Hello YC from Yo, Misato, and the team at Tailor 👋 We built Tailor as the headless ERP to replace monolithic, legacy tools — and today we’re launching Tailor Omakase. 

TL;DR

Tailor Omakase is an opinionated, lightning-fast “ERP lite” for retail operators tired of rigid legacy systems, brittle point solutions and spreadsheet hell. 

See how it works in this demo: https://youtu.be/tzSZw3MEIk0?feature=shared

❌ The Problem: Retail ops software is stuck in the 90s

Legacy ERP software (think Netsuite and SAP) is rigid, monolithic, and difficult to implement and customize. This hits retail operations especially hard because of the industry’s unique operational makeup of supply chains, online marketplaces, and varying sales channels. 

Retail operators basically must choose between:

• Legacy ERP: Bulky, monolithic systems that take several months or years to implement.
• Point solutions that don’t scale: Tools for inventory, order management, or light manufacturing can solve short-term pain but aren’t API-first and break easily ops need to scale.
• Spreadsheets or homegrown: Even fast-growing brands run core ops on Google Sheets, Airtable, or in-house tools held together by duct tape.

✅ The Solution: Tailor Omakase

Tailor Omakase is a curated, customizable ERP lite built for fast-growing retail brands. It helps operations teams manage purchasing, inventory, and orders across DTC, wholesale, and 3PL — without needing a full-time ERP admin, multi-year contracts, or expensive agency support.

Product Demo

🟣 Fast to deploy: Launch your first module in weeks — not months or years — with preconfigured views for purchasing, inventory, and order workflows 

🟣 API-first & low-code: Seamlessly integrate with any tool like Shopify or ShipStation, or easily build custom modules.

🟣 Flexible: Don’t change your operations to accommodate your software. Whether you're juggling DTC + wholesale orders or creating products in-house, Tailor’s modular and headless architecture adapts to you.

🟣 Modern UI: An intuitive frontend that ops teams love to use, plus the flexibility to ship beautiful customer-facing experiences 

HubSpot filled a gap for SMBs who couldn’t compete with marketing from enterprise giants using enterprise tools and budgets. Tailor Omakase does the same for retail and ecommerce brands when it comes to operations.

🔧 What’s under the hood

Tailor Omakase runs on the same powerful platform we use to build internal tools and custom workflows for global enterprises.

• Instant CRUD APIs: Generate GraphQL/REST APIs from schema definitions in seconds, complete with validation, filtering, pagination, and relationships.
• Composable backend: Launch headless apps with custom logic, workflows, and event triggers without writing boilerplate code.
• 50+ pre-built integrations: Seamlessly connect to Shopify, QuickBooks, 3PLs, and more using Tailor’s API-first architecture.
• Automation-ready: Use Pipelines, Functions, and Event Triggers to automate business logic and cross-system workflows.
• State machine support: Handle complex approval flows and record-level transitions using schema-defined states.
• AI-native tools: Enable vector search, parse documents with OCR, and integrate LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models like Llama.
• Coming soon — Fabrix: Auto-generate UI components from GraphQL schemas using Tailor’s open-source framework, Fabrix

🏅 Our early customers

• A strategic textile supplier to a $20B+ global clothing retailer
• A Japan-based hospitality company generating nearly $1B in annual revenue
• A custom jewelry company growing sales across Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, TikTok and Amazon

🙏 Asks

Know a retail brand trying to scale operations and growth? Send them our way at yo@tailor.tech or patrick@tailor.tech, share this post or book a demo here!

🎁 We’re offering Tailor Omakase free for the first year (core modules) to any company that mentions they heard about us from YC.

Tailor Omakase is especially helpful for:

• Companies managing inventory and orders in spreadsheets or Airtable
• Shopify stores selling both DTC and wholesale/B2B
• Light manufacturing or kitting operations (think skincare, make-up, customizable apparel/jewelry, made-to-order products)
• Teams using QuickBooks that need better financial visibility into COGS, PO, or inventory