Fashion OS · Built in Nigeria

The operating system for tailors
who run real businesses.

Desby brings every part of a tailoring house into one place — customers, measurements, design previews, fabric, production and the apprentices who keep it all moving. Built from a tailoring floor in Lagos.

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The platform

One place for the whole tailoring house.

Desby replaces the patchwork of notebooks, group chats and memory that most tailoring businesses run on. Built around how the work actually happens on the floor.

Customers & measurements

A clean, searchable record for every client. Sizes, preferences and history stay with you across seasons, branches and apprentices.

Design preview

Show the customer what their outfit will look like before a single thread is cut. Approvals happen on screen, not on guesswork.

Production tracking

Every order moves through cutting, sewing and finishing with clear ownership and live status — no more lost garments or quiet delays.

Fabric sourcing

Source, save and reuse trusted suppliers. Track materials by yard, batch and project so nothing walks out the door unaccounted for.

Apprentice workflow

Hand work to apprentices with structure. Tasks, instructions and reviews are built in, so training and delivery move together.

Branch growth

Run one shop or several. Desby keeps quality, pricing and process consistent as you open new locations and grow your team.

Our story

It all started in a tailoring shop.

Desby began inside our founder’s mother’s tailoring store in Nigeria. The craft was beautiful. The systems holding it up were not. Orders lived in notebooks, measurements lived in heads, and customers lived in WhatsApp threads.

We built the first version of Desby for that one shop. Then for the tailors next door. Today it’s shaping how a new generation of African fashion houses run their craft — from the cutting table to the customer’s door.

Desby is founder-led, deeply opinionated, and built by people who grew up around the work.

How it works

From first measurement to finished garment.

01
Capture the customer
Add a client in seconds. Save measurements, style notes and contact details in one tidy profile that anyone on your team can pick up.
02
Design and approve
Share design previews and confirm the look with the customer before production starts. No more reworks from a misread brief.
03
Cut, sew, finish
Move each order through your production stages. Assign apprentices, track fabric, and see where every garment is in real time.
04
Deliver and grow
Close the loop with the customer, log the revenue, and use what you learned to plan the next collection — or your next branch.

Join the waitlist

Be among the first tailoring houses on Desby.

Tell us a little about yourself. We’re onboarding tailors, apprentices, fabric dealers and customers in waves.

The operating system for tailorswho run real businesses.