Mercer
Mercer is an all-in-one AI fashion platform that lets you create designs via text or sketch, manage collections, collaborate with teams, and connect to production — streamlining the entire workflow from idea to product.
Pricing Model: Paid
Category: Lifestyle Ai Tools
https://www.mercer.design/
Release Date: 13/07/2022
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Mercer Features:

  • AI text-to-image design generation (from prompt or sketch)

  • AI edit / in-painting capabilities to refine designs

  • AI Influences: train model on past collections to maintain brand consistency

  • Sketch-to-image conversion of hand drawings

  • Custom swatch generation and material/color exploration

  • Background removal / clean product images

  • Team collaboration tools: comments, notes, measurement annotations, tasks

  • Asset management: manage all creative and technical files in collections

  • Export designs/files in print-ready formats or share links

  • Enterprise manufacturing/production partner integration (for higher subscription)

Mercer Description:

Mercer is a fashion design platform built to unify creative ideation, collaboration, and production under a single AI-augmented workflow. The platform evolved from its earlier identity as CALA and now aims to serve independent designers, emerging labels, and established fashion houses by providing tools that simplify transitioning from concept to garment.

At the core of Mercer is its generative AI design engine: users can input textual prompts or upload sketches and instantly receive rendered design variants. These designs can be refined via the AI Edit / in-painting tool, letting you adjust details, colors, fabrics, and patterns with simple natural-language instructions. To ensure brand coherence, its AI Influences module allows you to upload past collections or mood boards so the AI learns your aesthetic tendencies and maintains consistency across new designs.

The system supports a full creative ecosystem: you can manage all assets (images, tech files, swatches) in collections, assign tasks, annotate measurements and notes on designs, and collaborate with team members directly within the platform. This eliminates back-and-forth via email or disjointed file sharing. Once your designs are finalized, you can export them in print-ready formats or share them with production partners.

Mercer’s pricing tiers range from a “Designer” plan for solo creators to “Studio,” “Studio Pro,” and an “Enterprise” tier that enables integration with global manufacturing networks and logistics support. The platform offers more powerful tools (higher AI image quotas, team editors, access to production partners) as you move up the tiers.

Mercer does not, by default, manufacture items under its lower plans — that capability is reserved for its enterprise offerings, which connect you with vetted factories and supply chain infrastructure.  According to its FAQ, Mercer uses a mix of AI models (Flux, Stable Diffusion) and claims it is model-agnostic, so it can evolve to newer models in the future.

With Mercer, designers can shave weeks off conventional product development timelines by consolidating ideation, collaboration, versioning, and linking to manufacturing pipelines in a single platform. It’s geared toward those seeking to scale design operations without losing creative control, and it positions itself uniquely at the intersection of generative AI and fashion production.

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