Future Vision — show clients the finished space

Homeowners are terrible at picturing a finished bathroom. You describe a walk-in shower with white subway tile and a brass rain head, and they nod politely while imagining something completely different.

Future Vision fixes that. Give it a before photo of a room and the notes you already took, and the AI paints what that exact room looks like when you're done — same angle, same windows, same layout, new everything else. Then you drop the before/after pair straight onto the proposal.

Rolling out gradually. Future Vision is being switched on account by account. If you don't see Future Vision under ⋯ More on your projects yet, it hasn't reached you — nothing is broken.

How to make one

Open a project and pick the Future Vision tile. You'll see one card per room that has at least one photo.

For each room:

1. Pick the before photo. Tap a thumbnail in the strip. The first photo is selected by default, so most of the time you can skip this.
2. Make sure the room has a note. This is the part that matters. The AI reads your notes for that room — typed, voice, or a photo of your handwritten scratch pad — to know what you're actually building. A photo alone isn't enough, and the Generate button will tell you so.
3. Optionally add style direction. The little text box takes things like "white subway tile, brass fixtures, walk-in glass shower". Use it when you want to steer the look beyond what your notes say — or when you haven't written a note yet and just want to see something.
4. Hit Generate. Takes about 15 seconds.

Generate as many as you like per room. Each one stacks up on the card so you can compare.

Show it your actual tile

Describing a tile only gets you so far. "Twelve by twenty-four porcelain" means something very specific to you and roughly nothing to an image model — which is how you end up with a render full of tiny square tiles when you specced big rectangular ones.

So show it. Every room card has a Reference photos row. Tap + Add and you get two choices:

• Tile sample — match it exactly. Use this for a shot of the actual tile: the sample board on your dash, the box in the supply house aisle, the manufacturer's product photo you saved. The AI copies the size, proportions, color, pattern, and grout.
• Inspiration — match the style. Use this for a whole finished bathroom you're chasing the vibe of. The AI takes the mood and palette, not the literal tile.

You can either upload a photo or pick one that's already on the project — handy when you shot the tile sample while you were standing in the room. Picking an existing photo doesn't copy it or move it; it just points at it, so removing the reference later leaves your photo exactly where it was.

Three references per room, max. They stick around, so every render you generate for that room from then on uses them — no re-attaching between attempts.

Renders read your measurements too

If you've set tile sizes, materials, or patterns on a room in Measurements & Scope, Future Vision reads them and works out the proportions for you — a 12" × 24" tile on an eight-foot wall becomes roughly four columns across, and that's what gets rendered.

Your notes still outrank everything. If your note says one thing and the saved measurements say another, the note wins — it's the fresher instruction.

Featuring the one you like

The first render for a room is automatically featured, which is the only thing clients ever see. Generate a better one? Hit Feature in proposal on it and the previous one steps aside — one featured render per room, always.

Don't want a room shown to the client at all? Un-feature it. Don't want the render at all? Delete removes it and the image for good.

On the proposal page (Bid → ② Proposal), a small chip in the Notes row under the proposal bar tells you where you stand, like 1 of 3 renders shown or No renders yet. Tap it, then Choose renders (or Generate renders) to jump to Future Vision on Capture.

Where clients see it

Featured renders show up as a The Finished Space section on:

• The proposal in your own view
• The PDF you download
• The proposal link your client opens
• The Photos tab of their customer portal

Every render carries a small "AI concept rendering" label baked into the picture itself, plus a line of plain text under the section: AI-generated concept renderings — actual finished results may vary. That travels with the image everywhere, including if your client screenshots it and texts it to their sister. The picture sells the dream; the label keeps it honest.

Turning it off for clients

Don't want renders on client-facing proposals at all? Go to Settings → Proposal Settings, tap the Layout & pricing card, and under Photos untick Include Future Vision renders in proposals, then tap Save. Even though it sits in a style's card, this one switch covers every style. Turn it off and you can still generate and look at renders yourself — clients just never see them.

Renders are frozen at send time

Like project photos, whatever is featured when you send the proposal is what that client sees — forever. Generate a new render or un-feature one afterward and their copy doesn't change. Send a fresh link if you want them to see the new version.

Your monthly allowance

Your plan includes a set number of renders each month. The counter sits at the top of the Future Vision section — "14 of 20 renders left this month" — and resets on the 1st.

A couple of fair-play details:

• Failed renders don't count. If the AI can't produce an image, nothing comes out of your allowance.
• Regenerating counts. Every successful picture is one render, so if you're hunting for the perfect look, you're spending from the same pot.

Or skip the allowance entirely

Connect your own OpenAI or Google AI account under Connected Apps → Your AI Keys and renders bill to you instead. The monthly allowance stops applying, the counter changes to "Running on your own API key", and you're only bounded by a 500-a-month safety ceiling. See Using your own AI keys.

Getting better results

• A photo of the actual tile beats any description. If you only do one thing on this list, attach a tile sample. Words about tile are guesswork; a picture isn't.
• Write the note like you'd tell a coworker. "Demo the tub, walk-in shower with white subway to the ceiling, brass fixtures, penny round floor" gets you far more than "shower remodel."
• Set the tile size in Measurements & Scope. It takes one tap and the renders start getting the proportions right.
• Shoot the before photo straight on. The AI holds the camera angle and room geometry exactly as you gave it, so a clear, well-lit, level shot produces a cleaner after.
• One room at a time. Renders are per-room, and a photo showing half a hallway and half a bathroom confuses the result.
• If a render comes out wrong, reword the note or try a different photo of the same room, then generate again.

Who can do what

• Owners and admins generate, feature, and delete renders, and manage reference photos.
• Sales can see the renders and reference photos on a project but can't generate or change anything.
• Crew don't see the section at all.