The Exchanges

Q So are you sending someone to go take a picture from the, from the, the foundation of the building that hasn't been built yet of what the mountain's going to look like 10 stories high and the AI just knows how to put it in correctly?

A Yeah, great, great question. So it's actually a combination of things. The software we use to model the virtual world is what they use to create movies in. So like Game of Thrones, when you see those scenes where, you know, they have a drone flying over the beautiful, you know, mountaintops of, uh, you know, Ireland, right? And then you see the horses and the dragons and all that. That technology of how to create that is, we're using those same software packages and things, but we, we apply that to Real estate mainly and some product stuff. But essentially, you know, if we, if we're doing a, a shot of the building from the street level, looking up, we'll make sure we have a street view of what's currently there with the surrounding context. And then we can drop in the new, you know, proposed, you know, rendering or virtual world on top of that existing image. That's one way we do it. We also do that with drone, right? So we have still shots. We can take a still shot of the city from above looking down at the site and then superimpose The virtual, you know, new buildings that are going to be there someday into it to make it look like it's already there and done. The other thing that gets very exciting is we do some drone, like I mentioned with the Game of Thrones, right? We do drone pathing. So if we fly a drone out there looking at the site or through a community, we can then s…

AI assessment note: “we take a still shot of the city from above looking down at the site”

Q I can definitely understand the value in trying to save money. If you're building things at scale, you said that there's studs and drywall and all of these things. Are these like, is every stud put in one at a time into this design? Like how detailed, how precise You know, how long does it take to make this kind of stuff?

A So it, the level of detail depends on the type of project, right? If we're doing a single family home, we might not put as much detail into, you know, the three D model that's needed. It's still going to have three D components. You're still going to want to make sure soffits and things line up, but, uh, you know, a two, three story home is very simple compared to a, you know, municipal con complex, right? Police, you know, EMS, Fire, right? So there's more complexities, the bigger the building gets and the more expensive the building, right? So certain uses, you know, facilities management, things like that have more components to that building than a residential home. So the detail of that three D model does change depending on the type of use. But we also want to make sure, right to your point, it's cost effective for people to do this. So we, we don't think our pricing is any more egregious than any other firm out there. We're actually somewhere in the middle. And with us, you get the same, you know, you get even more support and technology behind you and innovation in the, in the architectural profession.

AI assessment note: “the level of detail depends on the type of project, right?”