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Product Reference Brief
Define the target outcome and separate features into Keep, Change, and Unknown before a supplier fills the gaps with assumptions.
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Make your first supplier conversation more useful.
Five practical templates for founders and sourcing teams preparing an AI hardware request for China suppliers. Use them to separate facts from assumptions, compare quotes on the same basis, and define what the first sample must prove.
No email form. No account. Free to use and adapt for your own sourcing work.
What is included
Start with the template that matches your current gap.
These are working files, not a generic sourcing ebook. Each one is designed to improve a specific supplier decision.
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Quote Comparison Sheet
Compare MOQ, sample cost, tooling, lead time, customization, certifications, included scope, and exclusions in one structure.
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Sample Acceptance Checklist
Write down the functions, physical checks, test method, and pass criteria the first sample must satisfy.
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Supplier Question List
Twenty questions covering supplier fit, existing platform, customization boundaries, files, samples, quotes, and scale-up.
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Specification Deviation Log
Record what the supplier proposes differently, why it changed, its cost and schedule impact, who owns the decision, and whether it is accepted.
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Do the preparation before requesting multiple quotes.
Frame the reference
Complete the Product Reference Brief and mark every unknown instead of hiding it.
Set the sample test
Define what the sample must prove before asking a supplier for price and lead time.
Normalize responses
Use the comparison and deviation sheets so the lowest headline price does not hide a different scope.
Need help choosing the supplier route?
The templates help prepare the brief. If the unresolved question is whether you need an existing-product vendor, solution provider, OEM / ODM factory, module partner, or multi-party path, request a free written Sourcing Path Review.
Still unsure what to send a China supplier?
Share one product reference, demo, or sample need. We will clarify the likely route, missing quote inputs, and next smallest action in a free written review.