Frequently asked questions

Minfis is a web service that turns a written brief for a residential complex into a visual concept: exterior options to choose from, a 3D massing scene you can rotate, realistic views and a PDF booklet. You describe the site and the brief in your own words at minfis.com, and the work runs in the cloud while you watch the project page. It is an early-stage tool for developers, investors and architects who need something to look at and to show, in minutes rather than weeks. It produces images and a booklet — not design documentation, and no building-code check is performed. The service is operated by ANOMONUS FZCO.

4 exterior previews to choose from, a 3D scene with the buildings, the courtyard and the parking that you can rotate on the project page, 6 realistic views (an aerial three-quarter, the street entrance, the courtyard from inside, the entrance group close up, the lobby and an apartment window onto the yard), and a PDF booklet with the concept text, 4 sketches and a project-composition block. On plans that include it you can also download the 3D scene as a GLB file. There are no drawings, no code checks and no technical-economic tables — those are not part of the product.

No. Minfis gives you the image and the massing of an idea in minutes — something to take to an investor, to test a site with, and to brief an office from. An architecture office still does the design and construction documentation, the compliance work and everything that has to be approved. Customers use the output at the stage before an office is hired, not instead of one.

Type the brief into the box on the home page: what you are building and where — the city, the site area, how many buildings, how many storeys, the housing class, the parking. There is a microphone button beside the box; the speech recognition is done by your browser, so the audio never reaches our servers (in Chrome the browser sends it to Google, which is your browser's setting, not ours). If something critical is missing, Minfis asks one short question with answer buttons before it starts drawing; otherwise it goes straight to the previews.

No. The only input today is the text box and the microphone button on the home page — there is no map to draw on and no photo upload. Describe the plot in words instead: the city or district, roughly how many hectares, what is around it, what faces the street. Nothing about the site is measured or looked up; the concept is built from your description alone.

Not for the first part. Reading the brief, the clarifying question and the 4 exterior previews are free and work without signing in. An account is needed at the moment the 3D scene is built, because that is the step a project is charged for. Sign-in is by e-mail and password, Google or Apple. Minfis is for professional use by people aged 18 or over, and you confirm that when you register. Work started without an account belongs to the browser you started it in, not to your IP address, so nobody else on your connection sees it, and it moves into your account the moment you sign in. Clear your cookies and it is gone: there is nothing else holding it.

After it reads your brief, Minfis draws 4 exterior options and you pick the one to carry forward. They are free for everyone, with or without an account, and only the option you pick goes into 3D. Previews usually arrive one to three minutes after the start; in measured runs the spread ran from about half a minute to about four, depending on load at the image provider. They are AI-generated images of an idea, not renderings of a designed building.

Choosing an option starts the 3D scene, and that is the point where one project is charged from your balance. The scene is composed by a model and built with Blender in the cloud, usually four to nine minutes, and the 6 realistic views take six to eight minutes more; the booklet is assembled after that, its 4 sketches drawn in parallel. One acceptance run went from the brief to the finished project editor in about eleven minutes. The stages run one after another on their own; the page updates as each one finishes, and you can leave it and come back.

Yes, as a GLB file from the project page, on the plans that include 3D export: Pro and Team. The file is a massing model — building volumes, the courtyard and the parking — suitable for a presentation or as a starting block in your own 3D software, not a modelled building with structure or interiors. The export right follows a live subscription and ends when the subscription does; projects you have already made stay yours either way.

6 images taken from the 3D scene and rendered realistically: an aerial three-quarter, the view at the street entrance, the courtyard from inside, the entrance group close up, the lobby, and an apartment window looking onto the yard. They are generated by AI from the frames of your scene, which means they show the concept convincingly but are not photographs and not accurate renderings. The set of 6 usually takes six to eight minutes.

You write a sentence at the bottom of the project page — "remove the top floor", "brick facade", "more trees" — rather than filling in a form. There are two kinds of change: redrawing a single realistic view, and rebuilding the 3D scene itself, which produces a new revision of the massing. Both are counted against the project's edit quota, and rebuilds have their own smaller limit inside it.

