Cut ONTHEBIAS.
A diagonal way through an industry built on straight lines.
In garment construction, fabric can be cut three ways: straight, crossgrain, or on the bias - diagonal, 45° to the grain. Straight is rigid. Bias drapes. It holds shape and gives at the same time.
We named the company after the cut because that's how we move through fashion. Diagonally. Against the grain. Built like the cut: fluid where the industry is rigid.
ONTHEBIAS, today.
OBIE designs with you - mockups, flats, prints, packaging, and production-grade tech packs, all trained on your brand. From there: match to vetted suppliers and fabric mills, send RFQs, and pull real quotes - all in one tab. Used by designers, brands, and schools in 46+ countries. Over 50 million physical products impacted.
Built on the standards the industry already runs on.
- Spec-grounded foundation model. Trained against international industry taxonomies (ISO 4915 stitches, ISO 4916 seams, Pantone color systems). The output speaks the language a supplier already speaks.
- Anchored in real production data. Outputs aren't invented per prompt - they're anchored to verified industry source material the foundation model alone can't replicate.
- Global supplier directory. Quotes come live through the platform with real capability, MOQ, lead-time, and certification data. No broker layer.
- Pantone routing throughout. Every colorway resolves to the codes mills and printers actually buy. No raw hex on a supplier document.
- Sewing engineering baked in. Seam classes, stitch types, seam allowances, stitch density, and thread specs - all keyed to international standards so output is build-ready.
To the daring, the dreamers, the designers -
Coming from a German-American family of Midwestern farmers, growing up in small-town Iowa, fashion wasn't a path that existed near me. I carved one anyway.
Fashion was in the house from the start. My mother worked at Macy's, and I was drawn to garments, color, construction, and craft before I could explain why.
At 15, I started my first company. Before the end of sophomore year of high school, we'd sold 10,000 garments worldwide. I screen-printed designs in my parents' basement. I sold the clothes on the street between college classes to fund the next batch. I taught myself the industry, four languages, and the tools I needed, because there was nobody around to teach me.
One of the first garments I ever made carried Don Quixote. He's still here in spirit. I built ONTHEBIAS from gumption, rejection, and relentless quixotic belief.
The pain that drove me at 15 - that the handoff between a designer and a supplier is fashion's biggest, slowest, most expensive bottleneck - is the same pain ONTHEBIAS exists to remove.
In garment construction, to cut on the bias is to cut fabric at a 45° angle, diagonal to the grain. That cut releases potential. The fabric drapes, flows, holds shape and gives at the same time. It's how I want to move through this industry. Not straight. Not safe. Diagonally, deliberately, with intention.
We're not here to decorate a broken system. We're here to reshape it.
Let this be your permission slip.
Welcome to ONTHEBIAS. Go forth, design boldly, and live even bolder.
Jack Wiese
