One member, one seat
No founding tier, no preferential pricing, no seat at the head. Every member pays the same price on the same order, whatever volume they bring to it.
THE TABLE · 团
We do not ask for a discount.
We arrive as one partner,
and the price follows.
That sentence is the whole community. A company in Timișoara, Graz or Brno, negotiating alone, has no leverage and no face in front of a Chinese manufacturer. Forty of them, arriving together, met in person, with one specification and one order, are a different counterparty entirely — and are treated as one.
THE NAME
Two readings of the same word.
In China, 团购 is an everyday word: buying as a group so that each member pays the price of the whole. It is not a marketing invention. It is how families and independent businesses have always bought. The second character, 购 (gòu), sounds almost exactly like the English go. The name needs no translation on either side — a European reads team–go, a Chinese reads tuángòu.
团 is not a cold administrative word. It is the root of 团圆 (tuányuán) — the family reunion, the name of the most emotionally charged meal of the Chinese year. It is also the root of 抱团 — literally to embrace as a group. The full idiom, 抱团取暖, means we huddle together to keep warm. That is precisely what a partnership community is.
A boundary drawn around people.
团 is built from 囗, an enclosure, with a person sheltered inside it. The character also carries the meaning round. In Europe, the symbol of partners who are equal — with no head of the table — is the Round Table. The two meanings converge on their own. This is not a metaphor we invented; it is already in both languages.
03 · THE THREE RULES
Not values on a wall. The terms of membership.
One specification, one order
The community does not negotiate forty times. Members agree a single specification, and it goes to the manufacturer as one order. That is where the price comes from — not from asking.
The price is published
Every member sees the landed cost, line by line, including the community’s own margin. A buying group that hides its numbers is just a middleman with better manners.
02 · WHAT TUANGO IS · 团购
Not a marketplace.
A table.
| Step | A marketplace | TuanGo |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Anyone registers | By invitation: someone vouches |
| First step | A listing | A person, a factory, a document |
| Price | The cheapest offer | The price of the whole, published line by line |
| The order | Forty separate orders | One specification, one order |
| Verification | Reviews and stars | AI-assisted evaluation of the company and the representative |
| After delivery | The relationship ends | The relationship outlasts the order |
05 · HOW IT WORKS
The handshake comes before the deal. Always.
- 01
The invitation
A member or a founder vouches. No landing-page forms, no lead lists.
- 02
The meeting
A face, a factory, a document, in person or on video, before any number.
- 03
The verification
AI-assisted evaluation of the company and the representative: registries, courts, sanctions, finances.
- 04
The specification
One specification, written, with certificates and drawings attached. It becomes the order.
- 05
The first order
Deliberately modest: a validation lot. We prove the configuration before the volume.
- 06
The partnership
Years, not transactions. The seat is kept as long as the relationship is kept.
What we refuse: volume for its own sake · anonymous orders · the cheapest offer · the deal that must close this week.
THE FOUNDERS’ TABLE
Seven seats. One voice per seat.
A member or a founder vouches. Every seat at the table was vouched for by someone already sitting at it.
Be introducedINVITATION ONLY
We do not promise what we cannot build.
We promise an invitation, a seat, a partner who has been met in person, a price that is published to the line, and a relationship that is meant to outlast the order.