TELOS
An AI stylist that actually knows your closet — it catalogs what you own, tells you what to wear daily, plans what to pack (and buy) for trips, and recommends new purchases checked against your existing wardrobe instead of sold to you in isolation.
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TELOS turns your closet into data, then uses it everywhere: what to wear today, what to pack for a trip, and what's actually worth buying next.
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Why this needed building
- People wear a small fraction of what they own and default to the same few outfits, because pairing everything else well takes real effort.
- When they do shop, it's blind — no easy way to check a new piece against what's already in the closet, and no way to see how it'll actually look on them before buying.
- Trip packing solves the "what do I even bring" puzzle from scratch, every single time.
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What it does
Closet Capture
Build your wardrobe by photographing items, or importing links from any retail site.
Daily Outfit
A fresh outfit suggestion every day, factoring in mood and weather.
Trip Planning
Suggests what to pack for a destination, and flags gaps worth shopping for.
Shopping, Grounded
Recommendations sourced via live web search, filtered against your existing closet.
AI Stylist Chat
A conversational stylist — ask for a look, a swap, or a second opinion.
Try Before You Buy
Visualize how a piece looks on you before you commit to buying it.
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Where everyone else falls short
Acloset
does wellAI-assisted closet setup, color analysis, weather and calendar sync.
falls shortBuilt around a social outfit feed, not proactive, market-grounded shopping advice.
Whering
does wellThe strongest closet-first app — genuinely good "what you own" insights and a packing feature.
falls shortNo conversational AI stylist, and no live-listing check against your closet before a purchase.
Stylebook
does wellThe manual, no-AI classic. Full control over your digital closet.
falls shortZero automation — no smart recommendations at all.
Cladwell
does wellBuilt for minimalist capsule wardrobes and calm rotation.
falls shortNot built for destination-specific trip planning or an interactive shopping assistant.
None of them combine live web-search-grounded shopping recommendations with closet-aware filtering, an AI conversation layer, and try-before-you-buy visualization in one place.
$ map sitemap/ --interactive
Every screen, one flow
A low-fidelity map of the app's pages and how they connect. Click a page to trace what it talks to, or filter by product area.
drag to pan · hover to trace · click a page for a look inside
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to Muskan Gupta for her contributions to TELOS.