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EcoDesign web app

Turn the conditions of your site into an ecological design you can explain, refine and put to work.

EcoDesign gathers your site's climate, soil, water and terrain data, helps you research it, and carries that evidence into zones, plant guilds, passive-solar concept plans, visualisations, reports and day-to-day farm management, all in one project.

Start free Open EcoDesign

Free to start · No card needed · Works in your browser

The EcoDesign Project Map for a project in progress: research steps done, design and farm steps ahead, with the next step highlighted.
Why EcoDesign

Why EcoDesign is different

Grounded in the site

Work starts from the real conditions of your land, mapped and measured, not from a blank template.

Explainable

Research findings come with their sources, so you can show a client, a partner or yourself why a decision was made.

Continuous

Research, design, reports and farm management stay in one project, so nothing is retyped between steps.

Honest about limits

Floor plans are concept plans, not construction drawings. Renders are illustrations. AI suggests; you approve.

Who it's for

Built for people who design and work the land

Primary

Ecological and permaculture designers

"Every new site means days of research before I can draw anything, and clients ask why."

Site research with sources, zones, sectors, plant guilds and a design canvas in one project, plus client reports and share links.

For ecological designers

Gardeners and homesteaders

"I want my land to work as a system, but I don't know where to start."

A guided path from the map of your land to zones, plant guilds and a seasonal planting plan.

For gardeners

Small farmers (about 1–50 ha)

"I need practical help with pests, water and the switch to regenerative practice, without a consultant on call."

Farmer Hub: pest and disease help that starts with prevention, crop water needs from local weather, and a practice-transition plan.

For farmers

Landscape architects

"Ecological site analysis is slow to assemble and hard to present."

Fast, cited site research and visual concept material to support your own design work. EcoDesign does not replace your CAD or drawing tools.

For landscape architects

Prefer to be guided through your first project? See the Guided Sprint.

How it works

Three steps, one project

  1. Map your site

    Draw the boundary; EcoDesign gathers climate, soil, terrain and water data.

  2. Research it

    Cited findings, topic by topic.

  3. Design and put it to work

    Zones, guilds, house concepts, visuals, reports and farm tools.

Features

What you can do in EcoDesign

Each feature shows what it needs: Free Uses AI credits Design unlock Farmer Hub

Research

A site boundary drawn on a topographic map, with map layers, contour lines and the site area shown in the side panel.
Free

Start with the site

Draw your site boundary on the map. EcoDesign then gathers the site's conditions: climate and weather, soil, elevation and terrain, water and flood context, and air quality. You see what you are actually working with before you design anything.

  • Site data you can view and correct yourself
  • Everything is kept in one project and reused in every later step
A research finding on traditional farming practices for the site's region, with source citations in the text.
Uses AI credits

Research Hub

Research the site topic by topic: environment, soil, climate-smart practice, water, fire and land use, and more. Each topic produces a written finding you can read, keep and reuse in reports.

  • Findings cite their sources, so you can check them and show them to a client
  • Built on the site's own data, not on general advice
  • Every AI request shows its credit cost before you run it
The Project Map with a step opened: its sub-steps and a side panel describing what the step does.
Free

Project Map: always know the next step

Every project has a map of its own progress: what is done, what is ready, and what to do next. It guides a first project and keeps a large one in order.

  • The next recommended step is highlighted
  • Steps that need the Design unlock are clearly marked, so nothing is a surprise

Read how the Project Map works

A Visualizer render of a whole-site design: house, kitchen gardens, ponds, vineyard and food forest, with labels for each zone.
Design

From research to a design you can show

Zones, plant guilds, passive-solar house concepts and visualisations, built on the research already in your project.

Illustration: a Visualizer render of a design idea, not a survey-accurate image.

The design map with permaculture zones drawn on the site: home, gardens, orchard, berries and food forest.
An approved apple-tree plant guild with its layers, suggestions and an establishment timeline.
Design unlock

Design: zones, guilds and the design canvas

Turn your research into a design. Lay out zones, sectors and boundaries on the map, place elements from the library, and build plant guilds for your climate.

  • Design canvas and zones: zones, sectors and design elements on your own site map
  • Element library: Flora, Fauna, Built Structures, Technologies, Soils & Substrates, Cultural & Social, Educational, Management
  • Plant guild designer: suggestions drawn from a library of 600+ plant records, checked against your site's climate. Nothing is applied until you approve it.
  • Seasonal planner: a seasonal planting and care plan for the design
  • Practice transition: a step-by-step plan for moving land from conventional to regenerative practice
A single-storey passive-solar floor-plan concept with rooms coloured by thermal zone and plan statistics.
An exterior visualisation of the house concept: a gabled timber-and-glass house in a dry Mediterranean landscape.
Design unlock

Passive solar house concepts

Plan a house that works with the sun on your site. A guided building programme collects what you need (rooms, sizes, storeys), and EcoDesign produces passive-solar floor-plan concepts that follow your site's sun path, then an exterior visualisation.

