Strategic Advisory
How we help customers solve sourcing, manufacturing and supply-chain challenges. Trusted guidance from requirement through to qualified supply.
VitalSpec
VitalSpec
The global sourcing partner for critical industry.
A global partner on industrial market intelligence and supply-chain development for critical industries — aggregated, qualified, delivered.
Enquire privately364facilities mapped
84manufacturers tracked
280supply pairings held
16freight lanes priced
— Markets Intelligence
Intelligence that moves before the market.
Open-source assessments of the industrial systems critical industry runs on — who makes what, where the bottlenecks sit, and where capacity must be built. Key judgements with confidence levels, every claim source-linked. Executive summaries are free to read; full reports download in exchange for a work email.
— Capability
Capability for high-consequence supply chains.
Strategic advisory, industrial manufacturing capability and specialist sourcing — aligned to operational readiness and supply-chain resilience.
Markets Intelligence
Supplier discovery, market research and supply-chain intelligence across critical industries.
Manufacturing and Engineering
Industrial manufacturing and precision engineering through trusted supplier networks — from foundry and forge to defence and UAS programmes.
— Proposition
In critical industry, sourcing failure isn’t a commercial risk — it’s an operational one.
VitalSpec turns foundry, forge and CNC access into controlled strategic supply — credible, repeatable, auditable, and built to keep operations running.
For manufacturers
Route-to-market, buyer credibility, documentation readiness and repeat programmes.
For buyers
Qualified component sources, clearer risk picture, better-prepared commercial conversations.
For partners
A disciplined operating layer for sourcing, documentation, compliance and delivery rhythm.
— Leadership
Led from the front.
VitalSpec is run by its founders — a decade in uniform apiece, then twenty years building and operating industrial and technology businesses.
Charles Robinson
Co-founder & Managing Director
Commando-trained soldier with 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, commissioned into 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards. A decade of battlefield intelligence and operations across Iraq and Afghanistan — then fifteen years leading product, operations and transformation, from Rothschild to PE-backed technology firms.
LinkedIn →Hugh Simpson
Co-founder & Managing Director
Eleven years a Maritime Warfare Officer in the Royal Australian Navy, running operations for 2,500 people in an active warzone. Since then, two decades scaling data, AI and delivery organisations across Europe and Ukraine — from EY to Europe’s largest Google Cloud consultancy.
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