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The Ateliq platform: agents across the fashion lifecycle

Ateliq is one platform where a fashion or jewellery company's agents and people work the whole loop: sense demand, design against it, catalogue and market what lands, sell it in store, and learn from what happened. Each stage feeds the next, every week.

One loop from trend to till, every weekThe Ateliq lifecycle and the agents at each stagenext week's demand1 SenseTrend ScoutMarket WatchAsked, not carried2 DesignFashion StrategistDesignerConcepts on mirror3 CatalogueCataloguerPhotographerMarketer4 SellMirror and counterFabFit sizesHand-off to sale5 LearnStore reportsMerchandise briefAsk your storesRetail Lead and Orvane route the work; head office and store managers approve what goes outNagent agent platform: levels, approvals, budgets, audit and 800+ connectable toolkits
The Ateliq lifecycle: five stages, fifteen agents and features.

What the store learns on Saturday shapes the trend board, the design directions and the merchandise brief on Monday.

1. Sense: what shoppers want, this week

  • Weekly city trend board. Every Monday the Trend Scout drafts 3 to 8 trends per store city from web and press search plus the city's own shoppers' asks and try-ons, each tied to pieces in stock. Head office approves; approved boards greet shoppers on the mirror. Available now. Reads from the brand's own social accounts: Available now.
  • Market Watch. A weekly competitor brief: prices, discounts, newest pieces and sponsored rows on Myntra, AJIO and Flipkart. Available now, first run 16 November.
  • Asked for, not carried. Every request the store could not meet, grouped by phrase and store, ready for the planner. Available now.

2. Design: concepts from demand, tried before sampling

  • Fashion Strategist. Every Monday, up to three design directions from approved trends, best sellers, fit, asks, concept votes and competitor price bands. Available now.
  • Designer. Every Tuesday, up to three concepts where a theme was asked for three or more times in 28 days, or a piece was tried five or more times and not bought, in four views. A creative assistant handles sketches, mood boards, colourways, prints, material swaps, tech flats and tech-pack text on request. Available now.
  • Concepts on the mirror. Approved concepts appear in store as "New ideas, not in store yet". Shoppers try them on and vote before a sample is cut. Available now.
  • Cloth to dress. In store, a shopper scans a cloth's tag and sees three dresses in that exact cloth, then gets an estimate of metres, stitching price and days. Available now, with tailor work orders and measurement cards.

3. Catalogue and content: every piece, ready everywhere

  • Catalogue sync. Shopify, WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce, SAP S/4HANA, Unicommerce, Increff, REST, CSV, Excel, SFTP and a signed push API, read-only. A dropped product is hidden, never deleted. Available now.
  • Cataloguer. Every morning, tag suggestions from photos for new products, including Indian ethnic wear and jewellery vocabulary. A person accepts each tag. Available now.
  • Catalogue and feed quality. Finds missing attributes that hide products from search and AI shopping agents. Available now.
  • Photographer and Marketer. Shoots on request (studio white, lifestyle, on a model, editorial), a weekly lookbook, up to three posts tied to live offers, and next week's content calendar. The piece is never changed. Available now, with image and clip generation.
  • Marketplace-specific listing specs and feeds for Google Merchant Center and AI shopping agents: Available now.

4. Sell: a stylist on every shop floor

  • Mirror and counter. A stylist that answers from this store's stock, sizes, prices and offers, by voice or touch, with captions on every line. Available now as software. The Ateliq Mirror and the jewellery Counter, the in-store hardware: Pre-order.
  • Sizes from the shopper. FabFit matches each garment's own chart from what the shopper tells it or a tag scan. Available now. Fit check and "your own clothes as the tape": Available now.
  • Try-on. 21 kinds of piece, 10 garments and 11 jewellery types, with rings and wrist stacks. Available now.
  • Jewellery at today's rate. Net weight times rate times purity, plus making, stones and tax, with HUID facts. Available now.
  • Hand-off to sale. A code that carries the visit and the associate; the screen never takes payment. Available now. Pay links and WhatsApp follow-ups: Available now.

5. Learn: what worked, what didn't, what to do next

  • Weekly store reports. Tried, asked for, bought, kept and returned per store, with what to do next. Available now.
  • Merchandise Analyst. A weekly brief by attribute: size curves and broken sizes, stock health, suggested moves and reorders, markdown candidates, returns by attribute, store clusters. Nothing is moved or repriced. Available now; it needs the brand's sales data.
  • Ask your stores. Head office asks in plain words; the Retail Lead answers and shows what it read. Available now.

Make it yours

Ateliq's operator, Orvane, builds new agents, teams, skills, workflows and connectors on request. Each draft waits for a person to approve it before anything is created. Available now. Underneath sits Nagent's agent platform: levels, approvals, budgets, audit and over 800 connectable toolkits, plus any MCP server or OpenAPI connector.