Manifesto · 2026

Every American deserves access to an affordable home.

We build the technology that makes that possible. Real-time job-site intelligence for the people who build America.

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01 · The crisis everyone sees

A home is where families are raised, wealth is built, and stability begins — for millions of Americans, that is now out of reach.

44 %
Home prices since pre-pandemic
Source · Zillow
72 %
Monthly cost to own a home since 2019 - while incomes rose just 35%
Source · Zillow
46 %
Of American renters are cost-burdened — saving a down payment is nearly impossible
Source · HUD
Headlines blame
Tariffs
Interest rates
Labor costs
All real, all true — and none of them explain the shortage.
02 · What the conversation is missing

Tariffs and rates affect price.
The deficit is a supply problem.

We’ve underbuilt every year since 2008 and never recovered. Every year the gap doesn’t close, it compounds — today’s shortage is 4 to 5 million homes, depending on whose math you use.

0.0M0.5M1.0M1.5M2.0M2.5M200220082011201620202026Demand to close the gap2.25MPre-crisis peak0.52MCrash low1.53MToday — still shortSingle-family completions, millions/yr
Single-family completions per year
Annual demand to close the gap
Compounding deficit
Sources · Census Bureau, Zillow, Realtor.com
03 · Why "easy fixes" don't fix it

Each of these is real. None of them close a four-million-home gap.

01

Cut the red tape.

Permitting reform is real and worth doing. But the deficit spans regulated and unregulated markets alike — even the loosest zoning regimes can’t conjure homes that nobody built.

02

Use cheaper materials.

Cheaper materials address price, not supply — and they degrade the housing stock that families build wealth through. We need more homes, not flimsier ones.

03

Wait for lower interest rates.

Rates help at the margin and they cut both ways. But rates alone won’t close a four-million-unit gap — they just move buyers in and out of the same too-small pool of homes.

04

Hire more Trades.

The Trade base has a real labor shortage. Adding bodies helps — but we’ll never recruit our way to four million homes. The same Crews have to build more, not just more of them.

04 · The lever nobody is pulling

Production builders are the highest-leverage point in the entire supply chain.

All other builders 55% Top 10 production 45% of all new single-family closings NAHB 2024

Homes built for sale are the fastest-built segment of new construction — and even that segment is getting slower.

Average cycle time, homes built for sale
180days, today
90

days, pre-2020 — 2× longer to build the same home.

What every extra day costs
Financing
Overhead
Idle labor
Passed to the buyer

The math is simple. Faster builds means more homes per year. More homes per year means supply grows. Supply grows, and the deficit shrinks.

If the top 10 builders shave 30 days off cycle time, the country builds hundreds of thousands more homes a year — without one extra Trade.

05 · Why It's Always Been This Way

A job site is full of activity — but what is actually happening has never been captured in real time.

Every Trade knows their piece. No one sees the whole picture. Not because Builders are unsophisticated, but because three things were true at once, which is why the problem is so old and so persistent:

01

The technology didn't exist.

Capturing what’s happening across hundreds of job sites, in real time, from the people doing the work — for decades that was a science-fiction sentence, not a product.

02

No one had built it yet.

Construction software optimized the office, not the site. The information that mattered — who is on the job, what’s actually ready, what’s blocked — stayed locked in heads and text threads.

03

The industry had no reason to demand it.

When homes sold themselves and cycle times were merely bad, “good enough” stayed good enough. The pain wasn’t acute, so the change never came.

06 · Why that changes now

All three are no longer true.

Data capture

Data collection at scale is finally possible on a job site.

Phones, half-day scheduling, and 3-click check-in have made it routine for Crews to tell the world they’re on, off, or ready — in English or Spanish, in the moment.

Actionable AI

AI turns that data into something actionable in real time.

Definitions of ready, tasks of interest, overdue work — the things a great superintendent used to know in their head are now visible to every Builder, every day.

Urgency

The housing crisis has created urgency the industry hasn't felt before.

The Builders who move first will have a structural advantage. The ones who don’t will be competing for the same Trades, at the same speed, against companies who already locked in a 25% cycle-time gain.

07 · Closing conviction
A 10-year delay in buying a first home means

$150,000in lost equity, for one family, in one decade

This is a market inefficiency.
This is a generation being priced out of the foundation of American life.
If production builders build faster, America closes the gap.

That is what we are here to do.

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