Many nations passed through this industry on their way to prosperity,
and I believe its future will be better than its past.
My most important work is building a manufacturing civilization
that advances with every generation.
SYNZUN
Move the tacit knowledge of human-centered manufacturing into AI
and build a knowledge asset that grows after people leave.
Shift the 3-party trade supply chain to
software-defined autonomous manufacturing.
AI Software R&D
for Apparel OEM
Overview
SIJE is an enterprise AI company for the global
OEM supply chain. We design, develop and operate
one operating system, from the production floor
to cloud and AI agents, so knowledge stays in-house.SIJE is an enterprise AI company for the global OEM supply chain. It designs, develops and operates everything from production-floor workers to the cloud and AI agents as one operating system.
A Global IT Company for a Global Industry
The Korea headquarters designs the smart factory, cloud and AI agents; the entity and partner in Vietnam and Indonesia build and run that system in local factories.
| Name | SIJE Inc. | Founded | May 12, 2021 |
| CEO | SYNZUN | Business | B2B vertical AI software |
| Industry | Sewn-products OEM supply chain (3-party trade among buyer, vendor, and factory) | ||
| Korea Offices | Seoul Lab · Songdo HQ | Overseas | SIJE VINA, Hanoi, Vietnam (local subsidiary) · Indonesia (partner company) |
| Products | Monolis (integrated supply chain software) Monolog (smart factory solution for factories) Mono:parts (trims sourcing solution) Tense AI (Coming Soon) | ||
AI Algorithm and Software R&D for Interpreting Human-Dependent Production
These three turn production-floor tacit knowledge into a reusable knowledge asset.
Five Roles,
One Orbit
Organization: Five Roles Sharing One Product Flow
Five roles share one Product flow, and RS alone handles research.
Role = Current Expertise + Second Domain
A second domain each member leads (Management · Direction · AI Transformation · Architecture) is added to existing expertise (PL · Design · Frontend · Backend), moving the center of work to AX.
| Roles | Current Expertise + Second Domain | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| IOIntegration & Optimization | Customer · Contract · Wireframe | Customer org and operations analysis, optimization strategy |
| MGManager | PL + Management | Product lifecycle lead, planning to launch |
| DRDirector | Design + Direction | Interface optimization for a better UX |
| AXAI Experience | Frontend + AI Transformation | Sewing data dictionary (ontology) definition, DB design, AI application |
| TA/DAArchitecture | Backend + TA or DA | Data-software integration design, system infrastructure build |
| RSResearcher | Technology + AI Research | Technology trend tracking, advance research for solutions |
Press a role to pause the orbit and see its description
Four Stages from Customer Need to Product
Director completes the screens and usage flow of each feature as the development baseline (Implementation Story).
AI Experience builds the screens and AI features from this baseline, and Architecture designs the data and server structure.Manager defines the customer requirements IO has organized as product features, Director completes the development baseline (Implementation Story), and AI Experience and Architecture build it.
Roles talk to each other freely, and the baseline is kept as one document.
Mono:parts
Tense AI
Wireframe
(Dev Baseline)
Tense AI
IT Team of Domain Experts from Sewing Floors
It connects the information scattered across a customer site (Integration) and turns work hardened by manual entry and duplicate reporting into a system flow (Optimization).
Unlike general ERP vendors, where development and domain teams are separate, people who know operation breakdown, cost design and on-floor measurement interpret customer requirements directly and hand them over as development baselines.IO (Integration & Optimization) is a team of domain experts from apparel vendors and sewing factory floors. Staff who know operation breakdown, cost design and floor measurement read customer requirements directly and pass them on as development baselines.
Owns customer contact from first meeting to post-rollout adoption, diagnosing problems by process and cost, not by feature pitch.
Maps order, production and shipment flows of vendors and factories in Vietnam and Indonesia as system-view workflow charts.
Reviews current ERP, MES and Excel use, separates what to keep from what to replace, then decides which data moves to Monolis and designs the migration.
Turns vague business requests into feature-level requirements the development team can build, and explains technical limits back in business terms.
2021 → 2026
History
Investment, awards, certifications, new offices and national R&D since founding, listed by year.
