About

We built the operating system retail leadership teams have always needed but never had.

Laminir is not a reporting tool. It is not a dashboard. It is a decision platform — one that reads across your entire retail business every week, runs the operational work below the executive layer, and gives leadership the clarity to run on intelligence rather than instinct.

01 · The problem

The problem we set out to solve.

Retail businesses generate more data than ever. They also have more tools than ever. And yet the executive walking into the Monday trade meeting still spends the first thirty minutes reconstructing what happened, rather than deciding what to do about it.

Every department shows up with their own lane. Trading sees revenue. Buying sees cover. Digital sees paid efficiency. Marketing sees engagement. Each of them is right about their slice. None of the tools, none of the reports, none of the AI assistants currently in the market synthesises across all of them simultaneously and tells the executive what the combined picture actually means.

Below the executive layer, the operational work that follows every trade decision still falls to people. Markdown recommendations built from scratch. Trade recaps written manually and forwarded by hand. GTM briefs reconstructed weekly. Board reports that take three days to assemble and are out of date by the time they land.

We built Laminir to solve both problems at once: aggregated intelligence at the top, execution at the bottom, and accountability through the middle.

02 · The approach

How Laminir works differently.

We start from a different premise. The job of an intelligence platform for retail leadership is not to surface metrics — it is to render a weekly verdict. So Laminir reads across every lever of your business — trade, buying, digital, marketing, customer, inventory — and produces a single, opinionated read on what the combined picture means and what should change.

That synthesis is held in longitudinal memory. Last week's decision becomes context for this week's. This week's commitment becomes accountability for next week's. Most platforms forget the day they generate a report. Laminir remembers your business — every brief, every recommendation, every decision your team committed to, and what actually happened in the week that followed.

Below the brief, agents handle the recurring operational work the executive layer used to push down to people. Markdown recommendations. Trade recaps. GTM execution briefs. Board pack assembly. Each agent is constrained by your stated strategic direction — what you said matters at the top of the year — so the work that gets done in between trade meetings stays in service of the larger plan.

And the whole platform is built specifically for retail. Not general business intelligence pressed into retail shape — designed from the first principle around the rhythms of merchandise, trade, and cadence-driven decision making.

03 · The team

The people behind it.

Laminir is built by retail operators with decades of executive experience across global fashion and consumer brands. Our team has held CEO, General Manager and Executive GM roles inside heritage luxury houses, premium fashion brands, mass-market consumer businesses, and high-growth DTC retailers — and worked across APAC, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

We've scaled regional businesses into international ones, launched flagship stores in the most demanding global department store environments, and built wholesale networks across multiple continents. We've restructured leadership teams during periods of rapid growth, established C-suite capability inside founder-led businesses, and supported founders through the transition from operator-led decision-making to scalable operating models.

Across those decades, the same scene kept repeating. Every Monday morning, in every business we ran or advised, the trade meeting opened with thirty minutes of reconstructing what had happened the week prior. Every department arriving with their own slice of the picture. Decisions made under time pressure with half the data, and nobody — not the tools, not the reports, not the AI assistants now flooding the market — synthesising across them. The reports were never the bottleneck. Synthesis was. And the week after the meeting disappeared into operational work that should have been automated five years ago.

Laminir is what those rooms needed all along — intelligence at the top, execution at the bottom, and a memory that holds the entire decision history together. We've spent our careers advising retail and consumer businesses on the practical application of AI to decision-making, operating models and leadership adoption — not tools alone. We built Laminir because no one else would.

04 · Leadership

Founder & CEO.

KC

Kylie Cumming

Founder & CEO

Twenty-five years across global fashion and consumer brands — from Ralph Lauren through to high-growth DTC, in CEO, General Manager and Executive GM roles across heritage luxury, premium and modern retailers. Founded Laminir to build the platform the businesses she ran needed and no one else had built.

05 · Beliefs

What we believe.

01

Intelligence beats reporting.

Most retail tools tell you what happened. Laminir tells you what it means and what to do about it. Reporting describes the past. Intelligence shapes the next decision.

02

Synthesis is the moat.

Reading any single lever — trade, buying, digital, marketing — is now table stakes. Reading them together, every week, in the context of your strategic direction, is the only competitive advantage that compounds.

03

The trade meeting is the operating system of a retail business.

Everything that matters in a retail company flows through the weekly trade meeting. Build the platform that runs that meeting well and the rest of the business straightens out behind it.

04

Decisions deserve memory.

A weekly brief without longitudinal context is noise. We hold the entire decision history of your business — what was said, what was committed to, what actually happened — so this week's conversation builds on last week's, not over the top of it.

05

Accountability is a loop, not a punishment.

We close the loop between what your team committed to last week and what actually got done. Not to assign blame, but to make the next decision sharper. Loops that close, learn.

Get in touch

If this is the platform your leadership team has been waiting for, get in touch.

We are working with a small number of fashion and apparel retailers in our pilot phase. If you would like to be part of it — or just want to see how the brief reads on your business — we would love to hear from you.