Ch. 01
Brief.
You send a sketch, a moodboard, a reference fit. Within five days we come back with three vetted factory matches, ranked on craft, lead time, and landed cost.
We make things for people who make things — sourcing, sampling, production, QC, freight, fulfillment, under one roof.
Brief your next drop↗We make things, for people who make things. A small team of pattern-makers, production managers, and freight nerds who have spent the last decade on the cutting floors of Guangzhou, the wash houses of Istanbul, and the warehouse aisles of New Jersey. We started AkiSupply because every brand we'd worked for was paying five vendors to do badly what one team should do well. So we are that team. One brief, one studio, every link in the chain.
The studio — Fort Lauderdale & Hong KongFrom a tech pack on a Tuesday to a pallet in Newark. Each chapter is roughly a week of work and a few hundred phone calls.
You send a sketch, a moodboard, a reference fit. Within five days we come back with three vetted factory matches, ranked on craft, lead time, and landed cost.
The brief becomes a factory-ready file — BOM, spec, grading, callouts, trim sources. Locked before a single thread is cut. Iterated three times at no extra charge.
Fourteen days from brief. Real photographs, factory-floor video, the garment in your hand. Approve, revise, or pivot. Three sample rounds included.
Fit, fabric, colour, hand-feel — locked. PP-sample signed off in your account, time-stamped. No surprises in bulk.
Our production manager on the factory floor. Daily updates with photos. 30 — 45 days for most apparel programmes. Pre-tagging and folding included.
In-line, mid-line, pre-shipment. AQL 2.5, stricter for outerwear. Defect logs, colour cards, photo proof — in your inbox before the goods leave the country.
Sea, air, or rail. Customs cleared. Door-to-door tracked. Duties optimized. Delivered duty-paid into your 3PL hub in NA or EU.
Pre-tagged, retail-ready, inducted into your 3PL. Customer orders ship the same day they hit Shopify, Amazon, or TikTok Shop.
Start your drop ↗They became the operations team we couldn't afford to hire. Three new factory partners, our first container in Rotterdam, and fourteen percent off our landed cost — in six weeks.
Maya Reyes / Co-founder & COO, Verdant & Co.
If your question isn't here, ask in our Discord or hit us with a brief.
Streetwear, contemporary fashion, technical apparel, accessories, headwear. $250k – $50M revenue. We don't take fast-fashion projects.
From 100 units per SKU on cut-and-sew. Knitwear and outerwear typically need 300+. Hardware-heavy accessories around 500.
About 65–95 days. 5 days to factory match, 14 days to first sample, two weeks of iteration, 30–45 days production, 15–25 days freight + customs + 3PL.
Direct factory pricing + a transparent per-unit service fee. Disclosed upfront. No hidden markups. Fee scales down as volumes grow.
AQL 2.5, stricter for outerwear. Our team is on the factory floor. Photo proof, defect logs, colour cards.
Yes. Sketch → tech pack → first sample in 14 days. No commitment to bulk. Many brands sample with us first.
No commitment. No onboarding fees. Three vetted factory matches and an indicative landed cost — straight back to your inbox.