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If you are working with a specific company to produce a personalized / custom product, they will generally have at least one person on staff that can do design, or at least deal with any file conversion and technical stuff like that. They should be able to quote you a price.
If you are working with an artist first, they may have a company they're familiar with to have the item produced, and if they do, should be able to handle most of it themselves. If they don't, or you would like it produced somewhere specific, just let the artist know - most places will have all the information the artist will need on their website, or the artist can just get in touch with them directly.
In general, if you're going to an artist or design shop they should be able to give you some kind of quote with a very rough idea of what you want - especially if they do this professionally, talking to people who don't have an art background is basically half their job. If you want to be specific it's much more useful to send something like a mood board or a collage of similar things than a bunch of text. It's also generally a good idea to be open to their ideas, as they often have experience that may be helpful and will see some problems much quicker than you might.
Do you have any recommendations? Google came up with Staples when I tried searching there. I'm gonna go on a limb and say those results are suspect.
The custom hat sites I've looked at all ask for specific file formats but offer no art services themselves.
Look for a local print or embroidery shop that you can get like work shirts and business cards and whatnot made. Unless you're really in the middle of nowhere, there's probably a local print shop that will at least be able to point you in the right direction. If you want a one off instead of a small batch look for a place that offers embroidery - it sounds more expensive but because they can just throw whatever on the machine and do a one off, it's usually actually less expensive than traditional screen printing. Specifically for hats in not sure if you can get them digitally printed in most smaller local shops.
I will look around, thank you.