Gildform Press · No. 001
Your jewelry brand is waiting.
Here is your roadmap.
The complete playbook for launching your first jewelry brand, from defining your purpose to designing your first product, building your Shopify store, and growing a community that lasts.
The Book
Start A Jewelry Brand.
The Playbook for Designing, Manufacturing and Selling Your First Collection.
Twenty chapters. Five parts. One complete brand-building journey, from your first honest reckoning with your purpose to a live store, a manufactured product, a growing community, and a clear roadmap for what comes next.
What You Will Build.
- ◆Your complete brand strategy: purpose, customer, story, and identity
- ◆Your first product, designed with Gildform's AI tools and ready to manufacture
- ◆A Shopify store connected to Gildform's on-demand production and fulfillment
- ◆A customer experience that generates reviews, loyalty, and repeat sales
- ◆A social media presence, an influencer strategy, and a real community
- ◆A live brand with a roadmap for what comes next
Available now. The companion workbook is coming soon.
The Companion Workbook
Do the work. On the page.
The hands-on companion to Start A Jewelry Brand. Every chapter's exercise, reproduced with room to write, plus a one-page Outputs at a Glance tracker. Available separately in print and digital.
- ◆All twenty chapter exercises with generous writing space
- ◆Brand-strategy worksheets: purpose, customer, story, identity
- ◆Product-design prompts that map to Gildform's AI tools
- ◆Launch checklists for your Shopify store and first sale
- ◆Community, content, and influencer planning templates
- ◆One-page Outputs at a Glance tracker for your whole brand
About the Author
Karissma Yve.
Founder & CEO, Gildform
Karissma Yve is the founder and CEO of Gildform, the AI-powered, on-demand design and manufacturing platform she built to remove the barriers that keep independent creators from launching professional product brands. A Techstars and Pharrell Williams' Black Ambition–backed founder, she holds a U.S. patent for her integrated design-to-manufacturing system (U.S. Patent No. 12,638,835 B2), and her platform has produced work with Universal Music Group, Marvel, Ford, and Billie Eilish. She started out making jewelry in her basement. She wrote this book to give every Dreamer the system she wishes she'd had.
Questions
Everything you might ask.
New to all of this? Read the free guide: How to start a jewelry business from home.
- What is Start A Jewelry Brand about?
- Start A Jewelry Brand is a step-by-step playbook by Karissma Yve for designing, manufacturing and selling your first jewelry collection — covering brand purpose, product design, finding manufacturers, pricing, and selling your first pieces without a warehouse, a factory, or a large budget.
- Who wrote Start A Jewelry Brand?
- It was written by Karissma Yve, founder of Gildform, a jewelry manufacturing technology company, and an inventor with a patent in jewelry manufacturing. She is a Pharrell Williams Black Ambition alum.
- Who is the book for?
- It is written for first-time jewelry founders, designers, and creators with an audience who want to turn a jewelry idea into a real, sellable collection and a profitable brand.
- Is there a companion workbook?
- Yes. The Companion Workbook is an 8.5 x 11 inch guided workbook with prompts and exercises that walk you through each stage of the playbook so you finish with a concrete brand and collection plan.
- Where can I buy Start A Jewelry Brand?
- The book is available now on Amazon at https://a.co/d/0bJuqgVR. The companion workbook is coming soon — join the list at startajewelrybrand.com to be notified when it launches.
- Do I need manufacturing experience or a factory to use it?
- No. The playbook is built for people starting from zero and explains how to work with existing manufacturers and produce small first runs instead of owning production.
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"The gap between your passion and your first sale is smaller than you think."
— Karissma Yve
"For anyone who has dreamed of launching a jewelry line but doesn’t know how to move from an idea to a manufacturable product and ultimately to the marketplace, this is an excellent place to start."
I’ve had the privilege of working with Karissma Yve and supporting her journey as she built and scaled Gildform, and I’ve consistently been impressed by her as an entrepreneur, innovator, and manufacturing leader. What I admire most is how she is democratizing jewelry design and production, lowering the barriers that have historically blocked aspiring jewelry entrepreneurs—from design-for-manufacturing to high minimum orders and launch capital. In Start a Jewelry Brand, she generously translates what she has learned into a practical playbook that other entrepreneurs can follow. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It combines Karissma’s firsthand experience with practical lessons about design, manufacturing, commercialization, and building a brand.
Dan Radomski
CEO, Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University
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