AI-powered fashion brand with community-driven design and licensed collaborations
NAOKO is a Polish fashion retailer built around three operational pillars: Shopify-backed e-commerce, ERP integration via Comarch, and an emerging AI layer for design and content generation. The tech stack reveals a company scaling outward—adopting BigQuery while automating reporting and marketplace workflows—but pain points cluster around integration friction and operational scaling (inventory accuracy, order fulfillment, ERP sync). Hiring velocity is accelerating across marketing and engineering, with 6 mid-level roles posted in the last 30 days, suggesting they're building internal capability rather than outsourcing the AI ecosystem they're constructing.
NAOKO designs and sells limited-edition fashion collections through a direct-to-consumer model, primarily via Shopify, with secondary distribution through marketplaces. Founded in 2016 in Łódź, Poland, the company operates as a partnership with 51–200 employees. The NAOKO.AI project is their flagship differentiator: a crowdsourced design platform that uses AI to analyze customer ideas and accelerate collection development while reducing waste. They also pursue licensed collaborations with global brands (e.g., Warner Bros properties). Operations span product design, seasonal collection launches, marketplace management, and logistics—all supported by a Shopify stack, Comarch ERP, and increasingly, automation and AI tooling.
Shopify for e-commerce, Comarch ERP Optima for operations, Google Analytics 4 and Looker Studio for reporting, AWS for infrastructure, Meta/Google/TikTok/Pinterest for ads, and Zapier/Make for workflow automation. Now adopting BigQuery for data.
Scaling Shopify store infrastructure, building an AI ecosystem for design and content, automating business processes, integrating with external ERP systems, deploying new marketplace channels, and improving inventory and order fulfillment accuracy.
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