Draw it in minutes
Enter the size, shape, height, house side, stairs, railing and decking choices. Freehand decks take any outline, including L-shapes and octagons with a picture frame.
Photo-real 3D builders
Design the deck in 3D, walk it, price it, send it
Decks, stairs, pool decks, fences, roofs, lean-tos, slabs and framed walls rendered on a real lawn in daylight, with the takeoff, estimate and proposal picture coming straight from the design.
Photo-real 3D builders
Show the customer the finished work before the first board is cut
Deck, freehand deck, stairs, pool deck, fence, roof, lean-to, slab and framed walls. Every builder renders on a real lawn under a real sky with sun and shadows, using photo-scanned materials: pressure-treated pine with grain along each board, cedar and composite with their own look, lap siding, architectural shingles laid in courses, galvalume metal roofing with seams and screws, broom-finished concrete.
Walk around it
Walk mode starts on the lawn facing the work. Turn, step up onto the deck, look down the stairs. The same view goes into the customer's proposal picture.
Carry it into the job
The design saves to the job, feeds the material takeoff and the estimate, and prints a permit-ready drawing package: plan view, framing, elevations and the material list.
What each builder covers
One toolbox, built one trade at a time
Each builder knows its own rules: stringers cut the way a carpenter cuts them, rafters that stop at the roofing, footings below grade.
Decks and stairs
Joists, beams, posts, ledger, blocking, stair stringers and treads, railing posts and balusters, picture-frame borders, diagonal decking. Board and hardware counts with waste.
Fences, roofs and lean-tos
Post spacing and panel layout; roof pitch, overhang and sheathing; lean-to rafters tied to the existing wall with the right bearing.
Slabs and walls
Slab thickness, thickened edges and reinforcing; stud walls with openings, headers, plates and sheathing in Builder Studio, with photo-real siding on the finished face.
Illustrative example
A 16 by 20 deck, designed and priced before lunch
Demo data, not a real job.
Demo data
A contractor draws a 16 by 20 deck with a 4-foot stair run and a picture-frame border, walks the customer around it on a phone in the driveway, saves it to the job, reviews the generated board and hardware list against current supplier pricing, and sends a proposal with the same picture on the front page.
What Ardaro does — and what it does not
What it does
It draws photo-real 3D models of supported structures, produces material takeoffs, drawing packages and proposal pictures, and keeps them attached to the job.
What it does not do
It is not engineering, a stamped plan or a code-compliance guarantee, and the picture is a model on a generic site, not a photograph of the customer's property. Spans, footings, connections and permits are verified by the contractor and the authority having jurisdiction.
See the real workflow
See a deck drawn, walked and priced
Watch actual Ardaro backend footage, choose a paid plan, or call Brent Scott directly if you want a human answer about how this fits your crew. Standard plans are billed monthly with no free trial; workspace access starts after payment is confirmed.