For ecological designers

Permaculture design software for practitioners who ship.

Move from site visit to client-ready design without the months of charrette work. EcoDesign combines AI agents trained in permaculture, an algorithmic geometry engine, and curated ecological databases — so your output is defensible, not just pretty.

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Used by independent designers, design-build studios, and ecovillage planners

Why designers choose EcoDesign

Designs that hold up under client scrutiny.

Every recommendation is grounded in your site's real soil profile, climate data, and topography — not generic permaculture templates. When a client asks "why these species?" or "why this floor plan orientation?", you have the data to answer.

Site analysis in one wizard

Drop a pin, set boundaries, answer a short brief. EcoDesign pulls climate (Open-Meteo), soil (SoilGrids ISRIC), topography, and water-table data automatically — no manual research.

Passive solar floor plans

Generate climate-responsive building layouts with 6-tier constraint priority. Algorithmic geometry (not LLM) produces thermal zones, glazing ratios, and stairwell-aligned multi-story plans.

Plant guilds with synergies

10-agent pipeline pulls from 600+ flora records with real synergy and conflict data. Visualize guilds at year 1, year 3, maturity — and in spring or autumn — with Gemini-rendered views.

Topography that informs design

Contour mapping, slope analysis, sector analysis (sun, wind, fire) — all built into project settings, all feeding into every downstream module.

Water systems by design

Rainwater calculator, swale and pond placement guidance, hydrology-aware site planning. Your water strategy is computed, not eyeballed.

Project Library for every choice

Every flora, fauna, structure, technology, garden type, and practice you select for a project is saved — searchable, exportable, ready for the next design phase.

Defensible decisions

Algorithmic geometry, not LLM guesswork.

Floor-plan geometry is generated with deterministic algorithms and validated by Shapely — because LLMs are unreliable for spatial reasoning. AI handles topology and recommendations; algorithms handle the layout. When something doesn't fit, it tells you instead of pretending it does.

Strip-based layout engine with hard-constraint enforcement
Auto-regenerates up to 5 attempts when hard solar or safety constraints fail
Single-story, 1.5-story (65% upper), and 2-story plans with stairwell alignment
Outputs JSON schemas you can audit and refine

Visualization that closes deals

Show clients the future, not just the spreadsheet.

AI-rendered visualizations for buildings (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), landscapes, and plant guilds. Six guild visualization presets — mature, year 1, year 3, spring, autumn, plan view — so you're never showing a static plant list to a stakeholder.

Carousel + lightbox presentation built in
Climate-zone-appropriate styling (no tropical species in temperate renders)
Exportable for proposals, presentations, and grant applications

EcoDesign for ecological designers — a closer look

FAQ

For ecological designers — answered.

Is EcoDesign suitable for professional permaculture designers?

Yes. EcoDesign is built specifically for ecological designers who need to produce defensible, client-ready outputs — site analyses, passive solar floor plans, plant guilds, and regenerative landscape designs grounded in real soil, climate, and topography data.

Can I export designs to share with clients?

Yes. Every module supports PDF export, and the Project Library tracks every component you select. Shared project viewer routes let you send a read-only link to clients without requiring them to sign up.

Does EcoDesign replace CAD?

No, it complements CAD. EcoDesign handles the ecological and programmatic side — what to plant, where to site the building, how to combine species, what soil amendments to apply. You bring the CAD when you need precise construction documents.

What climate zones does EcoDesign work in?

Globally. The platform uses Köppen and USDA climate classification, pulls live data from Open-Meteo, and applies temperature/rainfall/drought-tolerance filtering to every plant guild recommendation. Continental and temperate are best-tested; tropical and arid zones are supported but with smaller curated flora databases.

How long does a typical project take?

Site analysis: ~20 minutes. Passive solar floor plan: ~30 minutes (template-first, generate, iterate up to 5 times). Plant guild design: ~25 minutes through the 5-step wizard. Most designers use EcoDesign to compress what was 3-4 weeks of charrette work into 2-3 sessions.