For manufacturers and ingredient suppliers
The brands that call us need somewhere to make it.
Brands find Clay & Spark when they search for a reliable, low MOQ manufacturer. We scope what they want, qualify it, and place it with a manufacturing partner who can run it well. If you run any wellness format, from gummies and capsules to beverages, topicals and pouches, we would like to know your line.
- Format
- Capsules, 60 count
- Formula
- Existing stock, client label
- Volume
- 5,000 first run, quarterly reorder
- Target
- Landed cost agreed with client
- Paper
- Signed before introduction
The model, in four lines
How Clay & Spark works for you.
Simple enough to explain on one call, and written down before the first introduction.
Brands come to us
Through this site, search and our own network. Most of our work is inbound.
We scope and qualify
Format, volume, target cost, packaging and timeline agreed with the brand before you see anything.
We bring it to you
You quote once, on a real brief, to a brand that already understands minimums and lead times.
We are paid on orders
Commission on orders placed, agreed with you in writing. No listing fees and nothing up front on an open partnership.
What you get
Work that is ready to quote.
The most expensive thing in contract manufacturing is a brief that was never going to close. We filter those out before they reach you.
Scoped briefs
Format, volume, target landed cost, flavor count, packaging and timeline are agreed with the brand before you see anything. You quote once, not four times.
Prepared clients
Brands arrive understanding realistic minimums, lead times and what a sample round involves. Fewer surprises, fewer stalled projects.
One point of contact
We manage the client relationship through quote, samples, approval, production and delivery, so your team is not fielding forty emails per order.
Brand facing, all the time
Our whole business is talking to brands. That is where your next customer is, and it is the part of the job most factories do not have time to do.
What we ask
Three standards, agreed up front.
These protect the brand, protect you and protect us. They are written into every partnership.
Quotes back inside 48 hours on a scoped brief.
Samples shipped inside five business days.
A short commission and non circumvention agreement signed before the first introduction.
Ways to work together
Open, exclusive, or something bigger.
Terms are discussed once we have spoken and both sides know there is a fit.
One of our partners
We bring briefs that fit your line as they come in, paid by commission on orders placed. The simplest way to start, with nothing up front.
Your format, only you
First right of refusal on every brief in your format, and we place that format nowhere else. We work your line the way your own rep would.
Your line, our brands
For a small number of partners we also build and list house brands on marketplace and retail channels, putting steady volume on your line.
Ingredient suppliers
Make an active? We put it in front of the people who buy it.
We represent a small number of ingredient suppliers to manufacturers and brands, including water compatible emulsions for drinks. Same model: commission on what we place, agreed in writing, and a supplier we can stand behind on documentation and consistency.
Start a project
Have capacity? Let's talk.
Tell us what you run, your real minimums and where you have room on the schedule.