We’re a sourcing brokerage. Not a manufacturer. Not an agency.
Most brand-builders we work with had the same problem. They knew exactly what they wanted to make. They knew exactly what consumer they wanted to sell to. They couldn't find a manufacturer who'd return their email until they were spending real money — by which time the runway was thin and the leverage was gone.
That's the gap. Private Label Supply lives in it. We've built a sourcing book of facilities that actually run at scale: GMP-aware supplement plants, ISO-22716 cosmetics labs, FSMA-registered co-packers, NASC-quality pet manufacturers. We know who to introduce you to, and — more importantly — we know who not to.
We charge a flat fee per SKU sourced. You pay the factory direct. We take no royalties, no exclusivity, no equity, no markup on goods. If you want to fire us after the first SKU, fire us. We'll send the source contacts on your way out.
The operator we built this for — in plain English.
The operator who gets the most out of working with us is somewhere between “serious side project” and “funded brand with two SKUs in market.” They've already done the work to know what they want to ship. They're not asking us to invent a category. They're asking us to find the factory that can run their formulation, hit their MOQ, and not lie to them about lead time.
Categories we source into: dietary supplements (capsules, gummies, powders, stick-packs, liquids), cosmetics and personal care (serums, balms, creams, body care), food and beverage (functional drinks, bars, sauces, coffee and tea), and pet care (treats, soft chews, grooming). We do not source apparel, electronics, hard goods, or anything that requires a tooling investment we can't write a one-paragraph spec for.
We are useful when you have a clear answer to three questions: what category, what format, what minimum order. We are not useful as a strategy consultant figuring out what to make. We will tell you on the brief call if you're in the wrong room.
The reason this brokerage exists, in two paragraphs.
The contract-manufacturing market rewards opacity. Manufacturers don't list MOQ on their websites because they want to qualify the lead before answering. Brokers add a layer of markup that gets buried in the per-unit cost. Founders who don't already have a factory in their network end up either overpaying or burning months chasing introductions that go nowhere. The asymmetry is the entire business model for everyone except the operator.
We built Private Label Supply to flatten that asymmetry. Operators write a brief. We pull three matched manufacturers from the sourcing book. They quote the operator direct. The operator picks. We get paid a flat sourcing fee for the work of matching, vetting, and writing the spec sheet that goes with the introduction. Nothing about that arrangement requires us to mark up your goods or lock you into a relationship that survives one bad run. That's the whole pitch. The complicated version is the pitch deck. The honest version is this paragraph.
Six phases. No retainers held hostage.
Brief intake
Six fields, six minutes. Category, format, target MOQ, channel mix, certifications, the unvarnished version of what you're trying to ship.
Sourcing pull
Three matched manufacturers from the active book. Apples-to-apples on minimum, lead time, indicative cost, and certification fit.
Spec sheet
We write the technical document the factory needs. Doses, excipients, packaging, regulatory class. Editor signs it off before it goes.
Sample run
Operator and factory talk direct. We sit in on the first call. Sample units land. Operator approves or rejects against the spec.
First production
Production milestones tracked. COA cross-checked against registry-visible standards. Quality issues escalated before goods leave the floor.
Hand-off
Goods land at your fulfillment partner — or ours, if you don't have one yet. We close the file. Source contacts go to you.
For a deeper read on each phase — how long it takes, what fails, what the operator owns versus what we own — see the operating procedure page.
Six things we put in writing on every brief.
- [ A ]
We won't take goods markup
You pay the factory direct. The wire never touches our books. The flat sourcing fee is the only money we make on the brief.
- [ B ]
We won't take royalties or equity
We don't have a percentage of your sales. We don't have a stake. The relationship survives or dies on the work, not on a contract that locks you in.
- [ C ]
We won't recommend a single manufacturer
We propose three matched options. The operator decides. If we can only find one fit, we'll tell you the brief is too tight to source competitively.
- [ D ]
We won't put a claim on a label we can't back
We don't write medical claims on supplements. We don't write cosmetic claims that aren't permissible under FDA cosmetic-vs-drug distinction. We'll push back hard if you ask us to.
- [ E ]
We won't hide the fee
The flat fee is on the contract before you sign. The factory doesn't pay us a kickback. If a manufacturer offers one, we tell you on the call.
- [ F ]
We will tell you if we can't help
Some briefs we can't source. Some briefs are wrong for our book. Some briefs need a regulatory consultant before they're ready. We say so on the first call.
Who writes here, and the standards every page lives under.
Meet the desk that writes the catalog and journal.
Sourcing brokers, technical writers, and project managers. No individual bylines — every page is signed off by more than one set of eyes.
Read team bio →Sourcing policy, fees, AI use, corrections — in writing.
Verifiable certifications only. Three quotes apples-to-apples. Mistakes fixed in public. AI helps draft; humans sign off on every claim.
Read full standards →Want to see if we're a fit?
We'll come back inside 36 hours with three sourcing routes, MOQ + lead time + indicative cost on each.