The Havenly AI tool allows users to design rooms, change out items and make purchases. Image courtesy of Havenly.
DENVER — Havenly, the online interior design service, has launched a shoppable, personalized AI-powered assistant to help consumers design spaces and shop for their homes.
Havenly AI, available on its iOS app, was created in-house by its tech team, according to Lee Mayer, CEO and co-founder of Havenly.
The use of AI for interior design has steadily increased, and while the company has developed internal AI tools for its own designers, this chat-based tool now allows Havenly to share the millions of designs it has, along with other data, with its customers. Trained on its database of designs, the platform goes beyond what is currently available through generic AI agents.
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“At Havenly, technology has always been at the heart of what we do,” said Mayer. “By training our AI on insights from nearly 3 million room designs, we’ve built a tool that combines cutting-edge machine learning with genuine design expertise. This isn’t AI as an afterthought.”
During the beta testing, Mayer said the feedback from users has been positive. “People like the ability to create and buy. For us it has been a fun exercise that uses our expertise in design.”
Features within Havenly AI include the ability to upload any room photo and get a personalized design within seconds. Users can then refine the details by editing, swapping or adjusting products within the design. Designs are also integrated with a shoppable marketplace of more than 500,000 products for various home brands.
Products include those from Havenly’s sibling brands, but from many others as well, said Mayer, and cover most home furnishings categories apart from kitchen and bath fixtures.
While Havenly AI can serve for some customers as an alternative to its online design service, for many it will be used as part of collaboration with an interior designer. “There is a fluidity of creating and then sharing ideas with a designer,” said Mayer. Havenly’s network of professional designers will be able to refine, alter or execute users’ AI-generated concepts.
Acknowledging there is some anxiety about the growth of AI and its impact on traditional jobs, Mayer said there are still plenty of customers who want to work with a person on their design project. The tool, however, appeals to “people who want to figure it out themselves or who just want to play first,” she said.
Mayer said because it is in the early stages, the company is still seeing where Havenly AI can generate value. “At some point, we’ll have to put a cost on it,” she said. But for now, it’s being viewed as a way to attract new customers to the brand and as an exciting part of a broader development process.
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