Each project includes edits by plan: 3 on the free project, 5 on Starter, 10 on Pro and 10 on Team. Of those, the ones that rebuild the whole 3D scene are capped separately: 1 free, 2 on Starter, 4 on Pro and 4 on Team. When a project's edits are used up you can buy a pack of 10 edits, priced on the pricing page, which is spent across any of your projects.

The realistic views are marked out of date, because they were drawn from the previous scene — you take them again when you are happy with the new massing. The 3D you rotate on the page also changes character: the smoother display model is derived from the exterior preview you chose, so after a rebuild the viewer shows the Blender massing carrying your change rather than that earlier polished model. This is worth knowing before a demo: rebuild first, then take the views.

A cover with the project name, the concept description, the realistic views, 4 sketches (the site plan, the facade, the materials and palette, and how the complex is built in stages), a project-composition block, and a QR code back to the project page. The composition block lists buildings, storeys, floor area, apartments and parking as a model's estimate of the concept — it is labelled as such in the booklet, and it is not a calculation. The booklet is a PDF you download and can print or e-mail.

On the free project every page carries the Minfis mark. Paid plans remove it, and Pro and Team go further: the booklet can carry your own brand — your company name, logo and contacts on the cover — instead of ours. Branding follows a live subscription; if it lapses, new booklets print without your brand, while booklets you have already downloaded are unaffected.

9: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic. You can write the brief in your own language, and the booklet is typeset in any of the 9, including Arabic with the correct right-to-left direction. The legal documents are the one exception: they are published in English only, in a single edition, so that every reader is bound by the same words rather than by a translation of them. Every language of the site links to that English text and says so on the page.

A project bought without a subscription has one price, shown on the pricing page, and it covers everything in the project: reading the brief, the 4 exterior previews, the 3D scene, the 6 realistic views, the edits included in your plan and the PDF booklet. The price of a project is the same on every plan — a plan changes how many projects you get each month, how many edits each project includes and what the booklet may carry, not the price of the project itself. A project bought this way sits on your balance with no expiry date until you use it.

Starter gives you 5 projects a month with 5 edits each. Pro gives 20 projects with 10 edits each, and adds the booklet under your own brand and 3D (GLB) export. Team gives 60 projects and adds the team itself: a shared balance and 5 seats. Every plan can buy extra projects beyond its monthly allowance, more cheaply the larger the plan. All the prices are on the pricing page, which reads them from the billing system rather than from this answer.

Yes, and no phone number is needed — nothing to confirm and no code to receive. Every account gets 1 free project, once, rather than one a month. It is granted automatically the first time a project would be charged and your balance is empty, so you simply keep going. It includes 3 edits and 1 scene rebuild, the booklet carries the Minfis mark, and 3D export is not included. Exterior previews are free for everyone anyway, before and after that project is used.

By bank card through Polar, which is the merchant of record for the sale: Polar takes the payment, issues the receipt, and handles any sales tax or VAT due where you are. Your card details are entered on Polar's side and never reach us. Prices are in US dollars. You can buy a single project, or subscribe monthly or yearly; a year costs the same as ten months, 2 months free, about 17% less than paying month by month, and on a yearly subscription the projects arrive month by month rather than all at once.

Projects bought outright do not expire — they wait on your balance until you use them. Projects granted by a subscription carry over for a limited time: up to 1 month of allowance on Starter, 2 on Pro and 3 on Team; anything above that ceiling is written off at the next monthly grant and shows in your statement. Subscription projects are spent before bought ones, so the ones you paid for separately survive. Cancelling a subscription does not take back projects already granted.

The project is returned to your balance automatically. A failed stage reverses its own charge, the return appears in your statement with the same project reference, and the page shows a reason for the failure rather than a blank error. Starting the stage again does not charge you a second time, and if the server restarts in the middle of a stage the work is either picked up again or closed with the return.

A failed stage returns the project to your balance automatically, and that is separate from money going back to your card. Your first purchase is refunded on request within fourteen days if the result did not suit you. Beyond that: an unused single project can be refunded while no project has been started with it; a subscription is not refunded, and cancelling instead keeps your access to the end of the period you paid for; consumers in the EU may cancel within 14 days if no project has been started. Write to [email protected] with the account address and what you paid for.

