Curated PDF catalogs
PDF catalogs per origin, craft, buyer type, and supplier. Download, share with your team, or attach to buyer presentations. Generated at build time from the same research records as the site, each with its verification status.
What is inside a catalog
Each PDF is a snapshot of one slice of the supplier file, built at the same time as the site from the same records, so a catalog and the page it came from never disagree. An origin catalog collects the craft clusters recorded for one country; a craft catalog narrows that to a single material within one country; a persona catalog gathers the records selected against one buyer type's stated criteria.
- The record header — trading name, city where the listing places it, the crafts it is associated with, and the year of establishment where a record states one.
- Evidence state — whether the record is verified, publicly grounded, or pending moderation, printed on the record rather than buried in a legend.
- Commercial fields — minimum order quantity, indicative unit band, lead time and sample policy, shown only for records that have supplied a dated quotation for a defined specification.
- Buyer checks — the outstanding questions for that craft and origin, so the catalog is usable as a call sheet rather than only as a brochure.
How buyers use them
The common pattern is internal circulation. A catalog travels well through an organisation that will not click through a website: it goes into a range-review deck, a merchandising meeting, or a mail to a finance colleague who needs to see minimum order quantities before approving a trial buy. It is also a stable artefact to attach to a request for quotation, so every candidate supplier is answering against the same brief.
They are equally useful as a working document for a sourcing trip. Printed, a craft catalog is a checklist of what to ask each workshop and what evidence to collect, and the buyer-check lines are written to be ticked off in a meeting rather than read at a desk.
What the catalogs do not contain
No catalog contains a live price. Unit figures move with material cost, order size, finish and freight, and a number printed in a PDF months ago is worse than no number because it gets quoted back at a supplier as though it were a commitment. Where a band appears it is dated and attributed to a specific quotation for a specific specification.
They also carry no claim we have not evidenced. A record that has not cleared the checks described in our sourcing standards appears with its evidence state on the page rather than being quietly omitted or quietly promoted, and certifications are listed as claimed until the issuing body has confirmed them. If you need something the catalogs cannot give you, the supplier research records show the same records with their full evidence tables, and the sourcing guides explain how to obtain the missing figures yourself.
By origin
By craft
By buyer persona
How often they change
Catalogs are regenerated with the site, so a download reflects the file as it stood at the last build rather than a document maintained separately on a slower cycle. That also means a catalog you saved months ago may name records whose evidence state has since changed — a certificate that lapsed, a reference that was confirmed, a record withdrawn at the supplier's request. Re-download before you circulate one to a buying committee, and treat the page it came from as the authoritative version if the two ever disagree.
If a catalog you expect is missing from the lists above, it is because no PDF was generated for that combination — usually because we hold too few records in that cluster for a document to be worth producing. The sourcing guides cover those crafts editorially in the meantime.
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