Know who you are actually buying from.

Every check, with its evidence attached.

Nothing in a ProofVue report is asserted without a source. Where the record is thin the answer is unknown, not a confident guess, because a report that admits what it does not know is the only kind a buyer can safely act on.

Somebody is about to wire forty thousand dollars to a company they found on a search page, believing it makes the product. Often it does not.

Global sourcing runs on marketplaces built to generate leads, not to tell the truth. A buyer types a product, picks a supplier near the top, and starts asking about minimums and samples. What they cannot see is whether that company owns a factory or is a trading house reselling someone else’s line at a markup, whether it can hold the tolerance and the certification the order needs, or whether five better factories were sitting on page four.

The cost of getting it wrong is not a bad afternoon. It is a wasted development cycle, a container that fails inspection, or a relationship with a middleman who will never let you near the people actually making your goods.

What it does

Six stages, from “I need this made” to “I have chosen this factory, and here is why.” Each one produces something the buyer can act on.

  1. Say what you actually need

    Product, construction, materials, quantity, target cost, timeline, market requirements. It finds what is missing before you talk to anyone, then exports a one-page brief a factory can quote against.

  2. Find factories that fit

    Search by real capability rather than keyword: process, material, order size, development support, certification, location. Every candidate arrives with a reason it may fit.

  3. Establish who they really are

    Legal and physical identity, manufacturer or trader, in-house versus subcontracted capability, certifications and brand relationships, with sources and dates attached and the gaps named as gaps.

  4. Judge them against your brief

    Pass, fail or unknown on each requirement, with minimums, sample support, lead time and indicative commercial fit side by side. Drop in a factory you already use and see how it measures up.

  5. Open properly

    The right verified contact, an introduction written for that factory, the qualification questions worth asking, and a sample request built from what the profile is still missing.

  6. Read the replies honestly

    A rubric for response quality, a like-for-like quote worksheet that catches mismatched terms, sample scorecards, and a shortlist with the open risks written down.

How it thinks

Evidence trail · PV-40118

  1. Second check opened09:12 · R. Okonjo
  2. Registry record matched08:58 · 4 of 5 fields
  3. Manifest window widened08:41 · 24 months
  4. Rule 7 applied08:20 · address reuse
  5. Queue imported07:55 · 32 items
Every signal names its source. A verdict you cannot trace is a rumor with better typography.

Project fit

88

Evidence confidence

41

Fits the brief on paper. Not enough proof to act on yet.

Two scores, never blended. Collapsing them into one number is how sourcing tools quietly mislead people.

A shelf of factories that have been checked.

Registry Search capability, material, certification⌘K 377 verified of 663
ApparelKnit WovenISO 9001 Low MOQ Sorted by evidence
Hangzhou Meiyu Textile

Zhejiang · 420 staff · 11 lines

  • Knit
  • Dye house
  • ISO 9001
94
Dongguan Sunhold Knit

Guangdong · 260 staff · 6 lines

  • Knit
  • Cut & sew
  • Low MOQ
89
Foshan Crestline Mills

Guangdong · 900 staff · mill

  • Weaving
  • Finishing
  • OEKO-TEX
97
Yiwu Northgate Trading

Zhejiang · office only

  • No plant on record
23

One desk, every client.

Agency desk ActiveWaitingClosed Q3
Clients12+2
Active briefs31+7
Awaiting reply9−3
Reports issued
ClientBriefStageProgressState
Northline3 briefsHeavyweight tee, 5kCompare Shortlisting
Marrow & Co.1 briefWaxed canvas bagContact Awaiting reply
Halden Studio2 briefsMerino base layerEvaluate Decision due
Pell Goods1 briefRipstop shellVerify In review

Start as a Scout.

ScoutFor a founder sourcing their first run

$39/month

  • All six stages
  • Verification reports
  • The registry
  • One workspace
OperatorFor a brand buying every season

$99/month

  • Everything in Scout
  • Higher report and analysis limits
  • Design analyzer and quote bench
  • Exports
DeskFor an agency running client work

$299/month

  • Everything in Operator
  • Clients, roles and separation
  • Client-facing dossiers
  • The highest limits

Where it deliberately stops

ProofVue ends at selection. No messaging, no purchase orders, no payments or escrow, no production tracking, no freight. That is not a gap in the roadmap; it is the product.

The moment a tool takes a cut of the transaction, its advice stops being trustworthy: it now has a reason to want the deal to happen. Staying on the buyer’s side of the table is the only way the verdict is worth anything, and it is why buyers tell it things they would never tell a marketplace.

Where it stands

  • BuiltAll six stages, as a working projects system with organizations, clients and roles.
  • BuiltSupplier verification reports, design analysis from text and images, and a quote comparison bench.
  • BuiltBuyer-facing dossiers, exports, and a signed-in home that shows a team what needs attention.
  • NextOnboarding that has the product already working for your brand before you have typed anything.

Be told when ProofVue opens.

One message, on the day ProofVue opens. Nothing else. Your address is held in our email only, not in a mailing list or any database, and you can ask us to delete it at any time through the contact form.