Our Story

Nimbly started with a single automated knitting machine and believed that on-demand manufacturing was vital to making the industry more sustainable. 

We partnered with digitally native brands, taking orders from their websites in real-time. We produced and shipped products directly to the end customer, usually within 48 hours. As a result, the brands needed no inventory, had no markdowns, used no working capital, and never was sold out.

As demand grew and large customers heard about us, we reached an inflection point: We could either invest heavily in expensive equipment or find a novel approach to power customers' demand-driven supply chains. 

After a global survey of factories and suppliers, we found they all had excess capacity, difficulty reaching new customers, and were manufacturing at unhealthy margins.

It was clear that brands were willing to pay for responsive production and that manufacturers were uniformly interested in getting a consistent flow of high-margin production.    

It was also clear that the way forward was by working together through the power of a network.