Disclaimers

Chalais is a creative-AI tool for visualizing improvements to residential property. It is built to help you think — not to replace the licensed professionals you would normally hire before spending real money on real construction. This page describes, plainly, what Chalais is and is not. These disclaimers are part of our Terms of Service.

1. Renders are visualizations, not architectural drawings

The images Chalais produces (“Renders”) are AI-generated visualizations of how a property might look after a described change. Renders:

• are not architectural drawings, construction documents, or stamped plans;
• are not dimensioned, to-scale, or suitable for use by a contractor in lieu of plans;
• are not permitting documents and have not been reviewed by any city, county, HOA, or other authority;
• are not engineering analyses and do not consider structural feasibility, soils, drainage, fire code, or accessibility requirements;
• may contain visual artifacts, hallucinated details, materials that don't exist in the real world, or geometry that wouldn't actually buildable.

Before pursuing any actual change shown in a Render, retain a licensed architect, designer, contractor, structural engineer, or other relevant professional in your jurisdiction.

2. The audit is algorithmic analysis, not a home inspection

Chalais's audit (“Audit”) is generated by large-language-model systems given a photo and any context you provide. The Audit is descriptive and strategic in nature; it is not:

• a licensed home inspection as defined under California Business and Professions Code §§7195–7199 or equivalent law in any other state;
• a real-estate appraisal by a licensed or certified appraiser;
• a structural engineering assessment;
• a seller's disclosure, condition report, or any form of warranty about the actual state of a property;
• a substitute for any due-diligence step required by your lender, insurer, agent, or purchase contract.

Always retain a qualified, licensed home inspector and other professionals to assess the actual condition of a property before making purchase, financing, insurance, or renovation decisions.

3. Cost, scope, comp, and stress-test estimates

All numerical content in the Audit — including but not limited to:

• cost ranges, scope tradeoffs, and “cost calibration” figures;
• comparable-property (“comps”) addresses, sale prices, and outcome attributions;
• after-renovation-value (ARV) ranges and “top of market” anchors;
• stress-test scenarios (e.g., “market drops 10%,” “costs run 20% over,” “DOM triples”);
• buyer-persona income, demographic, and behavioral inferences;
• internal rate of return (IRR), margin, breakeven, and similar underwriting outputs

— are illustrative heuristics derived from public data, model inference, and structural assumptions. They are not:

• contractor bids;
• binding commitments by Fairday or any third party;
• professional cost estimates of the kind required by lenders, insurers, or governmental agencies;
• appraised values, broker price opinions, or any form of guaranteed market value;
• investment, financial, real-estate, tax, or legal advice;
• warranties of any predicted outcome, including IRR, profit margin, sale price, or days on market.

Real costs depend on local labor markets, material availability, site conditions, the contractor selected, the season, and many factors a photo and listing snapshot cannot capture. Treat any number from Chalais as a thinking-tool starting point and confirm with at least two licensed contractors and, where applicable, a licensed real-estate professional.

4. Not professional advice

Nothing on the Service constitutes:

• real-estate advice from a licensed agent or broker;
• financial or investment advice;
• legal advice on matters such as property rights, easements, HOAs, or land-use regulations;
• insurance advice or any representation about insurability of a property; or
• tax advice.

Consult a qualified, licensed professional in your jurisdiction before acting on anything you read or see on Chalais.

5. Style presets and “Inspired by” attributions

Chalais offers style presetswith generic names (e.g., “Northern California Farmhouse,” “Belgian Minimalism”) that describe a vocabulary of materials, proportions, and detailing. Some presets carry an “Inspired by”attribution naming a practitioner or firm whose work informed the vocabulary. These attributions are descriptive references — comparative advertising in the same family of usage as “inspired by” statements in the fragrance and design industries.

For clarity:

• The named practitioner or firm has not reviewed, approved, sponsored, or endorsed Chalais, this Service, or any Output it generates;
• Chalais has no commercial relationship, partnership, license, or affiliation with any referenced practitioner or firm unless we explicitly say so;
• We do not use any referenced firm's logos, photographs, or proprietary marketing material;
• The product names you see in the UI are Fairday's; the “Inspired by” line is the only place a third-party name appears, and it appears solely to describe the vocabulary the preset channels;
• All trademarks, service marks, and design registrations referenced remain the property of their respective owners.

Output generated under a preset reflects general material and compositional ideas associated with that vocabulary; it is not a copy of any specific built work, design drawing, or photograph by the named firm.

If you are a practitioner, firm, or rights-holder and would like a preset attribution changed or removed, contact legal@fairday.app. We will respond promptly.

6. Listing data and addresses

Where you paste a real-estate listing URL or enter an address, the Service may fetch publicly available metadata about that property (e.g., square footage, lot size, year built, recent listing price) for use in the Audit. We do not represent that this metadata is accurate, current, or complete. Listing portals frequently contain errors. Verify any property facts that materially affect your decision.

7. Identifiable third-party properties

Do not use the Service to generate audits or renders of identifiable properties owned by third parties without their consent. Chalais is a tool for the people working on a property — owners, designers, agents-with-client-permission, and investors with skin in the game — not a way to publicly critique a stranger's house.

8. Forward-looking statements

Audits and renders may describe what a property “could” or “should” become. Forward-looking language is inherently speculative; outcomes depend on professional execution, market conditions, and many factors beyond the model's knowledge.

9. Beta features and iteration

We may label some features as “beta” or “experimental.” Those features may be modified, restricted, or discontinued without notice. Output from beta features may be more variable than from generally-available features.

10. Questions

If anything in this page is unclear or you believe the Service has misrepresented something specific to your property, contact legal@fairday.app.