(Watch Cary Sherburne’s video interview with Cam Myers here.)

CreateMe, in partnership with Avalo AI and Laguna Fabrics, launched Seed to System, a first-of-its-kind infrastructure connecting fragments of the apparel supply chain into one end-to-end U.S.-based system: from Texas cotton fields to California factory floors.

There are a number of initiatives working to help bring back at least some of the textile and apparel manufacturing to the U.S., after we offloaded most of it to Asia a few decades ago. These have mostly been around automation and building more robust cut-and-sew resources. This initiative is quite different in that it has the potential to drive systemic change and real-time tracking all the way from the cotton fields to finished product. We recently spoke with Cam Myers, CEO of CreateMe, about this initiative and his thoughts about its potential impact on the textile and apparel supply chain for Made-in-America textile-based products.