Fotographer AI Forms Strategic Partnership with Cylindo, a Chaos Company and Global Leader in 3D Visualization Software

— Japan-based startup to fully develop the image-generation AI models and AI infrastructure powering some of Cylindo's AI product suite, helping brands cut production costs by up to 80%

Fotographer AI, Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Rintaro Suzuki; hereinafter "Fotographer AI"), an image-generation AI startup, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Cylindo (Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark), a visual commerce platform for furniture and interior brands operated by Chaos, a global leader in 3D visualization software.

Under this partnership, Fotographer AI collaborates with Cylindo in developing image-generation AI models for their customers and building and operating the AI infrastructure behind some of Cylindo’s AI product suite, including Cylindo Quickshot 3D based scene generation, its furniture-focused AI image generation solution. This spans multi-product lifestyle scene generation, product and configuration swaps within existing scenes, which will lead to repurposing of existing photography across products, customer-location-based visuals for B2B use cases, and controlled AI video generation by generating the right frames — all engineered to preserve accurate product scale, material fidelity, and full creative control by grounding generation in Cylindo’s 3D master assets.

Background: Why AI Image Generation Has Been Considered "Unusable" for Furniture and Interiors

AI-generated imagery has exploded across e-commerce over the last year – but for the home furnishings space or any brand with highly configurable products, speed without product accuracy is a liability. Every image must stay true to the product’s scale, materials, and configuration.

In e-commerce purchasing behavior, the visual quality of product pages is one of the most critical factors driving sales. According to Cylindo customer data, rich visual commerce experiences have been shown to increase conversion rates by up to 35% and average order value by up to 85%.

At the same time, because purchase decisions for furniture and interior products depend directly on the accurate reproduction of size, shape, and material, general-purpose image-generation AI has frequently produced distorted product shapes, inaccurate scale, and inconsistent textures or brand tone — making it impractical for real-world e-commerce use. This challenge is compounded by how configurable furniture products are: a single product can exist in thousands of material and geometry variations.

Cylindo's structured 3D master asset data and Fotographer AI's models are built to work hand in hand — for every product configuration, the correct 3D and 2D assets are paired together to maximize accuracy. These 3D assets also enable a level of granular creative control — camera position, focal length, multi-product layout — that has traditionally only been achievable through physical photoshoots or full 3D renders. Fotographer AI solved this challenge with its proprietary technology combining 3D data with AI generation, and it was this technical capability that led to the current partnership.

Partnership Overview

• Fotographer AI is responsible for the design, development, and tuning of some of Cylindo’s  image-generation AI models at the core of their AI product suite

• Fotographer AI helps operate the AI infrastructure supporting the service of the models to be used by major furniture brands worldwide

• Both companies jointly drive ongoing improvements in quality, speed, and consistency

• Products covered: Cylindo Quickshot (lifestyle image generation)

About Chaos and Cylindo

Chaos is a global leader in visualization software for the architecture, engineering, media, and product design industries. Its product lineup includes V-Ray, an industry-standard renderer used by professionals around the world. Chaos is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, with offices in 11 cities worldwide and approximately 800 employees.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2012 and acquired by Chaos in 2022, Cylindo is a visual commerce platform helping home furnishings brands and other highly configurable product categories create, manage, and scale product visuals across the customer journey. Today, nearly 200 brands and retailers, including Anthropologie and MAKE Nordic, rely on Cylindo to deliver more accurate, engaging, and consistent product experiences. 

About Cylindo Quickshot

Cylindo Quickshot enables furniture brands to create more visual content, more quickly, without sacrificing accuracy or control. By combining AI generation with Cylindo's 3D master assets, Quickshot produces photorealistic lifestyle imagery that remains true to the underlying product across materials, colors, and configurations. Marketing and production teams can rapidly create, adapt, and scale content for every channel while maintaining the consistency and quality customers expect.

Fotographer AI's Role and Technology

Fotographer AI is responsible for developing the image-generation AI technology used as part of the core of Cylindo's AI product suite. Its specific areas of responsibility include:

• Design, development, and tuning of image-generation AI models (including generation and partial editing/inpainting)

• Building and operating scalable AI infrastructure capable of handling global-scale traffic

• Ongoing improvement of generation quality, speed, and consistency

Compared with general-purpose image-generation AI, Quickshot is built to address the specific challenges of furniture and home furnishings. What makes it unique:

• Grounded in real products: every scene is generated from Cylindo's 3D master assets or existing product imagery — not an AI approximation — so the output matches the physical product

• Multi-product scenes: composes multiple catalog SKUs into a single scene, where most generic AI tools struggle past one hero product

• Intelligent, on-demand iteration: generates multiple lifestyle scenes and explores variations or product customizations from a single asset with just a prompt — no reshoots, no manual re-prompting to fix broken outputs

• Omnichannel-ready: high-resolution outputs built for PDPs, ads, email, print catalogs, and in-store displays, with seamless distribution through the Cylindo ecosystem

• Verified quality: under Cylindo's own quality guidelines, roughly one in six AI-generated images is immediately usable without further edits (which typically corresponds to only 2 runs), ahead of typical generic-AI output

Results Achieved

Adoption of Quickshot has delivered measurable results in their customers’ visual production process.

Comments

Jostein Pedersen, VP of Product, Cylindo 

"Cylindo's structured 3D data across every product configuration, and Fotographer AI's models purpose-built to use it. The result is lifestyle imagery that's accurate to the real product (not an approximation) generated automatically at a scale no traditional photoshoot could match. For retailers selling physical goods, that accuracy isn't a nice-to-have, it's the whole point.  "

Saliou Kane, Co-founder & CPO, Fotographer AI, Inc.

"We are very pleased with our collaboration with Cylindo, which has spanned half a year of close iteration to determine what AI-generated outputs would truly pass the ‘eye test’ for customers in the interior space — in terms of product consistency, material and texture fidelity, sense of scale, and spatial control derived from 3D assets. It is precisely in domains where ‘accuracy’ is paramount, such as furniture and interiors, that our technology — combining 3D and AI — truly shows its value. Building on the technology and operational track record developed through this partnership, we will also accelerate adoption in Japan among major companies in the furniture, and interior industries."