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AI Features

Auto-Categorisation

Organise your quotes, plants, and materials into logical categories with smart suggestions and manual control.

How Auto-Categorisation Works

When you upload documents or add items manually, Smthy provides smart category suggestions to help you organise content efficiently.

🚀 Coming Soon: Fully Automatic Categorisation

We're developing advanced AI that will automatically categorise all content with high accuracy. Currently, you'll receive smart suggestions that you can accept or modify.

Analyse

AI reads item descriptions and context

Categorise

Assigns relevant categories and tags

Organise

Items appear in logical groups

Standard Categories

Smthy uses industry-standard landscape architecture categories that work for most Australian projects.

Plant Categories

Trees

Feature trees, shade trees, screening trees

Shrubs

Screening shrubs, feature shrubs, hedge plants

Groundcovers

Low growing plants, lawn alternatives

Grasses

Ornamental grasses, turf, sedges

Material Categories

Hardscaping

Paving, retaining walls, fencing, decking

Irrigation

Systems, controllers, fittings, maintenance

Soil & Mulch

Garden soil, mulches, compost, aggregates

Labour

Installation, maintenance, design services

Custom Categories

You can create custom categories that match your specific workflow or specialisation.

Specialisation Examples

  • • Rooftop Gardens: Weight-bearing plants, drainage systems
  • • Coastal Landscaping: Salt-tolerant plants, wind barriers
  • • Sustainable Design: Water-wise plants, recycled materials
  • • Commercial Maintenance: Low-maintenance options, bulk pricing

Setting Up Custom Categories

  1. Go to Settings → Categories
  2. Click "Add Custom Category"
  3. Name your category and add description
  4. Set rules for automatic assignment
  5. AI will start using your new category immediately

Managing and Refining Categories

Review AI Suggestions

AI categorisation is usually over 90% accurate, but you can always review and adjust categories manually. Your corrections help improve future categorisation.

Bulk Re-categorisation

If you change your category structure, you can ask AI to re-categorise all existing items using the new system.

Category Analytics

View reports on which categories are used most often to understand your project patterns and optimise your workflow.

What's Next?

With your content automatically organised, learn how AI can help estimate project costs.