Pudgy Penguins Reduced Product Development Timelines From One Year to Three Months

The biggest thing for us is that now we can just come up with an infinite amount of products and not have to do any of the back end work to find the right factories or do that due diligence. So all of a sudden, our creative team is completely unlocked, and anything that they can imagine, we're able to create. Hi, my name is Jason Pierciella. I work for Pudgy Penguins, and we are a Web3 brand that's transitioning to an IP character brand, and we sell physical products of penguins. When we wanted to actually make physical products, we realized pretty quickly that it was very cost prohibitive to do that domestically in the United States. We had worked with a few other factories in China, but they were usually kind of limited to a certain type of product. And when we were able to bring on, Go Get Made to work with us, they just kind of unlocked our ability to make products. So our process from idea to production is much faster. We have access to a ton of different factories and manufacturers that we never would have been able to otherwise. Prior to Go Get Made, we had been doing a lot of individual reach out to factories. Sometimes we had been working with Chinese agents to try to source things, and we realized that they just didn't have the full understanding of what we needed end to end. There was the communication issue, the timeline issues. We lost a day every time we tried to communicate because of the different working hours, and we just found it very hard to actually find the right people that we can trust and be assured that we're gonna get the quality that we acquire. And with Go Get Made, we really know that everything that we source from them, they're gonna already do quality control. They're gonna already do their due diligence on the different factories we're working with, and they're not gonna ship us anything unless it meets their standards. We knew that we needed to work overseas just to make these products at a price that we were gonna be able to make profit on. Our chief operations officer had previously worked with Go Get Made, and he already knew them and vouched for them. So when we reached out to them from kind of the first product that we made with them, we were just locked in and said, "Okay, this is the path forward. This is how we're gonna get things made," and haven't had any doubts since. I think the, the biggest thing for us is just the timeline from coming up with an idea to getting something in our hands. Process used to take us almost a full year in some cases, and we're down to less than three months in some cases now. Just the ability for us to scale and get products and, and iterate those products, it's been a complete game changer for our business. We've been satisfied overall. We've had a few hiccups along the way, things that when you're developing new products happen. We actually had a really interesting product that was a giant penguin that was vacuum sealed like a mattress and then expanded. This is kind of a new product idea. No one in, in the market is really doing this. And so we've worked through the process with them to figure out how you can deal with that compression in different temperatures when these things are shipping. We worked through a few rounds of iteration with Go Get Made, and ultimately, they ended up sending us a bunch of box protectors to make sure that the boxes were protected when they were in transit and weren't exploding. So just those little touches of being able to say, "Hey, I know we've already delivered a product. How can we make sure that you can get it to customers in a way that's satisfactory?" Working with Go Get Made has been great. Joe and Eric are really great people. They brought some more people onto the team, which has been really exciting for us, some project managers that have just helped keep everything organized. We know that they have contacts out in China that have been really helpful when we need things done quickly or sourcing done quickly. Overall, really happy with the company, the quality of the people, would recommend it to everybody. I would say anyone who's kind of in the same situation that we were in, trying to go and source your own factories, it's a lot of work, a lot of nervous nights wondering if these things are actually gonna make it to you and they're actually gonna be the things that you ordered. And working with Go Get Made has just taken that out of our minds completely. The amount of time and effort that you save is worth its weight in gold.