Behind OOmade, two men passionate about customer experience.
OOmade is the slightly crazy idea of our two co-founders, Michel Hodzaj and Paul-Éric Robert. One comes from telecoms, the other from optics. Together, they bring more than forty years of experience, a shared obsession with useful innovation, and one conviction: after-sales service in optics deserves much better than a tube of resin.
In 2022, they set out to shake up habits by creating a simple, fast and reliable way to print replacement frames on demand from the original lenses. The idea was so original, simple and effective that they patented it right away.
stores installed, in 13 countries and territories.
year founded, near Montpellier. Patented technology from day one.
2024. The industry's benchmark award, presented at the Mondial de l'Optique trade show.
Behind two founders, a team that brings the idea to life
They had the intuition. But turning that idea into a simple, reliable solution adopted by a thousand opticians took talent.
Today, OOmade is also a close-knit, committed and downright passionate team. Developers who code down to the millimeter, salespeople who know the product inside out, a support team faster than its own shadow, and a marketing team that makes it all shine. Everyone does their part, with an almost obsessive eye for detail.
Chain-affiliated and independent customers
Krys, Atol, Optic 2000, Écouter Voir, Lissac, Le Collectif des Lunetiers, Alain Afflelou, Optical Center, LUZ, Optic Libre, Groupe All, CDO. Stores from these chains and buying groups already print in store, alongside unaffiliated independents. 1,000 stores installed.
They're with us on this journey
ZEISS and Novacel for lenses; Doctolib for equipped stores' visibility. Three partners, one shared view: a wearer who can't see is a wearer you can lose.
Why lens manufacturers partner on repairs
A lens manufacturer has a direct interest in a wearer never being left without a solution. A broken frame means a customer who can't see, who waits, and who sometimes goes elsewhere. OOtrace removes that moment: the wearer leaves with glasses the same day, with their own lenses, and comes back to buy complete eyewear.
ZEISS relies on OOmade to support its distributors, by letting the optician who sells their lenses guarantee the customer that their prescription stays usable the day the frame breaks.
And for ZEISS partner opticians, the solution can be financed with loyalty points.
Novacel
Same logic, and it doesn't depend on the lens brand: a wearer helped out the same day is a wearer who comes back for new eyewear, rather than a wearer lost.
This is the service on which lens manufacturers have partnered with OOmade: repairs, not the making of final frames, which is a different trade.
Doctolib
OOmade joins Doctolib's partner services marketplace. Equipped opticians gain extra visibility, right where patients already look for a healthcare professional.
Why lens manufacturers care
When a frame breaks, the wearer can't see. They wait, they improvise, and sometimes they end up switching stores, and lens brands. Every breakage is a moment when customers get lost.
An immediate repair closes that gap: the wearer keeps their sight, keeps their optician, and comes back to buy complete eyewear. The backup frame is short-lived by design: it never replaces that eyewear.
Glasses are sleeping in a drawer. Elsewhere, a child cannot see.
Every new pair of glasses leaves behind a pair of usable lenses. In France they end up at the back of a cupboard; elsewhere, they're badly needed. What's missing with them is the frame, and that's exactly what our machine can make on site.
That's OOcare: not a service we sell, but missions we carry out with grassroots associations. In Morocco, in June 2026, with Maddad Al Wissal and the Al Karam association, we set up the workshop in a borrowed room, printed frames to fit the collected lenses, and equipped children within the day.
Lunettes Espoir mission, Morocco, June 2026. His frame was printed behind him, from the shape of a lens collected in France. Photo published with the permission of his legal guardians, obtained by the association.
Not to be confused: the material side
OOcare is humanitarian. The low footprint of the process is another story, and it applies to every frame you sell: making on site eliminates shipping, overstock and unsold items; the PLA in OOtrace repairs is bio-based, made from corn starch; the PETG in OOframe final frames is recyclable and compliant with ISO 12870.
The best way to get to know us is to watch us make a frame.
In your store, or at a trade show where we exhibit.
