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.

United States · Coastal & urban high-producer

A listing photo workflow that fits how agents at Compass actually launch a listing

The Compass listing photo workflow is not just about cleaner photos — it is about hitting the size, color, and disclosure specs that Compass's listing asset library, Compass 1000 homepage tiles, the Private Exclusive pre-market window, Coming Soon cards, and the Collections share link all share. Plotpane is an AI enhancement tool that hands back a JPEG at quality 92, about 2.4K, roughly two minutes after you upload one, so agents at Compass can ship a listing faster without inviting a rework request from Compass's in-house marketing desk. *Plotpane is an independent AI tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of Compass, Inc.*

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Before

After

Inside the Compass listing asset library: 1000 tiles, Private Exclusive, Coming Soon

The Compass listing photo workflow has three stops before a photo ever reaches Zillow. First, the listing asset library — the media tab agents at Compass upload to — expects clean full-resolution JPEG at sRGB with EXIF preserved so media-ops can verify the capture — that is the Compass spec, and it is worth being straight about where an AI render cannot meet it, because any render is a fresh encode at about 2.4K carrying no original camera EXIF, so hold on to the untouched original for anyone who asks how the frame was captured. Second, Compass 1000 (the agent-homepage showcase tile) crops the hero to a landscape tile that demands a tight, editorial frame with no AI halo, no sky banding, no over-sharpening. Third, the Private Exclusive pre-market window — per Compass's own Private Exclusives page, photos and floorplans are shared inside a 340,000-agent network before the listing ever touches the MLS, which means the edit has to be final-grade on day one (no placeholder photos, no 'we'll update it at MLS launch'). Plotpane is an independent AI tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of Compass, Inc.

The workflow: shoot, enhance in Plotpane, drop into the Compass media tab

A workflow that fits Compass listing expectations is short: (1) shoot the property and export JPEGs, (2) upload to Plotpane, pick Auto Enhance, (3) download the JPEG — quality 92, about 2.4K — which the Compass listing asset library takes as it is, (4) Plotpane writes an XMP disclosure tag into the file you download, so you hold a dated record of the edit in your own archive; the library re-encodes on upload and strips it, so anything a Compass team actually has to read belongs in the caption, (5) drop the JPEGs into the listing backend media tab. The 2.4K master crops cleanly at the Collections 16:9 hero, the Compass 1000 landscape tile and the 1:1 social card; for the vertical print layout that rolls out of the Compass marketing center, spend the second credit on the ~4.7K pass.

Does this replace Compass Concierge? No — it sits downstream of it

Compass Concierge (880 monthly US searches, per Semrush) is pre-listing spend — staging, repairs, paint, landscaping — fronted by Compass and repaid at closing. It covers what happens *before* the photographer arrives. The Compass listing photo workflow this page describes covers what happens *after* — the per-image editing invoice from your retoucher or BoxBrownie that agents at Compass normally pay out of pocket, separate from Concierge. Plotpane coexists with Concierge: Concierge pays for the physical stage, Plotpane replaces the $8-$15/image retouch line-item and the $35-$75/image virtual staging line-item that Concierge does not cover. For an agent at Compass running 20 sides per year, that is roughly $9,200-$19,500 in annual retouch spend that Plotpane's $79/mo Pro or $199/mo Agency tier absorbs.

For this region

Local questions, answered

How does Compass real estate work for photo uploads — is there a spec?+

Agents at Compass upload to the listing asset library inside the backend media tab. In practice the library accepts full-resolution JPEG at sRGB with preserved EXIF; Compass 1000 and Collections crops pull from that same asset. Plotpane hands back a JPEG at quality 92 at about 2.4K — about 4.7K for a second credit — so the Compass 1000 tile, the Collections 16:9 hero, and the Coming Soon card all pull from one clean master. The render is a fresh encode, so the camera EXIF does not come through with it; keep the untouched original if media-ops wants the capture data.

Is Compass real estate legit for listing internally before the MLS — and how does that affect the photo workflow?+

Yes. Compass Private Exclusives is the official pre-market program — per Compass's own page, photos and floorplans are shared inside a 340,000-agent network before the listing hits the MLS, which protects days-on-market and price-drop history. For the photo workflow this means images need to be final-grade on day one (no 'we'll retouch it later at MLS launch'). Plotpane's two-minute turnaround makes same-day final exports realistic for Private Exclusive launches.

How is Compass real estate different for listing photos vs. a traditional brokerage?+

Two things. First, Compass's in-house marketing team sets a tighter editorial register — restrained contrast, true whites, natural sky, zero AI halo — and rejects photos that read as over-processed, which means the generic HDR-glossy AI output most tools ship by default gets flagged. Second, Compass's workflow pulls one master asset into many placements (listing asset library, Compass 1000 tile, Private Exclusive card, Coming Soon card, Collections hero, print), so the photo has to crop cleanly at 16:9, 1:1, 3:2, and vertical without re-editing. Auto Enhance answers the first constraint; one 2.4K master answers the second.

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.