Vetted Shortlist

The Vetted Shortlist finds three suppliers in one country who can make your product, desk-checks each one against public and commercial records, and hands you prices, minimums and a reviewer's pick in seven working days.

You have names. What you do not have is any reason to believe them. Every one says it is a manufacturer, every one says the price is the best you will find, and you cannot tell which is a factory and which is an office forwarding your enquiry to somebody else for a margin.

A cheap gig will send you five supplier names in a day. Those names come out of the same public directories you already searched, nobody checked them, and the person sending them is paid by volume rather than by whether the names are any good. Here each of the three is desk-checked before it reaches you: registration, trading status, what the company is licensed to sell, and whether the product it advertises matches what it is registered to make. Then a named reviewer picks one and says why.

Price: $500 — fixed price. Turnaround: 7 working days.

The verdict you get: Closes with a clear GEB verdict — a reviewer's pick, the one to keep as backup and the one to drop — plus a confidence level and the risk to watch on the pick. Not a data dump; a decision.

What you receive

• 3 suppliers in 1 country, each desk-checked against public and commercial records
• An indicative price and order minimum for each, against your stated spec
• A named contact and working channel for all 3
• A reviewer's pick with the reason in two lines, and the name to drop
• Delivered in 7 working days

Best for

• Small importers who need checked names without a five-figure sourcing budget
• One product, one country, one decision
• Buyers moving from a Supplier Snapshot into real conversations

Not for: This is a desk check, and it is deliberately shallow. We do not visit sites, do not contact the suppliers on your behalf and do not verify capacity, quality systems or capital. It is not a promise that any of the three will perform. For site contact, capacity verification and a search across several countries, GEB's Verified Supplier Shortlist does that work properly at $6,900.

Natural next step: Three Quotes, Compared.

Frequently asked questions

Why three suppliers and not ten?

Because three checked names beat ten unchecked ones. Ten names is a directory export. Three is a shortlist.

How fast is it?

Seven working days from your answers.

I already bought a Supplier Snapshot.

Then the fee from your Supplier Snapshot comes off this, and we start from the names it produced instead of a blank page.