1 - The laiout lab is laiout's quarterly newsletter built for professionals who lease, design and manage commercial space.
2- The Q1 2026 edition covers AI Renders, laiout Flow, compliance automation, practitioner tutorials and community and customer testimonials.
3- Subscribe to get curated product updates, workflow tutorials and customer stories delivered to your inbox each quarter.
If you work in commercial real estate, you already receive plenty of market commentary. What is harder to find is concise, product-level detail on the tools that actually affect how you plan, present and lease space. The laiout lab is its quarterly newsletter, designed to give you a clear picture of what is new, how to use it, and what peers across the industry are doing with it. No filler. No market speculation. Just the information you need to make faster, better-informed space decisions.
The latest edition went out this week. Here is what is inside.
- AI Renders: Generate photorealistic visuals from any layout in seconds. Present complete options to stakeholders without leaving laiout, now available as a premium feature.
- laiout Flow: A built-in assistant for instant design guidance. Flow sits inside the platform and helps you move through layouts with confidence, whether you are planning your first space or your fiftieth.
- Approve and Lock: Finalise your design, lock it and export. This closes the loop between planning and handover, giving teams a clean output they can share immediately.
- Space Renaming: Personalise layouts with custom names and colours. Useful for multi-tenant buildings, flex operators managing branded zones, or any team that needs clarity across multiple configurations.
Each edition includes a section called laiout Lessons, short tutorials that walk through specific platform workflows.
- Furniture Upload: Integrate your own furniture into layouts for more accurate space planning.
- Adjust Corridors: Draw and edit corridors for custom layout configurations.
- Egress Compliance: Run fire compliance checks in seconds.
These are not introductory demos. They are built for professionals already using the platform who want to get more from it, or for those evaluating laiout who want to see what the workflows look like in practice. You can also explore the full laiout Lessons series on YouTube.
The Q1 edition includes direct feedback from professionals already using laiout across the industry. Allard Wendrich of Allard Product Design noted how expectations have shifted: proposals now need full quantities, cost overviews and visuals, not just a sketch. Maud Santamaria at GWI called laiout one of the strongest PropTech tools she has seen. And Lotte de Jong at Savills highlighted how the platform lets teams stop going in circles, demonstrate pros and cons clearly and share outputs immediately.
Q1: Who is The laiout lab for?
Anyone involved in commercial space planning, leasing or design. That includes landlords, tenants, brokers, architects and flex operators. Whether you use laiout today or are still evaluating, the newsletter gives you a clear, honest view of the platform.
Q2: How often is The laiout lab published?
Quarterly. Each edition is concise and scannable, covering new features, tutorials, customer stories and community updates.
Q3: What if I want a more personalised walkthrough of the features covered?
Every edition includes a direct link to book a tailored session with the laiout team. If something in the newsletter catches your attention, you can book a session and go deeper in a one-to-one conversation.
The best way to evaluate any platform is to watch how it develops over time: what it ships, what users say, and where it is heading. The laiout lab gives you that view, curated and delivered quarterly. Subscribe to The laiout lab today and see what AI-powered space planning looks like when it is built for the way you work.
Author: Theodore Harding, laiout
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