Sketch → Render
The core act
Drop a sketch, SketchUp export, or Rhino screenshot. Photorealistic concept render in 20 seconds. Camera, material, light — directable.
Open Studio
Start free, no card needed
For architects who thinkwith their hands
Sketch to client-ready render in 20 seconds. Gaia learns how you design and gets better with every project.
No 3D model neededWorks from a sketchLearns your design sense
100KRENDERS GENERATED
The method · 20 secondsSketch.
Sketch.
Prompt.
Render.
The first hours of a project decide most of what gets built. Gaia lives in those hours — taking a sketch, a Rhino screenshot, a photo of the site, and turning it into a client-ready render while the conversation is still open.
Capabilities
Four tools, one twin
The concept phase in one canvas. The Twin remembers your eye across every session.
Edit
Directed revision
Pro
Mask the region, keep the design. Brush where the render should change — not a filter, not a regeneration.
Open StudioResearch
Code & compliance
Pro
Site, zoning, and regulation — cited by section. Upload a brief, get constraints and compliance alongside your renders.
Open ResearchStudio
One workspace
Generate, edit, research — all in one canvas. Project context follows you across sessions. Built for the concept phase.
Open StudioTaste Twin
Your design memory
Soon
Your aesthetic vocabulary, material instincts, and style arc — accumulated across every render. Gaia sharpens with every session.
See the TwinThe concept phaseFrom napkin
From napkin
to client deck.
Gaia lives in the hours before the BIM model — when the first concepts still shape the entire project.
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Workspace
From €0.02per render
Studio
The full canvas. Generate from sketch, prompt, or reference. Edit with a brush. Research code constraints alongside your renders. Project context follows you across sessions.
Open Studio →
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The mechanic
8 stylesincl. Ando, Zumthor
Sketch to Render
Drop a sketch, SketchUp export, or Rhino screenshot. Photorealistic concept in 20 seconds — 8 architectural languages including Ando and Zumthor.
Try free →PRICING
Start free. Scale when you're ready.
The intelligence compounds with every session.
Explorer
Begin your Twin
Free
- 5 free renders to start
- Studio access · full image history
- Standard models
- Your Taste Twin starts forming
No credit card required
Most popular
Gaia Pro
A twin that keeps pace with real projects
€24/mo
- 2,000 credits per month
- Priority generation queue
- Pro models where enabled
- Edit — brush-mask regions & whole-frame iteration on renders
- All camera angles & render styles
- Private generation
- Generate & Research (site, code & compliance)
- Project organisation
Cancel anytime
Move faster
2,000 credits a month, priority queue, Pro models. Generate ten concepts while others generate one.
Present better
PDF concept decks, project folders, Gaia Edit for regional refinement. From Studio to client in one click.
Own your work
Commercial license, private mode, stealth gallery. Your designs stay yours.
1 credit = 1 standard generation · Chat, research & compliance always unlimited
How Gaia compares
| Gaia | Midjourney / DALL·E | Veras / Visoid | Lumion / Enscape | Traditional viz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No 3D model required | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works from photos & sketches | ✓ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Learns your design sense | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Architecture-specific tools | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| Building code & compliance | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| First result in | Seconds | 30–60s | Minutes | Minutes | Days – weeks |
| Starting price | Free | $10 mo | Free / $15 mo | $500+ / yr | €500+ / project |
COMMON QUESTIONS
PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS & DATA
Your mind,
expanded
Gaia is not a tool you use. She is a twin you grow. Over time, she learns your aesthetic vocabulary, your code jurisdictions, your project history, and your way of seeing. She extends your judgment. She does not replace it.
01
Your design is yours.
Gaia never trains on your work without consent. Your design decisions, client data, and proprietary solutions are encrypted end-to-end. They do not flow to the network. They do not improve anyone else's model.
02Collective knowledge.
Collective knowledge.
Individual ownership.
Building codes, material data, historical precedent — this is the commons of the profession. Gaia makes it accessible at conversation speed. Your design decisions remain yours alone.
03
Transparent by default.
Ask Gaia what she knows about you. She will tell you. Export your data, restrict what she learns, or delete everything permanently. You are not a data source. You are an intelligence she serves.
04
Human design stays human.
Architecture shapes lives. Gaia makes it easier to build accessibly, sustainably, and safely — not to automate the judgment that makes a building worth building. The creative responsibility stays with you.
FROM THE FIELD
“We used to spend two weeks on concept renders. Now we show clients five options in the first meeting.”
Architecture studio, Amsterdam“The first client meeting used to be an abstract conversation. Now I arrive with four rendered directions and we actually decide.”
Architecture studio, Rotterdam“Clients see the vision before the contractor's even on the brief. The concept phase finally moves at the speed of conversation.”
Interior designer, DelftAbout Gaia
Gaiabeganin2021asapassionprojectduringmyarchitectureresearch,builtwhileIwasalsostudyingcomputerscience.AtCornellTechitgrewintoastartupIranwithPhilParvaneh,buteventhenitwasmoreavehicleforideasthanadestination.Iwantedtounderstandhowwemightshapebetterbuildings,fasterandwithmoreclarity.
AsImovedtowardaPhD,IchosetokeepGaiaalive.Thequestionshewasasking:whatwoulditmeanforanintelligencetotrulyunderstandbuildings?ItwasmoreinterestingthananyanswerI'dfound.Thetechnologyshifted.Thecontextshifted.Whatdidn'tchangewasthebeliefthatthebuiltenvironmentdeservesbetterintelligence:notatoolthatreplacesjudgment,butatwinthatextendsit.Sheisnamedfortheearthbecausearchitectureisalwaysabouttheearth.Sheisbuiltforarchitectswhostillbelievebuildingsmatter.
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