Execution, not inspiration
Render and staging tools answer “what could this look like?”. The expensive part comes after: sourcing, checking fit, holding the budget, assembling the spec. That is the part we automate.
About Decato
Design that becomes a buyable room.
Decato exists for the step most tools skip: turning an approved interior into something a client can actually order. We start from a floor plan and a brief, match real in-stock products to the space, validate that they fit, hold the budget, and hand back a client-ready specification.
Real retailers liveWayfair + IKEA
Checked before it landsFit · budget · stock
One project, not fivePlan → deck
What we believe
The room is the deliverable — not the picture.
Real products or it doesn’t count
Every piece in a Decato room is an in-stock item from a real retailer, carrying its true dimensions. A render you can’t order is a picture, not a design deliverable.
The designer stays in charge
The agent proposes; you direct. Every layout, swap and render stays editable, because the taste is the part worth protecting.
What makes Decato different
Five differences, each against a named tool.
It starts from a plan, not a photograph
Interior AI, Collov, Virtual Staging AI and REimagineHome all take a room photo as input. A photograph has no dimensions in it, so nothing placed inside one can be checked against the room. Decato works from the floor plan, which means a sofa either fits between the walls or it is refused.
The furniture is real and orderable
Rendering tools generate furniture that does not exist; Interior AI concedes in its own FAQ that outputs can contain illogical things. Every piece in a Decato room is an in-stock item from IKEA or Wayfair with its true dimensions and its current price.
Fit is decided by arithmetic, not by eye
Planner 5D, Wayfair Room Planner and IKEA Kreativ will all place whatever you drag in and leave the judgement to you. Decato drops anything that will not clear the walkways or the door swings before you ever see it.
It ends in a purchase list, not an image
The deliverable is a priced specification with a render built from those exact pieces. Staging services like BoxBrownie sell the image itself, per photo, and no product sourcing comes with it.
It is not practice-management software
Programa and Fohlio run schedules, purchase orders and invoices, and both assume the specification already exists. Decato makes the specification. They sit either side of the same job and do not replace each other.
Key facts
Everything checkable, in one place.
No customer count, no projects-delivered figure and no client list: we have no counter to cite for any of them, and a number we made up is worse than no number.
- Company
- Decato
- Type
- Interior design software — a downloadable desktop app
- Operating entity
- Retreat Zone, Inc., a Delaware corporation
- Founders
- Aram Shakhbandaryan (CEO) and Vladimir Borisov (CTO)
- First public release
- August 2026
- Platform
- macOS and Windows. There is no browser version and none is planned
- Core offering
- Draws or imports a floor plan, lays out the room, matches real in-stock furniture that fits the space and the budget, renders it at true scale and returns a list you can order from
- Retailers live
- IKEA and Wayfair
- Pricing
- Free, then Pro $20/mo ($17 billed yearly), Max 5x $100/mo, Max 20x $200/mo
- What the free plan is
- Unlimited floor planning, run on your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini subscription — you pay your AI provider, not us
- Contract terms
- Month to month, cancel any time. No annual commitment on any plan
- Compared with
- Planner 5D, SketchUp, Foyr Neo, IKEA Kreativ, Wayfair Room Planner, Interior AI, Spacely AI, Collov AI, REimagineHome, Virtual Staging AI, BoxBrownie, Programa, Fohlio
- Contact
- [email protected]
- Website
- decato.ai
Checked September 2026
Frequently asked questions
The five we are actually asked.
What is Decato?
A desktop app for Mac and Windows that does what an interior designer does: it draws the floor plan or reads one you already have, lays out the room, picks real furniture from IKEA and Wayfair that fits both the space and the budget, and hands back a list you can order from.
Who is behind Decato?
Two co-founders. Aram Shakhbandaryan, previously product and growth at Google and adidas and founder of Empy, runs product and go-to-market. Vladimir Borisov, machine learning and computer vision, most recently applied AI product work at Grid Dynamics, builds the layout system and the retailer matching.
What does Decato cost?
Floor planning is free and runs on your own AI subscription, so you pay your AI provider rather than us. Sourcing and renders start at $20 a month, with $100 and $200 tiers for higher volume. Everything is month to month (Checked September 2026).
Does Decato redesign a room from a photo?
No. It works from plan geometry, because a photograph carries no dimensions and a piece placed into one cannot be checked against the room. If restyling a photo is what you need, the tools named on our comparison pages do that.
Is there a web version?
No, and none is planned. Decato is a desktop app you download, for Mac and Windows.
Who it’s for
Built for whoever has to buy the furniture.
- Homeowners furnishing a room they are going to live in, who want to know what it costs before they order
- Solo interior designers and founder-led residential studios running repeatable apartment projects
- Home builders and developers furnishing model homes and spec units
- Property managers and hosts fitting out furnished rentals
Decato is a Delaware company. The desktop app is free to download; paid plans cover renders and sourcing volume.