01 / Upload
Start with the actual property
Use a front yard, walkway, side yard, or patio photo where the house and ground plane are visible.
Premium curb appeal from real property photos
See the yard upgrade before you build it.
Yardcast turns a home photo into realistic curb appeal concepts for planting beds, walkways, lighting, patios, pavers, mulch, and exterior polish while keeping the property itself consistent.
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free preview directions from one real property photo
Mask-first
edits focused on the yard while the home stays consistent
$29.99
one-time design pack after the free preview
Real transformation preview
Same home. Better bed, border, and color.
This is the standard Yardcast should move toward: preserve the house and entry, clean up the bed, create a continuous stone border, and use lower flowering massing below the window instead of tall center trees.
No center trees blocking windows
Hydrangea-style color below the bay
Continuous stone block border
Original
Yardcast
How it works
A guided flow that keeps the AI focused.
Yardcast asks for the property photo, the editable area, and the project constraints before generating. That context keeps the preview grounded in what a homeowner could actually discuss with a contractor.
Best launch photos show the house, grade, lawn edge, beds, and access path. The app should help users retake weak photos before they spend a credit.
02 / Mask
Mark only the area to redesign
The editable zone keeps the AI focused on landscaping while preserving the house and site structure.
03 / Design
Choose the project goal
Curb appeal, foundation beds, pavers, lighting, low-maintenance planting, or contractor sales concepts.
04 / Review
Get a realistic direction
The result should be something a homeowner can discuss with a contractor, not a fantasy render.
The visual standard
This is the bar the generation has to clear.
A useful preview does more than add plants. It respects arrival sequence, architecture, bed shape, material restraint, color grouping, and regional logic.
Layered entry path
Curved approach, clean lawn edge, boulders, grasses, perennials, and color grouped with rhythm instead of random scatter.
Walkway rhythm
Layered beds
Color with structure
Stone and lighting arrival
Premium curb appeal can come from the arrival sequence: stone, address detail, path lights, and warm entry emphasis.
Path lights
Stone walls
Entry focus
Modern disciplined spacing
Modern homes need restraint: column framing, spacing, bed contours, and plants that do not crowd windows or architecture.
Spacing
Foundation contour
Column emphasis
Color that follows the house
High-color designs still need flow, repetition, boulder/stone texture, and bed lines that match the home and walkway.
Repeating color
Contour logic
Stone texture
Symmetric classic curb appeal
Balanced homes should get balanced planting: clipped structure, paired planters, centered entry focus, and clean mature beds.
Symmetry
Mature hedges
Entry balance
Regional planting logic
Southwest and low-water homes need gravel, boulders, cactus, agave forms, and restraint instead of a generic lush lawn.
Desert style
Low-water
Boulders
What Yardcast should sell
Clear use cases, not vague AI magic.
Upload a front yard, bed, walkway, patio edge, or side-yard view and get a focused direction back. Contractors can use the same visuals to explain scope and upgrades before a full proposal.
Front yard curb appeal
Foundation beds, entry emphasis, lawn edges, porch framing, and plant palettes that match the house.
Walkways and arrival
Paver paths, stepping stones, border planting, path lights, and cleaner movement from street to door.
Mulch beds and planting
Layered shrubs, grasses, perennials, boulders, seasonal color, and evergreen structure.
Backyards and patios
Patio edges, planting pockets, lighting, privacy screening, seating zones, and material direction.
Lighting and polish
Warm entry lighting, path accents, tree uplighting, address focus, and night-time curb appeal.
Contractor sales tool
Fast visual concepts that help landscapers explain options, scope, and upgrades before a full proposal.
App-first MVP
The app feels like a guided design consult.
Start with a property photo, protect the parts that should not change, choose the taste profile, and review a useful preview before buying a design credit. No confusing subscriptions at launch.
Shoot the real home
The app starts with the view that matters: entry, beds, walkway, grade, trees, driveway, and the existing architecture.
Mark only what can change
The user paints the editable bed or yard zone. House, windows, tree structure, lawn geometry, and hardscape stay protected.
Generate a useful preview
Name, email, region, budget, sun exposure, care level, and constraints shape a free first direction before payment.
Unlock the design credit
The launch offer stays simple: free app, free preview, then a $29.99 one-time design credit when the preview earns trust.
Anti-slop standard
The property stays real. The landscape gets better.
Premium outputs depend on constraint, not just model power. Yardcast should improve the requested landscape area while preserving the parts of the property a homeowner did not ask us to touch.
Launch quality bar
Manual mask first
Preview before payment
$29.99 after trust
Credit protection
Review before used
The original house, roofline, windows, driveway, fence, and major structures stay fixed.
