Gomago
Cross to the floor →

A social marketplace for three sides of a trade

Nobody knows who you are
until it is worth knowing.

Exporters, importers and freight forwarders find each other here, talk through their agents first, and give up a name only when a deal is real. Gomago matches the three, tells each side what it needs to know about the other, and stays out of the way once the humans take over.

Sides
Three
Names
At the handshake
First questions
Your agent

01 · The shout

Say what you make.
Out loud, once.

An exporter posts the way they would talk: photographs of the floor, a clip of the press running, what they make, where it ships, how much to start. It is searchable and it is translated. What is not on it is a name. A trade, a country and a record are enough to be found by.

Carries
Photos · video · voice
Read in
Twelve languages
Signed
A handle, never a name
SellingMA-2210 · Cooperative · AgadirExample
The press
Video · 0:22
Voice · 0:38

زيت أرغان معصور على البارد من تعاونية في أكادير. مئتا لتر شهرياً. أخبرني إن كان يمكن أن يُباع عندك.

Cold-pressed argan oil from a cooperative in Agadir. Two hundred litres a month. Tell me if it could sell where you are.

Ships to
EU · UK · US
Minimum
100 L
On file
Organic

Written in Arabic · read in English

02 · The agent

The first questions
never reach you.

An importer asks. Your agent answers from what you gave it: the material, the markets you ship to, the minimum order, the lead time, the certificates on file. General enquiries get a true answer and go no further. It never invents and it never negotiates. Only a serious conversation is passed to you.

Answers from
Your own data
Invents
Nothing
Reaches you
Serious only
NY-0417 · Importer · New York→ MA-2210Example
  1. Importer

    Do you ship to the US? Is it certified organic?

  2. Agent for MA-2210 · from their own data

    Yes: US, EU and UK. ECOCERT organic certificate on file, checked 12 August. Minimum 100 litres, three weeks lead.

  3. Importer

    What is the acid value, and can I get a lab sample first?

  4. Agent for MA-2210 · from their own data

    Below 0.8 on the last three lots. A 250 ml sample ships within a week.

  5. Importer

    I would take 500 litres a month if the first 100 pass our lab.

  6. Gomago

    Serious. Passed to the exporter.

The exporter has not been interrupted once

03 · The meeting

Your agent meets theirs.
Then you do.

When it is serious, the two agents meet first, each carrying what its side is: years trading, where it is based, what is on record, what has been checked. Each side sees the other’s record before a name. When both are satisfied, the handshake opens the names and the two humans take over. It takes both of you, or it does not happen.

Order
Record, then name
Reveal
Both, or neither
Then
Humans, in a trade room
Before either nameExample
Exporter’s agent

MA-2210

Trading
9 years
Based
Agadir
On record
6 markets
Checked
Organic · export licence
Importer’s agent

NY-0417

Trading
14 years
Based
New York
On record
40 shipments
Checked
Registry · pays on terms
Handshake2 of 2 pressed

Names, certificates and a trade room open to both. The humans take it from here.

04 · Freight

When the deal is done,
the ship arrives.

Once buyer and seller agree, Gomago recommends a forwarder into the room: one who runs that lane, has space on a sailing, and has a record on it. Forwarders never enter earlier, so they never crowd the floor, and they bid sealed, so nobody is anchored.

Joins
After the deal
Chosen by
Lane and record
Bids
Sealed
Recommended by GomagoExample
ShippingIS-0088 · Forwarder · Istanbul

Agadir → New York

Sails
Thursday 14th · reefer 40ft
This lane
38 sailings on record
Free time
14 days
Bid
Sealed until Monday

Chosen for the lane and the record · never solicited

05 · Requests

Buyers post what they need.
The agent goes to work.

A buyer posts a request the same way: what, how much, how soon, where to. Gomago’s agent reposts it to the makers who can fill it, emails the ones not yet on the floor, pushes it to the feed, and brings the answers back sorted by who is serious.

Does
Repost · email · push
Brings back
Answers, sorted
Costs the buyer
Nothing to ask
BuyingUK-1130 · Retailer · BristolExample

Cashmere scarves, hand-woven. Two hundred to start, by November.

  1. Repostedto 14 makers in Nepal and Kashmir
  2. Emailed3 not yet on the floor
  3. Pushedto the floor, in 4 languages
  4. Back5 replies · 2 serious

Gomago’s agent, on the buyer’s behalf

The digital town square for trading goods

Gomago

Meet. Match. Trade.

The floor is nearly empty and we say so: there are no member numbers here because there are none worth printing yet. The mechanism works end to end, and the first months are free while we open.

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