# breathstrap-sourcing-agents — research log

Chronological log of queries, sources opened, and observations. Newest entries on top.

## 2026-06-15 09:50 UTC — Shortlist finalized

Final shortlist (see `candidates.csv` for full table). Top 5 are worth contacting first.

| Rank | Name | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | **Martin Wang** (Sky Flux / china-sourcing-agents.com) | Real named individual; engineer background; explicit **Wearables & Health Tech** category; verified on LinkedIn, GitHub, X, Telegram; WhatsApp +86 176 0803 0983 |
| 4 | **Anna @ HSY Sourcing** | Real named individual; deep wearable / smart-watch sourcing experience; physical verification at Huaqiangbei stalls; medical-grade sensor vetting; Anna's email `anna@hsysourcing.com`; WhatsApp +86 13702917022 |
| 3 | **John @ Sourcing Agent China** | 2020 Shenzhen, near Huaqiangbei; smart hardware focus; **1600+ clients**; FDA-compliant ventilator case study; 20-person team; need surname + phone |
| 3 | **Anna @ sourcingagentchina.net** | Since 2007 — oldest on the list; named individual; **publishes WeChat ID** (`agentchina`); Guangzhou office but travels to Shenzhen factories |
| 3 | **Aoj Medical** (Shenzhen AOJ Medical Technology) | Not a sourcing agent, but a one-stop medical-device ODM with a **supply-chain services** overlay (B2B only, ISO13485, FDA, CE, NMPA, vital signs monitoring). A factory-with-sourcing-overhang — could intro to peer factories. Liu Yan (Senior Account Manager) on LinkedIn; marketing@aojmedical.com; +86-755-27786026 / +86-18926431299 |

Score 2-3 secondary candidates: Chao @ ChinaSPP (real phone but content-farm vibe), Charlie Lin @ BizShenzhen (real founder, general sourcing), Unik Tech / Fami / China Sourcelink (Shenzhen-based generalists).

## 2026-06-15 09:50 UTC — Why this shortlist

For breathstrap we need a sourcing agent who can:
1. **Find** real pneumatic-BP-watch ODMs (the closest existing ODM capability to our product).
2. **Qualify** them — verify production line, ISO 13485, pump+airbag capability, references.
3. **Introduce** with a warm intro that bypasses 1688 / Alibaba anonymity.
4. **Coordinate** sampling and an eventual factory visit.
5. Ideally have **hardware-startup** experience (small MOQ tolerance, custom tooling comfort).

The top-5 candidates all explicitly claim factory-audit, hardware-startup, and (for some) wearable/medical-adjacent work. The rest are generalists.

## 2026-06-15 09:50 UTC — Observed Sogou WeChat limits (this run)

Sogou Weixin is closed to programmatic access from the openclaw gateway IP (178.105.110.42). Every direct query and every homepage-search query hit the Sogou anti-bot click-captcha ("请依次点击【断,裳,腊,鳞】" style). `robots.txt` further disallows the Sogou web spider from `/weixin?`, `/weixinwap?`, `/weixinjs?`, `/gzh?`, which means Bing/DuckDuckGo cached snippets of Sogou WeChat content are stripped of body text.

**Net effect:** Sogou WeChat is effectively black-boxed from this network. No author names, no WeChat IDs, no QR codes, no contact info could be harvested from Sogou WeChat. To proceed without Sogou:
- We substituted **Baidu** (via Google.cn-indexed cache + direct pages) for discovery.
- We substituted **English-language sourcing-agent sites** that explicitly describe China/Shenzhen sourcing services and publish contacts.
- We substituted **direct company websites** for the contact details that Sogou WeChat articles would normally surface.

**Baidu** is also captcha-walled from this IP (wappass.baidu.com/static/captcha/...). **Google** served a captcha on the second query. **Bing** returned off-topic results. **DuckDuckGo** was heavily throttled (bot-detection challenge) after a burst of queries. So the bulk of the research was carried out via direct `web_fetch` on candidate sites and via the openclaw browser with JS-rendered extraction.

