Liang W.

Your product looks great on screen. The ID is clean, the Kickstarter page is ready. Then the first factory sample arrives — and it's wrong. Snap fits don't hold. Wall thickness causes sink marks. The mold maker says "no problem" but quotes you three more rounds of revision. This is the gap I close. I'm based in Shenzhen. 14 years on the factory floor across consumer electronics — not managing remotely, physically present when tooling decisions get made. I've pushed 530,000+ units through mass production across 12+ product categories. The mistakes I've seen kill launches, delay shipments, and blow DFM budgets — I have them documented. I don't let them repeat on your product. What I actually do for overseas founders and ID studios: — DFM review before you cut steel: I flag wall thickness issues, draft angles, snap fit geometry, and shrinkage risk before the mold maker touches anything. One round of this saves you 2-3 revision cycles. — Factory translation: What your ID file says and what a Shenzhen factory actually builds are two different things. I bridge that gap in person. — NPI management: From prototype sign-off to first production run, I track tooling progress, first article inspection, and assembly line setup so you're not flying blind from 10,000 miles away. — Supplier selection: I know which factories in Shenzhen and Dongguan are honest about capacity and which ones will tell you what you want to hear. That knowledge took 14 years to build. If your product has plastic enclosures, mechanical assemblies, or mixed-material components and you need someone in China who will tell you the truth about what your factory is actually doing — that's the job.