Vet a supplier from the evidence in front of you
Paste the supplier listing, store details, review excerpts, shipping estimate, and message history into Claude for a structured risk review; Claude does not fetch live AliExpress data or connect to the supplier account.
Prepare
Bring the evidence and boundaries
Claude is most useful here when the source material and the stopping rule are explicit.
- The supplier listing text and screenshots, including variants, unit price, shipping estimate, and stated processing time
- Representative recent reviews, especially complaints about delivery, quality, tracking, refunds, or item mismatch
- Any supplier messages, sample-order results, backup supplier options, and your required delivery window
Run
Start with a prompt built for this test
Replace the placeholders with your product, store, supplier, creative, or metric context.
Use only the AliExpress listing, reviews, screenshots, and supplier messages I paste. Assess shipping-time risk, quality mismatch, dispute patterns, communication, and pricing headroom. List missing evidence and end with pass, conditional pass, or reject.
Review
Check the reasoning before the action
Keep facts, assumptions, production choices, and consequential decisions easy to inspect.
- Organizes the supplied evidence into fulfillment, product quality, communication, and commercial-risk sections
- Flags inconsistent shipping claims, repeated complaint patterns, unclear variants, and weak dispute signals
- Calculates visible pricing headroom from the costs and selling range you provide
- Produces follow-up questions, sample checks, and a pass, conditional pass, or reject recommendation
What you get
A useful output, with the limits still visible
A supplier vetting sheet grounded only in the material you supplied, with risks, missing proof, questions to ask, and a review decision.
Ready to run it
Take the next decision out of the guesswork.
Open the prompt in Claude, review the assumptions, and keep store changes or spend behind your approval.
Direct answers
What to know before you run this workflow
What do I need to start vet a supplier from the evidence in front of you?
Start with the supplier listing text and screenshots, including variants, unit price, shipping estimate, and stated processing time. Add the remaining context listed in the steps so Claude can distinguish confirmed facts from assumptions.
What should I verify before using this supplier vetting workflow?
Verify the source material, cost or policy assumptions, and any missing fact Claude marks. Treat the output as a structured operating draft. Keep store changes, spend, supplier decisions, and legal or platform-policy judgments behind your own review.
Does Claude make the final decision for me?
No. A supplier vetting sheet grounded only in the material you supplied, with risks, missing proof, questions to ask, and a review decision. You remain responsible for checking the evidence, approving consequential actions, and deciding whether the result fits the store, customer promise, economics, and current platform requirements.