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What we have measured, and what we think.

Notes from the floor and the desk: how garment quotes really get made, what we have timed, and what the tools can and cannot do. Written for factory owners, merchandisers and the brands that buy from them.

  1. 01For factories · 21 October 2026 · 7 min readHow Bangladesh exporters answer buyer RFQs in a day, not three.Where the two to three days go between a buyer's RFQ and the cost sheet, and how a garment factory can return a sourced sheet within 24 hours without changing how its departments work.
  2. 02For brands and buying houses · 22 October 2026 · 6 min readBuying house, sourcing agent or AI: what a small brand should use.The three ways a brand with a tech pack gets a garment price, what each one actually does, what each costs, and where an AI cost sheet fits. For most small brands the honest answer is a combination.
  3. 03For factories and brands · 23 October 2026 · 8 min readWhat is in a garment cost sheet? SMV, CM, consumption, trims, wash and FOB, explained.Every price a garment factory sends a buyer comes out of one sheet. What each line is, which department produces it, how it is calculated, and where the number really comes from.
  4. 04For factories and brands · 21 October 2026 · 7 min readAI quoting tools for factories in 2026: Forgepoint, Paperless Parts, CloudNC, BlackLake and IndusCore AI.Who is selling AI quoting to factories as of October 2026, what each tool reads and prices, what they say about themselves, and five questions that separate a sourced cost sheet from a demo.
  5. 05For factories and brands · 21 October 2026 · 5 min readA buyer's RFQ through a trims maker and its factory, and back: a production loop, timed.On 6 and 7 October 2026 one buyer RFQ went through the whole trims chain on our production system, with every hop timed. What "closed loop" means when we say it, and what the people did.