buildAn advertisement is not a specification
A banner beside a design tool reaches someone after they have decided. Being listed in a catalogue means being consulted, which is a different and much later moment than being chosen.
BUILDABLE FOR SUPPLIERS · MANUFACTURERS & SYSTEM OWNERS
Get specified
before the drawing exists.
By the time an enquiry reaches you, someone has already decided what their building is. A codified kit puts your system inside the design itself, so the configuration that arrives is one you can actually make.
Kits are free for everyone to design with. We are looking for a small number of founding partners; nothing on this page is being charged today. What exists so far.
THE PROBLEM WITH INBOUND
The decision that chooses
your system happens
before you hear about it.
A customer draws something, tells a partner about it, shows a neighbour and forms an expectation of what their building is. Only then do they contact you. Everything after that point is you paying to convert someone else's idea into your system, declining the job, or winning it and drawing it again.
A file is not a system
Publishing DWGs and BIM objects helps a designer who already picked you. It does not stop a design being drawn outside what you manufacture, and it does not tell you when that happens.
A lead is not a fit
An ordinary enquiry costs an hour of triage and often ends in "we cannot build that." The cost is the same whether or not the project was ever buildable in your system.
WHAT WE ASK FOR
A kit is your system,
written down properly.
Not a file to download. A versioned definition of what you make, precise enough that a design generated from it is a design you can build. Codifying it is work we do with you, and your engineer signs off the result.
The parameter space
Supported spans, heights, module steps and roof forms, and the combinations you actually manufacture. Including the boundaries: outside them the design fails and says so, rather than producing something your factory will refuse.
The parts and assemblies
Members, panels, blocks or components with identity, dimensions, material specification and how they go together.
The rules
Which parts meet which, at what spacing, with what connection, and what an opening does to the parts around it. This is what makes generation deterministic rather than decorative.
Documentation and rights
Product identity, document versions, grades and the source of each property, with a clear agreement on what we may use and display. A public manual is not a licence, and we do not assume one.
Commercial reality
Where you deliver, how long you need, and either a price basis or a route to a quote. Prices carry a quote date and an expiry, and expire visibly rather than quietly ageing.
A named engineering owner
Someone at your company who accepts or declines responsibility for what the kit produces, within a scope you state. Without that, a kit is a reference rather than a product.
WHAT YOU GET
Every enquiry is already
something you can build.
The earliest possible specification
The design is not drawn beside your system, it is made out of it. Your parameters decide what is possible, at the moment the customer is still deciding what they want. That is the earliest point at which a manufacturer can be chosen.
Enquiries that cannot be off-system
A configuration that reaches you came out of your own definition, so it is inside what you make by construction. The request carries the exact revision, the quantities and the change history, which is the hour of triage you would otherwise pay for.
Demand data you cannot buy
Which configurations people try, where designs hit the edge of your system, which options get abandoned, and where the demand is. Aggregated, never identifying an individual project or designer, and it comes from the free side of the arrangement.
Reach without a sales presence
Your kit is available to anyone designing in the regions you serve, including markets where you have no representation. You decide where you deliver; the kit does not offer what you cannot supply.
THE PROPOSED TERMS
Kits are free to use.
We earn when you sell.
Charging designers to build with your system would strangle the thing that makes it valuable to you. You are not selling a file, you are selling a building. So the kit is free for every prosumer, expert and studio, and our revenue is attached to the order it produces.
PROPOSED, 9 SEPTEMBER 2026
1–3% of referred order value
Earned on an order you confirm, or as a fixed fee per accepted quote if you would rather not disclose order value. It applies to your own supplied scope, never to the whole build. Getting the kit codified is a one-off engagement quoted per system, in the range of €10,000–€30,000, invoiced as the service work it is rather than hidden in a subscription. A maintenance fee applies only if your system actually changes.
Promoted placement may exist later. It will always be disclosed, and it will never affect a check result or a review outcome.
NOT YET LIVE
These are proposed founding-partner terms, published so you can judge them before talking to us. No supplier agreement exists yet, no payment mechanism is switched on, and the first partners will help decide the final shape.
A referral is earned when an offer against a platform request is accepted, and only then. Not on a click, not on an introduction, and not on a design that merely resembles your system. The request, the offer, the acceptance and the revision they point at are the record, and you can see all four.
WHAT WE COMMIT TO
You are handing your system to someone else.
These are constraints on us, and they are the reason that should be a reasonable thing to do.
- A kit version is immutable. A design references an exact version, so improving your system never silently changes a design somebody already made.
- You can withdraw a version. Designs that used it keep it, with a visible notice saying it was withdrawn and what replaced it.
- Money never touches a result. A paid kit does not pass a check that a free one fails, and no commercial relationship influences a review outcome.
- No category exclusivity. Competing kits sit alongside yours. If you need exclusivity to take part, this is not the right arrangement.
- We do not train across your data. Not without your explicit permission, on the same terms we give our customers' own template libraries.
- Out of range fails out loud. A configuration outside your stated space is refused rather than generated, because an enquiry you cannot build is worth less than no enquiry at all.
WHERE THIS ACTUALLY IS
Early, and we would rather say so.
Buildable generates concept designs from a versioned kit, with deterministic geometry, quantities, concept exports and revision-bound review. It does not produce production CAD, engineered joints or a permit package, and no supplier agreement exists yet.
Working today
- Versioned kit configuration with its own checks, exports and context packages
- Deterministic frame generation and concept exports, including DXF and IFC4
- Quantities, cut lists and user-priced estimates carrying a supplier name, quote date and expiry
- Supplier request and offer records, where an offer prices the exact lines of one request and is refused if it strays outside them
- A customer portal that invalidates an offer when the design moves on
- A WikiHouse Skylark 150 reference wall run, codified from public files under their own licence, with no relationship implied
Not built yet
- Any supplier agreement, and any payment mechanism
- A surface for you to submit and maintain your own kit
- A route for a request to reach a supplier who is not already a Buildable user
- Your side of accepting an offer, and the order handoff after it
- Quantities validated against golden examples from a real manufacturer
- The demand-data report described above
The nearest work is deepening one manufacturer's kit until a responsible designer accepts its quantities and drawings. That is what a founding partner would be helping us do, and it is why we want a small number of them rather than a directory.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Tell us what you make.
We want to hear the system, where you deliver, who owns its engineering and who owns your customer relationship today. If your product needs to sit inside someone else's system rather than being one, say so; that is a different and equally useful conversation.
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