The Lab
One tool is live. Here is what comes out of it.
The Lab is where the tools this department runs get built, and productized for clients only once the scorecard has earned the right. Today that list has exactly one item on it — so rather than describe it, this page shows you one output and everything we can prove about where it came from.
Levar Render · one real output
A phone photo went in. This came back.
This is the kitchen in our founder's house in Scottsdale: dark maple, granite, and a Tuesday's worth of clutter on the counters. It is the kitchen on this page because it is the one we can publish without asking anybody's permission. Drag the handle.
Before · photograph
After · AI rendering
Left: unretouched iPhone photograph. Right: AI rendering, Charcoal Shaker direction. Same frame, same camera, one exposure — the render is painted onto the photograph's own geometry, not shot a second time.
Read the render
What it kept, what it changed, and what a cabinet order would not cover.
A render is worth exactly as much as your ability to check it. So check it: park the handle on any one of these and look at both sides of the line.
Kept
The room
The cabinet boxes, the peninsula and its bar overhang, both wooden corbels under that overhang, the two bar stools down to their stretcher bars, the cooktop, the range hood, the wall oven, the microwave, the refrigerator with its dispenser and handles, the doorway, the arch, the plantation shutters, the tile floor and its grout lines, the ceiling cans, the air vents, the outlet on the island face — and the two sheets of paper taped to the fridge door, which it wiped nothing else to keep.
Changed
The finish
Raised-panel maple doors become flat charcoal shaker with slim brass pulls. Speckled granite becomes white marble-look quartz. The beige tumbled-stone backsplash becomes white marble subway tile. The crown moulding and the light valance under the uppers are replaced by a plain cap, and the upper run is extended up to the ceiling.
Also changed
Things a cabinet order would not cover
Every worktop was cleared: the coffee maker, the kettle, the mixer, the mail, a child's drawing, the tablet, the towel on the oven handle. The fruit was on a cutting board on the island; the render moved it into a wire bowl by the window. The snake plant survived and got a new pot. Nobody tidied that kitchen. The model did.
That third column is the honest part, and most before-and-afters leave it out. A render shows you a direction on your own walls and it quietly stages the room at the same time; your counters will still have your life on them. Note what survived, too: it erased a kettle and kept the paperwork on the fridge. The model is not reasoning about your kitchen. It is repainting a photograph of it.
Provenance
You do not have to take our word for the word "rendering."
The render file carries a C2PA content credential — a cryptographic signature naming the machine that made it, issued by Google, not by us, and countersigned by an independent timestamp authority. The original file is on this server, unmodified. Check it yourself.
Signed by Google C2PA Media Services 1P ICA G3
Chains to Google C2PA Root CA G3
Manifest urn:c2pa:425a9f2a-fe87-c082-e690-4788e34975f1
Timestamp 2026-07-12 01:51:14 UTC
… in Phoenix 2026-07-11, 6:51 PM
Timestamped by Google C2PA Core Time-Stamping Authority T9
Drop that file into any C2PA reader — the Content Authenticity Initiative's public verifier lives at contentcredentials.org/verify. It is written out rather than linked because this site does not reference a host it does not own: no page here can call anywhere except our own spine, and an outbound link would hand a stranger the fact that you read this page. Type it yourself.
The two images in the slider above are resized copies, because a 2.4 MB file is a bad thing to put in a page. Resizing re-encodes the pixels and destroys the signature, which is the point of a signature — so the unmodified original is linked here instead, and it is the one to verify. It is 2.4 MB and it is 2390 × 1792.
What we do not know about it
Render time UNKNOWNnever measured; our own asset rules forbid promising one
Which of our two render paths made this file UNKNOWNthe signature proves the model, not our plumbing
The exact prompt behind this render UNKNOWNnot kept with the file; the style is logged, the wording is not
Reveal photograph of this kitchen, installed UNKNOWNnobody has installed it
Content credential on the before photograph UNKNOWNthere is none — it is a photograph
The distinction that matters
This is a render. It is not a Receipt.
On the Proof page a Receipt is defined as two images: the render the homeowner saw before anyone lifted a tool, and the reveal photograph of the finished kitchen, same frame, same angle. This page has the first image and it does not have the second. Nobody has installed this kitchen. Until somebody does and we photograph it from this spot, what you are looking at is a proposal with a signature on it — worth more than a stock photo, worth less than a finished job, and we are not going to blur the difference to make the page stronger.
The scorecard is on the Proof page → Pairs published so far is still UNKNOWN, and this page does not change that number.
A real way in
Put your own kitchen through it.
levarrender.com takes one photo and returns a direction for the room in it. Two things are worth knowing before you click, because they are true of the engine and the front door does not say them plainly enough.
01
It asks who you are first
There is no anonymous lane. The engine refuses to start a render without a name and a valid email address, because the finished render is delivered to that address and nowhere else.
02
Your email is confirmed before delivery
The render is emailed only after you click a confirmation link — double opt-in, one address, on purpose. The gate that records this is written before any render work begins, and if it cannot be written the render does not run at all. It fails closed rather than deliver ungated.
What comes back is a direction, not a document. It is not a quote, not a measurement, not a product list and not an installation plan. Final design, measurements, products and pricing are confirmed by a person.
Everything else
We will not pretend about the tools that are not ready.
Not yet
The rest of the suite
The visualizers, the operator boards, the render engine itself. They exist and they run this company, but they are not productized, not documented for anyone outside, and not for sale. When one is ready it will appear here with a date on it, not a waiting list.
Status
Honest inventory
Tools in the Lab, productized: 1. Everything else: UNKNOWN — not productized. We would rather write that than a roadmap we have not earned.