How a verification actually runs.
Every stage below is designed around one constraint: you must be able to show this work to someone who was not there — a customer, an auditor, a customs authority — and have it hold. What follows is the shape of the process. The internal checklist itself stays internal, so that a facility cannot prepare for it.
Scope
We establish what "compliant" has to mean for your product, your destination market, and the specific decision in front of you — a first order, a second-source qualification, an EUDR file, a customer asking questions. We tell you the smallest scope that answers it, and fix the fee in writing before anything starts.
Desk verification
Business registration, tax code, and export licence checked against Vietnamese registries in the original language. Ownership and affiliated entities mapped. Certificates validated on the issuing body's own register rather than accepted as supplied PDFs. Sanctions and forced-labour screening run against international lists. Much of what disqualifies a supplier surfaces here, before anyone travels.
Site verification
A physical visit to the facility at the GPS coordinates on the registration — not to an office, a showroom, or an address supplied by an intermediary. We record what production lines exist, what headcount is present, what the machinery is and its condition, and whether observed capacity is consistent with the volume quoted to you. Where the supply chain matters, we follow it back a tier.
Report
One structured document: findings by category, each with a plain finding and the evidence behind it, dated and geo-referenced photography, and a risk rating with the reasoning stated. Where a regulatory framework applies, findings are mapped to its specific requirements rather than summarised generically. Written for a director to read in ten minutes and for a compliance officer to work from.
Decide & re-verify
The decision is yours in full — proceed, request corrective action, or walk away. We do not recommend a commercial outcome, because we have no stake in one. Where corrective action is agreed or conditions change, we re-verify against the same criteria and issue an updated finding, so your file reflects the supplier as it is now rather than as it was on the day you first met.
The rules we hold ourselves to.
The fee never moves with the finding
Fixed at scoping, invoiced the same whether the report clears the supplier or disqualifies them.
The factory is never our client
A facility under verification is the subject of the report, not a customer of the firm, at any point.
Evidence over assertion
Every material finding is traceable to a document, a register entry, or a dated photograph. Where we could not verify something, the report says so explicitly rather than leaving a silence.
Named accountability
A person signs the report and is available to answer questions on it — including from your auditor.
No commercial recommendation
We report what we found. Whether the price, the terms, or the relationship is right for you is not a question we are qualified — or incentivised — to answer.
Checklist stays internal
We publish the shape of the process and the categories we cover. The specific line items stay unpublished so that a facility cannot rehearse for them.
See what comes out the other end.
The report is the product. Before engaging anyone in this market, look at what they actually deliver.