Supplier Capacity Verification Tool

Chinese and overseas suppliers lie about production capacity, leaving importers stuck. Build a verification platform where suppliers upload capacity docs and past order history, with verification badges and third-party audits. Target: e-commerce and product importers.

Supply chain due diligence has become a genuine pain point since COVID-era disruptions exposed how badly importers misunderstood their suppliers' real throughput, and the ongoing shift toward nearshoring and supplier diversification means more buyers are vetting new relationships than ever before. No clear incumbent owns this specific niche — Alibaba's Trade Assurance and platforms like Sourcify touch adjacent problems but don't systematically verify capacity claims with document trails and audit badges. The $2k–10k/mo revenue band is plausible only if you can charge suppliers for verification badges (they have incentive to pay) while keeping audit costs low, but the margin gets thin fast if third-party audits require human boots on the ground in Guangdong or Shenzhen. The core failure risk is trust circularity: importers won't pay for badges unless they trust the verification process, suppliers won't submit to rigorous audits unless importers demand it, and bootstrapping both sides of that marketplace with one cross-source mention of demand signal is a slow, expensive chicken-and-egg problem.