Once on screen, in enough detail that you can see the water line against the stone and the light coming off the spa at dusk. Then once for real, exactly the way you approved it.
Most pool conversations start with a shape. Ours starts with how you actually intend to live out there, because that is the thing a shape is supposed to serve. A pool built for lap swimming at six in the morning is not the pool built for eleven people on a Saturday, even when they cost the same.
Getting honest about the third one at the start is what keeps the process calm. It is much easier to design toward a number than to negotiate a beautiful design back down to one.

We come to the property. Grade, drainage, access, sun path, sight lines from inside the house, the tree nobody is willing to lose. All of it shapes what is possible before a single line is drawn.
Your finished backyard comes back in three dimensions. Move the spa. Change the coping. Try a darker interior finish. Change it back. Nothing is committed and nothing costs anything yet.
Soil informs the structure. Drawings go to the right jurisdiction, whichever of the many around here yours happens to be, and we handle the back and forth.
Excavation through startup, in sequence, with inspections between. At the end somebody walks the whole system with you rather than handing over a folder.
Moving a spa on a screen costs nothing. Moving it after the steel is tied costs real money and real weeks. Almost every difficult conversation in this industry traces back to a homeowner who could not picture the finished thing until it was already poured. That is the problem the rendering exists to solve.
What the design can become once the shell is built in place rather than delivered.
What each week actually looks like once design is signed off, rain days included.
Deck material, shade placement and water temperature decide whether you use it in July.