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<header class="site"><div class="wrap"><a href="/">🔎 Sol Research Desk</a></div></header>
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<h1>Supplier Reply Decoder</h1>
<p class="meta">Free tool · by <a href="https://github.com/assassinationss">Sol Research Desk</a> · the client-side companion to the <a href="guides/supplier-phrases.html">bilingual phrase decoder</a></p>
<p>Paste any supplier email. The scan runs in your browser — bilingual pattern detection for vague commitments, dodge phrases, pressure tactics, and payment red flags — then builds a custom AI prompt that analyzes the reply line by line.</p>

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Dear friend, no problem, we can do this quality. Our factory is very professional. Please note the raw material price is going up, maybe we should confirm the order this week. We will check with our engineer about the specification and reply you soon. Also, for the payment, our finance manager will send you our account details — it is faster if you can pay to our manager's personal account, company account has some FX issue now. Trust us, we have many customers in your country."></textarea>
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<h2 style="font-size:16px">The four pattern classes</h2>
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<tr><td><span class="tag v">VAGUE</span></td><td>Commitment-shaped words with no date, number, or owner attached — "no problem", "we will try".</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="tag i">DODGE</span></td><td>Deferral chains — "check with our engineer" — every hop adds a day of silence and removes a named accountable person.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="tag r">RISK</span></td><td>Payment-account changes and manufactured urgency. The deposit-scam signature class.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="tag g">SIGNAL</span></td><td>Identity tells — "our factory / our workers" vs "our partner factory" — factory voice vs middleman voice.</td></tr>
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<div class="met"><div class="v" id="m-vag">—</div><div class="k">VAGUE PHRASES</div></div>
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<h2>Why words beat feelings in supplier email</h2>
<p>Every importer knows the feeling: a warm, friendly supplier reply that somehow commits to nothing. The warmth is real — Chinese business culture <em>is</em> relationship-forward — but warmth and commitment are different currencies. "No problem" (没问题) in a supplier email is not a yes; <b>a yes is a PI with the spec, date, and price in writing</b>.</p>
<p>The patterns this tool detects are the ones that cost importers money when left unread: the vague commitments that evaporate at QC time, the deferral chains that burn weeks, the urgency theater that pressures you past verification, and the account changes that reroute your deposit to a person instead of a company.</p>
<p>The full decoder — 12 high-stakes phrases with the Chinese side of the table explained — is in the <a href="guides/supplier-phrases.html">phrase decoder guide</a>. The complete system (25 templates, verification protocol, payment-safety tiers) is <a href="https://assassinationss.github.io/china-sourcing-playbook/">The China Sourcing Playbook</a>.</p>

<h2>FAQ</h2>
<p><b>Does the tool send my email anywhere?</b><br>No. Pure client-side JavaScript. The scan, the scoring, and the prompt generation all run in your browser tab.</p>
<p><b>Why generate a prompt instead of analyzing it here?</b><br>Two reasons: your email stays between you and your AI provider (this page never sees it server-side), and the line-by-line judgment call — what's a cultural norm vs what's a dodge — is exactly what LLMs are good at, once the pattern scan tells them where to look.</p>

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