How much will my kitchen remodel cost? How about my bathroom remodel – or the cost of a new roof, swimming pool or backyard patio? Can I afford to add an ADU?

These are the questions that have confounded contractors, architects, designers and home improvement retailers, and prevented remodeling-minded homeowners from taking action, for decades since the home reno budget calculators available online offer only the widest budget ranges and can be wildly inaccurate.

Now. a leading digital home management platform has marshalled the power of AI to create the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate online budgeting tool.

HomeZada, adding to its “Zada” AI Chat Assistant introduced in 2023, has launched the industry’s first AI-powered home remodel budgeting tool that allows homeowners to enter an infinite number of design-and-build expense variables to get a truly accurate labor and material cost estimate for any home project, ranging from a simple paint, roofing or landscaping job to a complete rebuild or add-on.

“As homeowners ourselves who created HomeZada to bring some sanity to the unpredictable home management and renovation space and give homeowners more control over their single-largest asset, we know the frustration of creating, and then keeping, a project budget,” said HomeZada co-founder John Bodrozic, who heads up the platform’s AI R&D efforts. “The information available online is simply too broad to use, prompting many property owners to give up on the idea of remodeling entirely for fear of going over budget.”

“This is a shame given that the current high interest rates preclude many homeowners from relocating – making home renovation the only real option for owners wanting to maximize their home values.”

According to Bodrozic, HomeZada’s new remodel budgeting tool allows homeowners to add their specific project details to one of 10 predeveloped project templates and then uses AI to create a precise, reliable total-project budget, including labor and materials, within minutes. These templates answer homeowners’ budget questions associated with the 10 most common home projects, and will continually be expanded.

1.    How much will my kitchen remodel cost?

2.    How much will my bathroom remodel cost?

3.    How much will my new roof cost?

4.    How much will my new solar roof cost?

5.    How much will my swimming pool cost?

6.    How much will my backyard landscaping project cost?

7.    How much will my basement finish project cost?

8.    How much will my exterior siding project cost?

9.    How much will my new patio and outdoor BBQ area cost?

10. How much will my home addition project cost?

Subscribers can indicate the caliber and brand of appliances, fixtures and other products; list their must-have features; and specify whether they will be using a contractor or building the project themselves.

For homeowners who aren’t yet sure what they want in a remodel, the AI feature in Zada will generate a list of relevant questions that will prompt owners to describe their desired ideal renovation in detail to instantly arrive at a realistic project price.

“Since any remodeling project involves hundreds of different design-and-build decisions, all of which can impact your budget, we knew our budgeting tool had to be infinitely customizable,” Bodrozic said. “When you change one variable, Zada will instantly show you how that revision impacts the total job.”

“Want to see how adding radiant heat to the bathroom floor changes your project budget? Or how about installing new light fixtures or switching from tile to granite countertops? HomeZada will give you this info immediately to allow you to avoid all of those mid-project budget surprises.”

Available exclusively to HomeZada Premium and Deluxe subscribers, the new Al budgeting app follows last year’s introduction of the Zada AI Chat Assistant, crested to give homeowners the very latest home management advice; and highly localized, AI-powered severe-weather alerts developed using the National Weather Service (NWS). Additional AI enhancements are planned for the HomeZada digital home management platform.

For a video about this proprietary budgeting tool, go here. For more information on all HomeZada features, go to www.homezada.com.

 

About HomeZada

HomeZada is the home industry’s first and only fully integrated, cloud-based platform dedicated to digital home management. Created by project management pros in 2012 who wanted a similar, all-encompassing digital platform for their home, the Northern California company offers an all-in-one suite of apps able to schedule maintenance and repairs, streamline remodeling projects, document inventory for insurance purposes and manage all finances associated with the home. For the homeowner, the result is maximum property value and peace of mind and a significant savings of time, money, personal stress, and impact on the environment.

For more information on HomeZada and the digital home management space it helped create, which represents a $6 billion market opportunity in the U.S., visit https://www.homezada.com/.