From Four Hours to One Minute
A customer-facing design tool that turns a four-hour, by-hand mockup into a one-minute, self-serve render.
Made-to-order product business · pilot · 2026
MOCKUP RENDER
✓ donerender.mockup · 4h → 52s
PER MOCKUP
<1 min
WAS
4 hrs
SELF-SERVE
yes
RENDER QUEUE · 4 HOURS → UNDER A MINUTE
~4 hrs → <1 min
Mockup time
per customer design
Self-serve
Customer-facing
a few guided steps
Embeddable
Web-ready
built to sit in the client's own site
The challenge
Every customer inquiry started the same way: a designer would open the design software and hand-build a mockup of the finished product - the right item, size, color, and text - so the customer could see it before buying. At roughly four hours per job, that manual rework throttled the sales cycle and tied up the one person who could do it.
What we built
NewERA built a customer-facing design tool that generates a finished, on-brand mockup automatically. The customer walks through a few steps - product, size, color or finish, and text - and the tool renders a design-quality image in seconds. It covers the product lineup the business chose, supports multi-option layouts, lets customers upload a photo of where the product will go, and handles logo uploads with automatic background removal. It is built to embed in the client's own website.
- Customer-facing, multi-step design form
- Automated, design-quality rendering
- The business's product lineup, configured in the tool
- Per-product options: sizes, colors, finishes, and text
- Customer photo and logo upload with automatic background removal
- Built to embed in the client's own website
By the numbers
What worked
One tool, their lineup
- The products the business chose, in a single flow
- Per-product shapes, sizes, colors, finishes, and text
Design-quality, automatically
- A finished, on-brand render instead of a hand-built one
- Turns a roughly four-hour manual job into under a minute
Built for how they sell
- Customers can upload a photo of where the product will go
- Logo upload with automatic background removal
Built for the client's own site
- Built to embed in the client's own website
- Customers see a mockup without waiting on a designer
From inquiry to mockup
Before
After
~4 hours of manual design per mockup
Under a minute, customer self-serve
One designer hand-building each render
Rendered automatically from the customer's choices
Customers waited on a designer to see a mockup
Customers see their mockup in under a minute
More we build