Trust & Disclosure
Factory audit and due diligence: how manufacturer evidence is shared
Brief & Branch coordinates production through a qualified Philippine manufacturing partner. This page explains when identity, authorizations and facility evidence are disclosed, and why disclosure is staged.
Direct answer: manufacturer identity and current facility information are shared with qualified clients during approved NDA and technical due diligence. Qualified buyers review the full evidence before committing to production. Only the public naming is withheld, not the diligence itself.
Why It Is Staged
Staged disclosure protects every party in the program
Publicly naming the manufacturing partner would expose its client relationships and commercial arrangements. It would also expose yours, once your ingredient program is in production with the same facility.
Staging solves this without weakening diligence. Qualified buyers receive identity, current authorizations, documents in scope and a facility review path before any production commitment. Unqualified traffic receives none of it.
For the same reason, this page intentionally contains no factory images, manufacturer names or document previews. Evidence is reviewed in current form by the people entitled to review it.
The Disclosure Path
Five stages from public information to facility review
Qualification boundary
- Purpose
- Confirm the project is commercially credible before any confidential disclosure begins.
- What happens
- The fit assessment reviews branches, expected volumes, forecast, packaging, target cost and launch timing. Projects without a credible recurring forecast stop here.
- What is shared
- Program stages, qualification criteria and documentation categories are public. Manufacturer identity is not disclosed at this stage.
Mutual NDA
- Purpose
- Protect confidential information on both sides before technical and facility disclosure.
- What happens
- Both parties sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement. It typically covers manufacturer identity, technical documents and project-specific commercial terms. The same agreement protects your concept, formula information and rollout plans.
- What is shared
- The NDA itself and its scope, agreed in writing before any confidential material moves.
Buyer technical information requirements
- Purpose
- Scope the diligence to your actual project. Due diligence runs in both directions.
- What happens
- Before document access, we ask for a structured product brief: application, flavor count, volumes, packaging, documentation requirements and named decision participants. This determines which facility evidence and regulatory documents are in scope for your review.
- What is shared
- A confirmed diligence scope, so neither side reviews or discloses more than the project requires.
Document-room process
- Purpose
- Give qualified clients direct review of the evidence behind the program.
- What happens
- After NDA and technical review, qualified clients receive controlled access to manufacturer identity, current authorizations and the diligence documents in scope. Documents are reviewed in current form rather than as public downloads. Questions are answered through the coordinated process and recorded.
- What is shared
- Identity, authorizations, specification and quality documents in scope, and project-specific commercial terms.
Audit request and scheduling
- Purpose
- Allow qualified clients to verify facility evidence directly where their diligence requires it.
- What happens
- Audit requests are made through the program and coordinated with the manufacturing partner. Scope, participants and timing are agreed in advance through the approved process and confirmed in writing. Findings are handled under the same NDA as the rest of the diligence.
- What is shared
- Facility evidence through the approved audit process, with traceability and change control reviewed in scope.
The Limit of Confidentiality
What confidentiality cannot override
The NDA governs commercial confidentiality. It does not, and cannot, override mandatory disclosure. Label information and regulatory disclosures required by law are always honored, regardless of any confidentiality staging on this site.
Where law or your supply agreement requires manufacturer information on a label, registration or regulatory filing, that requirement is met in full. Staged disclosure applies to public marketing of the program, never to legal obligations owed to you, to your customers or to regulators.
How the underlying documents are structured is covered on the Quality & Documentation page.
Next Step
Diligence starts with qualification
The NDA and document room open after commercial fit is confirmed. Share your branches, volumes, packaging and timing, and we will review whether the project is ready.
Begin With the Fit Assessment