OKO creates a persistent evidence record of what's actually in a textile material — combining supplier documentation, physical lab testing, and continuously updated regulatory assessment into one material intelligence platform.
Evidence over declarations.
From supplier PDF to structured material intelligence. Upload the evidence. Structure what is known. Identify what is missing. Connect physical testing. Assess against changing rules.
OF KNOWN ORIGIN · PATENT PENDING #64/056,371
Fashion runs on declarations. Supplier documents describe what a material is supposed to contain. Certifications assess defined criteria. Regulations change across jurisdictions. But the evidence behind a material is fragmented across PDFs, test reports, laboratories, and supply chains.
For brands selling internationally, the same material may face different substance restrictions, evidence requirements, and reporting obligations in every market — and each new rule can trigger another manual compliance exercise.
The result: a brand may know where a material came from, yet still lack a durable answer to two critical questions — what evidence establishes what it is made of, and what does that evidence mean in every market where the brand sells?
OKO is the infrastructure that doesn't exist — because the science already knows what the regulation hasn't caught up to.
Brands need more than reports — they need continuously assessable material evidence.
OKO creates that evidence layer.
OKO connects what was declared, what was physically tested, and what regulations require in one continuously queryable material record.
Supplier documents become structured evidence. Every fact keeps its origin: what was reported, what was tested, by which method, from which sample, and when.
OKO normalizes substances, concentrations, fiber composition, and provenance into one structured record. Evidence is preserved, not buried in disconnected PDFs and point-in-time reports.
The material record is assessed against applicable chemical regulations across jurisdictions. As rules change, existing evidence can be reassessed without starting from zero.
Preserve the evidence. Reassess as the world changes.
Evidence over declarations.
Every major industry eventually gets an infrastructure layer no one can build around. OKO is building the one for physical materials.
AI-powered review of supplier documentation creates a structured material record, then maps the available evidence against requirements across EU, US federal and state jurisdictions, and additional markets as coverage expands. When regulations change, the same material record can be reassessed without starting from scratch.
WHAT DOES THE DOCUMENTATION ACTUALLY ESTABLISH?
Everything in Tier 1, plus independent testing of the physical material itself. NIR spectroscopy provides rapid fiber identity and composition screening, helping identify potential discrepancies between declared and observed material characteristics. Independent laboratory elemental analysis evaluates selected metals and heavy metals. The results become part of the material's evidence record.
DOES THE PHYSICAL MATERIAL AGREE WITH KEY CLAIMS?
Everything in Tiers 1 and 2, plus expanded independent laboratory analysis selected for the material type, intended use, and regulatory questions being assessed. Organic and inorganic analytical methods create the deepest available evidence record of what is actually present in the material.
WHAT IS ACTUALLY THERE AT ANALYTICAL DEPTH?
DOCUMENTED → TESTED → VERIFIED
From what was said, to what the physical material shows, to what is present at compound-level depth.
The evidence doesn't disappear
when the report is finished.
Every new regulation becomes a new assessment — not a new compliance project.
Traditional testing produces a point-in-time document. OKO creates a durable material record. For every material, the record preserves:
Supplier documentation and source evidence.
Physical sample, analytical method, laboratory, and date.
Substances, concentrations, fiber composition, and evidence depth.
Applicable regulatory requirements by jurisdiction.
New evidence, new tests, and new regulatory requirements over time.
One material. One evidence history. Continuously useful.
A traditional compliance report answers a question at one moment in time. OKO preserves the underlying evidence so the material can be reassessed as requirements evolve. The problem isn't one regulation — it's fragmentation across every market a brand sells into.
REACH · SVHC · ESPR · Digital Product Passport requirements phasing in for textiles · emerging PFAS restrictions
Federal chemical frameworks · California, New York, and Minnesota state requirements · expanding state-level PFAS rules
One persistent material evidence record, reassessed as requirements change across jurisdictions — not rebuilt from scratch each time
A new rule shouldn't mean starting from zero.
When existing evidence is sufficient to answer a new regulatory question, OKO reassesses the material record against the updated requirement. When additional evidence is needed, the gap is made explicit.
Every OKO credential connects to a specific material evidence record: what was documented, what was physically tested, how the evidence was generated, and the regulatory assessment available at the time of query.
The credential does not replace the evidence. It makes the evidence accessible.
Evidence that travels with the material.
"The same rigor applied to what goes into a patient's body, now applied to what goes onto every body through clothing."
I spent 15 years in biomedical research studying disease at the molecular level. Science taught me to distinguish between what is assumed and what is actually supported by evidence.
When I started asking what was really in the materials we wear every day, I found an industry built on fragmented documentation, declarations, and point-in-time testing — but no persistent evidence layer connecting what a material is made of to the decisions that depend on knowing.
OKO is the infrastructure I started building because that evidence layer didn't exist.
"The problem is not that fashion has no data. It has enormous amounts of data — fragmented across suppliers, laboratories, documents, and jurisdictions. OKO turns that evidence into something persistent, queryable, and continuously useful."
Join the OKO Founding Cohort and turn one material's existing supplier documentation into a structured evidence record. See what is established, what is missing, and what the evidence means across the markets where you sell.
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