- 2021
- 05SIJE Inc. founded
- 2022
- 03Company R&D center recognized (KOITA)
- 11KOSME growth-sharing investment
- 12Minister of Science and ICT Award (Data Voucher Program excellence)
- 2023
- 03KOSME Youth Startup Academy, 13th Cohort
- 05Incheon CCEI BiiG WAVE agreement
- 06Venture certified (R&D type)
- 07Seed investment: Kingo Spring · Beyond Valley
- 10Selected for MSS TIPS
- 11Incheon Mayor Award, Startup Promotion
- 2024
- 01iF Design Award Winner (Monolis)
- 02MSS Minister Award (Youth Startup Academy honors graduate)
- 04Pre-A investment · Global IP Star Company
- 06ISO 9001 certified · Monolog V1 FCC (US) · QCVN (Vietnam) certified
- 09SIJE VINA, Vietnam subsidiary, founded (Hanoi) · selected for KISED TIPS commercialization
- 12Data business filed (data analysis)
- 2025
- 04Inno-Biz certified (Grade A) · AWS partnership · Monolog IP4X certified
- 12Pre-A bridge investment · IP Management Certification
- 2026
- 02ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certified
- 03KOSME Global Startup Academy, 7th Cohort
- 03Gold Prize, AW 2026 Open Innovation Round
- 04MOTIR ESPR national R&D started (in charge of sewing process carbon data)
- 05Selected for the Startup Leap Package
- 07Manufacturing AI R&D program (F&I Korea)
- 08M.AX specialist company confirmed (AI solution firm)
- 10MSS Minister Commendation (Incheon Startup Promotion)
Proprietary Data,
Patented Logic
Patents and Production Data
Process interpretation algorithms are patented in Korea and abroad. The domain dictionary and standard data come from real factory breakdowns and measured learning curves.
Korean Patents
Operation Dictionary
Operation records · 56-factory learning curves
Patents Across Measure · Analyze · Plan · Execute · Control
| Category | Title | No. | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korea | Method for Calculating Production Line Output Using AI | No. 10-2431107 | 2022 |
| Korea | High-Mix Low-Volume Production Line Management System | No. 10-2692403 | 2024 |
| Korea | Method and Device for Providing Loss Data | 10-2024-0108046 | 2024 |
| Korea | Sewing Monitoring Device & Method | 10-2024-0172216 | 2024 |
| Korea | Method and Device for Optimal Apparel Production Plan | No. 10-2837169 | 2025 |
| Korea | Apparel Production Management Device & Method | 10-2025-0033263 | 2025 |
| Korea | Work Data Refinement Device & Method | 10-2025-0097131 | 2025 |
| Korea | AI Sewing Bottleneck Optimization: Learning Curves & Simulation | 10-2026-0146656 | 2026 |
| Korea | Method for Controlling Execution of Apparel Production Management Workflow Based on Autonomy Level, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium | 10-2026-0182320 | 2026 |
| Korea | Method for Generating and Verifying Apparel Manufacturing Process Ledger, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium | 10-2026-0182321 | 2026 |
| Korea | Method for Coordinating Production Plans of Apparel Manufacturing Supply Chain Using Multiple Agents, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium | 10-2026-0182323 | 2026 |
| Overseas | Method for Calculating Production Line Output Using AI (Vietnam · Indonesia) | 1-2022-07875 P00202213756 | 2022 |
| Overseas | Method and Device for Optimal Apparel Production Plan (PCT) | PCT/KR2025/003673 | 2025 |
| Overseas | Sewing Monitoring Device & Method (PCT) | PCT/KR2025/006974 | 2025 |
| Overseas | Apparel Production Management Device & Method (US · Europe · Japan) | 19/805,786 26 204 755.8 2026-205989 | 2026 |
| Marks · Designs | SIJE · Monolis · Monolog · Mono:parts · Tense AI trademarks, remote controller · work light designs (incl. Hague international design) | ||
- Method for Calculating Production Line Output Using AI
- High-Mix Low-Volume Production Line Management System
- Method and Device for Providing Loss Data
- Sewing Monitoring Device & Method
- Method and Device for Optimal Apparel Production Plan
- Apparel Production Management Device & Method
- Work Data Refinement Device & Method
- AI Sewing Bottleneck Optimization: Learning Curves & Simulation
- Method for Controlling Execution of Apparel Production Management Workflow Based on Autonomy Level, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium
- Method for Generating and Verifying Apparel Manufacturing Process Ledger, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium
- Method for Coordinating Production Plans of Apparel Manufacturing Supply Chain Using Multiple Agents, System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium
- Method for Calculating Production Line Output Using AI (Vietnam · Indonesia)
- Method and Device for Optimal Apparel Production Plan (PCT)
- Sewing Monitoring Device & Method (PCT)
- Apparel Production Management Device & Method (US · Europe · Japan)
- SIJE · Monolis · Monolog · Mono:parts · Tense AI trademarks,
- Remote controller · work light designs (incl. Hague international design)
Prove Everything
Basis of Trust
Security and quality certifications appear with their numbers and exact scope wording, plus AI principles, deployment method, awards and ESG.
