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Services
Two ways I can help: making materials data trustworthy, and getting goods from China into the UK properly. Both are priced in writing before any work starts, and both come with free tools you can use on your own.
- Materials data
Materials data consulting
For teams building on materials data: audits that show where your sources disagree and which numbers to trust, reproducible data pipelines, and AI tools built for real materials workflows.
- Materials data audit
- Materials data pipeline
- AI for materials
- Import support
China sourcing and UK import support
For UK businesses buying from China and Chinese sellers selling in the UK: checked suppliers, safe payments, independent inspections and the UK import rules. Transparent fees, no factory commissions.
- Supplier search and quote pack
- Order management and inspections
- UK arrival checks
Free tools for importers
Use them on your own, no sign-up. See them grouped by the job they do.
- Plan my importFour short steps give one plan: landed cost, UK rules and documents, the order-by date and supplier checks.
- Landed-cost calculatorDuty, anti-dumping duty and import VAT for your product, from live UK Trade Tariff rates.
- Quote comparerPut up to four supplier quotes side by side and see which is really the cheapest to land.
- Supplier checkDecode the code on a Chinese business licence and run the warning signs before you pay.
- Payment safety checkCheck the bank details before you pay a supplier, and what to do if they change.
- Request for quotation builderWrite a clear request suppliers can quote on like for like.
- Canton Fair companionLog suppliers booth by booth, check their licence codes and take home a shortlist. Works offline.
- Product rules checkerTick what your product is and see the UK rules, the documents to get and what goes on the label.
- Spec sheet and AQLWrite the specification and defect list, with the inspection sample size, in English and Chinese.
- Material swap checkerThe usual material swaps (201 for 304, zinc for brass, CCA for copper), how to catch them and what to write.
- Margin calculatorFrom landed cost to profit per unit after VAT, fees, fulfilment and returns, with the break-even price.
- Price checkIs a quote too cheap to be real? Compare it with what UK importers declare per kilo and the metal in it.
- UK–China trade dataWhat the UK imports from China, by product and port, from HMRC data. Look up any product.
- Anti-dumping watchEvery UK anti-dumping duty on goods from China, with rates, codes and open investigations.
- Container and CBM plannerTurn carton sizes into cubic metres and see how many fit a 20ft or 40ft container, in 3D.
- Container number checkCheck a container number is valid, see who owns the box and open the right tracking page.
- When to order plannerWork back from the date you need stock, around Golden Week and Chinese New Year.
From the Lab
Open projects that show how I work with materials data. See all of them in the Lab.
- The Trust BenchmarkDo two major materials databases agree? An audit of 344 structure-matched materials.
- Battery Electrode Screening AgentAn agent that searches real Materials Project electrode data and grounds every claim in the literature.
- mfa-engineA reusable dynamic material flow analysis engine, tied to supply-chain risk data.
Not sure which fits?
Tell me what you are working on and I will reply by email with whether I can help and how.
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