AI agents for fashion boutiques

A fashion boutique sells clothing and accessories from a shop floor, a small online store and often Instagram. The owner is the buyer: market appointments, opening orders by size run, reorders and end-of-season markdowns. Stylists help clients on the floor and keep in touch with regulars about pieces that suit them. Some boutiques also run alterations or a consignment desk.

The work around the selling is heavy. Every delivery has to be photographed, labelled and listed with fibre, care and fit. Direct messages ask "is this in a medium?" and need an answer while the customer still cares. Size runs sell unevenly, so a style looks in stock when the sizes people want are gone. Alteration tags fall off, trunk show RSVPs live in a notebook, and clienteling stops in a busy week.

The agent works from the POS, the client profiles and the stock by size, and prepares drafts for the owner and the stylists.

• Gives each stylist a weekly list of clients to tell about new arrivals in their size and style.
• Reads size-run sell-through and suggests reorders where the middle sizes have gone.
• Turns label photos and try-on notes into new-arrival listings, copying fibre and care from the label.
• Drafts replies to direct-message questions with live size and stock, and the hold and shipping policy.
• Runs trunk show invitations, RSVPs, reminders and follow-up.
• Plans end-of-season markdowns by sell-through, under the owner's rules.
• Writes style notes on each delivery so part-time staff can talk about the pieces.

Buying and markdown decisions stay with the owner. Every personal message to a client comes from a stylist, who writes it or approves the agent's draft first. Claims about fibre, origin or care come from the label, never a guess: the FTC Care Labeling Rule puts care instructions on the maker or importer, and a boutique with its own label takes on that duty. Client sizes, measurements and purchase history are personal, and marketing goes only to clients who agreed. Consignor payouts and bank details stay in the payout system, card numbers never pass through the agent, and nothing goes to a client until a person has approved it.