About Inventory Ready
Built from 50 Products of Real Experience
Greg Huang founded Inventory Ready after launching his first dietary supplement and nutrition brand in summer 2009. Since then he has founded and run multiple brands, bringing more than 50 products to market in capsules, tablets, powders, and softgels.
Most of what he learned came the hard way:
- Finding the right manufacturer for a given form factor and budget.
- Reading a Certificate of Analysis well enough to trust it, and telling credible certifications from marketing labels.
- Closing the gap between what a manufacturer promises and what a quality agreement actually requires.
The hardest part was always finding a manufacturer you can trust. With no independent resource, you relied on trade show conversations, word of mouth, or directories where the biggest budget got the top listing, whatever the manufacturer's quality.
Across each brand, Greg built his own reference systems (manufacturer notes and spreadsheets, evaluation rubrics, and document templates) so the same questions were not answered from scratch. Inventory Ready is that system, formalized and shared: the platform he wished he had in 2009, and the resource he kept recreating for founders at other nutrition brands and operators in adjacent industries.
Our Team
Dr. James Pendleton, ND
Naturopathic Advisor
Licensed primary care physician practicing naturopathic medicine with over 20 years of clinical experience in nutrition, herbal medicine, and dietary supplement protocols, plus supplement R&D and formulation work for national manufacturers. Reviews Inventory Ready's technical content for accuracy. Full profile →
Greg Huang
Founder
Founder of Inventory Ready. Previously founded and operated multiple consumer brands in the dietary supplement and nutrition industry since summer 2009.
Manages Inventory Ready's editorial standards and assessment process.
What Makes This Different
Most supplement manufacturer directories are pay-to-play listings or manufacturer-funded portals, where the companies that pay the most get the most visibility, regardless of quality. A brand owner has no way to know whether a listing reflects genuine assessment or advertising spend.
- Published method: six evaluation gates, the same framework for every assessment.
- Disclosure: every material connection is disclosed.
- Limits stated: every profile has a “What We Couldn't Verify” section that links to the limits that apply to every listing and names anything specific to that company we could not confirm.
Our Assessment Method
Every listing cites its sources and labels each certification as confirmed or self-reported. A full assessment adds six checks: independent confirmation, how recent the data is, sources we traced, inconsistencies flagged, what we disclose, and what we don't know. No vague “quality scores” or undisclosed criteria: the entire method is published.
How We Work
- Technical content: developed with Dr. James Pendleton, ND's expertise and reviewed for accuracy.
- Inquiries: every one is handled personally by Greg Huang.
- AI tools: used to assist research and content production, and disclosed.
Editorial Independence
A note on language: we say “assessed,” never “verified,” because we have applied our method to publicly available information, not audited, certified, or guaranteed any manufacturer's operations. See our Terms of Service for details.
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