HomeZada's AI budgeting tool generates instant cost estimates for patio projects. Input your dimensions and it populates line items with prices. A basic 18 by 25 foot patio starts around $17,000, but upgrades like a Traeger grill and granite countertops can push it to $24,000.
Many homeowners want an outdoor patio and barbecue and entertainment area, but they have no idea how much it's going to cost or how much the budget's going to be. So let's look at how advanced AI technology makes this really easy for homeowners. First, a reminder of why you need a budget. One, you're investing into your home, so you really want to determine how much you want to invest. How are you going to pay for it? Cash, credit, home equity loan. Third bullet's probably the most important, which is prior to even going out and finding contractors, you having your own budget that understands what scope you want and how much you're going to do is going to help you evaluate bids and make sure you select the right contractor, and you're much more likely not to overspend. Now, how is AI going to help is it's going to bring together all the list of items and materials, the dimensions of your product, what type of products you want, and whether you're going to go DIY or hire a contractor. So let's look at Homesatta here. It's a digital home management platform that manages all different kinds of data about your house, but let's just focus in on the projects piece here. And you can see here I'm going to go to new projects. And then here's a gallery of 50 templates over common home improvement projects. Let's go quickly search for the patio project. Hit create project. On the left-hand side, you can kind of choose what type of products you want— high, medium, or low. Let's just go moderate for the time being. Click on create project and the first bit of magic happens, which is automatically identify the common items that most people want in a patio outdoor barbecue in terms of you want the gas grill, you want an arbor, you want some flooring, you want a refrigerator, etc. Now obviously you can go to the upper right-hand corner and add items as you want or delete them, but notice the individual budget is currently at zero. So now in the upper right-hand corner, hit Zada AI Budgets, and it's going to introduce and inject the Zada AI tool into a chat function. And it's basically going to ask you, hey, what's the size of your patio? Because that quantity has a huge impact on the quantities. So you're going to say 18 by 25. And you're literally having a conversation with the AI tool, the Zada AI tool, where now look at the magic that's happening real time in front of you. One is it's taking all those typical items based on your moderate sort of price point selection that you did, plus the 18 by 25 where it's calculating the quantities, for instance, the flooring of what you want as it relates to pavers, and it's creating a unit price for every single item on your patio project. Right. And imagine how much time you've just saved trying to do this one by one using, you know, internet searching, going to home improvement retailers, trying to figure that all out. You now have a great sort of budget already at $17,000. Now, even the benefit here is you can have an ongoing dialogue with Zada AI and you want to change things. You're like, I want— you want a specific brand. I want a Traeger built-in grill. With granite countertops and tile pavers on the flooring. So you're literally changing the scope of the budget in real time. Zada AI now is basically taking your changes that you want to the line item budget. You can see here it's already got the Trager built-in grill basically estimated that about $1,500. It's now done moderate tile pavers, so it's basically increased the price per square foot there, and it's basically determining you want a granite countertop, and now you've increased your budget by up to $21,000. Literally in seconds, you can go through every single item, add scope, delete scope, change the unit price, make your assumptions, and now you have a much better estimate over how much you want to spend. Now when you're done, you just go to that little cloud button on the right. You say, I want to save that. Again, you have the ability here to quickly edit any of these items that you want as it relates to creating a budget. Again, they are only budgets, right? You are responsible for, you know, working with your contractor to make sure that this is all good. But now you've instantly got your $24,000 budget here for your patio project, and you did this literally in seconds if not minutes. And you can continue to do this on an ongoing basis. You can always go back and look at the chat history and continue to engage in Zada AI as you're going to make changes. And this is going to make you much better, smarter as it relates to deciding what you want to put into your project as well as the budget and hiring a contractor. So to learn more information, just go to homezada.com and you can look up Zada AI and its product— project remodel features. Or you can even sign up for the HomeZada account and actually use it to start tracking your patio outdoor barbecue project and any other home improvement project. Because now you— this is applicable to pretty much anything you want to do to your house and being able to establish budgets and then obviously downstream track all the before and after photos and your actual cost and store all that information for future tax, insurance, and/or resale purposes.
