Plain-English transparency on which features in Earling Labs Designer use AI, what kind of AI powers them, and what that means for you. Designer uses two different AI systems — an Anthropic assistant for help, and a separate image engine for the before/after previews — so this page spells out both. We believe in over-disclosing rather than under-disclosing on AI.
Earling Labs Designer turns a "before" photo plus the choices a customer makes into a before/after preview. Two separate AI systems are involved: (1) the in-app Earling AI help bar is powered by Claude, an assistant from Anthropic, a U.S.-based AI safety company; and (2) the render engine that produces the preview image is a separate image-edit vendor — Anthropic does not generate images, so image rendering is never done by Claude.
A render is an artistic preview to help a customer picture the result — not a guarantee of the finished work, and not a measurement or a contract. Final decisions, the final quote, and what you show or send to your customer are always yours. Nothing in Designer is sent on your behalf without your explicit action.
A before/after render is an illustrative preview, not a photorealistic promise. Until an image-edit vendor is connected to your account, Designer shows a clearly-labeled SIMULATED PREVIEW — a recolor of your photo — so the look is approximate. Colors, materials, and finishes will differ in real life. Never present a render as the exact finished result, and always confirm scope, measurements, and price separately. You are responsible for what you show a customer.
The specific AI-powered pieces of Earling Labs Designer, and which AI powers each:
Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, a U.S.-based AI safety company. We license Claude through Anthropic's commercial API like any other developer. We are not affiliated with Anthropic beyond being one of their many API customers. In Designer, Claude powers only the read-only Earling AI help bar. The before/after image rendering is handled by a different, image-specific vendor, because Anthropic does not generate images.
For full transparency on AI usage across the entire Earling Labs suite (including which products use proprietary Earling Labs ML models versus Claude), see the master AI Disclosure on earlinglabs.com.
Every preview Designer produces is exactly that: a preview. You see it, you decide whether and how to show it, and you confirm scope and price separately. Take the moment to review. A render approximates a look — it can be off on color, material, texture, and proportion, and a simulated preview is rougher still.
When you show a render to a customer or carry a configuration into a quote, that decision is yours — under your name, attached to your business. You — not Earling Labs, not Anthropic, not the image vendor — are responsible for what you present. Earling Labs Designer provides the tool; you provide the judgment.
To answer help-bar questions, the question you type is sent to Anthropic's API along with a summary of your own account's designs (titles, room, trade, status, totals — never your customers' contact details). When an image-edit vendor is connected, your "before" photo and the chosen instructions are sent to that vendor to produce the render. We do not sell your data or your customers' data to third parties. For how Earling Labs handles your data overall, see the Earling Labs Privacy Policy. For Anthropic's own policies, see Anthropic's Privacy Policy.
To make Designer's previews and recommendations better over time, we keep a record of how looks were configured and which look the customer chose — for example, the option set that was explored versus the one finalized. This lets us measure where the AI is off and improve it, and we may use it to train Earling Labs' own machine-learning models in the future. This record is pseudonymized (it isn't stored under your name) and is used only to improve Earling Labs products — never sold. It stores no customer personal information — not a name, email, phone, or address — and never the before-photo image itself; only the trade, the option set, the totals, and which look was chosen. If you'd prefer your account's data not be used this way, email support@earlinglabs.com and we'll exclude it.
If you ever want to know how a specific feature works, what AI is involved, or what happens to a specific piece of data, email support@earlinglabs.com. We respond personally. Transparency on AI is something we take seriously.
We are transparent about what we built and what we license. We do not claim to have built "our own AI" for the help bar (that is Claude, by Anthropic) or for the image render engine (a separate third-party image vendor). We do not claim our previews are photorealistic or guaranteed. Where we build our own proprietary machine-learning models (most notably the Earling Labs Predictor in our Trading Platform), we'll always be specific about that.
If you ever see Earling Labs marketing or product copy that overstates what's proprietary vs. external — please point it out. We'll fix it.