What ColorSense is

The device that knows
your wardrobe — hat to shoe.

ColorSense is a spectral sensor and AI wardrobe system that learns every piece of clothing you own and tells you what to wear, out loud, for wherever you’re going. Not “here are some options.” An actual answer. No screen required.

Point it at something. Say where you’re headed. It tells you what works and why — the way a stylist would, except it never sleeps, never judges, and has absolutely no opinion about how long you’ve owned that jacket.

Works on
👔 Shirts
🧥 Jackets
👖 Trousers
👗 Dresses
👟 Shoes
🎩 Hats
Four ways to teach it your wardrobe
Walk-through scan
You open the closet, you do the walking — the app does the seeing. Pan your phone slowly across your wardrobe once and it builds your entire catalog as you go.* Five minutes. You never have to do it again.
Fully buildable · YOLO on-device via TFLite
Recommended setup
Phone camera
Point your camera at any garment — on a hanger, on you, on the floor, doesn’t matter. AI identifies and logs it on the spot. Good for adding new pieces as you buy them, or filling in whatever the walk-through missed.
Fully buildable · Flutter + TFLite
Add any time
Photo import
Already have photos of your clothes — flat lays, outfit shots, that one haul you documented? Drop them in. ColorSense processes them server-side and populates your catalog without you lifting a finger. Works better than you’d expect.
Fully buildable · Server-side
Bulk import
Spectral scan
Place a garment on the ColorSense sensor and it reads the actual spectral signature of the fabric — twelve channels, violet to near-infrared. Navy versus black. Sage versus gray. Cream versus white. A camera guesses. This doesn’t.
Core hardware · Already in dev
Highest precision
* Walk-through scan requires the full ColorSense system. Not available on ColorSense Lite.
** Camera-free cataloging also available via NFC/RFID for environments where video capture is restricted — secure facilities, classified workspaces, or any site with a visual surveillance embargo. Learn about ColorSense for restricted environments →
How we build things
We looked at every approach. Here’s what we kept, what we cut, and why.
We explored
Ambient closet sensing
Leave a sensor in your closet and let it learn passively over a few days. Compelling in a pitch. In reality: clothes on hangers face edge-on, items unworn for a year stay invisible, and closet lighting is almost universally terrible. It fails the first time a real person tries it, and that’s a worse outcome than not having the feature at all.
Cut → replaced with the 5-minute walk-through
We explored
Mandatory item scanning at setup
Ask users to scan every item before the system is useful. We heard “I’m out” from users, investors, and our own team. It’s a real objection that deserved a real answer — so we made scanning one of four options, not a requirement. Walk-through, camera, photo import, or spectral scan. You pick. None of them are mandatory to get started.
Kept as an option → never as a gate
We explored
Always-on cloud AI updates
A system that phones home constantly for smarter recommendations sounds great until it’s 6am, the wifi is flaky, and your device is staring at a spinner. The core function — tell me what to wear — has to work every single time. Cloud features are an enhancement, not the foundation. The foundation runs on the device, offline, always.
Cloud as enhancement → never as dependency
KISS.
Keep it simple. Every feature we considered got the same test: does this work reliably at 6am in a real person’s dark closet, the first time, without explanation? If the answer was “mostly” or “usually” or “as long as…” — it didn’t ship. The features that survived that filter are the ones you’re looking at. That’s the whole design philosophy.
ColorSense Lite

Color & fabric.
One button.
Any language.

ColorSense Lite does one thing and it does it every time: place a fabric on the sensor, press the button, hear the color. That’s the whole product. No app, no account, no wifi, no AI that decides it needs a thirty-minute update at 6am. It works in the dark because the sensor reads the fabric directly — twelve spectral channels that a phone camera doesn’t have, hasn’t had, and honestly isn’t going to get.

It also arrives already knowing things — style rules that a good tailor internalized over decades, baked into the hardware at the factory: navy and black fight, brown and black are different temperature darks that never really resolve, a neutral base with one accent works in every room on every continent. No connection needed. No update required. They’re just true. At $79, this is the device that should have existed ten years ago. Buy one. Buy one for your dad.

ColorSense Lite →
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Navy + Black
Both dark, different undertones — they fight.
Navy + Gray
Shared cool tone, clean contrast. Always works.
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Brown + Black
Warm dark meets cool dark — looks unresolved.
Navy + Tan
Classic contrast pair. The work is done for you.
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Red + Pink
Two warm tones competing. One usually wins badly.
Brown + Tan
Tonal dressing — intentional, editorial, works.
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White + Cream
Close enough to look like a mistake, not a choice.
Black + White
Maximum contrast. Never wrong. Always intentional.
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3+ distinct colors
Too many signals. The outfit loses a center of gravity.
Neutral base + one accent
The formula that reads right in every culture, every room.