Manufacturing · Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Our molecule is good, but the formulator has never seen our plant.
An API buyer is a formulation company or a trader supplying one. They are choosing a source for an ingredient that goes into a finished product, so they take their time and want the paperwork first.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
In one paragraph
Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing is the making of the active substance that formulators turn into finished medicines. GullySales builds the product pages, the technical document pack and the buyer follow-up that suit a business sold on quality records, sampling and long supplier approval.
The first contact is usually a search or a directory enquiry for a named molecule. What follows is a long exchange of documents and questions, and the supplier who answers cleanly stays in the running.
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Who it is for
This is written for you if API manufacturing is what you make or sell.
- Makers of active ingredients for domestic formulators
- Producers who also supply intermediates
- Units exporting actives to overseas formulators and importers
- Manufacturers with a range of molecules but a thin buyer list
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- A unit that cannot supply technical documents when a buyer asks
- A business expecting us to state approvals, filings or regulatory status that it has not confirmed with its adviser
How buyers choose
What decides the sale of API manufacturing.
Search by molecule name
The buyer types the substance name, sometimes the grade or pharmacopoeia reference. If your page does not list the molecule, you are not found.
Document exchange before a sample
The buyer asks for a specification, certificate of analysis and master-file details where applicable. What you can supply and share is decided with your adviser.
Supplier qualification
The formulator's quality team may audit the plant and approve the source before purchase. This takes time and cannot be hurried by marketing.
Consistency and supply reliability
A formulator cannot afford a gap in supply. Capacity, batch size and lead time are discussed openly.
Where orders are lost
What usually goes wrong when you sell API manufacturing.
In the words owners use on the first call.
“Our molecule list is on a PDF nobody can search”
A catalogue in a PDF is invisible to search. Each molecule needs its own page with name, grade and uses.
“Directory enquiries come in with one line”
Without a reply that asks for quantity, grade and the buyer's company, you answer every one the same and learn nothing.
“A buyer qualified us and then went quiet”
After audits and samples, the first order is slow to arrive. Without a person keeping contact, someone else gets it.
The scope
The work we would propose for API manufacturing.
Measured on qualified enquiries, quotation requests, follow-up on each quotation, trial orders won and repeat orders. Anything here that needs a platform, directory or tool we have not used with you is confirmed with you before it goes in the scope.
- A page for each moleculeName, synonyms, grade and packing as you supply them, with a request-for-quotation form. Technical claims are only what your laboratory and adviser confirm.
- Directory enquiry handlingListings and enquiries from B2B directories logged and answered with a reply that asks the questions that matter.
- Prospecting formulatorsLists of formulation companies by dosage form and region that are likely to use your molecules.
- Qualification-stage follow-upA named person keeps in touch through audit, sample approval and the first purchase order, and records each step.
A buyer document pack
A standard set of papers prepared once, with your quality team, for formulators who request them.
What we do
What you get for API manufacturing.
Each deliverable and what it is there to change.
Molecule pages
A buyer typing the substance name finds a page that lists what you supply.
A buyer document pack
Reduces the reply to a document request from an effort into a message.
A qualification tracker
Shows where each prospective buyer is between sample, audit and order, so nobody falls out of sight.
An enquiry reply script
Asks for quantity, grade, the buyer's company and use, so a serious enquiry is separated from a collector.
How the result is measured
- Qualified enquiries by molecule
- Document packs sent
- Samples and audits requested
- Trial orders won
- Repeat orders
- Export enquiries answered
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
What we need from you
What to have ready before we talk.
None of it has to be tidy. We read what you have.
- The molecule list with grade and packing
- Specifications and certificate templates you share
- Your current directory listings and enquiry volume
- Existing domestic and export buyers
- Any regulatory or audit documents you are permitted to show
Export and new regions
Selling API manufacturing beyond your home market.
Where you sell decides standards, documents, payment terms and freight. We work from Bengaluru and have no overseas office, so for a new region we start from your own enquiries, your existing buyers and the directories you already use.
Overseas formulators and agents
Actives are sold to formulators and through local agents. We begin with the export buyers and enquiries you already have.
Registration and dossier questions
Importers may ask for filings made in their country. What exists and what you can share is decided by you and your regulatory adviser.
FAQ
Questions about selling API manufacturing.
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Should my website list every molecule?
Can you mention that my plant is approved by a regulator?
Why do directory enquiries rarely convert?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with your brief and a conversation.
Option 1
The conversation on its own
A call after you send your brief. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix that matters most, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
An ongoing programme
We run the work, report against the baseline, and you renew on the numbers. The term and the reporting are agreed in writing first.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.