# How we handle your files

From the first upload through production, a drawing is used to quote, make, and inspect your parts. The path is short, and the file has a named holder.

## The path

1. You send it. RFQ form, email, or your own portal.
2. Private store. Random ID. No public link. Team download links stop after 7 days.
3. Named people. The US desk and the Chengdu factory open the file to quote and make the part.
4. Your job only. Review, quote, make, and inspect. We do not build our own product from the drawing, and we do not quote your part for anyone else.
5. Close the file. An inspection report ships with the parts. Ask us to delete the RFQ files and we confirm in writing.

## Past a typical handoff

Work made in China often starts as a drawing sent to a trading desk and forwarded until someone quotes it. Our path is tighter.

- One NDA. Sunbird Manufacturing signs it. Chengdu Beiji is covered by the same paper. The factory is named.
- Private storage. The upload is not a public link.
- A short list of people. US desk and Chengdu factory. If a finishing step needs an outside vendor, that vendor is named on the quote before the file goes there.
- Your portal, if the file has to stay in your system. Send an invite and we download from your side.
- Export control first. If a drawing cannot go to China, tell us before you send it. We will not take it until the authorization is in place.
- Written close-out when you ask for the files to be deleted.

NDA: /docs/mutual-nda.md

You can send a drawing before the NDA is in place. Many buyers send the paper first.

## The longer page

Registration, export rules, sourcing, and how to report a concern: /trust-and-safety

RFQ: /rfq