Spindle is a Gmail and Outlook plugin. It sits in your inbox, reads every supplier email as it arrives, builds a live style card for every line, and remembers the 23-day-old email that's now urgent. No new system to learn.
It's a snapshot of what someone retyped from email three days ago.
BRAND FOREST FERN MAIN 4 ORDER No. 411661 STYLE No. 5501460 DESCRIPTION embroiderd mini dress QTY 1200 COLOR white FABRIC DOUBLE GAUZE MODE sea PRICE 8.5 DELIVERY 30-01-2024 - Delivery will be revised AGAIN as fitting was changed 18/12 JAN 1200 FEB ? ───────────────────────────────────── last touched 11 days ago
One click in Gmail or Outlook — Spindle appears in your inbox as a sidebar. No IT ticket. No migration. Your existing email stays exactly where it is.
Tell Spindle which senders or labels to watch — usually a Suppliers folder, a list of factory contacts, or just everyone outside your own domain. From then on, every supplier email is read as it arrives.
We identify the style, classify the message, parse the attachments, and update that style's card. Within seconds. With your domain vocabulary.
Open Spindle. See five things ranked by what's actually blocking production. Drill into any style for the full memory. Search 8 months of email like a database.
Spindle reads every supplier email overnight. Most doesn't need you. The five things that do are ranked — not by who shouted loudest, but by which production deadlines are about to slip and which threads have gone dangerously quiet.
Each item has a "Why now" sentence in plain English. The kind a senior merchandiser would whisper to their assistant in a corridor — but written by Spindle, because Spindle knows what "lab dip" and "PP" and "BL" mean in your production calendar.
Iris Halloran at MARLOWE LANE emailed 23 days ago about the Frost Satin cancellation — you didn't reply. She followed up this morning; she's about to invoice £4,200 fabric liability. Confirming today saves the dispute.
Every active style across every brand, with current pipeline stage inferred from supplier email — no one has to update a status field. Sweep your eyes down the timeline column and find the blocked styles in eight seconds.
Click any row to open the full style card. Filter by "needs attention," group by brand, sort by what's slipping. The view your tracker.xlsx was always trying to be, finally fast.
One page per style. Tech pack flat sketch on the left. Cost, fabric, trim, approvals timeline, people, conversation digest, attachments — all on the right. All built from the supplier emails Spindle has been reading over weeks or months.
It's the artifact your merchandising team always wanted to have when senior leadership asks "what's happening with 6601234?" — without anyone having organised anything.
Fashion ops doesn't run on PLM systems. It runs on email, Excel, and forwarded WhatsApps from a sampling agent in Tirupur. Every PLM in the world has tried to fight that for thirty years. Spindle sits underneath it instead.
Eight founding brands. Founder pricing locked for life. We're picking the first cohort by hand based on fit. Tell us about your line.