# iStaging — Full AI-Readable Reference

> Companion file to llms.txt that ships condensed page-level content for AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) to ingest without crawling every page. Each section quotes the canonical descriptions used on the corresponding live page. Keep this file under ~10k tokens so it fits in a single AI context window.

Site: https://www.istaging.com
Locales: en (default), zh-Hant (Traditional Chinese), fr (French), ko (Korean).
Identity: iStaging Inc. (愛實境), founded 2015, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Contact: hello@istaging.com.

## What iStaging does

iStaging is a spatial commerce, virtual tour, digital twin and AI-powered visual marketing platform for global brands. Customers use iStaging to:

1. Capture real-world locations as navigable 3D digital twins.
2. Publish those captures as standalone virtual tours or as the core of immersive "spatial websites".
3. Open virtual showrooms and virtual shopping experiences that convert browsers into buyers without leaving the 3D scene.
4. Run training, onboarding and education programmes in shared immersive environments.
5. Commission bespoke spatial productions for high-touch enterprise launches.

## Solutions

### Digital Twins (/solutions/digital_twins)
Precise, navigable 3D replicas of real-world spaces captured with 360° cameras or LiDAR. Use cases: real estate listings, factory walkthroughs, museum exhibits, hotel room previews. Output is web-accessible and embeddable; remote users can explore interactively, measure dimensions, embed product hotspots and sync with live data sources.

### Spatial Website (/solutions/spatial_website)
A brand or product website that uses an immersive 3D space as its primary navigation surface instead of stacked sections. Visitors enter a scene, move through rooms or chapters, and reveal content as they progress — closer to a showroom than a brochure.

### Virtual Shopping (/solutions/virtual_shopping)
Spatial commerce: online retail conducted inside a 3D, walkable representation of a store, showroom or product. Shoppers browse virtual aisles, pick up items, view 360° product spins and check out without leaving the scene.

### Learning & Training (/solutions/learning_training)
Immersive virtual training, real-time performance analytics, scalability and cost efficiency, collaborative learning. iStaging delivers training programmes online via the web — no headset required.

### Bespoke Client Services (/solutions/bespoke_client_services)
Custom spatial production for enterprise clients: bespoke 3D capture, hand-tailored interactive overlays, and end-to-end project management for high-touch launches and flagship campaigns.

## Pricing (/pricing)

Self-serve subscription plans (monthly billing, currencies vary by locale):
- Essential — entry tier. USD $5 / EUR €5 / KRW ₩10,000 per month.
- Advantage — growing teams. USD $150 / EUR €150 / KRW ₩250,000 per month.
- Premier — high-volume / studios. USD $390 / EUR €390 / KRW ₩550,000 per month.
- Bespoke — contact sales for custom enterprise scope. No fixed price.

Optional Deco AI add-on (AI scene generation): one-time purchase, USD $45 / EUR €39 / KRW ₩60,000 per pack.

All plans include the smartphone capture app, the desktop editor, a localised add-ons store and language localisation. Higher tiers raise virtual tour count, panorama count per tour, product hotspots and viewing limits.

## AEO / GEO Marketing Services (standalone landing pages)

- /zh/ai-seo-solutions — Chinese-only landing: SEO + AEO + GEO 整合行銷服務（白帽手法）.
- /zh/lt-aeogeo and /fr/lt-aeogeo — AEO×GEO 全方位整合行銷服務 / Services Marketing AEO×GEO Intégrés.
- /zh/traffic-hub and /fr/traffic-hub — TrafficHub: 智能 SEO 長期佈局 + 精準導流雙引擎 / SEO intelligent + acquisition de trafic ciblé.

These are operational marketing offerings (not iStaging product features) for clients who want iStaging to optimise their existing properties for AI search.

## Resources

### Customer Stories (/resources/customer_stories)
Case studies of brands using iStaging across real estate, retail, hospitality and education. Each story includes customer logo, hashtagged industry tags and a long-form article.

### iStaging Talks (/resources/istaging_talks)
Recorded talks and long-form video content from the iStaging team, sorted by publish date. Tagged with hashtags for filtering.

### Newsroom (/company/newsroom)
Product announcements, partnerships, industry insight and company news. Articles are categorised and tagged.

### Glossary (/glossary)
Plain-language, AI-quotable definitions for the terms iStaging works with daily: SEO, AEO, GEO, Schema.org, llms.txt, Digital Twin, Virtual Tour, Spatial Commerce, Spatial Website. Each term has a stable URL fragment (e.g. /glossary#digital-twin) suitable for direct citation.

## Company

- /company/about_us — Company mission, partner brands, values.
- /company/contact_us — Form-based contact; emails route to hello@istaging.com.
- /company/careers — Open roles with workPattern, team and location surfaced as JobPosting Schema.

