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.

Boutique hotels

A boutique hotel photography tool built for a consistent refresh cycle

Boutique hotel photography carries a specific pain: a 10-80 room property has to hold one visual register across the garden wing, the pool wing, and the suites added in the last refurb — and hold it for three years between full reshoots. Plotpane is the photography tool built for that reality. Upload what the house photographer shot, run the same tool across all 40-80 rooms, export submission-grade JPEGs at about 2.4K for Tablet Hotels, Mr & Mrs Smith, SLH, Design Hotels, and Relais & Châteaux reviewers.

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Before

After

What boutique hotel marketing teams actually submit

A boutique hotel marketing team is not feeding a chain intranet — they are feeding editorial gatekeepers. Tablet Hotels wants hero + gallery in full-resolution, editorially graded, property-specific character visible. Mr & Mrs Smith requires 40-60 images per property, lifestyle and architectural, with reviewer-verifiable accuracy. Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) runs annual member audits against brand-book photography standards. Design Hotels inspects for submission-grade architectural framing. Relais & Châteaux reviewers physically visit. None of these accept the kind of over-processed, suspiciously perfect AI renders that a general-purpose hospitality photography tool produces. What they accept — and what a boutique hotel photography tool has to deliver — is grade-consistent, structure-preserving enhancement exported at a consistent ~2.4K, with the zellige, tadelakt, limewash, carved-cedar, raw-linen texture of the actual property intact.

Workflow across 40-80 rooms with one consistent grade

The workflow problem in boutique hotel photography is not a single hero shot — it is grade consistency across 40-80 rooms shot over two or three days in variable light. Garden-wing rooms at noon look different from pool-wing rooms at 4pm, which look different from the suites added last winter. Plotpane applies the same tool to every image in a batch — so the color temperature, shadow depth, and contrast register stay in the same place room to room. A typical 60-room property processes in a single afternoon: 50 photos to a batch on Pro and 150 on Agency, one credit an image, Auto Enhance on the set, export as a JPEG at quality 92 and about 2.4K, ZIP the finished listing. That's the refresh cycle the marketing team can actually run between capital reshoots — quarterly updates to the OTA hero carousel, new refurb coverage within days of handover, seasonal terrace shots that match the existing library.

Brand integrity and NAR honesty — no invented pools or views

Boutique hotel photography lives or dies on brand integrity. If a Tablet Hotels reviewer arrives and the pool in the hero image does not exist, the listing is pulled. If a Mr & Mrs Smith audit finds an invented sea view, the property loses the badge. Plotpane is structure-preserving by design: architecture, fenestration, and site elements in the output must match the source frame. No invented pools, no invented views, no hallucinated terraces. This is the NAR honesty standard applied to hospitality — the photograph has to represent the physical property as it is. Operators submitting to SLH, Design Hotels, and Relais & Châteaux need exactly that constraint, because their brand-book audits reject anything else. Auto Enhance lifts the grade without touching the geometry.

For this region

Local questions, answered

How much should a boutique hotel charge for photography — or budget for a tool like this?+

A full boutique hotel photoshoot runs $8,000-$25,000 for initial brand capture. Plotpane's Pro plan ($99/mo for 220 images, $79 a month billed annually) is the refresh layer on top — it is not a replacement for the capital shoot, it is the tool marketing uses between shoots to keep the OTA hero fresh, cover refurbs, and land submission sets for Tablet Hotels, Mr & Mrs Smith, SLH, and Design Hotels at about 2.4K an image.

How do I get into boutique hotel photography as a marketing team without a reshoot budget?+

Start with what the last house photographer shot — the high-res library every boutique has from the initial capture. Export it to JPEG first, since camera raw is not accepted, then run Auto Enhance across the whole set in batches and you have a consistent editorial grade library in an afternoon. That's the baseline submission set for OTAs and for Tablet / Mr & Mrs Smith. Capital reshoots then happen on the property's three-year refurb cycle, not annually.

Why does hotel photography matter so much for SLH and Design Hotels submissions?+

Because those brands sell visual register — a guest books Design Hotels because every property delivers a coherent editorial look, and SLH audits against brand-book standards every year. The photography is the brand. A boutique operator who cannot keep grade consistent across 40-80 rooms fails the audit and loses the badge. That's the problem a boutique hotel photography tool is built to solve — grade consistency at scale, submission-grade output at about 2.4K, no hallucinated architecture.

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.