The honest line

Preview software has an obvious temptation: make the picture prettier than the job. A render that shows fifty lights when the order buys forty closes the sale and loses the customer, because the driveway on install day tells the truth.

Foreshadow is built on one rule, enforced in the software itself:

The picture can never change a count, a length or a price. Every preview is painted from the measured design. The light count in the picture is read from the order. The feet on the proposal are read from the geometry. There is no way to make the image better without making the job bigger, on paper, at its real price.

What that means in practice

Previews are labeled. Every AI-assisted image carries the word preview in the image itself, where cropping cannot remove it.
Estimates say they are estimates. Until a wall is verified with a tape, the price shows as a range and the tool states in plain words how confident its own measurement is. Walk the walls and it firms to the cent.
The catalog is real. Prices come from the supplier's own part numbers and quantity rules. Anything still provisional is flagged as a placeholder on every surface it appears, including file names.
Engineering limits are checked. A design that exceeds the supplier's segment, power or voltage limits cannot be quoted as if it worked.
The contract freezes. When a customer signs, that exact proposal is stored and never regenerated. What was agreed is what was agreed, even if prices change later.
The customer's photo stays theirs. Photos never leave the job file, and the before-and-after marketing pack is gated behind the homeowner's recorded consent.

Why we work this way

Contractors live on referrals. A preview that oversells produces one signed job and a street of neighbours who heard about it. A preview that matches the install produces the opposite: a homeowner who shows the picture around because the real thing looks like it.

Honest software is also easier to defend in the driveway. When a customer asks why the picture shows lights only on the front, the answer is the order itself: that is the package they chose, and upgrading it changes the picture and the price together.

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