The Machine-Readable Brand: The Future of Fashion in the Age of AI Agents
The Machine-Readable Brand
The Future of Fashion in the Age of AI Agents
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You finish with
- A connected view of the fashion value chain, from trend and design to production and sale
- A product-record framework for factories, AI shopping agents and compliance systems
- A plan to measure costs, markdowns, revenue and operating efficiency as the workflow changes
Paperback · 370 pages · ISBN 9798992302493 · Ships from the US, UK or Canada
The Machine-Readable Brand explores digital transformation across the fashion value chain. It shows how machine-readable product information and AI connect trend discovery, design, development, factory handoffs and the sale.
For fashion brands working to reduce costs and markdowns, improve revenue and run more efficiently. The book follows the product record through each stage and examines the operating decisions behind those goals.
By Nitin Kumar, Rosmon Sidhik and Akanksha Lokam. With contributing authors Clare Tattersall, James Gaubert and Lian Pham.
Paperback: 370 pages · 6 × 9 inches · $19.99. Published by The F* Word Press. ISBN 9798992302493.
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The handoff that carries the design.
The tech pack earns its centrality. It is the contract between a brand and its factory: the artifact that translates creative intent into manufacturable instruction.
The expensive part is maintenance. A style in active development absorbs revision after revision, and each one obligates a human to find every place the old information lives and replace it, under deadline, without missing one.
From Chapter 8, The Autonomous Tech Pack.
Explore the contents
Part I: The Price of Guessing. The Guessing Industry.
Part II: The New Grammar. The Machine Drafts, You Decide; How Much Will You Delegate; Artifact Liquidity and What Incoherence Costs.
Part III: The Liquid Studio. Where Ideas Come From Now; Scan Everything; Fit Without Fabric; The Autonomous Tech Pack; The Photoshoot That Never Happened.
Part IV: Proof Before Production. Pixels Before Purchase Orders; The Ten-Day Benchmark; Make on Proof.
Part V: The Machine-Readable Brand. When the Shopper Is an Agent; Winning the Agent Shelf; Holding the Shelf; One Record, Three Readers; Garment as an API; Returns Are a Data Problem; Feeding the Machine That Never Stops.
Part VI: The Agentic House. Putting Agents on the Payroll; The Taste Premium.
Part VII: The Industry That Emerges. The Portable Supply Chain; The Passport and the Case for Accuracy; Building the Machine-Readable Brand.
Conclusion, field guides, cases, glossary, implementation tools, templates and source notes.
Reader perspective
“The clearest guide I have found to the future of fashion and AI.”
Premal Jhaveri · Verified Amazon review of The Machine-Readable Brand. Read the original review.
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Who is The Machine-Readable Brand for?
Fashion brands connecting product information, AI and operating decisions across design, development, production and sales.
What does the book cover?
How structured product records and AI connect the fashion value chain, from trend discovery and design to factory handoffs, merchandising and sale. It examines cost, markdowns, revenue and operational efficiency.
What format is this edition?
This is a 370-page, 6 × 9 inch paperback. The retail price is $19.99.
Does the paperback include an ebook?
The PDF and EPUB edition is sold separately. Choose the ebook for $12.99.
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Who wrote the book?
Nitin Kumar, Rosmon Sidhik and Akanksha Lokam, with contributing authors Clare Tattersall, James Gaubert and Lian Pham. Published by The F* Word Press.