Ovick Alam.

Sourcing and demand tests

Find the factory. Test the price. Then buy.

Most product mistakes happen before the order is placed: the wrong factory, the wrong price, the wrong name. I built these tools to stop making them at Shape, and now run them for other brands.

01Factory Match

Send a photo. Get the factories that make it.

For each style you send, up to three factory listings that make the same design, with the link, the price at minimum order, and an honest grade.

  • Same. The same design, likely the same source
  • Looks the same. A close copy, worth sampling
  • Close. The idea, not the item
Per style

Factory Match

$50a style

Up to three graded matches per style, with links and prices.

Pack

Factory Match, 15 styles

$500

Fifteen styles, one sheet, ready for your sampling round.

02Demand test

Ask your buyers before you buy the stock

A private test shop for about 75 of your own buyers. Each gets a pretend budget. Prices and names are tested in hidden arms, and the shop records what they would order first.

It tells you which styles to buy, the price your buyers will pay, and the words that sell. Pretend money flatters demand, so every test ends with a small deposit pre-order to confirm it.

Two to three weeks

Test Sprint

$1,500

Your styles on a private test page, about 75 of your buyers, and a readout of what to buy, at what price, under what name.

Four to six weeks

Source and Test

$3,000

Factory Match on your styles, samples to photograph, then the Test Sprint.

Through launch

Launch

$3,000plus 3% of the first order

Source and Test, then the first order and the launch page, with me beside you through it.

The question that decides if this works for you: can you get 75 of your buyers onto a page this week? For apparel, modest wear, accessories and home. Not lingerie, because I operate a lingerie brand. Research only: I do not place orders on your behalf.

03Spring 2027

Canton Fair buyer desk

A phone guide to the fair, built for a buyer on the floor: tagged booths, routes, phrase cards, the price to beat for each product, and a booth log. Built and used live in autumn 2026.

Pre-trip

Buyer pack

$400

The guide, your routes and price briefs before you fly.

During the fair

Buyer pack with live desk

$1,500

The pack, plus a live WhatsApp desk through the fair for questions on the floor.

Start with a conversation

The first call is free and takes thirty minutes. Bring the problem. You leave with an honest read, whether or not we work together.

I reply to every email myself.