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The first question is never how it looks; it is whether the target price is physically achievable at your volume. Material cost, labour content, tooling amortisation, freight volume and duty set a hard floor. A sofa that must land at a certain price cannot carry a frame, a foam grade and a fabric that together exceed it, no matter how good the design is.

We run that arithmetic first, from real factory inputs, and tell you early if the concept needs to change — a different substrate, a simpler assembly, a knock-down structure that ships flat. Businesses that skip this step spend months on drawings for a product that could never have been sold profitably.

Cost is a design input, not a result you discover at the end.

Factories do not price ideas; they price documents. A quote given against a photograph is a guess that will be corrected upwards later, or delivered as the cheapest interpretation available. The pack removes that: every dimension, every board thickness, every hinge model, every finish code, every carton.

It also makes competing quotes meaningful. Three factories quoting against one identical pack produce three comparable numbers. Three factories quoting against a conversation produce three different products at three different prices, and the cheapest is almost always the least specified.

A large share of first-time OEM projects are quoted by trading companies presenting themselves as manufacturers. The trader is not always a problem — some manage small orders well — but you must know which you are dealing with, because a trader's quality control is only as good as the workshop they subcontract, and you have no visibility into it.

We verify who actually owns the machines, visit the plant, and check that the category on the floor matches the category you are buying. A factory that excels at melamine case goods is usually the wrong choice for solid timber, and an excellent lighting assembler may have no competence in die-casting.

Prototype phases fail when feedback arrives as opinions rather than instructions. We convert every comment into a numbered change on a written list with a responsible party and a date, and each new sample is assessed against that list only. Three rounds is usually enough; ten rounds means the brief was never fixed.

The output is a golden sample: physically sealed, photographed from every angle, with its approval record signed. From then on, the sample is the standard. Every future inspection, complaint and reorder is judged against it, which is what allows quality to hold steady across years of repeat production.

Feedback becomes a numbered change list, not a conversation.

Any factory can produce an impressive first run under attention. Consistency across the second, fifth and tenth order is what determines whether your brand survives. That consistency comes from documentation — locked specification, version control, retained golden sample, inspection at every run — not from goodwill.

We also plan the unglamorous parts upfront: spare component supply so a single broken part does not scrap a unit, packaging revisions once real transit damage data exists, and a volume ladder that tells you exactly what changes if your order doubles. That is what turns a one-off product into a line you can build a business on.