Your quality advocate and technical procurement arm in China.
Guangzhou, China · GMT+8 ENDE
Steve LightVerified
Services · One buyer's desk, five instruments

Five ways to get exactly what you ordered from a Chinese lighting factory.

Each service is a precise instrument for one job — and they compound: assess before you commit, witness while they produce, diagnose when something fails, keep an engineering desk on retainer, or hand us an entire multi-supplier project.

USD 500 – 50k+Fixed fees, never commissionDocuments you keepWe never touch the goods money
Start free — Supplier Fact Sheet → Compare all five
02 / Choose

Which situation are you in?

Start from your situation, not from our menu. Each card maps a real moment in a lighting buyer's year to the service built for it.

SITUATION 01

I'm about to commit to a new factory.

Signatures and deposits come before the truth surfaces. You need to know who you are really dealing with — capability, system, ownership.

→Supplier Assessment — an on-site audit against six capability domains, ending in a quadrant verdict and red flags R1–R9.
SITUATION 02

The order is placed; production starts soon.

A purchase specification is a promise only if someone checks it at every stage — from golden sample to container loading.

→Managed Project Sourcing — the lifetime chain locked in writing, four witnessed gates, one traceable archive.
SITUATION 03

Something failed in the field.

Before you argue about who pays, you need to know why it failed — with evidence that survives a claims conversation.

→Failure Analysis — four-layer teardown, evidence preserved within 48 hours, 8D review and a claim position paper.
SITUATION 04

I have constant small questions — and no desk in China.

Datasheet checks, quote sanity checks, supplier lookups, factory small talk that needs a translator with an engineering degree.

→Retained Technical Procurement — an 8-hour monthly engineering pool with 24-hour response, no project overhead.
SITUATION 05

Many suppliers, one project, one delivery date.

Luminaires, drivers, controls, cable, emergency units — different factories, one container, one person accountable for the chain.

→Consolidated Project Procurement — one responsibility chain across all suppliers, merged shipment, unified documents.
03 / Compare

The five services, side by side.

Same buyer-side stance, same document discipline — different tools for different depths of engagement.

Service
When you need it
What you receive
Starts with
Fee
Supplier AssessmentP1
Before you sign or wire money to a new factory.
On-site audit across six capability domains; SAR report with quadrant verdict A–D, red flags R1–R9; re-audit valid 12 months.
Free SFS → ARCF → quote
USD 800–1,200
Managed Project SourcingP2
An order is running and must arrive as specified.
Lifetime chain locked in writing (LED / driver / caps & MOS / TIM), four witnessed gates, Order Archive Pack kept 24 months.
Sourcing Sprint USD 600 (credited)
6% of order
Failure AnalysisP3
A batch failed and the argument started.
Evidence preserved in 48 h; four-layer teardown; 8D review; claim position paper; 90-day recurrence re-check.
Quick Triage USD 500
Full analysis USD 1,500
Retained Technical ProcurementP4
Ongoing questions, no engineering desk in China.
8-hour monthly pool, 24 h response, 2 supplier background checks / month, quarterly briefing, annual re-screen.
Onboarding in week 1
from USD 500 / month
Consolidated Project ProcurementP5
Many factories, one delivery date, one container.
One responsibility chain across all suppliers; gates at every factory plus one consolidated inspection; merged shipment & documents.
Project review meeting
from USD 50k
04 / Pricing

Four fee models, one principle: we are paid by you alone.

No commission from factories, no margin on components, no success fee tied to order value. The fee model is designed so that our income cannot depend on looking away.

P1 · Fixed all-in
One price for the full audit and report — no daily rates, no surprises.
USD 800–1,200
P2 · Percentage of order
Execution fee on managed orders; the USD 600 Sourcing Sprint is credited against it.
6% (min USD 2,500)
P3 · Fixed per case
Quick Triage first, credited against a full analysis if you continue.
USD 500 / 1,500
P4 · Hourly pool
8 hours per month, pooled per quarter; overflow needs your pre-approval.
USD 500 / month

P5 consolidated projects start at USD 50,000 and are quoted per project after a review meeting.

05 / Shared

What every service has in common.

Different tools, same chassis. Every engagement runs on the same four structural guarantees.

STEP 1

Buyer-side only

We work for you, never for the factory, never for a share of the goods. Supplier commissions are refused in writing.

OUT: independence, by structure
STEP 2

Evidence before opinions

Claims become documents: datasheets verified at source, photographs from the floor, measurements with dates and names.

OUT: a file, not a feeling
STEP 3

Witnessed gates

Where production is involved, checkpoints are witnessed in person — golden sample, first article, mid-line, container.

OUT: no silent substitutions
STEP 4

Documents you keep

Every engagement ends in an archive you own — retrievable for 24 months, written to survive personnel changes.

OUT: your archive, your evidence
06 / Boundaries

What we deliberately don't do.

Boundaries are not limitations — they are the reason the documents above can be trusted.

✕We don't take supplier commissions — No factory pays us, in money, meals or favours. Any offer is disclosed to you in writing.
✕We don't touch the goods money — You pay factories and laboratories directly. Our invoices list services only.
✕We don't sell certifications — No BSCI, Sedex or CE selling — we stay independent of the certification business we might later rely on.
✕We don't do financial due diligence — Ownership webs and litigation records yes; company valuations and audits no.
✕We don't do court-certified expert opinions — Our failure analyses are engineering documents for claims and negotiations, not forensic reports for court.
✕We don't guarantee, we verify — No honest engineer can guarantee quality. We convert risk into checkable evidence and contractual levers.

Not sure which instrument you need?

Write two sentences about your situation. The engineer who would run the case replies within 24 hours — with the free Fact Sheet offer if a desk check can answer it.
Talk to the engineer →