Only the marked landscape zone should change: beds, mulch, plants, lighting, pavers, patios, edging, and cleanup.
Bed lines must follow the home, walkway, driveway, lawn contour, or grade.
Flowers need structure: grouped masses, evergreen anchors, and repeated rhythm.
Hardscape additions must make physical sense for the site, slope, and access path.
Paid credits stay protected until the output passes a quality gate.
What the model must preserve
Walkway, lawn, grade, and house geometry are part of the design.
If a photo has a clear path or road approach, Yardcast improves the edges, lighting, and planting rhythm instead of inventing impossible hardscape.
Arrival sequence
Layered planting
Site-aware style
Protected by default
House shape, roofline, windows, doors, siding, stone, and trim
Driveways, fences, decks, roads, large existing trees, and fixed grade
Walkway geometry unless the user specifically requests a hardscape concept
Editable when requested
Planting beds, mulch, stone, edging, shrubs, grasses, perennials, and color
Path lighting, uplighting, address accents, containers, boulders, and polish
Patio borders, privacy planting, paver ideas, and cleanups inside the marked zone
$29.99 launch offer
The paid design pack delivers more than a picture.
After the free preview, the $29.99 one-time design pack turns the strongest direction into a homeowner-ready plan: what to choose, why it works, which materials and plants make sense, and what to hand a contractor.
No subscription for the launch design pack
Free preview before checkout
Home, roofline, windows, and hardscape stay protected
Designed for homeowner decisions and contractor conversations
Clear support path if a paid generation fails
Uploaded photos are not sold or used publicly without consent
3 curb appeal directions
Best-option recommendation
Plant and material guidance
Rough budget range
Contractor-ready summary
Saved project record
Free preview funnel
Give value first, collect the lead cleanly.
Share a few project details and get a clear next step. The free preview captures the property context first, then points you toward the app or design pack when the direction is worth continuing.
Name + email
Lead database from free value
Project context
Region, style, budget, constraints
App handoff
Website sells Yardcast, app delivers the product
FAQ
Answers before the first upload.
Know what to upload, what can change, what it costs, and where a contractor still fits before you spend money.
What photo works best?
A straight-on or slightly angled exterior photo with the ground plane visible. Front yards, entry beds, walkways, patios, and side yards are the best launch use cases.
Will Yardcast change the house?
The product standard is to preserve the house and major site geometry. Yardcast should improve the requested landscape area, not invent a new property. AI can still make visual mistakes, so results are reviewed as concepts before anyone treats them like a build plan.
Is the $29.99 launch offer a subscription?
No. The launch plan is a free app download, a free preview path, then a one-time design credit for the paid design pack. There is no weekly or monthly subscription required at launch.
Do I have to pay before seeing anything?
No. Yardcast is intentionally preview-before-payment because homeowners need to trust the direction before spending money. The paid pack only comes after the free preview path.
Can I control the style instead of getting random plants?
Yes. The preview asks for project goal, style, budget, maintenance level, sun exposure, region, border preference, transformation level, and site notes so the output feels directed instead of random.
Can Yardcast change the bed border, edging, or pavers?
Yes, when you ask for it. You can keep the existing bed shape, clean up the edge, or request a stronger border concept such as stone, steel, paver, natural boulder, or crisp mulch edge.
What if my yard has a slope, hidden drop-off, drainage issue, or plants I want to keep?
Add that in the site notes before generating. Yardcast should respect grade, access, drainage, mature trees, and keep-zones instead of flattening the property into a generic render.
Are the plant choices exact for my climate?
The design pack can give regional plant direction, but it is still a concept. Confirm hardiness zone, sun, soil, water needs, invasive restrictions, and nursery availability before buying plants.
Will the upload work with phone photos?
That is a core launch requirement. Yardcast is built around real homeowner photos, including common phone formats like JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, and HEIF, with compression and orientation handling in the preview flow.
Can contractors use this?
Yes. Yardcast is being shaped for homeowners and landscape contractors who need fast, realistic concepts to support sales conversations.
What if an output is not good enough?
Yardcast treats weak paid renders as support issues. If a paid generation fails, support can review the project and may retry, restore the credit, or provide another support resolution depending on the issue and purchase channel.
Does this replace a landscape architect?
No. Yardcast is a concept and planning tool. It helps clarify direction, materials, and scope before detailed construction documents or contractor work.
Launch path
Free preview first. Pay only when the direction is worth building on.
Yardcast
Curb appeal AI
Yardcast turns real exterior photos into grounded landscape previews, then helps homeowners move from visual direction to contractor-ready next steps.