The Factory Finder: usage and pricing

What The Factory Finder is, how it answers "who makes this", what it will never do, how usage is measured, exactly what it costs, and how to stop.

Last updated 2026-11-09

1. What The Factory Finder is

The Factory Finder is the sourcing assistant inside your Dress Rich dashboard. You paste a product link, send a photo of a product or its label, or name a brand or a model, and ask who makes it. It also answers questions about ordering from a factory, from the course you own, and writes messages to factories for you.

The Factory Finder is included with The Factory Direct Method when you pay by card or PayPal. It is not a gift, not an order bump and not an add-on. What you use is billed by usage, separately, which is why this page exists: you should know what is measured and what it costs before you ask.

2. How it answers

It works out the brand and the product type. A brand's fragrance is often made by a different company than its clothing, so the product type matters.
It looks in the factory lists first. For the lists you have unlocked, it gives you the makers with their source, the kind of source, the company contact channel and how to order. If the brand is in a list you have not unlocked, it tells you which list, and does not name the makers.
If the lists have nothing, it can search the web. It looks for a brand's published supplier list, public supply chain data, import record summaries, annual reports, the factory's own website and reputable press, names the source of every claim with its link, and says plainly that a web result is not verified. If it finds nothing reliable, it says so.

3. Photos

You can attach a photo of a product, a label or a screenshot of a product page. PNG, JPEG and WebP images up to 8 MB are accepted. Up to 10 photos a day can be read on one account; after that, words still work. The photo is re-encoded on our server, which removes hidden camera data such as location, then used for that one answer and not kept. It is read for the product only: The Factory Finder never identifies or describes a person in a photo. A photo is counted as input tokens, like text.

4. What it will never do

It never helps buy branded copies. A factory cannot legally sell you goods with another brand's name, logo or trademark on them. The Factory Finder refuses requests for replicas, "1:1", "AAA" or "mirror" goods, and leaves counterfeit sellers out of its web results.
It never gives a private person's contact details. Company channels only.
It never invents a factory, a relationship, an MOQ, a price or an email address.
It never says a brand endorses or works with Dress Rich or with a factory.
It cannot change your account: it cannot grant a list, change a price, waive a charge or lift a limit.

5. How usage is measured, and what it costs

Every message is measured in tokens, the units the AI provider counts, and billed per token at the rates in the table below. The provider reports the tokens for each answer; our server prices them. Your browser never sends a number that is used for billing.

What is counted	Per 1,000 tokens	Per 1,000,000	When it applies
Input tokensEverything sent to the model: your message, a photo if you attach one, the recent conversation, the list entries it was given and any web pages it read.	$0.1200	120.00	Everything sent to the model: your message, a photo if you attach one, the recent conversation, the list entries it was given and any web pages it read.
Output tokensEverything The Factory Finder writes back to you.	$0.6000	600.00	Everything The Factory Finder writes back to you.
Cached inputInput served from cache: most of the fixed instructions on every message after the first.	$0.0120	12.00	Input served from cache: most of the fixed instructions on every message after the first.
Cache writeThe first time a block of content is written into the cache.	$0.1500	150.00	The first time a block of content is written into the cache.

Web searches: when the lists have nothing for what you asked and The Factory Finder searches the web, each search is counted and billed at $0.60 per search, on top of the tokens it reads. At most 3 searches are made for one message.

Usage adds up in a running balance you can see in your dashboard. It is charged to your card or PayPal when it reaches $7.00, or at once if it reaches $50.00, and never more than $20.00 in one day. Every charge appears under Billing in your dashboard. We do not email invoices.

The fixed answers (for example a refusal to help with replicas) are sent without calling the model and are not billed.

6. Who can use it

The Factory Finder needs a card or PayPal on file, because usage is billed after it happens. An order paid with Apple Pay or Google Pay leaves nothing we can charge again, so the dashboard shows "Add a credit card or PayPal to use the AI" instead. Once one is saved, it opens straight away. You must be 18 or older.

7. Your data and your conversations

Your conversations are kept so you can reopen them, and you can delete any or all of them from your dashboard. The Factory Finder remembers only the facts you choose to give it (your company, the products you want made, your country, a typical order size and price) and you can edit or clear them. Your messages go to our AI provider only to produce your answer, under terms that do not allow it to train on them. Nothing you type goes to an advertising platform.

8. Limits

To protect your account from runaway usage there are limits per minute and per day, and a daily charge cap of $20.00. If a payment does not go through, The Factory Finder pauses until you update your payment method in Billing.

9. How to stop, pause, or delete

Stop sending messages and nothing more is billed. Remove your saved card or PayPal from Billing and The Factory Finder closes. Delete conversations from the chat history. Write to support@dressrichmethod.com to delete your account.

10. Accuracy

Notice: this list is based on information found online. It has not been verified by Dress Rich. We take no responsibility for its accuracy or for any dealings with the companies in it. It is for information only. The same applies to web results: they are what was found online, with the source named, not verified by us. Check every supplier yourself before you pay. Brand names are trademarks of their owners, used only to describe reported manufacturing relationships. No brand named is affiliated with Dress Rich or endorses it.

Questions

support@dressrichmethod.com. Factory Watch is described on its own policy page.

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Sourcing education. The factory lists are based on information found online and are not verified; for information only. Brand names are trademarks of their owners and are not affiliated with Dress Rich.
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