From your account page, through the customer portal of the payment provider that sold your subscription — Polar for a subscription bought today, and for one bought before we moved to Polar, whichever provider took that payment. The link on your account page leads to the right one. Cancelling stops the next charge; the subscription runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, and the plan's rights — booklet branding, 3D export, team seats — end with it. Projects already granted to your balance stay yours and are not taken back.

Team turns several accounts into one billing unit: a shared balance that everyone's projects draw from, 5 seats included, and roles — member, admin, owner. Additional seats are charged monthly, at the price shown on the pricing page. Admins and the owner invite people by e-mail; the invited person keeps their own account and their own sign-in.

No. Projects are visible only to the person who created them — there is no shared project library in this version, and nothing in a team makes one member's project appear in another's list. What a team does share is money: any member's project spends the team's balance, and the statement shows the pool's movements, including spending by colleagues. Plan and billing details are visible to the owner only.

Your brief goes to Anthropic, whose Claude model reads it, writes the concept and later looks at the scene frames; it receives the brief text, the site line, your language and your answers, but not your e-mail, phone or account identity. Higgsfield receives the image prompt written from your brief and the image files of your project, runs the cloud Blender that builds the scene, and passes an image of your building to Tripo, the third-party model that makes the 3D file. Polar, which is the seller on your purchase, receives your name, e-mail address, the billing country you enter and the amount when you pay; Resend delivers our e-mails; Cloudflare fronts all traffic to the site. The Privacy Policy lists every recipient and what each one gets.

On the image side, possibly. Anthropic's commercial terms leave inputs and outputs with the customer. Higgsfield, on the plan Minfis uses today, is entitled to use inputs and outputs to train its models — that covers the prompt written from your brief and the images of your project. If that matters for a confidential site, take it into account before you describe one.

Deleting a project removes it from your list immediately and it stops being shown anywhere. Its files are not erased on a timer today: the project is hidden, and the stored files remain on the server until they are cleared by hand. Deleting your account is thorough by comparison — projects and their files are erased, your e-mail, name and sign-in details are removed, and only records we must keep for accounting and payment history survive.

We set two cookies of our own: the sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in, and, if you work without an account, a random identifier your anonymous projects belong to; there is no analytics or tracking script of ours on the site, measured on the live site today. Cloudflare, which sits in front of the site, sets its own cookies as part of serving it. The servers are in the Netherlands, and encrypted backups of the database go to Backblaze B2. Retention periods and the full list are in the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.

No. Minfis performs no building-code, planning or zoning check of any kind: setbacks, insolation, fire distances, parking ratios, density and height limits are not verified against anything. There is no code-checking module in the product, and the model that composes the concept is given no code tables to work from. Whatever the result looks like, treat it as an idea to be tested by people who do that work.

No. The buildings, storeys, floor area, apartment count and parking printed in the booklet are a model's estimate read off the concept it just described — the booklet says so on the page. No technical-economic tables are produced, and no area schedule is computed from geometry. Use those numbers to talk about scale and ambition, not to plan finance or to size a plot purchase.

No. Every exterior preview, every realistic view and every sketch in the booklet is generated by AI, and the buildings in them do not exist. They are plausible pictures of an idea, and details like windows, signage, materials and surroundings are invented by the model rather than recorded. Every one of them is labelled: the project screen says so in both 3D and photo mode, the 3D file says so when you export it, and the booklet says so on its cover and on every view page. Files may also carry machine-readable provenance metadata identifying them as AI-generated.

Not exactly. The 3D is built as massing — volumes, courtyard, parking — and where the preview shows a curved or sculpted shape that the massing cannot hold, the massing wins; in one measured batch, one project of three lost the rounded form of its preview. Storey counts in the scene come from what the model counts on the picture, not from a specification you typed. Use a rebuild, or pick a different preview, if the shape matters more than the mood.

No, on both counts. What Minfis produces is a preliminary image and massing: it is not design or construction documentation, it does not replace a licensed designer or an architecture office, it contains no code compliance check, and it guarantees nothing about a state or any other review. Decisions about buying land, investing or building remain yours and are taken at your own risk.

You do. The previews, the realistic views, the 3D file and the PDF booklet are yours, you may use them commercially — including in investor material and marketing — and no credit to Minfis is required. What we cannot promise is uniqueness, accuracy or freedom from third-party claims: every AI provider in the chain disclaims accuracy, and a similar result may be produced for someone else.

