Material Exchange

Applied AI for Fashion, Footwear & Apparel

Autonomous workflows for fashion, footwear, and apparel supply chains.

Meet Frank – our collective set of specialized AI agents. In the age of agentic AI, experience is everything. We have been developing, training, and deploying these swarms long before it was a buzzword.

We don’t just build technology; we deliver measurable business impact. Our agentic workflows eliminate thousands of hours of manual data entry, accelerate time-to-market, and protect product margins—turning unstructured supply chain chaos into scalable, defensible automation.

Why We Build

Delivering Measurable Business Outcomes.

Executive buyers don’t buy AI. They buy speed, compliance, and margin protection. Our agentic architecture is explicitly designed to drive these four pillars of ROI.

Accelerated Time-to-Market

Agents cut weeks out of the pre-commercial development phase by running parallel sourcing, costing, and compliance tracks instantly.

Bulletproof Compliance

Mitigate brand risk. Guarantee that 100% of nominated suppliers meet ESG and Worldly compliance before any purchase orders are cut.

Margin Protection

Standardize unstructured material quotes across your entire Tier 1 and Tier 2 network to prevent maverick spend and improve negotiation leverage.

10x Team Leverage

Empower your existing talent. Allow your product and sourcing teams to handle exponential SKU and volume growth without adding headcount.

The Problem & Our Pedigree

Innovation and margins are lost before the season even begins.

Innovation doesn’t wait for a seasonal brief. Your T1 and T2 partners are developing new materials and sustainable alternatives year-round. But in traditional sourcing timelines, Design and Product Development (PD) teams are disconnected from this reality until it’s too late. General-purpose AI fails to fix this. Because we come from the trenches of footwear and apparel, we surgically deploy agents at the highest-leverage bottlenecks – starting with always-on scouting to enable early “pre-decisions,” straight through to final costing.

Always-On Scouting

Agents continuously pulse T1 & T2 catalogs, routing innovations directly to designers.

Deep Domain Fluency

We speak BOMs, Tech Packs, PLM attributes, and Tier 2 compliance natively.

Confident Pre-Decisions

Equip PD teams with instant modeled feasibility and cost impact before the brief locks.

Surgical Application

Targeting the 20% of unstructured tasks that cause 80% of seasonal delays.

The Sourcing Timeline

Where agents actually make a difference.

Pre-Season

Innovation Pulse

Always-On Agent Scouting

Surfacing T1 & T2 innovations year-round for early pre-decisions.

The Agentic Strike Zone

High Leverage

Material Discovery

Formal execution & brief alignment

Costing & Compliance

High negotiation power

PO ISSUED

Costs & Risk Locked

Low Leverage

Bulk Production

Logistics & Delivery

By the time a PO is cut, 80% of product cost and compliance risk is already locked in. We deploy agents early, where your decisions actually protect margins.

Our Flagship Implementation

The Material Exchange Hub.

To prove the capability of our agentic architecture, we built the world’s most advanced pre-commercial sourcing platform for fashion, footwear, and apparel. It replaces unstructured parallel evaluations with autonomous workflows.

The Traditional Approach (Broken)

  • Humans manually chasing 100s of suppliers
  • Data fragmented across email, chat, and spreadsheets
  • Capability and compliance checks done retrospectively

The Agentic Approach

  • Agents autonomously scope, screen, and audit suppliers
  • Unstructured quotes mapped to standardized cost models
  • Humans step in only for strategic approvals and final nominations

How Agents Bridge The Gap

Human: Sets Design Intent

Frank’s Swarm Execution

Frank orchestrates agents to negotiate, discover, verify certificates, and track samples in parallel across the network.

Discovery

Costing

Compliance

Human: Approves Nomination

Our agents don’t replace humans. They structure the logic and data that empower them.

Our Agent Library

Meet Frank: The Collective Swarm.

Frank is not a single monolithic chatbot – he is the collective intelligence of our specialized, narrow-focus AI agents. These agents can be deployed independently to solve a surgical bottleneck, or orchestrated together by Frank to run massive, multi-stage enterprise workflows in fashion, footwear, and apparel supply chains.

Intent Agent

Brief Translation

Takes high-level brand strategy or human text prompts and translates them into structured, machine-executable development briefs.

Discovery Agent

Network Exploration

Scouts closed or open supplier networks for viable materials, screening automatically for initial capability and basic constraints.

Onboarding Agent

Frictionless Data Capture

Interacts with suppliers via email or WhatsApp to chase facility profiles, parse PDF certificates, and map unstructured data into the central hub.

Logistics Agent

PHYSICAL ROUTING

Tracks physical material sample requests, proactively flags delays based on lead times, and handles cross-border routing logic.

Costing Agent

Commercial Normalization

Ingests messy, inconsistent raw material quotes (Excel, PDF, Text) from various T1s and normalizes them into “apples-to-apples” cost models.

Decision Agent

Risk & Policy Validation

Evaluates ESG compliance (via our official Worldly partnership), verifies claims against live databases, and blocks nominations that violate brand policy.

Deployable Architecture

Workflows We Can Spin Up Today.

You don’t need to build agentic infrastructure from scratch. Because we’ve been building these systems long before they were a trend, Frank comes with proven, ready-to-deploy agent swarms that can be customized to your specific operational bottlenecks in weeks.

  1. The Sourcing &
    Discovery Autopilot
Accelerate material exploration. Agents parse your needs, scour the network, and automatically initiate contact with capable suppliers.

Trigger: Brand team drops a brief into a monitored folder.

Business Impact: Business Impact: Reduces sourcing cycle times by up to 40%.

