About FactoryCollab

What we offer today

Today we offer a matchmaking service run by people. It has four parts:

1. Finding creators. Based on the factory's product and goals, we contact local creators one by one, and give the factory a few good matches with the profile and rate each creator gave us.
2. Writing the brief. We turn the factory's wishes into a brief in the local language: what to film, when to post, and how to label it as sponsored.
3. Following up. We follow up on samples, shooting and posting, and tell both sides right away when something changes.
4. Reporting. After posting, we collect the numbers and screenshots and send the factory a one-page results report in Chinese.

The steps for creators are in How it works. For factories, the steps are in how it works for brands and fees in pricing (both in Chinese).

Why Indonesia first

We live in Indonesia. We can meet creators in person, look at samples, and we know which platforms people here buy on. We won't spread to other countries before we do one country well. We also start with only three product categories: small home goods, consumer-electronics accessories and pet supplies (see product categories, in Chinese).

The rules we keep

• We don't handle money. The brand pays the creator directly. We only charge the brand our own service fee.
• We don't scrape data in bulk. We only use the profile, rate and analytics screenshots that creators give us themselves.
• We don't vouch for numbers. Any number we have not checked is marked "not verified" in the report. How to tell if numbers are real is covered in our guides for brands (in Chinese).
• Sponsored content must be labeled. The brief says so clearly: creators use the platform's own tool to mark a post as a collab or ad. What we ask from creators is on What we ask from you.
• We tell the truth. If a factory has no stock in the creator's country, we tell them first that commission-only deals won't work. See no stock in Indonesia (in Chinese).

Why we do this

Many Chinese factories make good products that nobody in Indonesia has heard of. When they try to work with local creators, they usually get stuck in the same places: they don't know who to contact, they can't explain what they want in the local language, and after the content is filmed nobody follows up or tells them how it went. On the other side, many small Indonesian creators would happily take collabs, but few factories can tell them clearly what to film and when the money arrives.

We do the part in the middle: make both sides clear, put it in writing, and follow through. We are not building a platform or automatic matching. We do it collab by collab, by hand.

What we don't do today

• No countries other than Indonesia, and no product categories beyond the three.
• No importing, customs clearance, warehousing or opening shops, and we don't find customs agents for factories.
• We don't collect or forward creator payments, and we don't act as a middleman for money.
• No buying followers, faking numbers or fake reviews, and we never ask creators to hide a paid relationship.
• We make no promises about sales.

How to judge whether we're reliable

We have just started, so we have no past collabs to show you, and we won't make any up. Here is how to judge us:

• Money never goes through us. The brand pays the creator directly. Nobody pays us first.
• Creator profiles can be checked. Factories get each creator's profile link and can look at the content and comments themselves.
• Our rules are public. What we ask from creators is on What we ask from you. How we work with factories is on how it works for brands and pricing (in Chinese). Both sides see the same rules.
• Start small. During the trial phase, the first few factories pay no service fee. They try a few creators first and decide after reading the results report.

How to reach us

Factories and sellers fill in the brand sign-up (in Chinese). Creators fill in the creator sign-up. We read it and contact you on the details you gave us. We don't send marketing messages and we don't give your details to anyone else; see Privacy. Common questions are answered in the FAQ (factories: brand FAQ).

Related

If this is your first brand collab, start with How small creators get paid brand deals in our guides. For factories, there is 4 ways factories work with creators (in Chinese). Back to the creator home page, or read this page in Chinese: About. Factory home page: brand home page.