingGPT holds the inspection checklist and AQL plan, instructs the inspection, captures the report and files it against the purchase order and supplier.
The inspection itself is performed by third-party inspection agencies. SourcingGPT is not an inspection body and does not certify goods, and we will not tell you a shipment passed unless an agency has reported that it did.
In build. SourcingGPT prepares the purchase order, the evidence pack and the shipping documents in a fundable form, then introduces you to licensed finance partners who can advance against it.
SourcingGPT does not lend, advance, fund, underwrite or insure, and is not a financial institution. Any advance is made by the finance partner under its own terms, credit assessment and documentation, and we do not guarantee that funding will be offered.
No. In build, SourcingGPT quotes, books and tracks freight and holds the documents and milestones against your order — but carriage and clearance are provided by licensed freight forwarders, carriers and customs brokers.
SourcingGPT is not a forwarder, does not clear goods and does not give customs or duty advice. HS classification and duty figures on the platform are estimates and should be verified before a material commitment.
Live today: the sourcing workflow, supplier discovery and evidence, quote normalisation and landed cost. In build, with no release date committed: purchase order issuance, QA and QC coordination, supplier financial due diligence, trade finance and logistics.
We mark each one on the platform section of this page and move it to live only when it is generally available and the partner arrangement is contracted. We would rather publish an honest roadmap than imply capability we have not shipped.
No. Every RFQ, follow-up and reply is drafted for you and waits for your approval.
You review the wording, attachments and recipients before anything leaves your account. Suppliers in China, Vietnam, India and elsewhere are written to in their own language, and their replies come back translated.
It means we have cross-checked the supplier's identity and trading signals against records we can see, and scored them against your brief.
It is not a guarantee of product quality, solvency or compliance, and it does not replace your own due diligence. Always order a sample and verify the entity yourself before a material order.
No — they are estimates to support your decision, not a quotation.
HS classification, duty rates, VAT and freight are generated from the product details you provide. Confirm them with your freight forwarder or customs broker before committing to an order.
The founding monthly plan is $9.99 per month, or $830 per year (about $69.17 a month) — a rate locked for as long as you stay subscribed. Enterprise starts at $149 per month.
Every plan includes a 7-day trial. A card is required to hold the founding price, but nothing is charged during the trial — cancel before day 8 and you pay nothing.
Yes. Add suppliers you already work with and let the agent handle the outreach, follow-up and quote comparison.
Many buyers use SourcingGPT for the suppliers they have found on Alibaba or at a trade show, then let it run the RFQ cycle that would otherwise sit in a spreadsheet.
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