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Get found by brands who are already trying to make something.

Runsheet is where founders come to find factories. Most of them arrive before they’re ready: no tech pack, no patterns, no graded spec. They need you first. Listing is free, there are no bidding fees, and every request comes with the brand’s contact details so you can reply straight to them. Nothing is deducted from what you charge.

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What being listed on Runsheet means

Everything here comes with the free listing. None of it is a paid tier.

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A public profile page
Your specialties, how you charge, a photo, up to a dozen portfolio images, brands you've worked with and reviews. A link you can send anyone.
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A place in the consultant directory
Brands search by specialty, category, location and availability. Most arrive looking for a factory and find out they need you first.
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Requests straight to your inbox
A brand sends a short request with their name, email and what they need. You reply to them directly.
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An availability switch
Booked up? Turn it off. Free again? Turn it on. Brands see where you stand before they write.
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Reviews from the brands you work with
Send clients your review link from your dashboard. Approved reviews and your rating show on your profile.
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The Workroom
Ask other consultants, recommend people you trust, find factories. Answers marked helpful show on your profile and move you up the directory.
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Your own dashboard
Edit your listing any time, post a brief to factories for a client, keep saved factories and quotes, and buy tech pack drafts when you need them.
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A global factory directory
Thousands of factories in the US and overseas, filterable by capability and minimums — the list you'd otherwise keep in a spreadsheet.

How it works

Four steps, and only the first one takes any of your time.

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Fill out the listing form
About five minutes. Your specialties, where you're based, how you charge, a short description, a photo or logo and a few portfolio images if you have them handy.
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A person reads it
Not an algorithm. I check that you're a real practitioner and that your specialties are described in language a brand founder will understand. If something needs tightening I'll email you rather than reject it silently.
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Your profile goes live
You'll get an email with a link to your dashboard, where you set up your login and can edit your listing whenever you like: availability, rates, portfolio, anything.
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Brands find you and get in touch
They search by specialty, location and availability, then send a short request through Runsheet. It lands in your inbox with their name, email and what they need. You reply directly, and nothing is deducted from what you charge.

What it costs

The short version: nothing, and there’s no mechanism by which it could quietly become something.

Free to list
No listing fee, no subscription, no upgrade tier that unlocks being visible.
No bidding fees
You never pay for the privilege of being considered. No credits, no tokens, no connects.
No commission
You quote your rate, the brand pays your rate. We take nothing off the top.
Direct contact
A brand's first message reaches you through Runsheet with their contact details attached. After that it's your email thread, with no fee either way.
So how does Runsheet make money?

Factories pay for membership, and consultants who want to run their client work on Runsheet choose Pro-Studio, the optional tools further down this page. Neither one touches your listing. Being found and contacted by brands is free, with no bidding fees and no commission, and that isn’t an introductory rate waiting to be withdrawn.

“100% agree with you about Upwork — exhausting and never got anywhere with it. I like that you haven’t added bidding tokens on there, because otherwise I wouldn’t bother.”

— Renée Bedell, the first consultant to list on Runsheet

Who this is for

If you take a brand from idea to something a factory can quote, you belong here.

  • Pattern makers — first patterns, corrections, digitising, grading
  • Technical designers — tech packs, spec sheets, points of measure, fit comments
  • Product developers — the whole path from sketch to approved sample
  • 3D and CLO3D specialists — digital sampling and virtual fit
  • Sourcing consultants — fabric, trims, and finding the right mill
  • Formulation and packaging specialists — for the beauty, supplement and food brands using Runsheet

Remote is fine. Most of this work happens over email and shared files anyway, and the factories on Runsheet are in the US and overseas, so the people helping brands get there can be anywhere too.

What you’ll need

Have these to hand and the form takes five minutes.

  • Your name and a one-line description of what you do
  • Your specialties — pick from a list, no writing required
  • City and country, and roughly how available you are right now
  • How you charge — hourly, day rate, per project; “depends on scope” is a fine answer
  • A short paragraph about your work, a photo or logo, and a portfolio link or a few images if you have them
  • An email address brands can reach you on

Tools, if you want them

Separate from your listing, and entirely optional — once you’re listed.

Built for independent consultants and small teams running a handful of client brands at a time — not enterprise PLM, and not priced like it.

Runsheet Core
$49 one-time
  • 3 tech pack drafts, yours whenever you use them
  • Technical flats, bill of materials and construction details from a reference photo, in about ten minutes each
Pro-Studio
$99 /month · founding rate for the first 10 studios ($199 list) · 14-day free trial
  • 20 tech pack drafts a month
  • Clients, sampling, costing, collections and line sheets in one place
  • A client portal for every brand you work with, with approvals, files and a thread to you
  • Proposals clients accept online, milestone invoicing, and fabric spec sheets your mills fill in
List free first, then choose a plan →

Why that order: both plans live inside your consultant dashboard, and the dashboard comes with your listing. So list first — it’s free and takes about five minutes — and either one is a click away from there whenever you want it.

To be clear: your listing is free whether or not you ever choose one. It doesn’t affect whether brands can find you or how you get contacted — these are tools for the work itself. Pro-Studio starts with a 14-day free trial: $0 today, first charge on day 15. Cancel anytime from your billing page, or by emailing me.

Being straight with you: this is early

Runsheet has 6,353+ factories listed and brands searching it, but the consultant side is new — 23 consultants are listed so far. I’d rather tell you that than have you discover it.

What that means in practice: less competition than you’d face anywhere else, and a real say in how this works. The first consultants to list have already changed how the directory is built. It also means I can’t promise you a project next week. If you want the upside of being early and can live with that, list yourself. If you need volume today, this isn’t it yet.

For what it’s worth, I do this work too — SÔZ Studios Atelier is listed on the directory alongside everyone else. I built the thing I wanted to be found on.

List yourself — free

Five minutes, reviewed by a person, and you can edit it from your dashboard whenever you like.

Start your listing →
No fees, no bidding, no commission.
Questions before you list? Email info@runsheet.tech — it comes straight to me.
Or browse the consultants already listed.