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Patio3D is our own product: a 3D designer that patio cover dealers put on their own website. Customers design their cover in 3D, Patio3D checks it against the manufacturer's engineering for their address, and the dealer receives a ready-to-quote lead with a realistic AI photo of the finished patio.
Patio covers are one of the most popular additions to American homes, yet each one is engineered to order. Every design has to be checked against the manufacturer's engineering for the wind, snow and earthquake loads at the job's address before anyone can quote it. Buyers also struggle to picture the finished cover from a brochure.
Done by hand, that means pages of engineering tables for every job, slow quotes, redesigns, and designs that can't be built, and selling only during working hours.
We set out to make a product that is engineered to order as simple to buy as a prefabricated one, and to cover as much of the market as possible: four manufacturers, 98 design options and 95 parts and components.
Patio3D runs on each dealer's own website, where homeowners and salespeople design a cover in 3D and place it in the backyard in AR. For the job's address, it looks up the loads and checks the design against the engineering of Alumawood, Duralum, Four Seasons or United Duralume. It then compares up to 17,000 ways to build it in under 100 milliseconds and chooses the one with the lowest material cost.
The dealer receives a ready-to-quote lead with the full design, the engineering, the bill of materials and a realistic AI photo of the finished patio.
Solid, insulated or lattice roofs, in rectangle, L or U shapes, attached or freestanding, with screens, privacy walls, fans and lights, up to 60 feet long. The cover can then be placed in the backyard in AR, on iPhone or Android.
Patio3D applies the wind, snow and earthquake loads for the address, based on ASCE 7, and produces permit-ready engineering references in seconds. Dealers can add their own local overrides by street, city or county.
Every design is checked against 144 engineering rules and the manufacturer's tables, and designs that cannot be built are refused. Patio3D then compares up to 17,000 ways to build it and chooses the one with the lowest material cost.
Two price books: an estimate for the customer, and a material cost list with part numbers and quantities. Quotes go out as PDFs with the dealer's logo, colours, pictures and engineering.
Every quote request arrives with screenshots and is flagged as a duplicate, a custom design, qualified or spam, with a dashboard to keep track.
Each dealer runs Patio3D on its own subdomain or domain, with a one-line website embed and its own branding, prices, team and tracking.
A U-shaped cover
Privacy panels and accessories
Combi covers and screens
A freestanding combi cover
The customer's 3D design
The photo the AI produced from it
Every quote request now arrives engineered and priced, because every serious visitor to the dealer's website can design a buildable cover and ask for a quote.
The engineering and the bill of materials are produced automatically with every design, with permit-ready engineering references for the job's address, so no buyer waits for a quote.
Quote requests no longer depend on the dealer's working hours.
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