Telegram bot · UK clothing producer

UK clothing brand → fashion distributors and retailers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia: what one real Prosp run returned

By the Prosp team · run on 2026-10-03 in production

Run date

2026-10-03

Job duration

10 min 55 s

Results came from

Live web search

Delivered

8 of 8 requested

Rejected candidates

82

Discarded after target

36

The scenario

A UK clothing producer wants its first partners in the Gulf: distributors, wholesalers and multi-brand retailers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that could carry its brand. The buyer is a profile we set up to test this market, not a customer. The run is real, and every company on this page came back from it.

Buyer

A clothing brand based in the UK looking for distribution and retail partners in the Gulf. An illustrative profile, not a named customer.

Target

Fashion and apparel distributors, wholesalers and multi-brand retailers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, small to large.

The exact request

Typed into the Telegram bot:

1. You

   /find

2. Bot

   Let's set up a discovery.
   
   Step 1/7 — Description (required):
   Type a short description of the companies you want to find …

3. You

   Find fashion and apparel distributors, wholesalers and multi-brand retailers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia that could carry a UK clothing brand

4. Bot

   Step 2/7 — Industry categories (optional): …

5. You

   (taps) Fashion Retail, then Done ✓

6. Bot

   Step 3/7 — Business models (optional): …

7. You

   /skip

8. Bot

   Step 4/7 — Locations (optional): …

9. You

   (taps) ➕ Other (type) and types: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, then Done ✓

10. Bot

    Step 6/7 — Company sizes (optional): …

11. You

    (taps) Small, Medium, Large, then Done ✓

12. Bot

    Step 7/7 — Keywords (optional): …

13. You

    fashion distributor, apparel wholesale, multi-brand retailer, clothing importer

14. Bot

    Who are we finding prospects for? …

15. You

    (taps) Skip for now

16. Bot

    Review your discovery: …

17. You

    (taps) Submit

How this run was actually started: through Prosp's internal job endpoint, with exactly these criteria and a target of 8 companies, under an internal exploration account whose results never reach a CRM. That path does not charge credits. The transcript shows the same criteria entered in the Telegram bot's /find wizard; bot messages are shortened to the first line of each step, and step 5 (regions) does not appear because these two countries have no regions to pick. One difference you should know about: the bot always asks for 10 companies and has no setting for the count, so the same request from Telegram targets 10, not 8.

What came back

Why candidates were rejected

Not counted above: 36 more candidates were still being processed when the target was reached. They were discarded without being evaluated (terminal_job_discarded), so they say nothing about quality either way.

What went wrong

• houseoffashion.ae is not an operating business. When we opened it on 2026-10-03 the storefront answered HTTP 402 with a page titled "Store unavailable". It was delivered anyway, with an empty description and no city.
• "Welcome to OnMode Fashion" is a web-page title stored as the company name; the company is OnMode Fashion. Its site blocked our check (HTTP 455), so we could not confirm the row from outside.
• No row can be checked against an official register: Prosp has no UAE or Saudi register integration, so registry_source is empty on all 8.
• Fit is mixed. Rizqé sells modest wear mostly to consumers (it also mentions wholesale partners), so whether it is a retail partner for a UK brand is arguable.
• 4 of 8 rows have no company size, so the size preference could not be applied to them.

How to read this run

The request allowed small, medium and large companies and named two countries. Seven of the eight companies are in the UAE (five in Dubai, one in Ajman, one with no city) and one, Al-Othman Fashion, is in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Three rows are classified as distributors (FLENDER GROUP, OnMode Fashion, Kutb & Sajjad Fashion) and five as retailers. For a UK brand looking for someone to carry its line, the distributors and the two groups that run brand portfolios are the closest fit: by their delivered descriptions, FLENDER GROUP supplies streetwear and contemporary brands to retailers across the Middle East, and Fig Retail and Etoile Group run distribution and retail for international brands.

The rejection histogram shows how the search narrowed. country_not_in_target (12) is companies outside the two countries; enterprise_too_large (8) is companies with more than 500 employees, which the request did not allow even though it allowed large ones; content_thin (8) is websites with too little content to judge.

What this market can and can't verify

• Registers: nothing to check against. Prosp has no integration with a UAE or Saudi company register, so the register lookup was never attempted on these rows.
• Websites: checked by hand on 2026-10-03. houseoffashion.ae answered HTTP 402 with "Store unavailable". onmodefashion.com blocked our request (HTTP 455), so that row stays unconfirmed. On myloveksbb.com the homepage title reads "Kutb & Sajjad Fashion", so the mismatch between domain and company name is the company's own branding, not an error.
• In this market a row can be checked against the company's own website, not against an official register.

Cost and time

• The job took 10 min 55 s. At submission the API estimated a median of 560 s and a 90th percentile of 1,686 s.
• A discovery costs 100 credits through the REST API, the MCP server or the Telegram bot. This run was started on an internal account and was not charged, so it has no credit figure of its own.

How to reproduce this run

• Telegram: open the bot, buy credits with /buy, then run /find and enter the criteria from the transcript. See the Telegram guide. The bot will ask for 10 companies.
• REST API: send the same criteria to POST /api/v1/discoveries. See the API reference.
• ChatGPT or Claude: connect the MCP server and ask for the same companies.

A repeat will not return exactly these eight. The web changes, and each run adds to Prosp's knowledge base, so a later run may be served partly from companies found by earlier ones.