5 per account in any rolling 24 hours, counting from each start rather than from midnight. The limit applies to starts, including the free previews, and it exists because previews cost us money before anyone has paid for anything. For visitors without an account the same limit is counted per browser rather than per IP address, so people sharing a connection no longer share one allowance. A wider limit, several times larger, still applies to all anonymous starts from one address together, so clearing cookies does not reset the personal one.

It happens, and the honest answer is that part of the pipeline depends on prepaid balances at outside providers. On the day these answers were written the image provider's workspace ran out of credit: previews, realistic views and the 3D model failed for everyone, while the Blender scene and the booklet kept working. When a stage fails, the project is returned to your balance automatically and the page shows the reason, so a failure costs you time rather than money. We do not promise a completion time or uninterrupted availability.

Write to [email protected]. Questions about your personal data go to [email protected] instead. Include the address your account uses and the link to the project in question — the project page URL is enough for us to see which run you mean, what it was asked for and where it stopped. If a stage failed, the project has already been returned to your balance automatically, so you can start again while you wait for a reply.

It is our code's arithmetic over two inputs: the apartment mix computed from the chosen concept and the price per m² taken from real competitors. Every price figure stands on a named scheme with a link and a date. It is not a valuation report, not a valuer's opinion and not investment advice — the line saying so sits under every block of figures and in the booklet.

An agent with web search looks for schemes of the same class under construction or recently completed in the same city — on the country's property portals, developers' sites and market reviews. From each it takes the name, developer, district, price per m² and link. The whole table is shown to you: it is the evidence, not small print. The result lives 14 days; the research date is shown beside the price.

Because fewer than three comparable schemes with a price and a link were found. We never show a number without a source: a model asked without a search will name a plausible, wrong figure. The section says so in words, and the project — previews, 3D, views, booklet — is still built; “Build again” repeats the search.

As early-stage working material — yes; that is what the XLSX export with sources is for. As a valuation report or investment justification — no: the calculation follows no valuation standard and is not prepared by a licensed valuer. The build cost is either a published figure for your city with a link or a class coefficient from our table; the section says which.

A typical floor plan and a drawing of each apartment type cut out of that plan; a table of competitors with a price per square metre and a link for each; revenue, build cost, gross margin and time to sell, computed by our code from those prices; a sales strategy — who buys, how to price, in what order to release, which channels and risks. The apartment mix — how many apartments of which types and areas — is computed for everyone, free, including Free. Pro and Team include the section; on Free and Starter it is opened for a particular project.

On the project page, under the apartment mix, there is one button with the section's price. After payment (by card through Polar) the section opens for that project on its own: plans, economics and strategy are computed without a second click. The section belongs to the project and is not moved to another. A single project without a subscription can be bought with the section at once — the second price on the pricing page. If the section fails twice in a row, the payment returns to your balance.

A variant is another set of apartments for the same building: “more small apartments”, “family mix”, “maximum sellable area”, or your own phrase. For it, the mix is recomputed, a floor plan and type drawings are drawn, and its own economics — revenue, margin, time to sell — is computed on the same market data: the market is not researched again. The strategy is not rewritten, because it follows the market, not the mix. It is an edit: one from the project's quota, like an edit of a view; beyond the quota — from an edit pack. Variants sit side by side; “Economics” shows a comparison table, the booklet a comparison page.

It is a walk through one apartment type from your unit mix, on a phone or a laptop: each living room gets its own three-dimensional world built from the layout drawing, and you move between rooms through the doors. A tour is bought separately for each apartment type — the price is on the Pricing page; it opens from the project link and is added to the booklet as a page with a QR code. The worlds are generated by World Labs (Marble) — every tour carries the line “Generated using World Labs”. If a tour fails to build, the purchase is refunded automatically.

Each room is a separate world because that is how a world keeps the room’s dimensions from the drawing: the world’s scale is checked against the door opening and the ceiling height. One world for a whole apartment does not hold its dimensions. Furniture comes from a dictionary: the set depends on the room (bedroom, living room with kitchen, kids’ room, study) and on the building class, and if the type drawing carries furniture symbols, they decide what stands where. It is an illustration of the layout, not a survey and not an interior design.