You don't run the factory, but you live with everything that happens inside it. Tenkara gives you the visibility, the sourcing muscle, the paper trail, and the freight control you've been asking for, without the weekly check-in call.
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Built for brands that outsource the making, not the responsibility.
Founders and operators running production through co-packers and contract manufacturers, with launches riding on dates they can't see
Brands that source their own materials, buying actives, ingredients, or packaging directly, and feeding them to a co-packer on a deadline
Ops and supply chain leads juggling manufacturers, packaging vendors, and 3PLs that don't share a system
"Where's my order?" shouldn't be a weekly phone call.
Your product moves through procurement, production, testing, and shipping, and today, the only way to check is asking someone directly. Tenkara shows you where every order stands with a live ETA built from real material lead times and the actual production schedule, so you plan the launch off a date, not a guess.
"Retail wanted a firm date. For the first time, I gave them one without calling anyone." — Founder, beverage brand
You source the materials. The co-packer just runs them.
If your manufacturing isn't turnkey, the sourcing is yours: finding suppliers, chasing quotes, checking certs, landing materials before the run slot. Tenkara works it like a full procurement team, suppliers found and vetted to your specs, the email back-and-forth handled, every quote chased to an answer, and deliveries tracked against your production date, not just an arrival date.
"We supply our own actives to the lab. Tenkara found two backup suppliers and handled every email. I read the threads after." — Founder, skincare brand
It's your name on the label. It's their filing cabinet holding the proof.
The gluten-free claim, the organic cert, the lot testing: when a customer, retailer, or lawyer asks, the documentation lives at your manufacturer and arrives on their timeline. Tenkara keeps the certs, test results, and lot traces for your products current and in your hands, so the claim on your label always has the paper behind it, retrievable in a minute, not a week.
"A blogger came after our gluten-free claim. We had the full testing trial on that lot before the post got traction." — Co-founder, snack brand
Your freight is a line item you've never controlled.
Materials inbound to the co-packer, finished goods out to the 3PL or straight to retail, today it's booked by whoever's closest and priced by whoever answers. Tenkara puts it in your hands: one fixed rate from a published card, booked in a click, tracked pickup to dock. The spend gets visible, and the "shipment's stuck" surprise stops arriving via your angriest retailer.
"We were paying whatever the co-packer's broker charged. Now we book it ourselves and see every load." — Ops lead, personal care brand
Growth orders shouldn't require choosing between inventory and payroll.
The retailer commits, the PO is huge, and the manufacturer wants a deposit months before you see revenue. Tenkara connects you to third-party financing at the point of order, fund the production run, pay on your timeline, and the manufacturer is paid up front, so the relationship never carries the strain.
Before Tenkara
Order status is a phone call. Sourcing is your nights and weekends. Compliance proof lives in someone else's drive. Freight is whatever got booked. Big POs strain the bank before they pay.
After Tenkara
Every order visible with a live date. Suppliers found, chased, and delivered on your schedule. Your paper trail, in your hands. Freight booked and tracked by you. Growth orders funded, manufacturer paid day one.
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