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Stylitics powers outfitting for 100+ retailers Reaches 100M+ shoppers $80M Series C led by PSG Total funding ~$105M AI Image Studio launches 2025 3,600+ brands styled Founded 2011 in New York Stylitics powers outfitting for 100+ retailers Reaches 100M+ shoppers $80M Series C led by PSG Total funding ~$105M AI Image Studio launches 2025 3,600+ brands styled Founded 2011 in New York
Company Profile  /  Retail AI New York, N.Y. · Est. 2011

Stylitics styles how the world shops.

The quiet outfitting engine behind Macy's, Walmart, Puma and Kohl's - turning product catalogs into looks worth buying.

100M+
Shoppers reached
100+
Retailers
3,600+
Brands styled
$105M
Total funding
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STYLITICS — Retail AI Platform
Outfitting · Imagery · Personalization
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The Story

The styling layer retail forgot to build

Shop for a shirt online and you can buy the shirt. What you usually can't buy is the outfit - the pants, the jacket, the shoes that make the shirt make sense. Stylitics, a New York company founded in 2011, exists to close that gap.

The company builds retail AI that turns a brand's catalog into personalized, shoppable outfits. Its software combines algorithms, trend data and human stylist expertise to generate on-brand outfit recommendations and product bundles, then places them across the channels where people actually shop: product pages, email, advertising, social feeds and in-store screens.

Stylitics describes itself as a vertical AI company for retail - narrow by design, deep by necessity. Rather than a general-purpose model, it is tuned to one hard problem: what goes with what, for this brand, for this shopper, at this moment. The company says its system draws on roughly 100 billion shopping sessions, which it calls the largest database of outfit pairings its team has seen.

That focus has quietly made it infrastructure. When a shopper taps "Shop the Look" on a major retailer's site and the whole outfit drops into view, there is a good chance Stylitics assembled it. The company powers outfitting and styling for more than 100 retailers and 3,600 brands, and says its technology and content reach over 100 million shoppers.

Its origin is a founder's observation. Rohan Deuskar, the chief executive, traces the idea to a business-school internship at Amazon, where he watched retail, data and technology converge. Stylitics was his bet that the convergence had left an obvious job undone - dressing the shopper, not just selling the item.

2011
Founded in NYC
100B
Sessions of data
~$40.6M
Est. annual revenue
110+
Employees

Stylitics uses a combination of algorithms, trend data and stylist expertise to deliver millions of on-brand outfit recommendations across channels.

— How the platform describes itself
Who Uses It

Built for the retailers you already shop

Stylitics sells to enterprise retail. Its customers include many of the largest retailers by revenue, alongside specialty and direct-to-consumer brands. The through-line is scale: businesses with vast catalogs and thin merchandising bandwidth, where hand-styling every product is impossible.

Retailers & brands using Stylitics
Macy'sWalmartKohl'sPuma RevolveExpressWilliams Sonoma J.CrewHuckberryJD Sports RhoneBoston ProperChico's FASAcademy

The problems it solves. A large retailer might carry hundreds of thousands of products and no practical way to show how they fit together. Editorial photo shoots are expensive and expire with the season. Merchandising teams can't personalize outfits for millions of shoppers by hand. Stylitics automates the styling, keeps editorial content selling long after a campaign ends, and personalizes recommendations at a scale humans can't match - while aiming to lift average order value, cross-sell and conversion.

Products & Services

The platform, piece by piece

Since 2011

AI Outfitting & Bundling

Automated, on-brand outfits and bundles delivered as proven formats - Shop the Look, Complete the Set, Style With, Shop the Room and Outfit Builder - matched to category and shopper journey.

Personalization

Styled for You

Reads browsing behavior, past purchases, filters used and category engagement to tailor outfit recommendations to each individual shopper.

Launched 2025

AI Image Studio

Generative on-model photography, colorway swaps and virtual try-on imagery produced at scale without reshoots - with fashion-trained human QC before assets ship.

Data

Catalog Enrichment

AI-driven product attribute completion and on-site search enhancement that cleans up catalog data and improves product discovery.

Analytics

Optimization Suite

Performance analytics and A/B testing to measure and tune how outfitting and merchandising modules perform.

