Global Business Awards 2021

Home Design Platform of the Year 2021: Planner 5D Planner 5D has helped more than 70 million users to create over 300 million projects improving their living or working spaces, renovating their homes, and changing the look and feel of places they belong to. Andrey Ustyugov, CEO of Planner 5D, states, “We’re unique in the way we combine easy-to-use tools and a strong growing community of users and designers within our platform. At the same time, we have powerful technologies helping our users. It is machine learning and augmented reality. For example, our automated floor plan recognition technology allows users to upload the scan of their floor plan to the app, and it will automatically turn it into a digital plan.” With the help of augmented reality, Planner 5D users can experience the environments they create interactively and engagingly. The aim is to empower both amateur and professional designers with technology and enhance their creative capabilities. Its R&D team is always looking for ways to improve its technology and runs a lot of experiments and research to be further able to share its results with the world. There are currently more than 60 team members and no typical corporate hierarchies at Planner 5D, with the team working in four cross-sectional groups such as development, product, business, and 3D design. Additionally, as its HQ is in Vilnius, Lithuania, part of the team works remotely from various locations. Andrey adds, “We are very open and strive to provide all opportunities for our team to grow and express themselves, and our leadership team is always there to help and support each team member.” However, during COVID, people started rethinking the definition of home and started to form a new set of expectations from it. Many populations have shifted from a ‘phased’ pattern of space occupation to the ‘concurrent’ pattern of occupation, where all household members occupy the home simultaneously. People started to rethink all the areas of their living environment and understood they needed a proper space for workouts, rest, and fun. So, the big question was ‘how to make our home more comfortable for living?’ Andrey explains, “According to our surveys and data, people now greatly appreciate the places where they live and want to improve them.” According to Global Marketing Insights, the numbers speak for themselves as the home improvement market exceeded $762.9 billion in 2020 and will grow at 4.3% from 2021 to 2027. In 2020 and 2021, more people started to redesign their homes, and Planner 5D had tremendous growth during those years, with its user Sep21825 Recognised as the Home Design Platform of the Year 2021, Planner 5D is an easy-to-use home design platform, which allows anyone to create floor plans and interior designs in minutes without any specialist skills by using powerful AI, VR and AR technologies. base doubling from 2019 to 2020. The rapid growth of the user base led to a 2.5 development of revenue as well. Andrey states, “When we started building our product back in 2011, we wanted to provide the most advanced technologies to our users. So, our team invested a lot of effort into collecting one of the largest floor planning datasets in the world and into rolling out our AI features to help our users create floor plans effortlessly.” Overall, the goal for Planner 5D is to become the ultimate knowledge hub of interior design and home improvement - a space where people can find inspiration, design their perfect home, or find professional designers to help them. Company Name: Planner 5D Contact Name: Andrey Ustyugov Web Address: https://planner5d.com/ Contact Email: [email protected] Planner 5D has helped more than 70 million users to create over 300 million projects improving their living or working spaces, renovating their homes, and changing the look and feel of places they belong to.