Single source of truth
A canonical asset for every channel.
Geometry, materials, variants, hotspots and AR scale, defined once and consumed everywhere, instead of each vendor producing its own approximation.
Industry experience paired with digital expertise.
We build the product-visualisation infrastructure for the baby and juvenile industry, so brands, retailers and distributors stop paying for a fragmented stack of single-purpose tools. One partner. One twin. Every touchpoint.
01The need
Modern product visualisation is no longer optional.
Parents researching a €1,500 stroller online compare its product page with what they saw when buying a sofa. Baby gear has to meet that baseline, cost-efficiently.
- 01
Consumer expectation has moved.
Parents researching a stroller bring expectations shaped by every other premium category they buy. Against them, static pack shots feel dated; interactive 3D and AR feels current, and safe to buy.
- 02
Photoshoots strain the budget.
Sample logistics, studio days, post-production and re-shoots for variant changes add up faster every year, and still arrive too late for the launch calendar. 3D and AI imagery is the structural response.
- 03
Returns are an operational tax.
A high-consideration category like baby gear pays disproportionately for the “didn’t fit my hallway” or “didn’t look like the picture” return. Better pre-purchase visualisation reduces that tax measurably.
- 04
The shelf can’t hold the full range.
A baby specialty retailer has eight metres of floor space against a brand assortment that spans dozens of variants. Colours not stocked don’t sell, unless the full range is available digitally at the point of consideration.
02The architecture
The digital twin is the prerequisite, not the deliverable.
Every modern visualisation tool assumes a high-quality 3D twin upstream. Without one, those tools are island solutions. With one, they amortise as a system.
With it: amortisation
Six to eight asset types from one investment.
Pack shots, lifestyle scenes, 360° videos, AR, configurators, in-store screens, sales tablets and trade-fair loops, without re-budgeting per asset type. The stills and videos come from ARkid Creator, the AI virtual photo studio inside ARkid Catalogue; AR and configurators run on Catalogue, in-store screens and sales tablets on ARkid In-Store.
03Cost-efficient by structure
The economics shift once the twin is in place.
ARkid is built so the cost of an additional asset, an additional market or an additional retailer trends towards zero. Marketing, e-commerce and trade-marketing budgets stop scaling linearly with output.
- To the first Creator pack shot
- <1h
- Against several weeks for a traditional shoot
- Fewer returns in comparable categories
- ~22%
- Upper end of the range, driven by better pre-purchase understanding
- Months earlier: launch-ready imagery
- 3–6
- Generated from the twin, before samples exist
- Uses of each twin
- 6–8×
- Across downstream asset types
Reference points. Actual figures depend on category, channel mix and asset volume; walk-throughs include a back-of-envelope model for your stack.
04Origin
Built by people who already worked in baby gear.
ARkid did not arrive in the baby and juvenile category from outside. It was started by people who spent years inside it.
Why ARkid exists
We don’t sell 3D. We sell a faster, better-understood path to a buying decision.
Two decades of selling baby and juvenile products into European specialty retail, briefing trade-marketing teams and standing in Kind + Jugend booths produced the same conversation again and again. Brands had beautiful products with dozens of variants. Retailers had eight metres of shelf. Consumers had a phone and an unanswered question: what does this actually look like in my flat?
ARkid answers it end to end, so all three stop asking and start seeing: Studio produces the models, Catalogue distributes them, Creator turns them into imagery, In-Store puts them on the shop floor. The work is concrete: a 3D model, an embed, a QR code, a touchscreen, an AR session. The outcome is fewer misunderstandings, fewer returns and more confident purchases.
- Stefan Eipeltauer Founder & CEO · Bad Vöslau
- Rob Stark Consultant Benelux & Spain · Rotterdam
- Barbara Brischar Consultant Europe · Bad Vöslau
- Silviu Balas Consultant APAC · Melbourne
05Why specialise
Generic 3D keeps failing this category.
Baby gear is unusually hard to model and unusually high-stakes to misrepresent. Specialisation is not marketing; it is the only honest way to reach every audience involved.
- 01
Geometry generalists get wrong
Wheel treads, fabric stretch on harness points, recline mechanisms, the interplay of capsule and base. ARkid models pass new product development (NPD) review the first time because the team has been here before.
- 02
Safety language buyers expect
ISOFIX, i-Size, R129, recline angles, harness routing: interactive hotspots only convince when they describe the product correctly. We speak the spec.
- 03
A network, not a marketplace
Brands and retailers in this category already work together. ARkid Catalogue is a closed and controllable network with clear partner agreements, not an open marketplace where anyone embeds anything.
- 04
Trade fairs are home turf
Kind + Jugend every year, with our own booth from 2022 to 2024: on the floor where the buyers are, meeting brands and walking the retailer aisles. The relationships compound.
Where we show up
06How we work
Pragmatic. Collaborative. Practitioner to practitioner.
- A
Walk-throughs, not pitches
We start every conversation by understanding your channel, your assortment and your retail network. The deck comes second. The product comes first.
- B
A partner for the full pipeline
Studio models, Catalogue distribution, Creator imagery and video, In-Store deployment. No vendor handoffs. No file-and-disappear.
07Company
The legal and commercial essentials.
Who you contract with, where your data is hosted, and how the plans work.
- Legal entity
ARkid Technologies GmbH
Anzengruberstraße 1/4, 2540 Bad Vöslau, Austria. Commercial register FN 648072 y.
Imprint - Hosting
EU-hosted in Germany
ALL-INKL.COM data centre, GDPR by design, with a standard data processing agreement (DPA).
- Plans
Free to start
Then fixed monthly plans from €300 that scale with views and features.
See pricing - Distribution partners
No view fees
Distributor and trade-agent accounts are exempt from view fees.
For distributors
08Get in touch
Signed off once. Current everywhere.
Start with a walk-through.
Brand, shop floor or distribution network: the conversation is the same one. It starts with your channel, your assortment and your retail network; the deck comes second.