Creating your first project
Two buttons, a map, an eight-step wizard, and then your Project Map. About ten minutes if you have the site in mind, and nothing you enter is locked in afterwards.
1. Choose the project type
From My Projects or the home page, the two starting buttons are:
- New Garden — urban gardens, terraces, home and community gardens, green roofs; typically up to about 1,000 m².
- New Eco Project — farms, eco-villages, restoration and reforestation; from roughly 1,000 m² upwards.
The choice decides which tools the project offers and what the Design unlock costs for it, so pick by the site you have rather than by ambition. Each new project also consumes one project space; with none left the button stops you with "You need at least 1 project space available" and points you at your user profile.
2. Pick the location
The first screen after either button is a map. Three ways to place your point:
- Search an address. Type it into Enter an address or coordinates (lat, lng)… and press Search.
- Paste coordinates. The same box takes "latitude, longitude" — the
on-screen example is
41.62199, 35.93424. - Click the map. Switch the layer control to Satellite View and click the actual roof, field or corner. This is the most accurate of the three.
The coordinates and the resolved address appear under the map, and only then does Continue to Project Creation become clickable. More on choosing the location
This point drives more than the map
Your climate data, the satellite and contour layers, the weather feed on the project card and every region-specific AI recommendation are all derived from it. A pin in the wrong village produces confident advice about the wrong place.
Researching a site: from the map picker into the project.
3. Work through the eight wizard steps
Continue drops you into the creation wizard with a progress bar across the top. Its eight steps are Project Basics, Climate, Soil, Water, Hydrology, Topography, Vegetation and Expertise.
Only the first step really needs you. Give the project a name you will recognise in a list — site plus year, "Kestel Orchard 2026", because the search box on My Projects matches names and locations — and press Continue. That is the moment the project space is actually spent. Everything after step 1 can be left empty and filled in later, or filled in for you by the AI site analysis.
Do not try to complete all eight now
The wizard is not a gate. Blank fields are honest and correctable; guessed figures are read back as ground truth by every agent for the life of the project. Get through it, then let the research fill in what it can.
Finishing the wizard hands you to that project's Research Hub — or straight to the Design Hub if Design is already unlocked for it.
The wizard steps and the settings sections behind them.
4. Open your Project Map
This is the step most people skip. Go back to My Projects and click your new card — the whole card is the link and its footer reads Open Project →. You land on a map of your own project: four labelled regions (Research, Design, Application & Construction, Farm), every step drawn as a disc marked done, next, available or locked, and a banner across the top naming the single thing to do next and why.
From here you never have to remember the order of anything.
5. Run your first research
Research is included — it runs on credits, and a new account starts with 200 free ones. A full site analysis takes roughly 30–60 seconds and writes its estimates for climate, soil, topography, hydrology and vegetation back into your project settings, where you can correct them.
Ask questions in the tool that owns them: a drainage question in the hydrology tool, a planting question in the vegetation tool. You never pick an agent from a list — the tool calls the right family. Every conversation is saved against the project.
AI research tools · How credits work
6. If something goes wrong
- The create button refuses. Almost always project spaces: the alert says "You need at least 1 project space available", and more are bought from your user profile.
- Continue stays greyed out. No location is selected yet. Click the map or run a search until the coordinates line under it stops saying "No location selected".
- The address resolves to the wrong place. Ignore the search and click the point on the satellite layer instead. The coordinates are what count; the address is a label.
- The AI answers thinly. It is reading empty settings sections. Fill in what you know and ask again. The nine sections