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I do a lot of work in the AEC space. This is an interesting idea but I don't find the results very compelling. There are huge houseplan catalogs out there full of mediocre plans. I'm guessing this is trained on that sort of data as both the floorplans and the elevations look more like what you would get from those catalogs, and not what you would get from hiring an architect.

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That's cool. What kind of work?

It is more of that data. Most people can't afford an architect and almost everyone who buys a templated plan from one of those sites ends up changing it for another $5k-$15k with a drafter (lower cost) or architect (higher cost).

For a lot of people, they like a house, but they want to fit it to their needs and don't know how.

We are hoping to bridge the gap through lowering the cost to ideate and iterate on home designs.

I'm struggling to see how this could lower the cost to ideate here, almost all of the designs I can see on your page would require re drafting/designing it would be more beneficial for people to look at homes that have already been built compared to an AI generation with no real world grounding. Also who is paying for the compute to generate these floor plans and renders? This would have to turn into a paid service eventually im assuming.

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