You have a design and want a price from factories — but no technical package. Here is exactly what to send instead, and how a clear brief gets you a faster, more accurate quotation.
A tech pack is the industry standard for instructing a factory, but most new brands do not have one at inquiry stage — and that is fine. What a factory needs to price your style is information, not a specific document format. A short brief that answers the right questions beats a long document that answers the wrong ones.
Before contacting suppliers, pull together what you already know:
You do not need every answer on day one. But the more you provide, the tighter the first estimate — and the fewer assumptions a factory has to make on your behalf.
The difference matters because new brands often freeze at the words “tech pack”. A brief communicates what you want to achieve: the look, the fit, the fabric feel, the order size. A tech pack specifies exactly how to make it: graded measurement tables, stitch types, constructions, artwork files, bills of materials.
The tech pack does not have to exist before sampling — in practice, it is developed during product development, not before it.
At Mano Garment, building the factory-ready specification from your brief is part of our product development work: our team converts reference images, measurements and comments into the documents a partner factory needs before cutting a single sample.
Copy this into an email or a one-page PDF — no special format is needed:
The quantity line and the deadline line are the two buyers forget most — and the two a factory cannot plan without.
A good sourcing team will come back with a feasibility check and a price estimate within 24 hours, ask the open questions before sampling starts rather than after, and follow with a firm quotation once the details are confirmed.
From there, development runs on the sample stages: a first proto sample in roughly 5–7 days, fit rounds after that. If you want the full picture of what each sample stage checks, see our sample approval process guide; for how to compare the quotations that come back, see what a quotation includes.
A brief is not a lesser document than a tech pack — it is the input that starts development. The brands that get fast, accurate quotations are rarely the ones with the fanciest paperwork; they are the ones that answer the right questions up front.
At Mano Garment we work from briefs, sketches, reference garments or full tech packs — and the development team turns whichever you have into factory-ready specifications.
Send your reference images, measurements and quantity — feasibility check and price estimate within 24 hours.
