My Actual AI Workflow for Building a Production SaaS — Not Another ChatGPT Wrapper

Everyone's building AI wrappers. We built an AI product. There's a running joke in the dev community: every new SaaS is just a ChatGPT wrapper with a $29/month price tag. And honestly? Most of them are. But when a professional interior designer came to us and said "I spend 4 hours per client creating mood boards and visualizations — can AI do this?" — we couldn't just slap a prompt on a text box and call it a day. This is the story of building Obrazno , an AI-powered interior design tool that actually replaces a manual creative workflow. Here's what the architecture looks like under the hood. The Workflow We Had to Replicate Maria (our client and domain expert) had a very specific process: Client sends photos of their room Designer creates a mood board from reference images Designer manually edits room photos to show proposed changes Multiple iterations of "what if we change the sofa?" / "try darker walls" Final presentation deck Steps 2-4 take 4-6 hours per client . That's the bottlen