Brands that own the digital twin own the downstream stack. ARkid turns one brand-signed 3D model into every PDP embed, every AR session, every retailer touchscreen and every campaign image. A single embed takes it to your authorised retail network, measured per market, per retailer and per variant.
The visualisation gap doesn’t stay empty. Without a brand-signed twin in circulation, the product consumers see drifts away from the one your NPD team approved.
Larger retailers commission their own models; smaller ones turn to AI-generated stand-ins. The result is a fragmented picture of your product in the market, with no brand control over how it looks, how it behaves in AR, or what it claims about safety and fit.
The authorised-source argument is, in the end, a brand-protection argument. ARkid closes the gap by making your twin the one every embed shows.
Brand operations are measured on three things at once: how fast launch-ready content gets out, how consistently the product is represented at every touchpoint, and how cleanly engagement can be attributed to a channel. ARkid is built so a brand wins on all three from the same canonical asset.
List 3D twins with SKU metadata, colourways and usage rules. Retailers you authorise embed the exact asset you approved, not a third-party guess, and only for as long as you say.
ARkid Studio builds the twin with the manufacturer, against engineering data. The brand signs it off, and only that version is distributed: no AI guess, no retailer reverse-engineering of geometry, fabrics or harness routing.
Embed rights per retailer, region, product and channel, each with a defined lifespan. Launch market by market, and only the partners you authorise can distribute, including in markets you can’t supervise in person.
The brand signs off the material and colourway library, controls hotspot copy and safety claims centrally, and keeps an auditable history of who embedded what, where and when.
When a retailer relationship ends, its embeds stop serving, network-wide. No stale 3D assets in the wild, no off-brand renders outliving the contract.
Physical samples are expensive, slow and almost always late for the trade-marketing calendar. With ARkid the twin comes out of NPD data, so the launch no longer waits for the sample.
The twin is built in parallel with engineering, not after the photoshoot. By the time the first sample reaches the marketing team, the product already exists in 3D for buyers, retailers and pre-launch pages.
Today every new asset means a hundred emails and a hundred “is this still the right file?” questions. ARkid replaces that with one upload, one canonical asset and one distribution layer.
ARkid handles the retailer side: embedding, integration with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Shopware or a bespoke stack, training for the retailer’s e-commerce team on plans that include onboarding, and updates when a variant changes.
Selling a whole range? Collection View shows it as one system, curated per market and retailer
The authorised twin that runs your PDP embeds and AR also feeds ARkid Creator, the AI virtual photo studio inside ARkid Catalogue: pack shots, scenes and 360° film from the twin.
No sample logistics, studio booking or re-shoot per market. The same authorised twin stands in a Berlin Altbau, a Seoul high-rise or a Melbourne backyard, by prompt, with a one-day review cycle. The bottleneck moves from production to brief.
Every embed reports back. See which markets engage with which configurations, which retailers drive AR sessions and which colourways earn time in the configurator.
When trade-marketing budget meets configurator data, allocation becomes a structural decision rather than a relationship one: see which markets warrant a push and which products underperform their assortment slot, then reallocate on evidence.
Engagement, AR sessions and configuration paths by region.
Which partners drive views and engagement.
Which colours and configurations actually earn time.
PDP, AR, in-store touchscreen and Sales View, attributed separately.
How brands run ARkid in practice: from NPD to every retailer, and from one twin to a growing body of work.
3D is the next-gen content, and ARkid provides a unified solution to equip us and our retailers with cutting-edge sales and marketing tech. IKEA does it, NIKE does it, BRITAX does it!
Internal reviews, trade-fair explainers, launch films and embeds across Europe.
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A product film, 3D & AR, and a follow-up on the breathable mattress from the same twin.
Read the caseSigned off once. Current everywhere.
Half an hour, screen-shared. We map your assortment to the pipeline (Studio, Catalogue, Creator and In-Store) and work out what it saves in cost and time.