ABOUT KESTREL ONE™

Built from experience. Created for what comes next.

Built from experience. Created for what comes next.

Built from experience. Created for what comes next.

Kestrel One Inc. is an apparel product development technology and advisory company built from decades of experience inside product organizations—leading product development, design, sourcing, materials, quality, and the systems that connect them. That experience revealed a simple opportunity: product organizations could work differently. Kestrel One™ was created to make that possible.

Kestrel One Inc. is an apparel product development technology and advisory company built from decades of experience inside product organizations—leading product development, design, sourcing, materials, quality, and the systems that connect them. That experience revealed a simple opportunity: product organizations could work differently. Kestrel One™ was created to make that possible.

Kestrel One Inc. is an apparel product development technology and advisory company built from decades of experience inside product organizations—leading product development, design, sourcing, materials, quality, and the systems that connect them. That experience revealed a simple opportunity: product organizations could work differently. Kestrel One™ was created to make that possible.

Three decades inside product development.

Kestrel One™ was founded by Mark Heard after more than three decades leading product organizations across apparel design, product development, sourcing, textile development, quality, technical design, and product management.

Kestrel One™ was founded by Mark Heard after more than three decades leading product organizations across apparel design, product development, sourcing, textile development, quality, technical design, and product management.

30+ Years

30+ Years

Executive leadership across product development, design, sourcing, materials, quality, and technical disciplines.

Broad Product Experience

Broad Product Experience

Led product development across a complex multi-brand portfolio.

Enterprise Leadership

Enterprise Leadership

Built and led cross-functional product organizations, teams, processes, and technology.

Transformation Experience

Transformation Experience

Led major organizational change, including building new product development and sourcing capabilities.

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE + TECHNOLOGY

Product experience meets technology.

Product experience meets technology.

Kestrel One™ is built on decades of experience leading apparel product organizations—and a long history of helping translate the way those organizations work into technology.

Kestrel One™ is built on decades of experience leading apparel product organizations—and a long history of helping translate the way those organizations work into technology.

Long before Kestrel One, founder Mark Heard led the product-side team that helped architect the PLM platform developed by Freeborders, defining how apparel product development should be represented in the system while Freeborders engineered the software. That platform was later acquired by Lawson Software and became Lawson Fashion PLM, ultimately becoming part of Infor following its acquisition of Lawson.

He later partnered with DeSL on the architecture of the color management capabilities within its PLM platform, bringing practical color-development workflows and product expertise into the design of the technology.

A perspective that still guides Kestrel One

Technology works best when it is built around how product decisions are actually made—not when product teams are forced to work around the technology.

Technology works best when it is built around how product decisions are actually made—not when product teams are forced to work around the technology.

Kestrel One™ brings those two worlds together: deep product leadership experience and an understanding of how technology can support better decisions, stronger processes, and better products.

Experience showed us there was another way.

Experience showed us there was another way.

Across companies, brands, teams, and product categories, the same challenges appeared in different forms: fragmented information, disconnected decisions, repeated problems, and calendars expected to compensate for weaknesses in the development process.

Across companies, brands, teams, and product categories, the same challenges appeared in different forms: fragmented information, disconnected decisions, repeated problems, and calendars expected to compensate for weaknesses in the development process.

Kestrel One™ grew from the belief that better product development begins by changing the system behind the product—not simply adding another tool to it.

Kestrel One™ grew from the belief that better product development begins by changing the system behind the product—not simply adding another tool to it.

One philosophy. Two ways to build a stronger product organization.

One philosophy. Two ways to build a stronger product organization.

Kestrel One™ OS

An apparel Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform built around product awareness, decisions, and the evolving state of each product.

Kestrel One™ Advisory

Executive advisory for apparel product organizations, applying decades of operating experience and The Kestrel Method™ to strengthen how teams work.

Both are grounded in The Kestrel Method™—a product-centered approach to helping organizations work better, make better decisions, and build better products.

Both are grounded in The Kestrel Method™—a product-centered approach to helping organizations work better, make better decisions, and build better products.

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Let’s build what comes next.

Let’s build what comes next.

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