Solutions · Trend forecasting
McLeuker AI forecasts where silhouettes, colours and materials are heading from runway, social and retail signals, cites every call, and turns the direction into a deck, a board and a collection.
- Made for
- Designers, buyers and merchandisers setting a season
- You get
- Cited trend forecasts, decks, boards and collections
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McLeuker AI studios that do the work
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AI specialists who share it
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expert playbooks it follows
The job, before and after
Without it
The direction is set from what everyone already saw, which is last season.
With McLeuker AI
Say what the season is moving toward, with the evidence under it.
Every season, and again at the mid-season read.
Why it is hard
A range is committed months before it sells, and the signals that should decide it move every week. By the time a direction is obvious enough for everyone to agree on, it is already in everyone's range.
How McLeuker AI helps
How McLeuker AI turns signals into a season you can build.
4 studios work on this. Choose one to see how it helps.
Deep Research
How it helps you
Writes the forecast itself: silhouettes, colours and materials with the signal behind each call and the sources cited.
What you get
Source-cited research reports
Know studios: Ask a question, get a cited and editable document back.
The method, stated
Editorial confirms a trend. It does not call one.
Rising and peaked look identical in a screenshot. The difference between them is a season of inventory.
Generic AI fashion tools read editorial, a lagging indicator by construction: a trend reaches a magazine after it has reached the people who make magazines interesting. Buying against that means the same product, at the same time, into the same markdown.
The signal is quantified where it moves first - runway repetition, pin-save velocity, search-volume slope, the retail price drop - and read for the SHAPE of the curve rather than the height of it, because climbing and flattening look identical in a screenshot. Cited as it goes: a call you cannot trace is a call you cannot defend in the buy meeting.
This is the confirming evidence, not the leading one. By the time an attribute walks here it has already been visible on a street and in a feed for two seasons, which is the entire argument above.
The lead time
By the time you read it, it is in everyone's range.
By the time it is in an editorial it is in everyone's range.
Editorial confirms a trend, it does not call one. Buying against it means the same product, at the same time, into the same markdown.
What we do
The signal is quantified where it moves first: velocity, acceleration, the peak date and weeks past it.
- Quantified trend forecast
- Trend velocity and search signals
- Cross-platform social listening
Nobody can tell you whether it has room left.
Rising and peaked look identical in a screenshot. The difference is a season of inventory.
What we do
Scored on its own curve - climbing, flattening or past - so you get a slope and a date, not an opinion.
- Quantified trend forecast
- Trend velocity and search signals
- Runway and trend capture
The forecast is confident and unsourced.
A call you cannot trace is one you cannot defend in the buy meeting.
What we do
Every claim carries its source and the research runs live, so it is auditable before you commit.
- Multi-angle research sweep
- Brand history at a past date
- Runway and trend capture
Read a forecast
Open the forecast, page by page.
Every claim in these was researched live and cited in the body. Page through one, then download the file - the same one that lands in your workspace.
Trend Forecast
PDF · page 1 of 7
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The read
What a direction is evidenced with.
A forecast is only worth the sources under it.
Deep Research /Reports (PDF, PPTX, Word, Excel) /Moodboard /Fashion Collection
Run by Trend Forecaster, Fashion Generalist, Researcher, Fashion Historian, reaching for Quantified trend forecast, Trend velocity and search signals, Cross-platform social listening, Runway and trend capture, Multi-angle research sweep, Brand history at a past date.
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