I started SourcePoint because I kept watching the same thing happen.
Founders would spend months building a product idea, find a factory on Alibaba, exchange a few emails, approve a sample, wire their money, and wait. Then the shipment would arrive and something would be wrong. The material was different. The stitching was loose. The dimensions were off. And the factory, thousands of miles away, was suddenly hard to reach.
Nobody had lied to them, exactly. But nobody had told them the truth either.
That gap is what SourcePoint exists to close.
What I bring to every engagement
I have 15 years of project management experience across industries that do not tolerate vague timelines, undefined scope, or decisions made on optimism. That background shapes how I run sourcing engagements: structured phases, written confirmations at every milestone, and zero tolerance for letting a factory's verbal assurance substitute for a documented spec.
I am based in China. Not remote. Not coordinating by email from a U.S. time zone. I am here, in the manufacturing ecosystem, with direct factory access and the ability to walk a production floor when something does not look right.
I have sourced across multiple product categories and worked with founders at every stage, from first-time product launches to brands with repeat production cycles. The problems I see most often are not exotic. They are predictable. And they are preventable when someone with real experience is involved before capital is committed.
What working with me actually looks like
I will tell you when an idea is not ready for production. I will tell you when a supplier's pricing does not reflect what the market actually bears. I will tell you when a timeline is unrealistic given factory lead times and freight windows. And I will tell you when a product can survive real landed costs — and when it cannot.
That is not pessimism. That is the job.
The founders I work best with are the ones who want a straight answer more than they want reassurance. They have a real product, a real budget, and the ability to make a decision when presented with the facts. They are not looking for the cheapest option. They are looking for someone who will protect their margins and keep the process from going sideways.
If that is you, SourcePoint was built for exactly this.