Manifesto

Hardware procurement still runs on fires: a supplier gone quiet, a shipment stuck at a border, a line about to stop. And the fires are fought with the same tools everywhere. Email. Phone calls. Spreadsheets. Hope.

Engineering changes every day, and every day the team needs to buy fifty things with no idea where they'll come from. To buy one part, someone messages 15 to 20 suppliers (if you can find the suppliers in the first place). Ten reply. Four days of back-and-forth. Seven reject on MOQ. Redundant orders go out to the remaining three, in the hope that one ships. Then freight, brokers, customs and last mile, each a separate negotiation with a separate stranger. The box passes through five or six hands, and information dilutes at every one.

Two things changed. Agents got good enough to do the chasing: they search every supplier in the world within your constraints, negotiate, prepare the documents, watch the shipment, keep the record. And we built the physical half ourselves, because the best agents in the world don't matter if you can't physically fulfil the order. Waybill owns fulfilment. Our partners in Hong Kong, China, Southeast Asia, India and the US carry the goods in one chain of custody, all the way to your shelf.

You tell us what you need and by when. You approve the payment. Those are your two jobs. Sourcing, negotiation, freight, customs, receiving, inventory, the invoice matching, the record: ours.

The destination is bigger. Every moving part of the chain on one operating layer, working together: an operating system for supply chains. Procurement is where we start, because the pain pinches hardest there, and because trust is earned one delivered box at a time.