Stop Guessing Sizes: Colect AI Locks In The Perfect Curve For Every Order
At Colect, we’ve made a decisive shift: our platform is now AI‑first. Why? Because we firmly believe that properly using AI will reshape B2B commerce in fashion.
As we know, in B2B fashion sales, time is money, and time spent on repetitive tasks is not spent selling. During AI Week, we’re unveiling five innovations that help brands sell smarter, faster, and more accurately, beginning with Size Curve Predictions.
This new feature embodies our Smarter Selling vision: moving sales teams from instinct to insight. By harnessing historic order data, Colect’s AI now autofills optimal size curves for every order line, eliminating one of the most time‑consuming steps in the pre‑order process.
Size curve prediction is just the start. With the same data‑driven foundation, we will soon power AI recommendations for products, predict reorder timing, intervals, create upsell strategies, and beyond. We’re laying the groundwork today for a future where every pre‑order moment is informed, optimized, and precise.
The Problem: Manual, Repetitive Work
In a typical B2B sales cycle, especially during pre-orders, reps are responsible for assembling carts with hundreds of order lines. This can easily mean entering size details for 400 to 700 order lines, each with multiple sizes. The result? Thousands of taps on a tablet, often in front of a customer, slowing down the meeting and reducing time for the real conversation.
The Solution: AI Autofill for Size Curves
With our new autofill feature, Colect automatically suggests size distributions based on historical order data already in your system. Sales reps still choose the products they want to offer, but the quantification is done for them.
The results so far are promising
- High orderline accuracy: Our AI suggests accurate size curves for three out of four order lines. For the remaining 25%, discrepancies are typically minimal, often just one size slightly over or under.
- Save hours on manual work: A cart with 400 order lines and 6 sizes per product means 2,400 fields to fill. With AI doing the heavy lifting, the rep simply reviews and adjusts where needed. Imagine the time reduction!
- More time for the real conversation: Reps spend less time typing and more time advising, upselling, and building relationships.
The Data Behind the Feature
This innovation is powered by the insights we’ve gathered from the thousands of pre-orders flowing through our platform. Our data shows that over 80% of orders in the system are pre-orders, and the average pre-order includes hundreds of product variants. These consistent patterns provide the ideal foundation for reliable AI modeling.
What’s Next?
This is just the beginning. As we continue investing in AI, our goal is to automate the low-value tasks in B2B fashion commerce. So your team can focus on value-adding work. One of the next steps we’re rolling out is the ability to adjust size distributions based on sales intent. With a simple “+5% order value” button, Colect’s AI automatically recalculates sizes to match a more aggressive or conservative upsell strategy.
📆 For an AI demonstration, book a demo and one of our colleagues will be happy to show you how it works.