Manufacturing isn't magic. It's a process, and it's learnable.

Most people who come to us aren't short of ideas. They're short of answers to unglamorous questions.

What does this actually cost to make? How many do I have to order? Why did my sample come back wrong? Is this factory any good, or just responsive?

Almost nobody publishes that. Factories don't. Plenty of agents don't either — the gap in what you know is where their margin lives.

We're going to publish it

This page will have real cost breakdowns, honest lead times, why samples fail, what a factory quote leaves out, and the cases where you shouldn't manufacture at all.

Some of that will cost us work. We'd rather be the people who told you early.

We're Bearsource. Sourcing, sampling, quality control and production management — for founders, creators and ecommerce brands turning an idea into something real.