For agents
We scan the property with a LiDAR camera and give you two things: a photoreal 3D walkthrough that embeds on your listing, and a floor plan measured off the building rather than sketched from memory.
No property has been scanned yet and the camera has not been bought. That is the whole state of things, set out before the pitch.
Read this before the rest of the page.
No property has been scanned yet. There is no sample tour to open, no listing to point at and no agent to ring for a reference, because there is not one to give you. The camera is being bought against the first bookings, and the first listings will be in and around St. Louis.
Every claim on this page is labelled Built or Opening. On this page almost everything is Opening. What is Built is the company behind it: Celestial Celebrations LLC, a working St. Louis business that already runs and hosts software, which is why hosting a tour and keeping it online is not the risky part of this.
The tour is hosted on our account. You get a link to paste and an embed to drop into your listing page and your own site — you are not handed a file and left to find somewhere to put it.
Opening
Hosting is per listing and monthly. When it closes, you cancel that listing and the tour goes offline — you are not paying to keep a stranger’s house walkable for the next two years.
Opening
Out of the same capture: room dimensions taken off the walls rather than off the last set of plans. Useful in the listing, and useful to the buyer who is working out whether their furniture fits.
Opening
Basement, finished attic, detached garage, shop, guest house. Extra structures captured on the same visit cost less than the first, because the drive and the setup are already paid for.
Opening
Some portals and MLSs have rules about what a tour link may show. We can serve the tour with nothing on it but the property.
Opening — and we have not put a tour through your MLS’s rules yet. Send us the rule and we will read it before you book, not after.
A seller comparing two agents can see the difference between a set of photos and a walkthrough of their own house with the rooms measured.
Opening
Why it earns its place
Relocation, military orders, a job starting in six weeks, a family two states away who are doing this over a weekend they have already booked flights for. They are buying from photographs whether you like it or not. The only question is how much of the house those photographs actually show.
Photographs are twenty flat rectangles a buyer has to assemble into a house in their head, and the thing they most often get wrong is the part no photograph carries: how the rooms connect. Where the stairs land. Whether the kitchen opens to the living room or hides behind it. A walkthrough answers that in ten seconds, at eleven at night, from a hotel.
And the showings you do give up your Saturday for change character. Somebody who has already walked the house online and still wants to see it is a different visitor from somebody who came to find out that the second bedroom is small.
That is an argument, not a measurement. We have no figures for days on market, offers or clicks, because we have not listed anything — and a statistic borrowed from another company’s marketing would not be about your listing anyway.
Turnaround is the first thing you will ask and there is no figure on this page, on purpose. Nothing has been scanned, processed and delivered yet, so any number of days here would be one somebody made up — and you would find out on a listing with a date attached.
What you get instead is a date in writing before the visit is booked. The first listings are being scheduled deliberately sparsely so that date holds.
Opening
A LiDAR capture records the room as it is, which includes whatever is on the counter, on the fridge and on the bedside table. That is worth a conversation with your seller before the visit rather than after it.
Practically: the house wants to be photo-ready on the day, and rooms can be left out of the capture entirely if the seller would rather they were.
Opening
Cost
Per listing, banded by size. A one-bed condo and a 5,000 square foot house are not the same afternoon’s work, and charging as if they were means one of them is subsidising the other.
The guest house, the shop, the finished basement with its own entrance. Priced lower per space than the first, because the travel and the setup are already paid for.
Keeps the tour online and embedded while the property is on the market. Cancel it at close. No annual contract, and no per-brokerage subscription to be talked into.
There is no figure on this page yet, and that is deliberate. These bands have never been quoted to a real listing. Printing a number now would mean printing a guess, and the first agent quoted something different would rightly hold this page against us.
What the structure tells you is the part that matters at this stage: it is a per-listing cost, not a subscription to your brokerage, so it sits in a listing budget where you can carry it, build it into your marketing package, or agree it with the seller. That is between you and your seller and we have no opinion about it.
You get a written quote against the actual property — square footage, structures, how far the drive is — before anybody books a date. The first agents keep the rate they are quoted for as long as they keep listing with us.
The first listings
Plainly: you would be putting a listing in the hands of somebody with no portfolio, who has scanned no properties, and you would be doing it on a house that belongs to a client of yours. That is a real risk to you and it is your name on it, not ours.
So the offer is shaped around that. The first listings get a founding rate held for as long as they keep coming, the visit is scheduled with room around it, and you see the tour before it goes anywhere near your listing.
If that is still not a trade worth making, the honest advice is to wait until there are tours on this page to look at — and there will be.
Celestial Cartography is run by Celestial Celebrations LLC, a business in St. Louis, Missouri. The first scans will be within driving distance of St. Louis.
Enquire
Email goes to a person — the owner — not to a queue. It helps to include the brokerage and city, the property’s approximate finished square footage, whether it is occupied or vacant, and when it is due to list.
If the listing has a date, say so in the first line. A date we cannot make is a thing you should hear immediately, not after a call.