One question, five depths of answer.
Everything below has one purpose: to establish whether a manufacturer is what it claims to be, in a form that your compliance team, your customer or a regulator will accept. Our fees are fixed and published. A fee that moves with the result has an opinion about the result.
Compliance Verification of Manufacturers
The full independent check of a Vietnamese manufacturer before you commit capital or production volume. Desk research, a site visit that is not announced to intermediaries, and one structured report.
Deliverable: a verification report with documented findings, dated evidence, and a risk rating mapped to the regulatory framework relevant to your market. The rating reflects the evidence available at the time of verification. It is not a guarantee of future conduct or of legal compliance. Typical turnaround 10–15 business days from scoping.
- Legal existence & licensing: business registration, tax code, relevant export permits or approvals where applicable, GPS-verified facility address
- Production reality: observed lines, headcount, shift structure and monthly capacity against your order size
- Raw material origin & supply chain: mapped to EUDR Article 9 where the EU market applies
- Certificate status: validated on the issuing body's register, not accepted as a PDF
- Subcontracting chain: who else actually touches your product
- Financial stability: signals of solvency and operational continuity
- Sanctions, forced-labour and labour-law risk screening: checked against international watchlists, not self-declared.
Published, fixed, and agreed before work begins.
A day rate pays a firm for spending more days and leaves your total cost open until the visit is scheduled. We publish one price per engagement. It covers a full day on site and an 18 to 30 page report with an evidence annex and a risk rating. The price does not move once agreed, and it does not change based on what we find.
Preliminary Check
Entity and licence verified against the national business register, every certificate checked on its issuing body’s register, sanctions and Entity List screening, registered address confirmed against satellite imagery. Four to six page summary, including what could not be confirmed. No site visit · 3–5 business days.
Remote Verification
Everything in the Preliminary Check, plus a live guided video walkthrough, recorded and time-stamped, with production lines and headcount observed against stated capacity. Eight to ten page report. No site visit · 5–7 business days. Does not replace a site visit. Production capacity and origin are observed on video, not verified in person.
Compliance Verification · core
Everything above, plus the site visit. Production capacity counted rather than taken from a profile, raw material origin traced and mapped to EUDR Article 9, undisclosed subcontracting identified, financial continuity signals assessed. Eighteen to thirty page report with evidence annex and risk rating. Full day on site · 2–3 weeks.
Extended Counterparty Due Diligence
Everything in the Compliance Verification, plus ownership structure and beneficial ownership, affiliated entities and related-party exposure, reputational and adverse media screening, and financial filings across available years. Thirty to forty page report. Site visit included · 3–4 weeks.
Compliance Verification: USD 1,800
Available for engagements confirmed within our current scheduling window. Scope, site visit, and report are identical to the published USD 2,200 service.
Engaged alongside a verification, or on their own.
Shipment Origin Verification
Origin and volume of one outbound shipment checked against its declaration, input documents traced upstream against UFLPA and Lacey Act exposure, loading observed and documented. Ten to fourteen page report. Not a pre-shipment inspection: no quantity, quality, or packaging checks. Site visit included · 7–10 days from notice.
Negotiation Support
Independent Vietnamese-speaking representation at supplier meetings, briefed on your terms in advance, with a written summary of what was said, agreed, and left open. A day rate, because the duration is genuinely yours to set.
One-day factory audit vs Field Diligence verification
A one-day factory audit is a legitimate, widely used product built for a different purpose. Here is how the two compare on what is actually checked and how the work is paid for.
| Typical One-Day Factory Audit | Field Diligence | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | General facility and process checks against a standard audit protocol | Ownership, production capacity, and origin verified against your specific order and compliance requirement |
| Time on site | Typically a single day | A full site visit, plus dedicated desk research and document review before and after |
| Evidence annex | A scored checklist or pass/fail summary | Photo and document evidence annexed to the report and referenced against each finding |
| Regulatory mapping | Not typically mapped to a specific import regulation | Findings mapped to the framework you must satisfy, where applicable |
| Who pays whom | Varies by provider: in some models the factory being audited pays | You: a fixed published price, agreed before work begins. No commercial relationship with the factory |
Both are legitimate tools for different jobs. If a one-day audit already covers what you need, we will say so on the scoping call rather than sell you a longer engagement.
Extensions of verification, not separate products.
Extended Counterparty Due Diligence
When a supplier becomes central to your business, the baseline check is not enough. We map ownership and affiliated companies, screen directors and beneficial owners, and assess reputation and financial exposure over time. These questions matter when switching suppliers is costly.
USD 3,900Shipment Origin Verification
A check on one consignment: does the declared origin hold, does the volume match the capacity we observe, and does the paper trail match what is in the factory? Directly relevant to UFLPA and Lacey Act exposure. Explicitly not a quantity, quality, or packaging inspection.
USD 1,100Remote Verification
Register and certificate validation plus a live video walkthrough guided from the floor, with you asking questions in real time, and time-stamped photo and video you can circulate internally or attach to a compliance file. For suppliers you are still screening.
USD 850Negotiation Support
Vietnamese-language representation with cultural context, briefed on your terms and answerable only to you. No selling-side pressure, no interpreter whose fee depends on a deal closing.
USD 700 / dayRepresentation Between Visits
Where you have an agreed corrective action or an open question that needs someone physically present, we act on your written instruction and report back. We do not hold authority to commit you to anything.
Quoted per engagementSourcing, QC, and pre-shipment inspection are not on this page.
This is on purpose, and we do not plan to fill the gap. Each of those services would give us a reason to compete with the independence of the verification you are buying. We refer that work to specialist providers.
Not sure which scope you need?
Describe the decision in front of you and we'll tell you the smallest scope that answers it. That conversation is free, and it sometimes ends with us saying you don't need us yet.