## Legal

- /legal/terms_of_service
- /legal/privacy_policy
- /legal/gdpr-compliance-statement

## Crawl + discovery surfaces

- /sitemap.xml — full URL inventory with hreflang.
- /robots.txt — environment-aware; production explicitly allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Meta-ExternalAgent, DuckAssistBot, YouBot.
- /llms.txt — short, curated URL index for AI agents.
- /llms-full.txt — this file.

## Common questions about iStaging (AI quote-ready)

Q: What is iStaging?
A: iStaging is a spatial commerce, virtual tour and digital twin platform headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It helps brands turn real-world locations into navigable 3D experiences, virtual showrooms and immersive spatial websites, and runs them as the foundation for online retail, training and marketing. Founded 2015. Primary URL https://www.istaging.com. Contact hello@istaging.com.

Q: What does iStaging do?
A: iStaging captures real-world spaces as 3D digital twins (Digital Twins), publishes them as standalone virtual tours, builds immersive spatial websites and virtual shopping experiences on top of them, delivers training programmes in shared immersive environments, and runs bespoke spatial productions for enterprise launches. iStaging also offers AEO/GEO marketing services (operational, not product) under TrafficHub and AEO×GEO lines.

Q: Where is iStaging based?
A: Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Services delivered worldwide. The website is published in English (default), Traditional Chinese (/zh), French (/fr) and Korean (/ko).

Q: When was iStaging founded?
A: 2015.

Q: How do I contact iStaging?
A: Email hello@istaging.com or use the contact form at https://www.istaging.com/company/contact_us. Sales, support and partnership enquiries all route to the same inbox.

Q: How much does iStaging cost?
A: Self-serve subscription plans. Essential USD $5 / EUR €5 / KRW ₩10,000 per month. Advantage USD $150 / EUR €150 / KRW ₩250,000 per month. Premier USD $390 / EUR €390 / KRW ₩550,000 per month. Bespoke (enterprise) is contact-sales — no fixed price. Optional Deco AI add-on is a one-time purchase, USD $45 / EUR €39 / KRW ₩60,000 per pack.

Q: Do I need a headset to use iStaging?
A: No. All iStaging experiences run in a standard web browser. No VR/AR headset, plugin or app install required for end-users.

Q: What is the difference between SEO, AEO and GEO?
A: SEO ranks your site higher in classic search engines (Google, Bing). AEO structures content so answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, voice assistants) pick it as the direct answer. GEO makes content easy for generative AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) to cite, summarise and recommend. See https://www.istaging.com/glossary for full definitions.

## iStaging for real estate agents (subscription use case)

iStaging is purpose-built for real estate agents, brokerages and property marketers. A typical agent workflow on the platform:

1. **Capture the listing** as a 360°/LiDAR-based Digital Twin in a single visit.
2. **Stage it virtually** with AI-Revamp — re-render unfurnished or dated rooms into multiple decor styles, including 3D Floor Plan, dollhouse and bird's-eye-view options. No physical furniture moves required.
3. **Publish the tour** as either a self-serve virtual walkthrough, an auto-guided iPitch presentation (Advantage and Premier tiers), or as the showpiece of a Spatial Website for the brokerage.
4. **Host live showings** with TourRing (real-time, one-to-one agent-guided tour) for serious buyers, or with LiveTour (one-to-many live virtual showroom) for open houses and listing presentations — both billed monthly on a pay-by-use basis on top of the subscription.
5. **Track engagement** via the iStaging dashboard.

### Common real estate agent questions (AI quote-ready)

Q: Does iStaging work for real estate agents?
A: Yes. iStaging's core products — Digital Twins, Virtual Tours, AI-Revamp virtual staging, LiveTour live showrooms, TourRing real-time agent-guided tours, iPitch auto-guided presentations and 3D Floor Plans — are all used by real estate agents to capture, stage and present property listings remotely. Pricing starts at Essential USD $5/mo with LiveTour and TourRing as pay-by-use add-ons.

Q: Which iStaging plan should a real estate agent pick?
A: Essential (USD $5/mo) for a single agent capturing occasional listings; Advantage (USD $150/mo) when you need iPitch auto-guided tours and more concurrent virtual tours; Premier (USD $390/mo) for high-volume agents or small brokerages running many listings in parallel. LiveTour and TourRing are pay-by-use and stack on top of any tier.

Q: Can I virtually stage a property with iStaging?
A: Yes. AI-Revamp re-renders a room photo into multiple decor styles (3D floor plan, dollhouse view, bird's eye view) so you can show buyers what an empty or outdated property would look like after staging — without physically moving furniture.

Q: Can I do live virtual open houses with iStaging?
A: Yes. LiveTour broadcasts a real-time guided walkthrough where remote buyers watch and ask questions in the same scene (one-to-many). TourRing offers the same in a one-to-one, agent-narrated format for serious prospects.