Intent Agent

Parses unstructured brief into specs

Discovery Agent

Finds 5 matching T2 suppliers

Onboarding Agent

Emails them to confirm capabilities

Vetted Shortlist Appears in PLM

  1. Zero-Touch Compliance Audit
Eliminate the manual chasing of certificates. This swarm operates autonomously to keep your supply chain legally compliant and ESG-ready.

Trigger: Scheduled system check detects 50 supplier certificates expiring in 30 days.

Business Impact: Eliminates 100% of manual certificate tracking and prevents non-compliant POs.

Onboarding Agent

Auto-emails T2s for new certs

Vision Parsing

Extracts data from returned PDFs

Decision Agent

Validates claims against Worldly API

Risk Dashboard & ERP Automatically Updated

  1. Intelligent Cost Normalization
Stop manually re-typing quotes. This swarm ingests messy vendor files and outputs clean, actionable commercial data.

Trigger: T1 factory sends an email with 20 mixed Excel/PDF material quotes in varying formats.

Business Impact: Recovers 3-5% in material margin through normalized “apples-to-apples” comparisons.

Costing Agent

Extracts & standardizes costs

Decision Agent

Flags margin anomalies vs historicals

API Gateway

Prepares payload for target system

Apples-to-Apples Matrix Ready for Negotiation

Customer Stories

Agents in Action.

Real-world implementations of our agentic workflows solving massive operational bottlenecks for the world’s leading brands.

Customer Story 01

Agentic Orchestration for a US Footwear Giant

The Challenge: Exploding SKU counts in their accessories division left product teams drowning in spreadsheets. They lacked a mechanism to track hundreds of T2 component developments in parallel.

The Agentic Solution

We deployed a Discovery Agent for the Product development team to track the latest innovations and ensure the T1 and T2 suppliers were keeping up with brand direction.

The Outcome

Drastic reduction in manual coordination between the Design and PD team and significant reduction in development time, along with unprecedented understanding of T1 and T2 capabilities.

Swarm Impact

0 %

Visibility into T2 Development

100

Spreadsheets for Tracking

1 x

Faster to “Nomination Ready”

Swarm Impact

0 +

Active Internal Users

0 %

Nominated Material Visibility

0

Centralized Hub

Customer Story 02

AI-Powered Material Discovery for a European Multi-Brand

The Challenge: A major European brand group with diverse apparel brands struggled to manage pre-nominated fabric libraries for use within CLO 3D, while ensuring these materials remained seamlessly accessible to their T1 factories.

The Agentic Solution

We implemented a centralized database of materials powered by natural language AI search and image recognition, allowing designers to intuitively search, discover, and leverage materials directly within their workflows.

The Outcome

Unified their material strategy and enabled 400+ internal users (including 3D designers) to confidently utilize pre-vetted, compliant digital assets.

Swarm Impact

0 +

Active Internal Users

0 %

Nominated Material Visibility

0

Centralized Hub

Official Industry Partners

SEAMLESS ORCHESTRATION

Agents that operate from the systems you already trust.

We don’t force another portal onto your team. Our agents are designed to be “headless,” running via a robust REST API to integrate deeply with standard PLMs, ERPs, and internal tools.
  • Trigger complex, multi-agent workflows without leaving your PLM.
  • Agents parse incoming unstructured data (emails, PDFs) and sync it cleanly back to your core database.

Your PLM / ERP

REST API

Frank’s Swarm

> POST /api/v1/trigger_discovery

200 OK

> Agent parsing Supplier Emails…

Active

> Writing Structured Data to PLM

Success

The Agentic Advantage

Zero friction for your supply chain partners.

Getting external factories and suppliers to adopt new portals is a massive bottleneck. Our platform eliminates it completely. Our agents are built to natively interpret unstructured inputs—emails, WeChat messages, PDF specs, and Excel sheets—so your partners don’t have to change how they work.

Safe Agentic Deployment.

Enterprise-grade architecture designed specifically to protect proprietary network data and ensure human accountability.

Walled Gardens

Your agents operate exclusively within your dedicated environment. Your proprietary supply chain map and pricing data are completely walled off.

Zero LLM Training

Your data is yours. We strictly guarantee that your proprietary intelligence is never used to train underlying foundational models.

Human-in-the-Loop

Agents gather, structure, and recommend—but humans hold the keys. Final execution commands always require human sign-off.

Discovery Workshops

Analyze, optimize, and automate.

Deploying agentic AI isn’t just about turning on a software tool—it’s about transforming how you work. We run immersive, on-site or virtual Workflow Discovery Workshops with your team.

1. Analyze

We deeply map your existing T1 and T2 communication, uncovering hidden inefficiencies in your sourcing lifecycle.

2. Optimize

We restructure your data flows and SOPs to ensure your processes are ready for autonomous acceleration.

3. Automate

We assign specialized agents to the most tedious tasks, freeing your team to focus on strategic execution.

Superpowered Teams

Our goal is never to replace your experts. We give your people the leverage to manage 10x the development volume without burning out, keeping them firmly in control.

Material Agnostic Workflows

  • Components
  • Trims
  • Accessories
  • Materials
  • Packaging

Lead The Change

Let’s explore the outcomes you need to drive.

Stop pitching “AI” to your leadership and start pitching measurable business impact. We equip internal champions with the exact ROI models, pilot frameworks, and real-world examples needed to build consensus and transform your brand’s supply chain.

See Live Examples

We’ll walk you through active swarms solving complex costing, discovery, and compliance bottlenecks for brands like yours.

Build Your Business Case

Get the data, cost analysis, and implementation timelines you need to win executive buy-in for an agentic pilot.