Is this just another AI image tool?

No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.

How does it differ from BoxBrownie or Styldod?

BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.

Will the MLS accept AI-staged photos?

Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.

Won't the AI add things to my listing that aren't really there?

Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.

Do my renders count as 'edits' under NAR rules?

Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.

Hospitality — beach clubs / coastal

Beach club photography, built for coastal hospitality brands

Beach club photography is the hardest sub-genre in hospitality imagery — sun glare flattens the linen, wet sand photographs muddy, and the pool turns green against a harsh blue sky. Nikki Beach, The Setai, W South Beach, and Soho Beach House all live or die on a single twilight cabana hero shot that the booking funnel rewards. Plotpane's Day to Dusk tool rebuilds that frame from a midday capture, one credit and about two minutes, so the reshoot doesn't have to wait for next season.

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Before

After

Beach club photography to editorial submission spec

Beach club photography that actually makes it onto Tablet Hotels, Mr & Mrs Smith, or Condé Nast Johansens follows a narrow spec — no generative overreach, structural fidelity on coastline and architecture, daylight-plausible shadows, and a disclosed edit chain. Tablet's photography guidance rejects over-saturated skies and composite palm lines; Mr & Mrs Smith's submission portal asks for unretouched masters alongside the hero. Plotpane sits at that exact ceiling because of what it structurally cannot do. It edits the frame it was handed: sand tone comes back warm-neutral rather than orange, pool aqua stays separate from sea cobalt, and the twilight cabana frame is rebuilt without a cabana that wasn't there. Every export ships with XMP metadata naming the operation, the render id and the timestamp, so the submission editor can see what moved. That is the version of the hero worth putting in front of an editorial board.

Day-to-dusk cabana workflow without the reshoot budget

A traditional beach club shoot costs $8,000 to $15,000 for a single golden-to-blue-hour window, and 25 to 30 percent of booked days fail on weather, wind, or ocean state. The cabanas need to be freshly dressed, the pool skimmed, the sand raked, the sea state calm, and the sky clear within a 40-minute window. Miss any of those and the shoot rolls to the next available weather day — often three to six weeks out in shoulder season. Plotpane's Day to Dusk tool converts a clean midday capture of the cabana row into the twilight hero in about two minutes for one credit: the sky shifts to dusk, lanterns light correctly, linen retains wind-plausible drape, pool water holds aquamarine. One captured day becomes a year of seasonal hero rotations, and the seasonal reshoot line disappears from the marketing budget.

Brand consistency across rooms, cabanas, and public spaces

Multi-venue beach club groups — Nikki Beach across twelve properties, Soho Beach House across the Miami-Ibiza-Istanbul axis, W's beach-adjacent portfolio — need every cabana, suite, restaurant, and pool deck to render in the same color science. Mismatched color grades across room shots, cabana rows, and rooftop bars break the brand on an OTA gallery scroll. Plotpane will not do that for you: there are no brand presets, no saved profiles and no team accounts, so nothing is locked at the brand level and nothing carries between sessions. What holds a portfolio together is the discipline of running the same tool and the same one of the ten built-in styles on every frame, on one account. Consistency here is a habit you keep, not a setting the software remembers.

Tablet / Mr & Mrs Smith / Condé Nast Johansens submission spec preserved
Day-to-dusk on cabanas, linen, pool, and sea in a single pass
Sand tone corrected warm-neutral — not orange, not muddy
Pool aqua and sea cobalt held as separate color registers
One credit an image, whichever tool — batch 50 on Pro, 150 on Agency

For this region

Local questions, answered

What is a beach club, and why does its photography need a different workflow than a hotel shoot?+

A beach club is a hospitality venue organized around outdoor cabanas, a beachfront pool, and a day-to-night dining and DJ program — Nikki Beach, Scorpios, Bagatelle, the pool deck at The Setai. The imagery has to carry both daytime bathing scenes and twilight cocktail scenes from the same footprint, which is why a single capture day rarely covers both registers. Plotpane's Day to Dusk tool generates the twilight cabana frame from the midday capture, so one shoot day delivers both editorial hero modes.

Are these edits accepted for Tablet Hotels, Mr & Mrs Smith, and Condé Nast Johansens submissions?+

The output lines up with what those three editorial boards ask for in their 2025-2026 submission guidance — structural fidelity on coastline, architecture, and fixtures; no invented palm trees or cabanas; daylight-plausible shadow direction under dusk light; a disclosed edit chain. XMP metadata ships embedded in every export — a JPEG at quality 92, about 2.4K — naming the operation that ran, so the reviewing editor can audit the file you send. No board pre-approves a tool, though: the submission still stands or falls on the frame you send.

Will Plotpane add cabanas, boats, or coastline that weren't in the original beach club photo?+

No. Structure is preserved. Day to Dusk adjusts sky gradient, water saturation, sand tone, atmospheric haze, and fixture lighting — it does not extend the coastline, add watercraft, multiply cabanas, or fabricate palm lines. If the original frame doesn't have an island on the horizon, the dusk render won't either. That structural discipline is what keeps the output inside editorial submission tolerance.

Pricing

One credit per image.
Every tool, every plan.

Three plans. Every tool unlocked on all of them. Every render unmarked, standard or high resolution, cancel anytime.

Every plan starts with 3 free renders. No card until you subscribe.

Starter

For the solo agent shooting their own listings.

$39/month

billed yearly

100 credits monthly

100 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Every tool, no tier gating
Standard output ~2.4K, or ~4.7K for a second credit
XMP disclosure metadata written into every export
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Cinematic clips from a single photo — 1 credit per second of video
Up to 10 photos per batch
Email support

Subscribe to Starter

For one agent, listing by listing.

Pro

For top-producing agents and real-estate photographers.

$79/month

billed yearly

220 credits monthly

220 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 50 photos per batch, one tool across the shoot
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Starter
Priority support

Subscribe to Pro

The plan a working photographer buys.

Agency

For brokerages, teams, and photography networks.

$199/month

billed yearly

600 credits monthly

600 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 150 photos per batch
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Pro
Direct line to the founder, not a ticket queue

Subscribe to Agency

For a brokerage running whole shoots.

Feature	Starter$39/mo annual	Pro$79/mo annual	Agency$199/mo annual
Renders per month	100	220	600
Credits per image	1	1	1
All seven tools
Free renders on sign-up	3	3	3
Plotpane mark on the image	None	None	None
Standard output (~2.4K)
High resolution (~4.7K, second credit)
XMP disclosure written into every export
Optional visible “Virtually Staged” label
Photos per batch	10	50	150
Download a set as a ZIP
Refund a render that came back wrong
Support	Email	Priority email	Direct to the founder
Cancel anytime, one click

At volume

A 25-photo listing costs 25 credits.

That is the whole pricing model. No per-tool rates, no seat maths, nothing to negotiate. We are not SOC 2 certified and there is no SSO, private deployment or API — if you need those to buy, better you know now than after a call.

Starter

listings
a month

Pro

listings
a month

Agency

listings
a month

Questions

The usual questions,
answered directly.

No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.
BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.
Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.
Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.
Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.
Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.