You make the work. Let’s find where it could belong.
Discover retail buyers whose shelves, style, and customers could be a good fit for your handcrafted collection.
Start with your collection and a free market-profile review. No payment needed to begin.
Thoughtfully made
Distinctly yours
Ready to be found
YOUR NEXT RETAIL POSSIBILITIESA clearer direction for your collection.
Illustrations, not artist product photographs
For the work you put into your work
A thoughtful place to start.
Open to independent artists interested in selling to shops, wherever you sell today.
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Bring your collection.
Share photos or a public website, then add the details that make your work yours.
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Find a direction.
Review potential customers and retail settings, with room for your own experience.
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Explore the possibilities.
Use an access code to research potential stores, assess the evidence, and plan your next steps.
We’re building something useful.
Sometimes you just need a little help.
Prepare a collection profile, review your market, and save your work. Existing access-code holders can research US stores while we finish testing.
New purchases are closed for now. Store suggestions are possibilities to assess, not promises of interest or orders.
STEP 1 OF 3
Let’s get to know your work.
A few thoughtful details will help us look in the right places.
Start with one main collection. Include related pieces that share its style, purpose, and price range.
Your collection
* Required to review your profile. You can save unfinished work at any time.
Use a page with several representative pieces. Do not provide a link that requires a login or password.
Add at least three representative photos, or use a public collection page above. A mix of products, colors, sizes, and details helps tell the story.
Up to five JPG, PNG, or WebP photos, each 1 MB or smaller. Selecting photos keeps them on this page until you agree to send them for research.
The practical details
Use the terms for this collection, and include your currency with prices.
The prices a store pays you for individual pieces in this collection.
The smallest first order you accept, including any minimum quantities.
This live release researches US retailers. List any regions or territories to avoid.
Buyers set their own selling prices. This is optional context, not a required markup.
Help us find better matches
Help us avoid repeats. A public list may be incomplete, so add any other accounts or restrictions. Please do not include private buyer contact details.
The direct link buyers can use to register and connect with your store. Your public website can be used if you sell elsewhere.
A little care with your work. Your profile, photos, results, and notes are not saved to an artist account. Download your project before refreshing or closing the page. How your information is handled ↗
STEP 2 OF 3
A direction worth exploring.
Your collection, your experience, and a few possibilities to consider.
Confirm your collection focus, separate actual customer experience from ideas, and review which retail settings to investigate.
Your collection at a glance
Think about how your work could complement similar products. We will treat an untested opportunity as a possibility to investigate.
Ideas to make your own
Ideas about the end customer and buying occasion, not store types. These are hypotheses for you to review.
The types of stores to research, such as museum shops, clothing boutiques, or American craft galleries. You can list more than one.
Leave this unchecked to include other relevant settings. Your US shipping area and account exclusions still apply.
Customer ideas are hypotheses. Age, gender, income, and geographic demand require supporting evidence.
* Required to continue.
STEP 3 OF 3
Where your work could fit.
Reasons to consider each store, sources to explore, and space for your own judgment.
Merchandise evidence describes what a source shows. Fit explanations are interpretations for you to assess. Check current stock, prices, outside-maker eligibility, and buying terms before contacting a store. A location alone does not establish customer demographics.
Ready to research?
We’re testing our first release. New purchases are closed for now. If you already have an access code, you can use it here.
Prepare your collection profile and save your work without a code. Use your individual code when you are ready to research stores. You do not need an IndieMe or Academy membership.
Each Research Pass allows three successful research batches. A batch returns one to five potential stores; five results are not guaranteed. Editing your profile, opening saved work, and downloading files do not use research batches.
How batches, limits, and saving work
One collection at a time: add your work, review your market, research stores, and save your report.
What a batch includes: live research for up to five potential stores, merchandise source links, four fit explanations, and questions to check before outreach. Results are leads, not confirmed buying interest.
If a search cannot return usable matches: your successful-batch allowance is restored. Repeated attempts can still reach the pilot’s daily or retry limits.
Two separate limits: your code has a limited total number of batches. The pilot also has a daily research cap across users. The daily cap resets at midnight UTC. The daily reset does not refill your code’s batch allowance. If your code reaches its retry limit, contact the person who provided it.
Before leaving: save your project to resume later, and save your report as PDF for reading. Nothing is saved to an account. Project files include photos; PDFs do not and cannot restore a session.
Live research is awaiting secure setup. Your code is checked on the server for every search.
Prepare an introduction
Pick a store, add the reason your work fits, and edit the draft in your own voice.
Review the store's submission instructions before contacting it. Nothing is sent automatically.
Your profile, photos, store assessments, and drafts remain only during this page visit and are not saved to our application database or your IndieMe account. Purchase, email-delivery, and access-usage records are retained separately. How your information is handled. Refreshing or closing the page can erase unsaved work. Save a project file to resume later, and save a PDF for a readable report. Project files include photos; PDFs do not. Live research sends your profile and selected photos to OpenAI, whose data-handling policies apply. We retain access-code usage counts to enforce pilot limits.
Keep the progress you’ve made.
Save a project file to reopen inside Maker Waypoint, or a PDF to read and share. Save again after changes.
The project file (.json) restores your photos, results, notes, and draft. A PDF is a readable copy and cannot reopen your work. Your access code is not included.