Michele
Co-founder — 3D cap design, product rendering and brand-side product workflow
5+ years in fashion, custom hats, 3D product modeling and design. Leads the CBOs 2D and 3D editor, product rendering and brand-side product workflow.
Custom hat manufacturer
About CBOs - Custom Hat Manufacturer for Brand Owners
CBOs stands for Clothing Brand Owners. It is both the custom hat web app and the manufacturing workflow behind a cap project: 2D artwork, 3D design, product rendering, sample development and bulk production.
Our background combines fashion, custom hats, 3D modeling, design and code. Across more than five years of hands-on work, we kept seeing the same problem: brands had strong ideas, but weak mockups, scattered references and unclear production notes made the final sample feel different from the original concept.
The production gap
Custom caps fail when details stay unclear
Many custom hat projects break before production starts. A flat mockup can show color and logo placement, but it often misses crown shape, panel seams, brim angle, material texture, embroidery depth, patch scale, pins, rhinestones, labels and packaging.
When those details are not visible, the factory has to interpret them. That creates avoidable revisions, slow sampling and finished caps that are close, but not exact. CBOs exists to make those production details easier to see before money goes into a physical sample.
Mockup does not equal sample
2D / 3D / Production
What we built
One workflow for design, rendering and manufacturing
CBOs connects a 2D artwork editor, a 3D cap editor, product rendering and custom cap manufacturing under one name. Brand owners can create artwork, preview materials and decoration in 3D, generate launch visuals and move approved designs toward sampling and low MOQ production.
The goal is not to make another basic hat customizer. CBOs is built as a production system for real cap projects: 5-panel caps, snapbacks, truckers, dad hats, fitted caps, embroidery, patches, metallic pins, rhinestones and private label packaging.
Tool portfolio
Built from the clothing brand workflow
CBOs is part of a small portfolio of tools for clothing brand owners. M1M4.com helps brands create apparel mockups and tech pack assets, Eclomockup.com adds 3D mockups, and CBOs connects custom cap design, rendering and production.
M1M4.comApparel mockups and tech pack resources for clothing brand owners preparing visuals and product ideas.Eclomockup.com3D mockups for Procreate and CBOs, built to help designers present products with more realistic visuals.CBOsCustom cap design, 3D rendering and production workflow for brands moving from idea to sample and bulk.
Seeing a cap take shape in 3D before the sample exists still feels like the right missing step. It helps brand owners make decisions earlier, and it helps production teams understand what the final cap should become.
Meet the founders
The two people building CBOs
CBOs is built by Michele and Marco, a two-person founding team with 5+ years of hands-on work in fashion, custom hats, 3D design and cap manufacturing. One side of CBOs is design and software, the other side is production and sampling — both handled by the founders directly.
Marco
Co-founder — custom cap manufacturing, sampling and bulk production
5+ years in custom cap manufacturing and production workflow. Leads CBOs sampling, bulk production and factory partnerships across the United States and China.
How we work
The principles behind CBOs
Clarity before sampling
Every production detail should be easier to review before a brand pays for a physical sample.
Design closer to manufacturing
A custom cap design should show shape, materials, decoration, trims and placements, not only colors and a logo.
Built for brand owners
CBOs is made for clothing brands, streetwear founders, creators and apparel teams building real headwear products.
Work with CBOs
Build a custom cap project with the CBOs team
Bring a CBOs design, reference image, tech pack or early idea. We review the cap style, decoration, materials, MOQ and timeline, then help move the project toward sampling, product visuals or production.
Start Your Cap Project