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Built on military precision and 28 years of sourcing

Sourcing Captain is the personal mission of founder Gary Qiu — a procurement professional who grew up in a military family and built a sourcing operation around the same principle: orders given, results delivered.

Our story

From a Guangdong workshop to a global procurement bridge

Sourcing Captain started in 1997 with a simple insight: international buyers were paying premiums to middlemen for access to Chinese factories, and getting middling quality in return. Founder Gary Qiu — raised in a military family in Guangdong — set out to do it differently. Walk the factory floor. Audit the mill. Witness every shipment.

Twenty-eight years on, the playbook is the same. We work with the top 1% of Chinese manufacturers across raw materials, technical components and turnkey equipment. We don't sell catalogues — we run procurement projects end-to-end, from spec sheet to delivered cargo.

Our customers are engineering teams, project owners, OEM buyers and trading houses across five continents. Many have worked with us for over a decade.

What we promise

The five-point delivery guarantee

01

Secure payments

Escrowed milestone payments and verified bank routing on every order.

02

Quality assurance

Third-party pre-shipment inspection on every lot, with photo and video reports.

03

Fixed pricing

Locked unit pricing for the contract term. No hidden change orders.

04

Confidentiality

NDA available on request. Specs, suppliers and pricing stay yours.

05

No-deal, no-fee

You pay nothing if we cannot place an order that meets your spec and target.

06

$10,000 breach guarantee

Liquidated damages payable on any contractual breach by Sourcing Captain.

Get a quote

Tell us what you need to source

Send specs, target volumes, and timelines. Our sourcing team replies within one business day with a sourcing plan and price guidance.

Free consultation NDA on request No-deal, no-fee