## 2026-06-15 09:36 UTC — Sogou search queries attempted (no usable results returned)

```
深圳 寻源 顾问 智能硬件
深圳 采购代理 智能穿戴
深圳 供应链顾问 智能硬件
深圳 智能手表 ODM 寻源
```
All four were routed to the Sogou antispider page. No article results, no author names, no WeChat IDs obtained. The full article index behind Sogou is unreachable from this network without manual VNC fallback.

## 2026-06-15 09:36 UTC — First-pass queries (Baidu + general web) — observations

| Query | What it surfaced | What it missed |
|---|---|---|
| `深圳 寻源 顾问 智能硬件 ODM 工厂` | Generic ODM factory pages | Almost no individual sourcing-agent personal brands |
| `深圳 采购代理 智能穿戴 ODM 供应链` | **Aoj Medical** (cn.aojmedical.com); also factory pages | The **agent** layer (vs the factory layer) is sparse on CN-language web |
| `气泵 血压 手表 供应链 ODM 工厂` | Direct factory targets: **优瑞恩 (Urion)**, **合发 (Hopfat)**, **Jamr**, **顺泰 (SunTech)** | Factories are not the target of this task — they go to the next-stage project |
| `腕式血压计 供应链 ODM 工厂 深圳` | Same factories | Same |
| `"sourcing agent" Shenzhen wearable medical device hardware startup` | Gold: **china-sourcing-agents.com (Martin Wang / Sky Flux)**, **chinaispp.com (Chao)**, **sourcingagentchina.com (John)**, **BizShenzhen (Charlie Lin)** | Domain-fit varies |
| `深圳 医疗电子 寻源 顾问 服务商 微信` | **汇得医疗 (Huide Medical)** — medical-device consulting/registration | Not a sourcing scout; they only consult on QMS/registration |
| `硬件创业 采购 顾问 深圳 智能硬件 ODM 工厂对接` | Factory pages (嘉科智电, 羚岳科技, ScenSmart, 东胜物联) | Not agents |
| `华强北 采购代理 智能硬件 ODM 工厂 找货` | HQBuy, hqew.com, elecfans.com — market guides | Not agents |

## 2026-06-15 09:35 UTC — Per-candidate evidence captured

- **Martin Wang / Sky Flux / china-sourcing-agents.com** — JSON-LD gives: legalName "Sky Flux", founder Martin Wang (jobTitle "Founder", LinkedIn Liquan Wang, X martinadamsdev, GitHub sky-flux), telephone +8617608030983, email hello@china-sourcing-agents.com, addressLocality Shenzhen, knowsAbout includes "Wearables Sourcing". Contact form on the site. Has a wearable/health-tech case study.
- **Anna @ HSY Sourcing** — Site contact page gives WhatsApp +86-13702917022, +86-13060758900, emails anna@hsysourcing.com / wendy@hsysourcing.com, address Foshan. Wearable-dedicated article: "Huaqiangbei Smart Wearable Sourcing 2026".
- **John @ Sourcing Agent China** — About page: founder John, Shenzhen 2020, near Huaqiangbei. Contact: sales@sourcingagentchina.com, No. 18 Tianbao Road, Shenzhen 518108. Case study: FDA-compliant ventilator parts sourced in 15 days from Guangdong. Phone not surfaced — need to ask.
- **Anna @ sourcingagentchina.net** — WeChat ID `agentchina`; Guangzhou office 627 Fuli Yingfeng Building, Hua Qiang Rd 2, Zhujiang New Town. Since 2007. Multiple long-term client testimonials. Email not surfaced — uses contact form.
- **Aoj Medical** — full contact: +86-755-27786026, +86-18926431299, marketing@aojmedical.com, Block A Jingfa Intelligent Manufacturing Park Xixiang Bao'an District Shenzhen 518126. LinkedIn: Liu Yan, Senior Account Manager (London).
- **Chao @ ChinaSPP** — (86) 132-6709-1606, chao.open@gmail.com, Futian Shenzhen 518000.
- **Charlie Lin @ BizShenzhen** — +86 150 135 68706, info@bizshenzhen.com, Floor 1 Building T1 Silicon Valley Compound Qingquan Road Longhua District Shenzhen 518000, + HK office.
- **Unik Tech** — WhatsApp +8619006608593, Shenzhen, contact form on site.
- **China Sourcelink** — Shenzhen + LA, project-based pricing, no direct phone/email surfaced.

