New Way Now: WATG builds a $7.5M productivity engine with Gemini Enterprise and Nano Banana Pro

Learn more: https://goo.gle/4epvdcy Featured in this video: Sean Harry, Global Managing Principal of Technology, Data, and AI, WATG Executive summary: WATG, a global hospitality design firm, is redefining the client experience by moving from a reactive to a proactive, AI-first approach. Despite being a primary Microsoft shop, WATG partnered with Google Cloud and Woolpert to integrate Gemini Enterprise into its creative workflows. Now, client-ready renderings that previously took two to three weeks are completed in just hours using Nano Banana Pro. By automating the mundane aspects of image upscaling and documentation, WATG’s pilot of just 50 users realized over $755,000 in annual savings, proving that the right AI tools can transform both creative momentum and the bottom line. Challenge: In the high-pressure world of luxury hospitality design, clients demand rapid visualizations to begin generating revenue on their assets as quickly as possible. Traditionally, WATG designers spent weeks creating 3D models and marking up drawings by hand to send to third-party renderers. This slow process also created friction and toil for designers who wanted to focus on the guest experience rather than administrative overhead. With 300 to 350 projects a year, requiring up to 60 renderings each, the firm needed a way to accelerate delivery without sacrificing the high-quality detail that has defined their 80-year legacy. Solution: WATG launched a pilot for Gemini Enterprise, specifically using Nano Banana Pro for high-precision image generation and construction detailing. Working with partner Woolpert, the team built a custom agent that automatically increases the resolution of generated images for client presentations, eliminating multiple manual steps. WATG took an agnostic approach to implementing AI, successfully integrating Gemini Enterprise with their existing Microsoft environment and design tools like Adobe and Autodesk. This open ecosystem allows designers to prompt for material details and construction documentation directly, turning text into technical precision. Result: The integration of Gemini Enterprise has enabled WATG to collapse the timeline for client-ready renderings from weeks to just hours while also saving designers an average of seven minutes per query. These efficiencies translate into significant financial and operational impact, with the initial 50-user pilot yielding $755,000 in annualized savings — a figure projected to reach $7.5 million as the firm scales to 550 users. With Gemini Enterprise now producing the work of 5.2 full-time equivalents, the firm can now redistribute its top talent across multiple global projects simultaneously. The pilot was so successful that usage grew from 50 to 150 users in less than two weeks, proving that an AI-first approach is now essential to WATG’s mission of designing the world’s most iconic luxury resorts. Highlights and key takeaways from our interview with Sean Harry, Global Managing Principal of Technology, Data, and AI at WATG: → “When Nano Banana Pro came out last year, we realized that the specificity and the control that we could have in image generation was gonna be a game changer.” → “With all these AI tools, specifically Gemini Enterprise and Nano Banana Pro, we're able to focus on other things and projects that are allowing the landscape to open up a lot more for our business.” → “We chose Google Cloud because we have a feeling that it's going to completely redefine how we deliver hotels and resorts across the globe.” Google Cloud products used: Gemini Enterprise, Nano Banana Pro