Will my manufacturer actually use this?

They never log in. The request is a plain email with a link. The link opens an upload page listing exactly what is needed: no account, no password, works on a phone, under a minute. Their least-technical person can do it from the factory floor.

What about the one who sends a photo of a printout?

We read it like anything else. Every field comes out with a confidence score; anything the photo makes uncertain lands in your review queue instead of being guessed. And if a document genuinely can't be read, it is reported as unreadable, with the reason, which is what the reviewer would have said too, later and more expensively.

Do I have to move the Drive folder over?

Drop it in, or don't. There is no folder structure to rebuild: each document says what it is, and it files itself against the right product and lot. Your naming convention can retire.

How is this different from my calendar reminder?

The reminder tells you to look. This already looked. Expiry warnings go out at 60, 30 and 14 days for the documents that actually matter, and each one names the product, the document, and the button that closes it.

Can I try it without asking my boss?

The check is free and needs no signup. The portal is free at every catalogue size, and you can walk through the product with sample data before creating an account. Bring the number to the conversation instead of the pitch.

For the person who does the chasing

You sent them three emails.
Don’t send a fourth.

Three manufacturers, three time zones. One replies in four days, one sends a photo of a printout, one needs a reminder. You keep the folder, you keep the reminder you’ve snoozed nine times, and you carry the whole thing in your head. This is the part that becomes someone else’s job.

Get in touch See the product

No card, no account, and no call to book. Tell us what you make and where you sell it, and we will come back to you.

01. The chase

One click. Then it is not your email anymore.

When a document is missing or about to age out, you press one button. Your manufacturer gets a plain email naming exactly what is needed, with a link to an upload page: no account, no password, under a minute on a phone. If nothing arrives, the follow-ups go out on day 5 and day 12. You did not write them. You will not write them.

One request per manufacturer, grouping everything they owe, not one email per document.
The upload lands filed against the right product and lot. Nobody renames a file.
You see the whole thread, sent, opened and uploaded, without opening your inbox.

Fulfilled

The upload is filed against the right product and lot. Gap closed.

Every manufacturer interaction is a no-login link or a plain email, never an account.

02. The forwarding address

Add one address to the thread. The attachments file themselves.

Your manufacturer already emails you test results. Your account gets its own address; put it on the thread and every attachment is read, matched to the product and lot it belongs to, and checked, before you have opened it. The Drive folder with the naming convention only you understand can retire.

Your address looks like

your-brand@files.compliantalways.com

Cc it: on the thread where the results already arrive
Forward it: the twenty PDFs sitting in Gmail from the last two years
Or drop it: a scan from your phone; there is no folder to choose

Review queue: 1 field waitingCOA_lot4471.pdf

Lot code4471-Bconf 0.98Verified
Report date2026-06-14conf 0.97Verified
Lead (Pb) result< 0.05 ppmconf 0.71Needs review

Two fields filed themselves. One is shown to you beside the spot on the page it came from: confirm or correct, next document. Illustrative values.

03. The review queue

Under twenty seconds a document. Usually less.

Every value read from a document carries a confidence score and a pointer to where on the page it came from. The confident ones file themselves. Only the uncertain ones reach you (the smudged lot code, the result on the photo of a printout) beside the exact spot on the page, so you confirm or correct and move on. We never guess, and “we could not read this” is always an answer we are allowed to give.

04. The packs button

When someone asks for everything, it is one button.

Whoever asks, the reviewer, a retailer’s buyer or an inspector, you press one button and they get a complete, current set ordered the way they expect it. Before it goes out, every document is checked the way their reviewer will check it: is it current, is every required field present, does the lot match. Problems surface here, while there is time to fix them, not in a rejection.

01TIC submission packfor the reviewer Amazon has approved

02Retailer onboarding packfor the buyer who asks for “your compliance documentation” in one email

03FDA inspection packfor the day an inspector visits

What this is not

It is not a substitute for your judgment, and it never gives legal advice. It reads documents, checks them against a cited list of what should be there, and chases what is missing. Whether a result is close enough, whether to escalate a slow manufacturer, what to do with a borderline reading: those stay with you.

Compliant Always organises and checks compliance documents. It is not legal or regulatory advice, and it does not guarantee the outcome of any review by any platform, retailer, or agency. You remain responsible for your products and your submissions.

The questions people ask

Will my manufacturer actually use this?: They never log in. The request is a plain email with a link. The link opens an upload page listing exactly what is needed: no account, no password, works on a phone, under a minute. Their least-technical person can do it from the factory floor.
What about the one who sends a photo of a printout?: We read it like anything else. Every field comes out with a confidence score; anything the photo makes uncertain lands in your review queue instead of being guessed. And if a document genuinely can't be read, it is reported as unreadable, with the reason, which is what the reviewer would have said too, later and more expensively.
Do I have to move the Drive folder over?: Drop it in, or don't. There is no folder structure to rebuild: each document says what it is, and it files itself against the right product and lot. Your naming convention can retire.
How is this different from my calendar reminder?: The reminder tells you to look. This already looked. Expiry warnings go out at 60, 30 and 14 days for the documents that actually matter, and each one names the product, the document, and the button that closes it.
Can I try it without asking my boss?: The check is free and needs no signup. The portal is free at every catalogue size, and you can walk through the product with sample data before creating an account. Bring the number to the conversation instead of the pitch.

Retire the reminder. Keep the job.

Run the documents you have through the free check and see what a reviewer would say about them. Then walk through the product with sample data, the queue, the chase and the packs, before you bring it to anyone.