Launch accelerator · for first-time Amazon sellers

Your first product on Amazon. Without the $5,000 masterclass or the $4,000 agency.

Cratesignal is a lifesaver, not a masterclass — AI-guided product research, a vetted supplier network, and a small launch pod, so a complete beginner lands on a viable SKU in the first two weeks and ships a first product in the first quarter.

Join the free tier
No credit card for the free tier. $499 for the personalized research pack.
14 days
Median SKU time-to-first-po
US · EU · Asia
Vetted suppliers across
5 people
Members in a launch pod

The Cratesignal mark

logo · since 2026

A clean crate. A small antenna. Signal waves rising from it. That is the whole brand — a freight container that started listening.

Free · this month's brief
One researched product idea a month, free. Landed cost, viability score, and a take-it-to-sourcing path.
Read this month's brief

Why now

The playbook that worked in 2022 doesn't work in 2025.

De minimis closure, FTC enforcement, and rising agency fees left a gap no $5k masterclass fills.

Aug 2025
Section 321 de minimis is done.
The old 'pick a cheap Shenzhen SKU, ship in unmarked polybags' path stopped working when the de minimis exemption closed for most cross-border parcels. Landed-cost models that ignore tariffs now miss the cheapest viable SKU by 20–40%.
Effective 2024
FTC Amazon Rule on fake reviews.
Reviews for compensation are now an FTC enforcement matter. Every listing on Cratesignal goes through a plain-English compliance check before launch — so you don't have to learn the rule by reading it in a take-down notice.
2024 → 2025
Agency retainers crossed $4k/mo.
Agency pricing climbed roughly 30–35% year over year as more would-be sellers hired out what used to be DIY. Cratesignal rebuilds the same workflow — research, sourcing, listing, PPC — at a one-time $1,499 flat, with weekly accountability built in.

What you actually get

Five capabilities that replace six logins.

Most first-timers juggle a research tool, a supplier portal, a compliance feed, a listing draft app, an ads console, and a spreadsheet. Cratesignal folds all of it into one dashboard with a small group of humans who keep you from drifting.

Capability · 01
AI-assisted product discovery.
Our discovery model is trained on category velocity, review velocity, and tariff-adjusted landed cost — so the first SKU you look at is the one a pro would've emailed you about.
Category velocity+12.4%  30-day
Review velocity+0.7% / day
Tariff-adjusted landed cost$4.10 / unit
Capability · 02
A vetted supplier network.
No scrolling Alibaba at 1am. Every supplier on Cratesignal has been visited, sampled, and paid-on-net-30 by a member of our sourcing team — and they know our minimum-order standards for first-timers.
Chicago, ILLight assembly · 6 partner factories
US
Rotterdam, NLPantone-true printing · 4 partners
EU
Yiwu, CNLow-MOQ tooling · 9 partners
Asia
Penang, MYMold-ready · 3 partners
Asia
Capability · 03
A launch pod of five.
Every member is placed in a small pod with a mentor, a sourcing lead, and three peer sellers on the same launch date. Each week the pod gets a compliance brief — plain-English, dated, and signed off by the sourcing lead.
01MentorPast 2 launches · brand registry
02Sourcing leadAsia desk · compliance review
03Peer seller ALaunch date 14d ago
04Peer seller BLaunch date 14d ago
05Peer seller CLaunch date 14d ago
Capability · 04
One dashboard for the whole launch.
Listings, sponsored-products, brand-registry onboarding, and inventory planning all live in the same window — so a novice executes without juggling six logins.
cratesignal.app / launch-001
ListingsDrafted · 4 parent + 12 variations
Live
PPCAuto · 3 campaigns, 0.92 ACOS
Syncing
Brand registryTrademark live · A+ eligible
Live
InventoryAwaiting PO · reorder at 320 units
Idle

Two weeks from brief to first PO

How Cratesignal works.

Most "mentorship" programs start and stop at a Zoom call. Cratesignal is built so each step produces a tangible artefact: a SKU list, a sourced PO, a live listing.

  1. Brief — 20 minutes.
    You fill out a 12-question brief: time budget, capital range, category interests, and what "launched" means to you. Your mentor reviews it within 24 hours.
  2. AI surfaces three viable SKUs.
    Our discovery model returns three candidates ranked by category velocity, review velocity, and tariff-adjusted landed cost. You're not browsing 1,000 ideas — you're choosing from three.
  3. Sourcing lead negotiates.
    Your sourcing lead opens a thread with two vetted factories, requests samples, and walks you through the cost stack. You approve the PO before any money moves.
  4. Pod ships the launch together.
    Listings, PPC, brand-registry onboarding, and initial inventory planning happen in one place, with three peer sellers on the same launch date pacing you.

