Rediscovering Home Spaces with AI: Transform Your Creative Process
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🏠 How a Personal GPT Project Delivered a Full-Circle Moment
During the COVID years, I built a home from the ground up.
While rewarding, one of the biggest pain points wasn’t construction—it was finding the right floor plan. I spent hours combing through design sites, outdated plan catalogs, and search results that felt like a guessing game.
It wasn’t efficient. It definitely wasn’t fun.
Fast Forward: Building a GPT That Solves That Exact Problem
Today, through my work at Gear Elevated, I build AI-powered tools for creators, solopreneurs, and niche problem-solvers.
One of those tools?
👉 A Custom Home Plan Finder GPT — trained to help users intelligently search for house plans based on their needs.
It does what I wish I had back then:
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Filters thousands of plans
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Understands your specs
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Surfaces the best-fit results in seconds
🎯 The First Test — A Moment of Serendipity
For its first test run, I entered the specs we used for our own home:
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Square footage
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Bedroom count
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Layout preferences
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General architectural style
The result?
One of the very first plans it returned was a near-exact match to our actual home — layout, exterior, everything. It even included a direct link to purchase the blueprint.
In seconds, it had done what took me weeks back then.
That moment hit me hard. Not only did the GPT work — it had surfaced a part of my own life. A real, full-circle reminder of how powerful AI can be when it’s applied to specific, meaningful problems.
🔍 What the Plan Finder GPT Actually Does
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Searches thousands of online home plans
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Filters by size, style, bedrooms, layout preferences
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Delivers live links to matching plans you can explore or purchase
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Works like a conversation — just type what you want
👥 Who It’s Built For
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🏡 Future homeowners who want to browse smarter, not longer
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✏️ Architects/designers who need quick references or inspiration
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💡 DIY dreamers planning a forever home
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🧭 Real estate professionals helping clients visualize possibilities
Instead of the “Google crawl,” this GPT becomes your home search assistant.
⚙️ How I Built It
Using OpenAI’s GPT framework, I trained and fine-tuned the assistant to interpret real-world home design preferences.
It’s built to walk you through the decisions I once struggled with:
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Prioritizing space and flow
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Balancing aesthetics with function
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Finding “the one” faster — without getting buried in tabs
🧪 Try the Plan Finder GPT Yourself
This is more than a test project — it’s a real-world use case of AI making everyday decisions easier.
👉 Try the Plan Finder GPT now
(Live GPT link or product page here when ready)
Final Thought
Sometimes the best product tests are personal.
This one was — and it reminded me why I build the tools I do:
To solve real problems, for real people — starting with my own.
