Artisans List vs Intelistyle

An online directory for traditional home restoration, craftsmanship, and farm-to-table sources

Artisans List was born from an 'AHA!' moment at the Brimfield Antiques Market in Massachusetts. It all started when co-founder, Cindy Bogart, a former Better Homes & Gardens editor, noticed that a lot of the vendors didn't have websites. Passionate about vintage antiques and lifestyles she started to notice that other traditional trades, artisans, home restoration professionals and farmers had the same issue. It was clear. They were too busy engaging in their crafts and professions to spend time on a website or social media.
That started the idea of developing a niche directory to help these small businesses get an online presence. It had to be really simple for the business owner - a set-it and forget-it model where they could successfully connect with the growing number of people who were shopping fresh and local, ship-lapping their walls and reusing salvaged materials in their homes. After all, these folks were busy and could use some help finding great sources. It was a win-win for everyone.
As the idea started to take shape, Cindy met Mary Gervais, who was head of Rhode Island's SBA supported Women's Business Center. Mary, a former business owner herself, loves helping folks realize their dream of owning and growing their own businesses. A true connection was made and the creative soul of Cindy and the business acumen of Mary created the ideal partnership. Their first office was at a fireside table at Felicia's Coffee Shop in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, where they set out to bring the 'artisan' minded community together in one place online. Their vision: A vetted resource directory that would include an online community where people could connect, share and learn. Their mission: To help people reuse the methods, materials and values from the past.

Location: Portsmouth, United States

An artificial intelligence (A.I.) personal stylist that helps users discover new outfits by combining existing or new clothes

Intelistyle is an artificial intelligence(A.I.) personal styling service that helps users discover new outfits by matching their existing or new clothes from participating retailers, based on their personal preferences and fashion trends. Personalised fashion styling is a hard to access, expensive service with most shoppers relying on non-personalised advice from magazines and online blogs/retailers. This is similar to the music industry 10 years ago. Services such as Spotify revolutionized the way people purchase and discover music. Our mission is to build the next Spotify of fashion. With intelistyle users can snap a photo of any garment with their phone and they get instant free recommendations of clothes to match it with items from their wardrobe or participating retailers. We're a team of data scientists and engineers using the latest research on artificial intelligence to bring you the world’s first AI Fashion stylist.