Tiers

From a free SKU brief to a delivered launch.

Tiers start free — one researched product idea a month and community access — and scale up to a $1,499 Sourced-and-Launched package that puts a sourced, compliance-cleared first product on Amazon for you. The full feature matrix lives at /pricing.

Free
$0/ month
Start with one funded SKU brief, the free margin calculator, and the weekly compliance brief — generated for your intake, no card needed.
  • 1 AI-curated SKU brief / month
  • Free FBA margin calculator
  • Weekly compliance brief PDF
  • Community pod chat
Try the free calculator

More free tools:Listing Copy Generator →Inventory Planner →

Research-Only
Recommended
$499one-time
A personalized SKU brief built around your intake — bespoke demand data, review velocity, tariff-adjusted landed cost, viability score, every number tied back to a cited source.
  • Bespoke demand data
  • Review velocity curve
  • Tariff-adjusted landed cost
  • Viability score
  • Cited sources per finding
  • Unlimited follow-up SKU scoring
See a $499 sample report
Sourced-and-Launched
Coming Soon
$1,499one-time
The hand-picked supplier, three negotiated POs, a full listing handover, and a 90-day launch pod — done with you.
  • Hand-picked, vetted supplier
  • Three negotiated POs
  • Full listing handover
  • Listings + PPC review
  • 90-day launch pod with weekly check-ins

All tiers include the weekly compliance brief — FTC Amazon Rule on fake reviews, ongoing seller-central TOS changes, and the end of Section 321 de minimis translated into plain-English actions. Not ready to buy? Try the free margin calculator first or view the $499 report in action → see the 30%-margin floor in the wild.

Free tools · no signup

Try the math before you pay for the report.

Two stateless tools — run in under a minute, no account needed, same data the $499 report uses.

Free · no signup
Tool · 01
Amazon Listing Copy Generator
Drop in a product brief — name, category, 3–5 features, landed cost, target MSRP. The tool runs the 30% landed-cost gross-margin filter first; if your economics clear that floor, you get a title, five data-cited bullets, a description, and a one-sentence voice-check note.

Citations on the result panel

Landed cost

$8.00

Est. margin

68.0%

Velocity

0.70/day

Competitors

85

$25 list price cuts through the kitchen pantry aisle (landed $8, 68% gross margin) — mid-bucket pricing against ~85 competing ASINs.

Open the Listing Copy Generator
Free · no signup
Tool · 02
Inventory Reorder Planner
Plug in current stock, sell-through rate, and lead time. The tool runs days-of-cover, reorder-point, and safety-stock math server-side, then feeds the same numbers to the AI narrative as invariants — the model can't invent a different PO size.

Result panel preview

Days of cover100 d
Reorder point351 units
Recommended dateToday + 55 d
Recommended qty0 (over-covered)

AI voice check

Overstocked — current cover at 100 d already exceeds the 60-day target; hold the PO and watch the 2026-Q3 cohort sell-through baseline (9% / month, mid bucket) for a re-entry trigger.

Open the Inventory Planner

FAQ

Questions first-timers ask before they sign up.

If the answer to your question is not here, write to us at cratesignal-3@polsia.app.

Next cohort — openings this month

Stop researching alone. Start launching with a pod.

The free tier costs nothing and gives you one researched product idea a month plus the community. Move up to the Sourced-and-Launched package when you are ready to ship.

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About the founders

Who's behind Cratesignal.

A short note from the team — who we are, what we've shipped, and why we built this.

Founders

Two operators, one spreadsheet problem.

We're a two-person launch pod that has shipped CPG brands for the last six years — first as operators inside a DTC studio, now as a small independent team building Cratesignal. We started Cratesignal because every brand we worked with was making the same sourcing decision in spreadsheets: copy-paste SKU rows, guess at landed costs, and pray the math held up at the container. We wanted a tool we'd actually want to use, so we built it.

Based in
Brooklyn, NY
Years sourcing CPG
6+
Brands shipped
~30
Built with
Next.js + Prisma + Postgres
Read the founders' writing