Infrastructure

Stylitics Strata

Enterprise data and infrastructure layer supporting production-grade retail AI with high uptime and brand-safety controls.

Spotlight · 2025

When the photoshoot became optional

In late 2025 Stylitics launched AI Image Studio, its most direct move into generative AI. The tool produces on-model photography, colorway variations and virtual try-on imagery from existing product shots - no studio, no crew, no reshoot.

The economics are the pitch. Stylitics says the studio can generate roughly 15,000 to 20,000 on-model images a month at about 10 to 20 percent of the cost of a traditional shoot, turning recurring photoshoots into an always-on content pipeline for product pages, email and social.

But the company is deliberate about limits. It says the generative model is built to preserve fabric properties - drape, hardware, stitching, sheen - and that every asset still passes fashion-trained human review before it ships. Sportswear retailer Academy is among the early adopters, using the studio to streamline on-model production and refresh content on a steadier cadence.

Funding History

~$105M raised across a decade

2019 · Series B
$15M
2022 · Series C
$80M · led by PSG
Total to date
~$105M

Bars scaled for illustration · figures per public announcements

Where It Fits

Narrow on purpose

Retail technology is crowded with recommendation and visual-search tools - True Fit, Syte, Vue.ai, Lily AI, Constructor and Nosto among them - plus the in-house merchandising teams and photography studios that Stylitics effectively competes with.

Stylitics' edge is the combination it insists on: outfitting-specific data at large scale, plus human stylists kept in the loop. It encoded stylist expertise first and automated second, which the company argues produces looks that read as intentional rather than algorithmic.

Its position in the market is less "another recommender" and more a full styling and imagery layer - from outfit generation to catalog enrichment to generative photography - sold to enterprise retail as a managed program rather than a plug-in widget. The 2022 Series C from PSG was framed around exactly that ambition: turning retailers' websites into inspiring style destinations.

The business model matches. Stylitics is B2B enterprise software, licensed on subscription and volume-based terms - AI Image Studio, for instance, has been sold on multi-year agreements with contracted image volumes. It earns its keep by driving incremental revenue for the retailers that deploy it.

Timeline

From a NYC idea to retail infrastructure

2011

Founded in New York

Rohan Deuskar and Zach Davis start Stylitics to bring styling and outfitting to online retail.

2017

Early financing

Secures early financing while building out its outfitting technology and retailer base.

2019

$15M Series B

Raises Series B to scale its AI-driven outfitting and styling platform for retailers.

2022

$80M Series C led by PSG

Closes a growth round to triple product and technology investment; total funding reaches ~$105M.

2024

Reaches 100M+ shoppers

Platform powers outfitting for 100+ retailers and 3,600+ brands.

2025

AI Image Studio launches

Introduces generative on-model imagery, colorway swaps and virtual try-on at production scale.

The Founders

Who built it

Founder & CEO

Rohan Deuskar

Traces the company to an Amazon internship where retail, data and tech collided. Leads Stylitics' vision as a vertical AI company for retail.

Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer

Zach Davis

Co-founded Stylitics and leads content creation and digital shopper experiences; previously worked in media and entertainment brand development.

Frequently Asked

The short answers

What does Stylitics do?

It's a retail AI platform that turns a brand's product catalog into personalized, shoppable outfit and bundle recommendations, plus generative on-model imagery, delivered across e-commerce, email, ads and stores.

Who founded Stylitics and when?

It was founded in 2011 in New York by Rohan Deuskar (Founder & CEO) and Zach Davis (Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer).

Which retailers use Stylitics?

More than 100 retailers and 3,600+ brands, including Macy's, Walmart, Kohl's, Puma, Revolve, Express, Williams Sonoma, J.Crew and Academy.

How much funding has Stylitics raised?

Roughly $105M total, including a $15M Series B in 2019 and an $80M Series C led by PSG in 2022.

What is Stylitics AI Image Studio?

Launched in 2025, it uses generative AI to produce on-model photography, colorway swaps and virtual try-on imagery at scale - around 15,000-20,000 images a month at 10-20% of traditional photoshoot cost, with human quality control.

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