L.L.Bean had invested heavily in Digital Product Creation. The 3D capability was strong. But as adoption scaled, a quieter problem emerged — designers were spending significant time on work that wasn’t design.

Renaming files. Re-exporting assets. Moving content between tools. Small tasks, but constant ones. Consistency suffered. Confidence in what was flowing into VibeIQ eroded.

The Challenge

Scaling 3D meant the manual overhead scaled with it

Scaling 3D across more categories meant the manual overhead scaled with it. File sizes grew. Handoffs multiplied. Most delays weren’t coming from rendering — they were coming from everything around it.

Designers lost momentum switching between tasks. Leadership couldn’t trust that the right assets were in VibeIQ at the right time. The workflow needed to change.

What We Found

The time study surfaced what everyone suspected but hadn’t quantified

EnhanceThat ran a workflow assessment with L.L.Bean's Digital Product Creation and Product teams. Saving, renaming, re-exporting and moving files was consuming far more time than rendering itself.

The cost wasn't just hours. Every context switch broke creative momentum. The case for automation was immediate.

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The Approach

One pipeline. Built around how the team actually works.

EnhanceThat built a seamless pipeline connecting CLO, product data and VibeIQ — designed around how L.L.Bean’s designers and product teams actually work.

Manual handoffs were removed. Naming, exporting and syncing happen automatically. The workflow is fully implemented within L.L.Bean’s environment and built to evolve as tools and requirements change. EnhanceThat continues to support it over time.

The Impact

Numbers that changed the conversation

• From 5+ minutes to 16 seconds — 95% faster

• High-quality images in 7 clicks — 84% less clicking

• Designers spend more time designing, less time managing files

• Assets are consistent across the workflow, with a shared visual language

• VibeIQ receives clean, structured data and the latest 3D assets

• Rework drops. Confidence in the pipeline goes up.

Why L.L.Bean Chose EnhanceThat

Everyone spoke the same language from day one

What It Unlocked

• Manual file handling has been removed from the core 3D workflow

• Disconnected tools now run as a single reliable pipeline

• Designers are designing more and managing less

• Digital Product Creation is positioned to scale across every category

A visual line plan - so basic and so essential for every fashion company.

Our workflow assessments consistently show that, for many teams, this is one of the main sources of manual work. Just because tools and data aren’t connected.

Since Miro is so well adopted in fashion, we built a Miro connector.
It pulls images and data from PLM, CLO-SET, DAM, and any source.
Drops and syncs the line plan.

Automated, simple but very effective (according to our time studies 😜)

It’s one of those cases that tells me we’re doing the right thing - not building another tool, but making the tools out there work better together.

The Challenges

Great 3D work trapped in a manual bottleneck

01 Manual export & rename

• Every CLO render required manual export, file renaming, and re-uploading, a repetitive task done dozens of times per week.

02 Disconnected systems

• CLO, CLOSET, Airtable PLM and Miro all lived in silos. No data flowed between them without human intervention.

03 Errors & version drift

• Manual copying introduced mismatched style names, wrong images and outdated renders in the lineplan.

04 Delayed time-to-PLM

• Styles were ready in CLO, but PLM and Miro lagged by days slowing decisions that depended on current data.

The Solution

One action.
Everything else is automatic.

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