Each customer has its own cloud single-tenant
environment for production, cost and worker
data, never mixed with other customer data.Production, cost and worker data are kept in a separate cloud single-tenant environment for each customer.
AI-computed plans, costs and allocations are
proposals; only staff approval confirms them.
Current cost sheets and operation standards
stay as is. Diagnosis and design come first,
then build and go-live, then expansion by line and entity.
Certified Security, Quality and Tech Innovation
M.AX Specialist
AI Solution Firm
R&D Type
Tech-Innovative SME, Grade A
MSS- ISO/IEC 27001ISO 9001
Security · Quality
IP Management Cert

Monolis Winner

Sustainable Apparel Coalition full member
Company R&D Center
| Certs | Scope or Grade | No. | Issuer |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | Apparel Supply Chain Solutions | GI-260151 | GERMAN CERT |
| ISO 9001:2015 | Development and supply of software (ERP for apparel) | kociQ-2d90133 | KOCI |
| M.AX Specialist | AI Solution Firm | KEIT | |
| Inno-Biz | Tech-Innovative SME · Grade A | No. 250703-00429 | MSS |
| IP Management Cert | Exemplary IP management | No. 2025-0070 | MOIP |
| Venture Firm | R&D Type | No. 20260805020001 | Venture Verifier |
| Company R&D Center | SIJE Inc. R&D Center | No. 2022111241 | KOITA |
| Sustainability | Apparel manufacturing · verified Higg Index use | Sustainable Apparel Coalition | |
| Product Certs | FCC SDoC 47 CFR Part 15 Subpart B (US) QCVN 18:2022 QCVN 112:2017 EMC (Vietnam) IP4X per IEC 60529 | ||
Recognized Tech and Products
Customer ESG Support and Regulatory Response Based on National R&D
- Joint R&D institution in the MOTIR ESPR national R&D. Handles sewing process carbon data in a 12-institution consortium
- Paperless records: measured data replaces handwritten daily reports
- Objective proof of skill: measured data proves worker skill and supports fair evaluation and pay
- Interface in 5 languages: Korean, English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese
- Worker data managed to ISO/IEC 27001
- IP Management Certification (MOIP, 2025.12)
- IP rights written upfront
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition full member (2023)
- Stock option gain sharing
- National R&D on sewing process carbon data (ESPR)
- Paperless records
- Proof of skill
- 5-language interface
- Worker data protection (ISO/IEC 27001)
- IP Management Cert
- IP rights set upfront
- SAC full member
- Stock option sharing
Korea · Vietnam ·
Indonesia
Global Offices
Headquarters builds the technology; the local subsidiary and partner deploy and operate. Execution teams sit in countries with sewing factories.
Product development and R&D, national projects, and support for vendor HQ customers. Home to management and the IO·MG·DR·AX·TA/DA·RS role teams.
Subsidiary founded in September 2024. Handles ERP·MES deployment and on-site operation, plus accounting, tax, legal and admin outsourcing for incoming firms.
PT. Quty Karunia is both a customer using SIJE solutions and our local partner. Together we support deployment and operation at sewing factories in Indonesia.
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