Who’s behind this tool
I’m Karl Metz, born in 1995and based on the independent-developer side of the industry. For the past four to five years I’ve been building and running small tech companies — mostly solo or near-solo — shipping web apps and AI products under my own name. Deroom AI is one of those products.
When I say “independent” I mean it literally: there’s no investor, no co-founder, no marketing team behind this site. The same person who writes the code answers the support email, makes the pricing call, and decides what the next feature is. If something on the site is broken, you’re telling me directly. That sets a higher bar for honesty about what the tool can and can’t do — there’s nobody else to absorb the consequences.
How I think about AI in design
The current generation of generative-image models is genuinely useful for visual decisions — testing paint colors, comparing cabinet finishes, previewing tile combinations. They’re also terrible at the structural questions that actually drive a renovation: load-bearing walls, plumbing routes, code compliance, contractor sequencing. Deroom is built around that gap: it gives you the visual answers fast and refuses to pretend it knows the structural ones.
That’s also why every landing page on this site has a “What this AI can and can’t do” section. If you’re going to spend $5K, $15K, or $50K on a remodel based partly on what an AI render shows you, you should know exactly where its judgment ends.
How the product makes money
Deroom AI is free to try (one full generation, no watermark) and then $9.99/mo for paid plans on up. There’s no advertising, no upsell to a “designer marketplace,” no affiliate kickbacks for sending you to specific cabinet vendors or paint brands. Subscriptions are the entire business. That keeps incentives clean: the tool only earns if it’s useful enough to keep around.
Reach me
Feature requests, bugs, partnership questions, and honest criticism all go to the same inbox: support@deroomai.com. I read everything personally. If you’re a real-estate agent, designer, or contractor with a use case the current tool doesn’t handle, that’s especially useful — most of what gets built next comes out of those emails.
For privacy, billing, and refund details, see Privacy, Terms, and Pricing.