If you are having something made to your own design, the first question is not price. It is what stops your drawing reaching a competitor.
What we do with what you send us
- Your specifications are used only for your project. One client's design is never used to serve another, in any form.
- Suppliers see the minimum needed to quote. Sometimes that is a full drawing; often it is a dimensioned outline without your branding, materials list or commercial terms.
- Your commercial terms are never shared with suppliers. What you sell for, what your margin is, and what other factories quoted stay with us.
- Supplier identities we develop for you are yours, and are not published, sold or reused. This is also why our sourcing tool never returns supplier names.
Mutual NDA
We will sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement before you send anything sensitive, and we will sign yours rather than insisting on ours. Ask for it in your enquiry, or in your first reply — there is no charge and it does not delay the sourcing plan.
An agent who resists signing an NDA on a design project is telling you how it treats designs.
Factory-level confidentiality
Where a design is genuinely yours, confidentiality and exclusivity terms with the producing factory are negotiated as part of the order — in writing, before tooling is cut. Enforcement across borders is imperfect and we will not pretend otherwise, but an agreement changes both the factory's incentive and your position if something goes wrong.
Protecting the brand itself
China operates a first-to-file trademark system. Your home registration does not protect you there, and a mark filed by someone else can be used to block your own goods from leaving. File before you start showing the brand to factories. We are not a law firm and do not file on your behalf — but leaving it undone is the most expensive omission we see on private-label projects.
