Intelligence begins with the body

The intelligence layer fashion never had.

Fashion already measures product, transactions, inventory and consumer behaviour. What it has never had is the actual human body connected through that information in a way that continuously creates knowledge.

Film 01 · 0:21 · voiceover
"…the human body never became part of the system itself."

01 — The missing intelligence

Adding the body turns disconnected outcomes into measurable relationships.

Every part of the chain already produces data. None of it is anchored to the one reference that determines whether a garment works: the person wearing it. 1FORM is the layer that connects them, and it keeps building as it runs.

INTELLIGENCE builds with every interaction BODY FASHION OUTCOME ANALYTICS
Fig. 1 — The body is not an input at one end of the chain. It is the reference the whole loop turns on.

02 — The business impact

Once the body is a reference point, it can be connected to everything else.

The value is not any single metric. It is the analytics those separate data sets cannot produce independently, because until now nothing joined them to a real population.

More informed decisions → streamlined production → more precise inventory and allocation → new revenue opportunity → stronger margins → less waste.

Increase revenueImprove fitReduce returns and exchanges Improve pre-launch decisionsStreamline production Improve inventory and allocationProtect and increase margin Reduce wasteStrengthen client value
$47.1B US online apparel and footwear returned in 20251
23.4% Return rate on US online apparel and footwear. Online retail overall runs 19.3%12
~70% Of shoppers returning clothing bought online cite size and fit1

03 — The Signature

One reference, and it stays current.

The Signature is a persistent digital reference of an individual body. It is what allows the relationship between a person and what they wear to remain connected over time, rather than being guessed at once and then assumed forever.

Fit is where that relationship first becomes visible. It is not where the value ends.

What this does not claim

1FORM is not a scanning company, and the Signature is not an avatar or an evaluation. How it is built, how it is graded, and how the intelligence is assembled are covered under NDA.

04 — Shared capability, separate identities

Broader intelligence without asking anyone to become more alike.

A group built from distinct houses already understands shared capability. 1FORM follows the same principle: intelligence can serve an individual house while appropriate aggregated intelligence creates a broader view across the group. Different houses can ask different questions of the same infrastructure without operating alike, and without surrendering what makes them distinct.

05 — Where it can go

A standard, not a product.

Apparel is the first deployment, not the architectural boundary. As the intelligence grows, the same infrastructure extends into other body-dependent categories using category-specific inputs. Reach expands across products, populations, markets and participants.

Built as infrastructure

1FORM is designed to sit underneath the systems the industry already runs on, rather than alongside them as another tool to adopt.

Value grows with the network

The asset is intelligence that no single house can assemble on its own. What that asset is made of, and how it accrues, is covered under NDA.

Measured, not asserted

Accuracy is graded and published rather than claimed. The first proof is designed to produce a number: predicted fit against a graded sample, with the error stated.

The ambition, stated plainly

1FORM intends to become the body-intelligence standard for fashion. Not a claim that it already is one. A standard is built from real interactions, real outcomes, accumulating intelligence, interoperability and adoption. This is where the architecture is designed to lead.

Why now

Size distributions move faster than the systems built to describe them. Assortment, grading and allocation are planned against population data that is already out of date by the time product ships, and no participant in the chain holds a current record. Recent survey work has put a number on how quickly a national size curve can move.1 The mechanism matters less than the fact that nothing in the industry was watching it.

06 — Early access

Two ways in.

What is not on this page

The architecture, the intelligence model, the data governance and the commercial terms are deliberately not published here. They are covered in a technical conversation under NDA, which is the right setting for them and the next step for anyone who wants to go further than this page goes.

For brands & retailers

Founding partner programme

A limited number of first partners will run a full garment through the system against a real Signature cohort, then see the fit prediction measured against their own graded sample.

First partners share return and reason-code data. That is a condition of joining.

For individuals

Claim your Signature

Be among the first to hold a precise record of your own body, portable across every participant that joins the network and yours to control. Your face is never included unless you choose it.

A Signature is never exported, sold, or shared with a name attached.

The films

Two minutes, end to end.

Both cuts in full, with sound. The first carries the voiceover; the second is scored.

Film 01 · 0:21 · voiceover
Film 02 · 0:13 · scored

Sources

Every figure, traceable.

  1. Coresight Research, in partnership with Alvanon — Shifting the Size and Fit Paradigm: A Three-Pillar Framework To Reduce Returns and Future-Proof for Agentic Commerce. Published 19 May 2026; primary analyst Sujeet Naik. US online apparel and footwear market $201.1bn; 23.4% return rate in 2025; ~$47.1bn returned; nearly 70% of shoppers returning clothing bought online cite size and fit. GLP-1 figure from Coresight consumer surveys, November 2025 and March 2026. The full report is subscriber-gated; figures above as reported by Sourcing Journal and FashionUnited.
    coresight.com/research/shifting-the-size-and-fit-paradigm…
  2. National Retail Federation and Happy Returns (a UPS company) — 2025 Retail Returns Landscape. Published 15 October 2025. US retail returns $849.9bn in 2025, 15.8% of annual sales; 19.3% of online sales returned. Prior year: $890bn and 16.9%.
    nrf.com/research/2025-retail-returns-landscape
  3. Coresight Research and 3DLOOK — survey of 100 decision-makers at US apparel brands and retailers, March 2023. 24.4% average US online apparel return rate; $38bn returned and $25.1bn in processing costs on a $155.8bn market; 53% named size and fit the single largest cause of returns. Cited here as the earlier corroborating data point, not as the current figure.
    coresight.com/research/alarming-return-rates…
  4. McKinsey & Company — Modernizing Reverse Logistics with AI, February 2026. Close to $1tn of merchandise returned in the US in 2024, with retailers spending an estimated $200bn a year recovering value from returned goods.
  5. Statista Market Insights — Apparel, Worldwide. Global apparel market of approximately $1.92tn in 2026. Cited for scale only; it is a market size, not a returns figure, and the two should not be combined.
  6. Bold Metrics — published vendor benchmark. Brands using its sizing technology report an average return-rate reduction of roughly 32%. A vendor's own figure rather than independent research, and treated here as an upper bound. 1FORM's internal first-year modelling assumption of 5% is set well below it, intentionally.

Return-rate methodologies differ between sources. NRF measures all US retail; Coresight measures US online apparel and footwear specifically. The two are not directly comparable, and are labelled separately above. Figures are restated from published summaries; the underlying Coresight reports are subscriber-gated and should be read in full before any of this is used in a fundraising document. Source [6] is a vendor's own published benchmark, not independent research, and is labelled as such.