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Notes from the production floor: 3D and AI in practice, GEO and AI visibility, and 20 years in the new-build market.

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AI image generation in practice: lessons from real productions

AI-based image generation has gone from experimental to a real production tool. Concrete observations on season swaps, interior variations, camera angles, tools and rights.

6 February 2026 · 3 min

Illustration of GEO and AI-driven web search

SEO Is Not Enough for AI Visibility. Project Websites Must Be Built for GEO

We no longer measure SEO alone, but AI visibility across GPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. The website is tested on specific questions, and we see whether we are actually used as the answer in generative systems.

31 January 2026 · 2 min

3D exterior visualization used in AI tests

When generative AI works, and why it often doesn't

A technical lesson from architectural visualization. Many experience the same thing: the images gradually grow softer, lose detail precision and take on a less photographic look, even with small, controlled changes.

12 December 2025 · 3 min

Still frame from an AI-generated film clip based on a 3D render

Generative AI film clips: from 3D render through GPT, NanoBanana and Veo to Premiere Pro

We tested how today's most advanced AI tools can work together to produce film clips from existing 3D renders. The goal wasn't to replace the 3D work, but to see how far we get with AI as an assistant, without losing architectural precision.

2 December 2025 · 3 min

Screenshot from working on an AI-generated mood video

AI experiment: from 3D illustration to mood video in minutes?

In a client case, we tested a new technique: animating a finished 3D exterior illustration with GPT-5, Gemini DeepMind and Veo 3.1. The goal wasn't a full-blown film, but to create feeling, movement and life without time-consuming processes.

29 November 2025 · 3 min

Property selector from Maestro Media

20 years in the new-build market — what has changed?

The product — new homes — is fundamentally the same. But the way projects are planned, presented and experienced by buyers has changed considerably over nearly two decades.

28 November 2025 · 3 min

AI-generated interior image

AI in property visualization: useful tool or more work than it's worth?

The marketing is compelling: complex scenes, materials, lighting and mood generated from a couple of sentences. The challenge is that the experience doesn't live up to the promises. The potential is there, but the nuances are everything.

11 November 2025 · 3 min

3D visualisation of a bedroom from a new-build housing project

Why good property visualisations matter so much for a new-build housing project

In a new-build housing project there are no apartments to walk into, no terraces to stand on. Even so, buyers have to decide whether this could become their new home. That makes the visualisations the first, and often most important, encounter with the project.

1 November 2025 · 3 min

Image related to collaboration and production

Our production team in Ukraine during the war: collaboration, responsibility and resilience

When we started building a 3D visualisation network in Ukraine back in 2008, I had no idea how closely tied I would become to the people behind the production. Teams in Kharkiv and Odessa who delivered precise, reliable work, every single time.

30 September 2025 · 3 min

Illustration for an article about the developer role

I had it under control, then came a pandemic, politics, war and 13 interest rate hikes

Fewer people know that we have also stood as a property developer, with our own capital, our own risk and responsibility for everything that comes with it. It became a journey of major gains, losses and lessons that give us a deeper understanding of what developers actually face.

8 August 2025 · 5 min

3D exterior visualization from Sagvågshagen

Why we can't use the architect's 3D model directly in production

"Can't you just use the 3D model from the architect?" It would save everyone time. But in practice it's rarely possible: architects' models are built for engineering and technical analysis, while visualization places entirely different demands on the work.

5 June 2025 · 3 min