  • Room layouts are produced by rules-based geometry and checked against solar, structural and safety rules. They are not drawn freehand by AI.
  • Single-storey, one-and-a-half and two-storey concepts
  • Not happy with a plan? Give feedback and regenerate it, up to 5 times per plan.
  • Concept plans, not construction drawings. Work with an architect or builder for construction.
The 3D terrain view at an oblique angle, with the design zones draped over the slope.
Design unlock

Visualizer: see the design before it exists

Turn your design into pictures you can show: photo-style renders of the whole site or a single zone, zone layout options, and a 3D view of the terrain you can orbit.

  • Renders use 4, 6, 10 or 16 credits, depending on the quality you choose. The price is shown before you render.
  • If a render fails, you are not charged.
  • Zone layout options and the 3D terrain view and orbit use no credits.
  • Renders are illustrations of a design idea, not survey-accurate images.

Farm and share

Farmer Hub on a phone: a pest triage result for a cherry tree with photos, a likely diagnosis and recommended actions.
The Farmer Hub transition coach on a phone, asking which sustainability goals to work towards.
Farmer Hub

Farmer Hub: help for the working farm

For farms that are already running. Farmer Hub is a per-project subscription with practical tools for the season.

  • Pest and disease help that starts with prevention (integrated pest management first; treatments only where they are needed)
  • Crop water needs worked out from local weather (reference evapotranspiration × crop coefficient, ET₀ × Kc)
  • Practice transition coaching for the move to regenerative methods
  • Monthly or yearly, per project, with a 30-day free trial (once per account; a card is needed to start it). Includes monthly AI credits.
  • Works on a phone in the field as well as on a laptop
Start free as a farmer
A shared project opened in Present mode, showing a research slide with water findings.
Two pages of a client report PDF: site design maps on the left and written findings on the right.
Research report: uses AI credits Design reports: Design unlock Share links and Present: Free

Reports, sharing and putting it to work

  • Client reports: a written report of the research and the design, downloadable to share with a client, a funder or a partner
  • Share links: send anyone a private link to a read-only view of the project. Recipients need no account. A Present mode shows it as a slideshow, and it can be printed.
  • Implementation Dashboard: turn the design into phased work you can track

Honest limits

  • Floor plans are concept plans, not construction drawings.
  • Renders are illustrations of a design idea.
  • Research findings cite their sources, and AI can still be wrong. Check what matters with a local professional.
  • EcoDesign supports your design work; it does not replace professional engineering, legal or safety advice.
Paid service

Guided Sprint

Prefer to be guided? In a Guided Sprint, the Earth United team works through EcoDesign with you on your own project, so you learn the tool while your site gets researched and designed.

  • Three formats: Research Review, Design Sprint and Full Sprint
  • A Guided Sprint is guided use of EcoDesign. It is not a design commission: you remain the designer of your site.
  • Places are limited each month
See the Guided Sprint
Pricing

Free, credits and unlocks

Start free. A new account gets one free project and starter AI credits, with no card needed. Verify your email to spend AI credits.

Free on every project

The site map and boundary, site data, the Project Map, the Options Explorer, share links and Present mode, the Help Center and Learn articles.

AI credits

AI credits pay for AI research, reports and other AI requests. Every AI request shows its credit cost before it runs. Credits can be topped up and do not expire.

Design unlock

A one-off purchase per project opens the design tools (zones and canvas, plant guilds, seasonal planner, passive solar, Visualizer, design reports) and includes a bundle of AI credits. There are two sizes, Garden and Ecological. Both include the same tools; the larger one includes more credits for bigger sites.

Farmer Hub

An optional monthly or yearly subscription per project for working farms.

The free Options Explorer: practices such as biochar, biodiversity strips and buffer strips, each with a fit score for the site.

The Options Explorer is free on every project.

No image generation is included in the free project. Renders and other images need the Design unlock. Mobile-app credits and EcoDesign credits are separate.

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Transparency

How EcoDesign uses AI

  • Real site data first; AI explains it.
  • Floor-plan geometry is rules-based, not drawn by AI.
  • Every AI request shows its credit cost first.
Read how we use AI
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