R&D The R&D arm of Solvei8

Building the AI brain for the fashion industry.

Solvei8 AI Labs is leading the innovation across three layers — Command, Action and Signal — that together turn apparel and footwear factories into self-coordinating, data-driven operations.

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Trusted by leading apparel manufacturers

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Why industrial AI is hard

Four barriers stop AI from working on the shopfloor.

Not a software problem — a reliability, integration, accountability and adoption problem. All at once.

01
⚠

Reliability & determinism

LLM agents are probabilistic; factories demand the same answer every time. Errors compound across multi-step workflows.

Drift
over chained tasks
02
⚙

Integration & legacy stacks

ERPs, MES and IoT speak different dialects. Inconsistent SKUs and rigid APIs make integration the bottleneck.

Silos
across ERP · MES · IoT
03
🛡

Security & accountability

Autonomous control of machines is risky. Prompt injection expands attack surface. When agents err, ownership is unclear.

$200K+
cost of an unowned mistake
04
📉

Evaluation & adoption

ROI is fuzzy, the skill mix is rare (LLM + prompt + process), and factory floors resist process redesign.

Slow
adoption vs. tech maturity
Our unique proposition

The VDM layer — built before any agent goes live.

A four-stage data refinery that turns messy ERP/MES data into a single, trustworthy system of reference. Agents only act on Gold-grade records.

Bronze Raw ingestion As-is data from ERP, MES, planning APIs.
Silver Normalisation Common units, naming, field mapping.
Gold Golden record LLM-deduplicated, UUID-mapped reference.
Vector DB Quality firewall Validates every agent output before ERP write.
With the VDM layer, agents are deterministic, auditable and accountable — every recommendation traces back to a Gold record.
See the upside

Calculate your ROI in seconds.

Pick your layer, tune the inputs to your factory profile, and see the productivity uplift.

Factory profile
Product
Adoption rate 50%
Annual capacity 5 M pcs
Avg order size 5,000
Per-order manual time (min)
Costing15
TNA management10
Material PO10
Planning15
Shipping docs5
Productivity uplift
19%

For your planners & merchandisers.

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How we go about it

From benchmarking to autonomous agents — in 120 days.

A structured rollout sequence — VDM first, agents second. Each milestone gates the next.

D1

Day 1

Benchmark your factory on digitalisation KPIs and map every process.

D30

Day 30

Integration of legacy systems — ERP, MES, planning tools.

D60

Day 60

VDM layer active. Gold-grade single source of reference live.

D90

Day 90

AI agents go live in a controlled environment, human-in-the-loop.

D120

Day 120

AI agents go live in production — running 80% of routine coordination.