How it works: from brief to factory shortlist
You're not buying hours or a subscription. You're buying a defined output, delivered by a vetted procurement professional who already works in your source market.
Brief the project
Product, market, volumes, target price, compliance or certification needs, and the deadline you're working to. Five minutes.
Day 0 · freeGet matched
We shortlist the expert with the right category depth and on-the-ground access, and confirm scope, price and delivery date with you before work starts.
Same dayReceive the sourcing report
The expert runs the search, screens factories and delivers the shortlist with factory, product and pricing detail in Excel or PDF.
Days, not weeksDecide what's next
Sample, negotiate, place the order, or add QC, production follow-up and shipping coordination as further tasks.
OptionalDeliverable
What's inside the sourcing report
The same defined output on every project — so you can compare, shortlist and negotiate with real information instead of guesses.
| Section | What you get |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer details | Shortlist of qualified factories, sortable by price, capability and lead time, with their top products and export markets |
| Factory details | Production capacity, workforce size, machinery, certifications and audit history where available |
| Product details | Factory photos, spec and material notes, MOQ, sample cost and indicative pricing |
| Expert commentary | Which factories to shortlist, what the risks are, and the questions to ask before you commit |
Beyond the report
Add the work you don't want to do yourself
Start with a shortlist, or hand over the whole path to a finished, inspected order.
Sourcing & supplier discovery
Category-specific factory search, screening, comparison and shortlist with pricing. Delivered as a sourcing report.
Sampling & negotiation
Sample coordination, spec feedback loops, price and MOQ negotiation, and terms you can actually live with.
QC & inspections
Pre-production, during-production and pre-shipment checks by someone who is physically at the factory.
Manufacturing management
Production follow-up, timeline control, issue escalation and shipment coordination through to delivery.
Contract manufacturing
End-to-end from manufacturer selection to negotiation, production and delivery, with BuyHive coordinating the project.
Trade financing
Working-capital options to fund production and bridge the cash-flow gap between order and delivery.
Reliability
Why vetted experience is the whole point
Sourcing goes wrong when the person doing it has never bought the product before, can't visit the factory, or has no reputation to lose. That's why every BuyHive expert passes five gates before they see a project — and why buyer ratings decide who stays.
- 01Resume vetting against real buying history
- 02Screening interview on category depth and negotiation
- 03Reference checks with past buyers and employers
- 04In-house quality assessment on test projects
- 05Ongoing customer quality assessment on live projects
Start here
Tell us what you need sourced
One form, five minutes. We'll come back with the matched expert, a fixed project price and a delivery date — before you pay anything.
Free to brief
No charge until you approve the scope, price and expert.
No commission
You deal with the factory directly on your own commercial terms.
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