An innovative fashion tech startup leveraging artificial intelligence to facilitate on-demand clothing production for brands and suppliers, MannyAI is set to launch its new AI tool, Seamstream, on July 17. Seamstream promises to revolutionize apparel manufacturing by instantly generating Bills of Materials (BOM) and Operation Breakdowns (OB), significantly streamlining price alignment between factories and brands.
To function as a First-Pass Cost Estimator powered by AI, Seamstream will calculate a detailed, bottom-up BOM, encompassing all components such as labels, trims, interfacing, fabrics, and lining. Additionally, it will provide an operation breakdown, which estimates the Standard Minute Value (SMV) for each construction step, tailored to the specific garment type. This will help drastically reduce the negotiation time between suppliers and brands by providing a realistic price range in mere seconds. Initially, Seamstream will support shirts, joggers, sweatshirts, and hoodies, with plans to add more categories based on partner demand.
In the near future, MannyAI aims to enhance Seamstream further, allowing factories to list their available machinery, thereby tailoring construction sequences to their actual production line setups. Factories will also be able to input their own trims, fabrics, and prices, ensuring costing accurately reflects real-time stock availability.
MannyAI's proprietary engine, which underpins Seamstream, boasts a robust database of over 11,000 items. It expertly combines specialized knowledge with image-based reasoning to identify intricate construction details from uploaded photographs and tech packs.
This AI-native solution offers a quicker, more user-friendly alternative to traditional methods like GSD (General Sewing Data), which, while used by large factories, often involves lengthy onboarding processes, requires video analysis, and carries high license fees. Seamstream is designed to be accessible to a wide range of manufacturers, from microfactories to multinational corporations.
Seamstream is the first in a suite of solutions developed by MannyAI, all aimed at helping the fashion supply chain adapt to customer-driven demand manufacturing. MannyAI envisions becoming a ‘co-pilot’ for teams involved in sourcing, purchasing, and manufacturing, starting with the critical and time-sensitive task of costing.
The tool will enable factories that once relied on experienced industrial engineers to manually calculate costs for large, standardized orders to process hundreds of unique variations with shrinking expert resources, states Shruti Grover, CEO, Seamstream. "
