A first order is the point where a supplier is still a stranger and your exposure is still small enough to check. The question this review answers is narrow: does the company behind the offer exist as described, and do the sources we can read agree with what it tells you?
You hold an offer, a price list and perhaps a few samples. What you do not hold is anything written by a party other than the supplier. We read the public registry entry, the website and domain, and any trade-directory or marketplace presence, then set each against what the supplier stated to you. You receive a report in which every line is tagged as a verified fact, an inference, unavailable, or client-provided.
The report states what the reviewed sources show. It does not say the supplier will perform, deliver or stay solvent, and it is not a credit report or a screening against sanctions lists.
The exposure is the deposit and the lost season. The review concentrates on whether the named entity is the one that holds the factory, or only a sales entity, because the answer changes who you pay.
You already know the product; the open question is whether the new name is a separate producer or a trading arm of the supplier you already use. The review compares registered details and addresses to say which it appears to be.
Here the entity itself is the risk. The report separates what the registry records from what the website claims about size and history, and marks the claims that no source supports.
It is a source written for a purpose other than marketing. Name, status, registration number, registered address and officers are read as published and become the reference for every later comparison.
Read against the registry: same legal name, same address, same activity. Domain registration details are noted where public, as one input to an inference and never as proof.
Directory and marketplace profiles are treated as claims by the supplier or by a platform, not as independent confirmation, and are labelled accordingly.
A trading name is not enough; the quotation, proforma or contract carries the legal name and address.
If the supplier gave one, it is checked against the register that issued it; if it did not, that absence is itself reported.
A deposit, a tooling investment or a fixed delivery date each call for different attention in the write-up.
Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.
No. It reports what the reviewed sources show and what they do not. The decision to order stays with you.
The report marks the registry point as unavailable and says which other sources were used instead.
No. Visits, audits and inspections are outside the scope.
No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.
Tell us what you need to find out and by when. We confirm scope before any work starts.
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