How a verification actually runs.
Every stage below is built so that you can show the work to someone who was not there, such as a customer, an auditor or a customs authority, and have it hold up. This page describes the process. The internal checklist stays internal, so a facility cannot prepare for it.
Scope
We establish what “compliant” has to mean for your product, your destination market and the decision in front of you: a first order, a second supplier, an EUDR file, or a customer asking questions. We tell you the smallest scope that answers it, and we fix the fee in writing before anything starts.
Desk verification
Business registration, tax code, and relevant export permits or approvals, where applicable, 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. Some problems show up here, before anyone travels.
Site verification
We visit the facility at the GPS coordinates on the registration, not an office, a showroom or an address supplied by an intermediary. We record the production lines, the headcount present, the machinery and its condition, and whether the capacity we see fits the volume quoted to you. Where the supply chain matters, we follow it back one tier.
Report
One structured document: findings by category, each with the evidence behind it, dated and geo-referenced photographs, and a risk rating with the reasoning stated. Where a regulation applies, we map the findings to its specific requirements instead of summarising them in general terms. A director can read it in ten minutes, and a compliance officer can work from it.
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 important finding traces to a document, a register entry or a dated photograph. Where we could not verify something, the report says so.
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 in a position to answer, and we have no interest in the 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 you hire anyone in this market, look at what they deliver.