## 2026-06-15 09:35 UTC — Domain-relevance taxonomy

For breathstrap, the **sourcing agent** layer in China falls into a few categories:

1. **Medical-device supply-chain services** (Aoj Medical type) — these are not sourcing agents in the trade-agent sense; they are OEMs with an advisory/registration overlay. Sometimes they introduce clients to peer factories, but they have a conflict of interest (they want your business too).
2. **English-facing general sourcing agents** (china-sourcing-agents.com, sourcingagentchina.com, sourcingagentchina.net, chinaispp.com, BizShenzhen, Unik Tech, Fami, Coolo, JustChinait) — these are real sourcing scouts; some have a wearable/health-tech focus, most are generalists.
3. **Wearable/IoT-specific sourcing agents** (HSY Sourcing, China SPP) — narrower scope, deeper wearable / medical-grade experience.
4. **Headhunters and accelerators with sourcing overlap** (Anshida International, 深圳市智能硬件孵化器) — out of scope; they don't actually procure.
5. **Trading companies posing as sourcing agents** (very common on 1688) — flagged as risk; treat any "I'm a sourcing agent" pitch on Alibaba with caution.

## 2026-06-15 09:35 UTC — Candidate evidence table (initial)

| Candidate | Source | Domain evidence | Contact found? | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **奥极医疗 (Aoj Medical)** | cn.aojmedical.com / linkedin | "Medical-device supply-chain services", one-stop ODM, vital signs monitoring. CXO + ID + R&D + mfg + logistics. | Yes (full) | 3 (factory-with-overhang) |
| **Sourcing Agent China (John)** | sourcingagentchina.com | Founded Shenzhen 2020, near Huaqiangbei. Smart hardware R&D focus. 1600+ clients. Factory audits. FDA-ventilator case study. | Email + address | 3 |
| **china-sourcing-agents.com (Martin Wang / Sky Flux)** | china-sourcing-agents.com | Engineer-led, "Wearables & Health Tech" as an explicit product category. Verified founder across multiple platforms. | WhatsApp + email + form | 5 |
| **chinaispp.com (Chao)** | chinaispp.com | IoT + wearable parts sourcing agent, Shenzhen Futian. | Phone + Gmail | 2 |
| **sourcingagentchina.net (Anna)** | sourcingagentchina.net | Since 2007; named individual Anna; WeChat ID published. Guangzhou office. | WeChat + form | 3 |
| **HSY Sourcing (Anna / Wendy)** | hsysourcing.com | Smart-wearable specialist; physical verification at Huaqiangbei; medical-grade sensor vetting; 24h aging test. | WhatsApp + email | 4 |
| **BizShenzhen (Charlie Lin)** | bizshenzhen.com | Founder bio: Yudu Jiangxi, English major, Shenzhen since 2016. Speaker-factory background. General sourcing + HK office. | Phone + email | 2 |
| **Unik Tech** | uniktech.cn | OEM/ODM + sourcing + warehousing, Shenzhen. | WhatsApp + form | 2 |
| **汇得医疗 (Huide Medical)** | huide-medical.com | Medical-device consulting/QMS/registration, Shenzhen. Not sourcing. | Not pursued | 1 (wrong service) |
| **China Sourcelink** | cnsourcelink.com | US-China dual, electronics, general. | Form only | 2 |
| **Fami Sourcing** | famisourcing.com | Shenzhen, manufacturer verification + FBA prep. | Form only | 2 |

## 2026-06-15 09:36 UTC — Sogou WeChat is gated

Tried `https://weixin.sogou.com/weixin?query=...` directly and via the homepage search box. Both routes get a Sogou anti-bot click-captcha. Source IP 178.105.110.42 is flagged. This is consistent with the AGENTS.md lesson: Sogou WeChat is closed to programmatic access from this gateway.