Moodboards, composed
from what you saved.

The board is the pitch.

Most tools stop at a grid of thumbnails. VADE composes, arranging your saved products into a considered, editorial image with a written note, so what you hand a client looks like your studio and not a spreadsheet export. It is the difference between “here are some options” and a board they sign off.

And because every board is built from your colour-searchable library, the pieces already hang together: by tone, by category, by the taste you have been collecting all along.

Why this is how designers actually work.

The complaint about moodboards is never the thinking. It is the formatting. One designer described “spending more time formatting moodboards than actually designing them”. Another put it more bluntly: “it’s like a separate design project, I waste so much time every time”. Cutting out packshots, nudging things into alignment, resizing everything twice because one image came back at a different scale, then doing it again when a product changes.

That work is real and it is genuinely part of the craft, but it is also the part that expands to fill whatever time it is given. It sits squarely in the “35% designing and 65% logistics” split designers describe, and it arrives at exactly the moment a project is busiest, which is the week before the client meeting.

Composition is the one part of that a machine is genuinely good at, because it is arrangement rather than judgement. The judgement stays with you: which nine products, in what order, and whether the board is any good. You see the finished thing and regenerate it until it is right.

One board, walked through.

A sitting room in a stone-built terrace, presentation on Friday. The collection has thirty-one saves in it, gathered over a month across a dozen suppliers. On Wednesday afternoon you cut it to eleven: a sofa, two armchairs, a rug, a coffee table, two lamps, a pair of curtain fabrics, a paint tile and a piece of framed art.

You choose Spread, because the sofa should carry the board, and confirm the palette pulled from those eleven products. The composition takes a minute or two. The title and blurb arrive drafted, and you rewrite the blurb because it is your voice the client is buying, not ours.

The first pass puts one lamp somewhere odd, so you regenerate, and the second pass is right. Total time from collection to finished board: under fifteen minutes, against the half day this used to take in a page-layout tool. That is the gap between formatting and designing.

Every one of the eleven pieces is a real product with a live link and a supplier attached, so when the client approves the sofa on Friday you already know who to email on Monday.

What this is not.

The AI composes a layout from products you have already saved and can actually buy. It does not generate imagery, it does not invent products, and it does not render rooms. There is no plausible sofa that turns out not to exist, no beautifully lit interior that no supplier can quote for, and no fabric that resolves to nothing when a client asks where it is from.

This distinction is the entire point. Designers are, rightly, sceptical of AI slop in this space, because a generated room is a lovely picture and a useless specification. Showing a client something you cannot source is worse than showing them nothing. Every item on a VADE board has a supplier, a price and a URL behind it because every item is one of your own saves.

VADE is also not a procurement or project-management suite. No purchase orders, no invoicing, no payments, no scheduling. A board is a deliverable, not a workflow.

What else it unlocks.

A board is the end of a chain that starts with one right-click on a product page, which is what puts a real, buyable product into the library in the first place. The palette that composition works from is the same one behind searching your library by colour or hex, so a board hangs together tonally without you forcing it. The supplier behind each piece stays attached through its vendor card, which is what makes an approval actionable on Monday morning. And when the board is ready, publish it as a client-ready board on a private link with trade prices and contacts hidden.

If you currently build boards in a general-purpose tool, the honest comparison is in Milanote, Miro and Canva against a sourcing library. And the method matters more than the software, which is the subject of how to make a board a client signs off.

Questions, answered.

How are the moodboards generated?

You pick a collection and a style, confirm the palette, and VADE composes a landscape hero image from your saved products, arranged as an editorial spread rather than a flat grid. A draft title, subtitle and blurb are written for you while the image composes, and you can edit everything before you share.

What layouts are there?

Four: Spread (a hero plus supporting pieces), Atlas (a uniform grid), Stack (a cascading column) and Salon (a layered, overlapping hang). Larger collections split across multiple boards automatically.

Does the AI invent products or generate imagery?

No. Every item on a board is a product you saved, with its real image, its real supplier and its real URL underneath. The AI decides arrangement, scale and sequence, and drafts the words. It does not generate furniture that does not exist, does not render a room, and does not paint in a fictional sofa that no supplier can quote you for.

Can I regenerate a board I do not like?

Yes. The preview step has a regenerate control, so you can recompose or try a different style without starting over. You always see the finished board before anything is shared, and you can move on from a composition you do not like in a few seconds.

What if the composition gets something wrong?

Edit it. Composition works from the product image and the extracted palette, so a save with a badly lit packshot or a wrongly extracted colour can end up in an odd position on the board. Fix the underlying save, correct its palette, drop the product from the collection, or regenerate. The board follows the library rather than the other way round.

Are the boards client-ready?

Yes. Publish a board as a read-only, studio-branded page with a private link, choose the layout, and hide any fields you do not want a client to see, such as trade prices and vendor contacts. Refine internally, pitch externally, from the same library.

Does it work with small independent suppliers?

Yes. A board is composed from whatever is in the collection, so a maker with a hand-built website sits alongside a large brand without any integration, catalogue listing or supplier agreement. If you could save it, it can go on a board.

How much does it cost, and does it replace my current tool?

Saving, organising and searching are free forever, including one moodboard a month. Solo is £12 a month and Studio is £29 a month for up to five seats, unlocking more boards, all four layouts and shareable client pages, and you can cancel from billing settings. It sits alongside your drawing and project tools rather than replacing them, because VADE is not a procurement or project-management suite: no purchase orders, no invoicing, no payments, no scheduling.