Finding suppliers (AliExpress & Temu)

The Supplier Finder searches real marketplace listings on AliExpress and Temu, then scores and ranks them so you can pick a source for your product. Every supplier you see is an actual live listing pulled from the marketplace — Lumai AI narrates and ranks the results, it doesn't invent suppliers, prices, or order counts.

For each listing you get the price, rating, review count, units sold, the seller, a 0-100 supplier score, and your projected margin at the selling price you enter. Use it to decide where to source, what a realistic unit cost looks like, and whether the math works before you order a single sample.

1. Open Sourcing → Supplier Finder.
2. Enter what you're sourcing (for example, "yoga mat" or "silicone ice tray"). Keep it close to the product you actually want — broad terms return broad listings.
3. Choose a marketplace: AliExpress, Temu, or All to search both at once.
4. Enter your target Amazon selling price. This is what the margin math is built on, so use the price you realistically expect to sell at — not the supplier's price.
5. Run the search. You'll get a ranked list of real listings with prices, ratings, sold counts, supplier scores, and a projected margin for each one.

Each search costs one supplier-search credit from your monthly allowance because it runs a live data fetch. If a search returns no results, try a simpler or more common term — very niche or brand-specific queries sometimes come back empty on one marketplace.

The supplier score is a 0-100 number calculated from measured fields on each listing. It's deterministic — the same listing always scores the same way, and it's never made up by AI. Four signals feed it:

• Price — cheaper listings score higher, ranked relative to the other results in your search.
• Rating — the seller's star rating out of 5.
• Volume — how many units the listing has sold (more sold history scores higher).
• Reviews — how many reviews the listing has accumulated.

If a listing is missing one of these fields, that signal is dropped and the rest are reweighted, so the score still reflects what's actually known. A listing with too little data to score shows a dash (—) instead of a fabricated number — treat those as "unknown," not "zero."

Next to each supplier, Lumai AI projects your margin at the selling price you entered, after estimated Amazon fees. This is an estimate built on disclosed assumptions, not a promise — shipping to your warehouse, duties, and your real landed cost can move the number. Use it to compare listings against each other and to spot the ones where the math clearly doesn't work.

Lumai AI also adds one short recommendation that summarizes the measured results and flags risks worth weighing. If the AI narration is ever unavailable, the listings and scores still show — the data is the deliverable, the narration is the garnish.

These are the two marketplaces where we can pull real, verifiable listing data. We deliberately don't search Alibaba, 1688, or CJ Dropshipping inside the Supplier Finder because we can't surface genuine live data for them — and we'd rather show you nothing than invent it.

If you're negotiating directly with a manufacturer or have quotes from somewhere we don't search, record those manually in the Supplier Hub so they live alongside your researched options. From there you can take any candidate into the Negotiation Assistant to prep your outreach, or into the 90-day Launch Planner to build the plan around it.