Bridge is an AI-augmented sourcing concierge for European SMB brands. We run an LLM stack that pre-vets factories, drafts your spec sheet, and ranks quotes — then a real Alexandria partnership handles samples, QC, and customs. You get a finished supply line; you don’t get a new hire.
Sources: AECE (Jan 2026), Daily News Egypt (Feb 2026), Daily News Egypt (Dec 2025).
European brands spent two years rebuilding supply chains around Suez disruption, China decoupling, and Bangladesh risk. Egypt sits inside the Mediterranean — on your side of the chokepoints. Here’s what that buys you.
The EU–Egypt Association Agreement (in force since 2004) gives qualifying garments and promo goods 0% import duty across all 27 member states. Pan-Euro-Med cumulation and the “double transformation” rule of origin cover most apparel chains we touch.
Alexandria to the major EU ports in roughly a week by container; faster by air for samples and rush replenishment. The route never crosses the Red Sea south of Suez — Houthi disruption doesn’t touch your outbound shipments.
Egyptian factories built capacity around fast European volumes, so 500–5,000-unit runs are normal — not the 10,000+ MOQ you’d quote in Bangladesh or Vietnam. That’s the bracket most growing brands actually need.
You send a brief; we return a sourcing decision. Discovery is free for the first 5 pilot brands — we only earn when your first PO ships. Here’s the whole motion.
Fill the brief form or send a tech pack. We turn it into a structured spec sheet — sizing, material, finishing, packaging, label, target FOB — inside 24 hours.
Our LLM stack scores Alexandria-cluster factories against your spec. We pull three quotes, normalize them onto one comparison sheet, and send it with a clear recommendation.
We commission samples from the shortlisted factories, photograph them in Alexandria, and ship to your studio by courier. You sign off — or we iterate until it’s right.
Production runs under our PO. We do mid-run and pre-shipment QC, manage customs paperwork (EUR.1, COO), and track the container until it clears your destination port.
Generic sourcing agents are getting squeezed by AI procurement platforms. Those platforms can’t walk into a factory in the Alexandria cluster on a Tuesday afternoon. Bridge sits in the middle: an LLM stack that scales the boring half — spec sheets, supplier matching, quote comparison, compliance checks — wired to a real Alexandria partnership for the half that needs hands, eyes, and a phone call in Arabic.
The same automation stack runs NeuraScale, our parent AI lab. Sourcing is just where we point it for European brands.
In-house production for tees, hoodies, woven shirts and accessories — our anchor partner for the apparel lane.
A long-standing customs-broker relationship at Egypt’s primary export port. EUR.1 certificates of origin handled in-house.
Run by Omar G. Nagy, founder of NeuraScale. You get an operator’s eye on your margins — not a middleman’s commission grab.
Narrow wins for SMB buyers — deep relationships beat a broad catalogue. Need something adjacent, like hospitality linen or marble? Ask. We have partners, but we treat those as a v2 lane.
Tees, hoodies, sweats, woven shirts, totes, caps. Egyptian cotton on request. Built for Shopify-scale brands that need 500–5,000 units, not 50,000.
Branded tote bags, pouches, drawstring bags, corporate gifts, event giveaways — everything at the intersection of textile and branding for European agencies and corporate buyers.
Adjacent on request: hospitality linen & uniforms, marble & granite from Egyptian quarries. We have factory partners for these — treat them as v2; ask if you have a real RFQ.
We make money when your container lands — not before. Discovery is free for the first 5 pilot brands, and our commission is billed factory-side, so there’s no surprise line item on your invoice.
€0 to start
We turn your brief into a spec sheet, score three factories, and deliver normalized quotes — at no cost.
After the first 5 pilots ship, discovery becomes €500 — credited back into your first-PO commission.
first PO · 5% on repeat
Mid-range of the 3–10% sourcing-agent band. Billed factory-side and baked into the FOB you see — no surprise line items on your end.
We’d rather earn on repeat volume than on first-time fees. That’s why repeats drop to 5%.
Special projects — large hospitality contracts, exclusive private-label programs — are custom-quoted. Mention it in your brief.
Bridge Sourcing is run by Omar G. Nagy, an Egyptian operator who builds AI-first products full-time. The same automation stack that powers NeuraScale — our parent AI lab — and ships products like RetailOS, MedPrüf and Harmonia is what lets Bridge serve SMB brands at margins generic sourcing agents can’t match.
The premise is simple: a small operator with the right LLM stack can deliver concierge sourcing at a price point that used to require a ten-person trading-house team. We pair that automation with a working partnership at Womonde — an Alexandria textile factory — and a long-standing customs-broker relationship at Alexandria Port, run by our partner’s family across two generations.
We’re narrow on purpose: Egypt→EU, apparel and promo, SMB volumes. Every other lane is a v2 — and we’ll tell you so to your face.
We respond inside one business day, Cairo time. The first 5 pilot briefs get free discovery.