Clad9 catalogs a wardrobe; Hadaa, built by the same team, catalogs a yard. Different room, same underlying idea: most people own an asset — a closet full of clothes, a stretch of grass out back — that's expensive or slow to plan around properly, so most of it goes unused. Hadaa was the first product built to fix that, for outdoor spaces, and it's worth knowing about on its own terms.
What Hadaa Actually Does
Upload a photo of a yard — or even a rough sketch on the back of an envelope — and Hadaa hands back photorealistic landscape designs in under a minute: multiple style directions, multiple camera angles, a planting guide, and a contractor-ready blueprint with a full bill of quantities. No design software, no 3D modeling skills, and no waiting weeks for a landscape architect's static plan. Hadaa puts the reach in real numbers: 250,000+ homeowners and landscapers, a 4.8-star average across 2,000+ reviews, and more than $50M saved in design costs across 180+ countries.
The pitch is the same one Clad9 makes about wardrobes: a professional landscape design typically runs $1,500–$5,000 and takes two to four weeks for drawings a homeowner still can't edit. Hadaa compresses that into a couple of minutes and a few dollars, then lets a person iterate freely instead of paying for every revision.
Under the Hood: Seven Engines Across Three Systems
Hadaa isn't one model doing everything — it's seven purpose-built engines, grouped into three systems, each reading the actual space rather than pattern-matching a generic template.
Enhance: Reshape What's Already There
Style Presets apply any of 48+ curated looks to a real yard photo with one click, with a masking brush to restyle only part of the space — the lawn, say — while structures and existing trees stay untouched. Smart Fix takes a plain-language instruction, in any language — “add a fire pit by the pergola” — and edits exactly that element, leaving everything else alone. Quick Actions scans a yard photo for issues (sparse planting, overgrown paths, weeds), generates a one-click fix list, and previews the finished design at night, at golden hour, or across seasons.
Transform: Change the Vantage Point Entirely
Change Viewpoint stitches 4–14 photos of the same yard into a synthesized aerial map, lets a design be built on that overhead view, then transfers the finished result to any ground-level angle. The Sketch Engine turns a hand-drawn plan or a CAD export into a photorealistic render — reading the lines as spatial data (boundaries, beds, paths) rather than painting a texture over a flat image.
Autopilot: Hand Over the Wheel
Garden Autopilot is the fully automated pipeline for a photo: upload a yard image, confirm the synthesized aerial map, pick a favorite from six generated base renders, and the engine produces eight angle and seasonal variations plus targeted quick-action edits automatically — 22 finished renders, a planting guide, a blueprint, and a bill of quantities from two decisions, total. Sketch Autopilot runs the same idea from a drawing instead of a photo: upload a sketch, describe the vision in a sentence, and get faithful renders plus automatic angle and season variations with zero manual iteration. Designers who'd rather drive than be driven get Pro Studio, with direct, independent access to all five engines instead of the automated pipeline.
Why the Renders Actually Hold Up
The detail that separates Hadaa from a generic AI image generator with a garden filter: every plant in every design clears three checks before it's allowed to appear — hardiness-zone cold and heat tolerance, real regional rainfall (not a national average), and how sunlight actually falls across that specific yard. A generic tool will happily render tropical palms in Minnesota or bamboo in Arizona — plants that photograph beautifully and die the first season. Hadaa's planting guide leads with species native to the region first, non-natives second, which also means less water, better support for local pollinators, and a lower bill at the nursery.
What's Actually in the Box
Every render pack ships the same deliverables, not just an image. The blueprint is a color-coded planting map with every zone labeled, path widths in feet, plant counts and spacing per zone, and a materials section for mulch, turf, and edging — sendable to a contractor as a link. The planting guide is a per-plant PDF with botanical names, quantities, mature size, care notes, and nursery photo links. Every design also exports at 2K or 4K for large-format prints or client pitches, and up to three design stages can be blended into a walkthrough video for a listing or a client presentation.
Pricing
No subscription. A single render is $12, or $9 each when bought three or more at a time — renders never expire, and there's nothing recurring to cancel. Referring a friend earns a free render, up to three. Professionals who want every engine on tap instead of paying per project get Pro Studio.
Who Actually Uses It
Homeowners planning a renovation are the obvious fit, but the same render pipeline shows up across a few other jobs. Real estate agents stage a listing's exterior the way they'd stage the inside, turning an overgrown yard into a photoreal “potential” shot for the listing. Professional landscape designers use it during the first client consultation instead of a week later, closing the pitch while the client's still standing in the driveway. HOA boards and property managers use it to compare directions for shared or rental grounds without commissioning a full architect's plan for a group decision.
How Hadaa Compares
Most AI landscape tools started somewhere else — an interior-design app, an architecture renderer, a general image generator — and added a garden tab afterward. That shows up as the same three gaps across the category: no sketch input, no zone-verified plants, no contractor-ready output. Tools built for architects (like mnml.ai) require a professional 3D export before they'll render anything; generalist home-design platforms (like ideal.house or home-design.ai) bury landscaping as one feature among twenty; credit-based visualizers (like aigarden.design) style a photo but skip the planting guide and blueprint entirely; general-purpose image generators (like VisualGPT) have no botanical knowledge or hardiness-zone filtering at all — just a styled image. Free-tier tools (like Neighborbrite) skip the sketch engine, zone verification, and contractor-ready output that would make the free tier actually useful for a real project; architecture-focused platforms (like ArchiVinci) serve professionals working in Revit and AutoCAD but have no homeowner workflow and no phone-photo input. Hadaa was built for the outside of the house specifically, which is why it closes those gaps for both homeowners and professionals from a single upload, rather than treating any one of them as a bonus feature.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need design experience to use Hadaa?
No. Upload a photo or a rough sketch, describe the style in plain language, and the AI handles the render, the planting guide, and the blueprint. No 3D modeling or design software involved.
Will the plants Hadaa suggests actually survive?
Every plant is checked against the yard's real USDA hardiness zone, rainfall, and sun exposure before it's allowed into a design, so the planting guide reflects species suited to the actual climate, not just a photogenic template.
Is there a subscription?
No. Hadaa is pay-per-render — $12 for a single render, or $9 each when buying three or more — with nothing recurring to cancel.
Can I use my own sketch instead of a photo?
Yes. Sketch Autopilot reads a hand-drawn napkin sketch, an iPad drawing, or a CAD export as spatial data and renders it into a photorealistic design automatically.
The Same Team, the Same Instinct
Hadaa was founded by Francis Karuri, who spent years building automation and AI systems at production scale before landscaping ever entered the picture — document-extraction engines, recommendation systems on vector search, ML systems running inside HIPAA-compliant healthcare infrastructure. Hadaa applied that same automation-first discipline to a messy backyard and a landscape-design industry that hadn't been meaningfully touched by it. Clad9 is that same team pointing the same discipline at a closet: structured extraction from a video instead of a sketch, a verification layer under every color and body recommendation the way Hadaa verifies every plant, and automation that removes the one manual step — photographing an entire wardrobe item by item — that makes people quit a closet app within a week.
Hadaa and Clad9 share more than a maker — they share a bet: that a genuinely good, automation-first tool can replace an expensive, slow, expert-gated process without cutting corners on the result. Hadaa proved that bet for landscape design first, at scale, across 180+ countries. Clad9 is running the same playbook on a wardrobe instead of a yard.