The AI Mood Board Generator
AI Development
AI Development
Client
Valiant
Industry
Furniture Hire & Event Styling
Timeframe
8 weeks
Valiant is a national event furniture hire and staging specialist operating across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. CoAligned built the AI Mood Board Generator: an internal tool that turns a short event brief into a finished, Valiant-branded PowerPoint mood board, built from Valiant's live product catalogue and AI-rendered scenes. Proposals that once took three to four hours of design work are now ready in around 30 minutes.
Valiant is a national event furniture hire and staging specialist operating across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. CoAligned built the AI Mood Board Generator: an internal tool that turns a short event brief into a finished, Valiant-branded PowerPoint mood board, built from Valiant's live product catalogue and AI-rendered scenes. Proposals that once took three to four hours of design work are now ready in around 30 minutes.
30-minute
mood boards
down from three to four hours of manual design work
30-minute
mood boards
down from three to four hours of manual design work
built from 1,500+ SKUs
pulled live from Valiant’s product catalogue, with real-time availability
built from 1,500+ SKUs
pulled live from Valiant’s product catalogue, with real-time availability
with photorealistic scenes
composed from real catalogue pieces, not stock imagery
with photorealistic scenes
composed from real catalogue pieces, not stock imagery
The opportunity
Furniture hire for events is won on visual proposals. Before a client commits to an event, they want to see it: the furniture, the layout and the overall look, built around their venue and their brief. Valiant has furnished and styled events since 1961, and every job starts with a style guide presentation of mood boards, colour palettes, furniture selections and styled scenes.
Valiant’s national creative team built every mood board by hand in PowerPoint. Designers searched more than 1,500 SKUs in Valiant’s Viberent catalogue, then pulled in SketchUp renders and past event photography. A typical event took three to four hours.
Valiant wanted the mood board to stop being the bottleneck. Any credible brief should get a strong first pass quickly, so the creative team’s time goes into refining work clients have already said yes to. CoAligned was engaged to prove that a working AI system could handle the assembly, built on Valiant’s real inventory rather than stock imagery.
The solution
We built an internal tool that turns a short, plain-language event brief into a finished, Valiant-branded mood board deck, matched to Valiant's real product catalogue.
How it works
Designers complete a structured brief covering event details, colour direction, furniture clusters and scene descriptions.
The tool queries the Viberent catalogue API for matching products, images and real-time availability across the hire dates.
Nothing is generated without a designer’s sign-off. The designer confirms the products, with validation gates so nothing is silently substituted, and the creative direction: the venue style and theme the scenes are rendered in.
Each scene is composed by OpenAI’s gpt-image-2 model, using the product photos from the matched SKUs as visual references. The furniture in every render is the furniture that ships.
The scenes are assembled into Valiant’s own master PowerPoint template, producing a client-ready branded deck and a preview the designer can review in the chat.
Each session keeps its full context, so a wording fix takes about a minute, a single re-rendered scene takes two to three minutes, and a full rebuild is never needed.
How it works
Designers complete a structured brief covering event details, colour direction, furniture clusters and scene descriptions.
The tool queries the Viberent catalogue API for matching products, images and real-time availability across the hire dates.
Nothing is generated without a designer’s sign-off. The designer confirms the products, with validation gates so nothing is silently substituted, and the creative direction: the venue style and theme the scenes are rendered in.
Each scene is composed by OpenAI’s gpt-image-2 model, using the product photos from the matched SKUs as visual references. The furniture in every render is the furniture that ships.
The scenes are assembled into Valiant’s own master PowerPoint template, producing a client-ready branded deck and a preview the designer can review in the chat.
Each session keeps its full context, so a wording fix takes about a minute, a single re-rendered scene takes two to three minutes, and a full rebuild is never needed.
The innovation
The renders are not generic stock imagery. Every scene is composed from Valiant’s actual product data, pulled live from the Viberent catalogue, with the real product photography given to the image model as references. The furniture a client sees in the mood board is furniture Valiant can deliver.
The design logic is Valiant’s own too. The tool works in the cluster-based system the creative team uses every day, built from specifications the team wrote, and it fills Valiant’s own master template rather than generating layouts. Brand fidelity is part of the structure, not a style the AI tries to imitate. Two checkpoints, rather than a page-by-page review, keep a designer in control of the products and the look.
The innovation
The renders are not generic stock imagery. Every scene is composed from Valiant’s actual product data, pulled live from the Viberent catalogue, with the real product photography given to the image model as references. The furniture a client sees in the mood board is furniture Valiant can deliver.
The design logic is Valiant’s own too. The tool works in the cluster-based system the creative team uses every day, built from specifications the team wrote, and it fills Valiant’s own master template rather than generating layouts. Brand fidelity is part of the structure, not a style the AI tries to imitate. Two checkpoints, rather than a page-by-page review, keep a designer in control of the products and the look.
The delivery
The tool runs on a hosted render service that composes and assembles decks in the background, so Valiant submits a brief and comes back to a finished deck. End-to-end generation takes 15 to 25 minutes and costs roughly $1 to $2 per deck at production quality.
Valiant’s team runs the whole process as a plain-language conversation inside Claude, with no design software or technical setup. The toolkit is a packaged folder that staff attach to their workspace, with nothing further to install. CoAligned onboarded Valiant’s creative and marketing team through hands-on sessions, a setup walkthrough and supporting documentation, then ran a structured testing round against real client briefs and folded the team’s feedback into a final round of refinement before handover.
The entire stack was transferred to Valiant-owned accounts: hosting in Valiant’s Railway workspace, image generation billed to Valiant’s OpenAI account, and catalogue access through Valiant’s own Azure AD credentials, backed by an IT support guide. Valiant owns and manages the stack end to end.
The delivery
The tool runs on a hosted render service that composes and assembles decks in the background, so Valiant submits a brief and comes back to a finished deck. End-to-end generation takes 15 to 25 minutes and costs roughly $1 to $2 per deck at production quality.
Valiant’s team runs the whole process as a plain-language conversation inside Claude, with no design software or technical setup. The toolkit is a packaged folder that staff attach to their workspace, with nothing further to install. CoAligned onboarded Valiant’s creative and marketing team through hands-on sessions, a setup walkthrough and supporting documentation, then ran a structured testing round against real client briefs and folded the team’s feedback into a final round of refinement before handover.
The entire stack was transferred to Valiant-owned accounts: hosting in Valiant’s Railway workspace, image generation billed to Valiant’s OpenAI account, and catalogue access through Valiant’s own Azure AD credentials, backed by an IT support guide. Valiant owns and manages the stack end to end.
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