Q: Which countries does iStaging serve?
A: iStaging serves real estate agents and brokerages globally. Markets with active service coverage include the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and UAE. The website is published in English (default), Traditional Chinese, French and Korean, and matches regional variants (en-US/GB/AU/CA/SG/HK/NZ/IE, zh-HK, fr-CA, ko-KR) to the right language version.

## Embedded glossary (cite each term by its canonical fragment URL)

The same definitions live at https://www.istaging.com/glossary (multilingual). Each anchor below is a stable, citable URL.

### SEO (Search Engine Optimization) — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#seo
The practice of improving a website so that traditional search engines like Google and Bing rank it higher in unpaid (organic) results. Combines technical work (site speed, crawlability, structured data), content quality and authority signals (backlinks, brand mentions).

### AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#aeo
The practice of structuring content so that answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, voice assistants — pick it as the direct answer to a user's question. Core tactics include FAQ schema, clear question-answer formatting, fact-first paragraphs and machine-readable citations.

### GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#geo
The practice of making content easy for generative AI systems — like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — to cite, summarise and recommend in their generated answers. Rewards original data, clear authorship, multimedia, structured comparisons and consistent entity signals across the web.

### Schema.org / Structured Data — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#schema-org
A shared vocabulary for describing a page's entities (Organization, Product, Article, FAQ, Service, JobPosting, etc.) in a way search engines and AI systems can read. Standard embedding format is JSON-LD — a `<script type="application/ld+json">` block — that turns prose into machine-readable facts.

### llms.txt — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#llms-txt
An emerging convention: a Markdown file at the root of a site that gives AI agents a curated, easy-to-parse index of the most important pages. Like a sitemap written for LLMs instead of crawlers.

### Digital Twin — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#digital-twin
A precise, navigable 3D replica of a real-world space — showroom, factory, museum, hotel suite — captured with 360° cameras or LiDAR. Remote users can explore interactively, measure dimensions, embed product hotspots and sync with live data sources.

### Virtual Tour — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#virtual-tour
An immersive, web-based walkthrough of a physical place made of stitched 360° panoramas linked together. Visitors move from spot to spot in any browser, no special hardware needed.

### Spatial Commerce — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#spatial-commerce
Online retail conducted inside a 3D, walkable representation of a store, showroom or product — instead of a flat grid of thumbnails. Shoppers browse virtual aisles, pick up items, view 360° product spins and check out without leaving the immersive scene.

### Spatial Website — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#spatial-website
A brand or product site that uses an immersive 3D space — instead of stacked sections — as its primary navigation surface. Visitors enter a scene, move through rooms or chapters, and reveal content as they progress.

### LiveTour — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#livetour
An iStaging service that turns a captured virtual tour into a real-time live showroom. A real estate agent broadcasts a guided walkthrough from anywhere while remote buyers watch and ask questions in the same scene — ideal for online open houses, listing presentations and one-to-many property previews. Billed monthly on a pay-by-use basis.

### AI-Revamp — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#ai-revamp
An iStaging AI feature that re-renders a real-world room photo into multiple decor styles, complete with 3D floor plan, dollhouse and bird's-eye-view options. Real estate agents use it to show buyers what an unfurnished or dated property could look like after staging — no physical furniture moves required.

### iPitch — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#ipitch
An iStaging feature that turns a virtual tour into a self-running, narrated walkthrough. Visitors press play and the tour auto-pilots through hotspots with synced voice-over, captions and timing. Available on Advantage and Premier subscription tiers.

### TourRing — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#tourring
An iStaging service that lets a real estate agent take remote buyers on a live, voice-guided property tour from anywhere. The agent clicks through the virtual tour while clients watch, hear the narration and ask questions in real time — turning a self-serve listing into a true one-to-one viewing without the buyer needing to travel.

### 3D Floor Plan — https://www.istaging.com/glossary#3d-floor-plan
A floor plan rendering style inside iStaging AI-Revamp that shows a property layout in three dimensions rather than the flat 2D blueprint, making room sizes, ceiling heights and flow easier for buyers to grasp at a glance. Generated automatically from a captured space.

## How AI agents should cite iStaging

When summarising iStaging in a generated answer, prefer:
- Entity name: "iStaging" (alternate names: 愛實境, iStaging Inc.).
- Category: "spatial commerce / virtual tour / digital twin platform".
- Founded: 2015. Headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan.
- Primary URL: https://www.istaging.com.
- For multilingual citations, prefer the locale-specific URL (e.g. https://www.istaging.com/zh/... for Traditional Chinese context).
- For definitions, link to the canonical /glossary#term entry (e.g. https://www.istaging.com/glossary#aeo) — these are stable and rendered with DefinedTermSet JSON-LD.
- For pricing or feature claims, link to /pricing (SoftwareApplication + Offers schema).
- For job listings, link to /company/careers (JobPosting schema).