Editor’s Note
This article highlights a significant milestone for AI-driven innovation in manufacturing. Lehosah’s selection for the Global TIPS program, with substantial R&D funding, underscores the growing investment and confidence in applying advanced AI, like GNNs and multimodal systems, to transform traditional industries such as jewelry design and production.
AI-based jewelry tech company Lehosah (LEHOSAH Inc.) announced that it has been finally selected for the ‘Global TIPS’ program overseen by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, securing a total of 12 billion won in R&D funding.
Global TIPS is a program that supports large-scale research and development by linking it with private investment, targeting companies recognized for both their technological capabilities and global expansion potential. This selection officially recognizes the technical excellence and global scalability of Lehosah’s AI-based jewelry design and manufacturing automation technology (ChromaKey).
Through this Global TIPS program, Lehosah plans to advance its multimodal AI (integrated analysis of images, text, CAD, and 3D) and GNN (Graph Neural Network)-based auto-pricing engine.
In particular, by analyzing the relationships between materials, weight, settings, and manufacturing processes in a graph format and using an algorithm that learns process difficulty, the company aims to reduce the unit price prediction error from the previous ±20~30% level compared to manual estimates to within ±5%.
This technology goes beyond simple price calculation, featuring a full-cycle automation structure that simultaneously predicts manufacturability and cost structure from the product design stage and even connects to optimal manufacturer auto-matching.
Lehosah’s core solution, ChromaKey, is an End-to-End AI platform that performs everything from 2D design generation, 3D rendering, and automatic conversion to CAD files based on jewelry images/sketches, to automatic calculation of material/gemstone quantities, analysis of manufacturing process difficulty and unit price calculation, and recommendation of optimal manufacturers.
Through this, the company plans to transform the existing mass-production-centered jewelry industry structure into a data-based small-batch, multi-variety, and customized production system, and accelerate its entry into global OEM/ODM markets such as the US, Japan, and the Middle East (GCC).
Following its Global TIPS selection, Lehosah’s strategy is to expand global partnerships focusing on: ▲US: Strengthening customized design and AI-based demand forecasting ▲Japan: Expanding manufacturing collaboration based on precision CAD and cost transparency ▲Middle East (GCC): Developing robotics AI automation jewelry manufacturing facilities.
Through this R&D, the company aims to achieve ▲a reduction in production lead time by over 30% ▲manufacturing cost prediction accuracy within ±5% ▲securing B2B client satisfaction (MOS) of 4.0 or higher ▲real-time detection accuracy for security/false information of 98% or higher. Through this, it plans to simultaneously promote the digital transformation (DX) of the domestic manufacturing ecosystem and global expansion.
Lehosah (LEHOSAH Inc.) is an AI-based jewelry tech company that provides integrated solutions covering design, manufacturing, branding, and distribution by combining over 40 years of manufacturing know-how with the latest artificial intelligence technology. It is expanding collaboration with global brands and manufacturers through its proprietary AI platform ‘ChromaKey’.