Entry
$1.2M all-in
Illustrative all-in
- Land
- $300,000
- Construction
- $900,000
Inland New Hampshire or Maine, roughly 2,600 to 3,000 sqft on a straightforward pad with town services at the road.
The Property & Vision Engagement
A defined diligence product, not an open-ended conversation.
A fixed-scope, fixed-fee advisory engagement that produces your written Vision Brief and a recommended design pathway before you commit to design fees, engineering or a purchase agreement. You know exactly what you are buying, what you will receive and when.
Fixed advisory fee
$3,500
A single, transparent fee for a defined engagement. Illustrative pricing elsewhere on this site remains illustrative. This one is fixed.
- Timeline
- 10 to 15 business days
- Delivered by
- Your BuilderWarden advisor
- Format
- Private session plus written brief
- Ownership
- You keep the brief
Illustrative project scale
We coordinate across three project scales.
Every buyer engagement is priced independently, but the projects we coordinate cluster into three illustrative scales. Use these as a reference before your engagement, not as a quote. Your own numbers are grounded in your specific property and program during the Vision Brief.
Signature
$2.0M all-in
Illustrative all-in
- Land
- $600,000
- Construction
- $1.4M
Coastal Maine, Berkshires or Lakes Region, roughly 3,500 to 4,000 sqft with a screened porch, moderate site work and a snow-load framing package.
Flagship
$3.0M all-in
Illustrative all-in
- Land
- $900,000
- Construction
- $2.1M
30A Panhandle Florida, mid-coast Maine or Cape Cod, roughly 4,000 to 4,800 sqft with elevated construction, deep porches and higher-end material specifications.
Ranges illustrate scale, not a proposal. Actual land, hard costs, soft costs, allowances, contingency and reserves are developed against your specific property inside the engagement.
What it is
A paid advisory commission with a defined product at the end.
The Property & Vision Engagement is a paid advisory commission for a private executive discovery session, a written Vision Brief, and a recommended design pathway of Signature, Adapted or Bespoke. The work is performed by your BuilderWarden advisor and completes in 10 to 15 business days from the discovery session.
What is included
Six pieces of work, coordinated as one engagement.
Private discovery session
Up to 90 minutes with your BuilderWarden advisor, focused on how you want to live and what the home must accomplish.
Property review
A structured read of the specific property you are considering, including known constraints, opportunities and open questions.
Preliminary program
A working outline of the home: spaces, sizing, adjacencies and the priorities that shape design decisions.
Investment framework
An illustrative all-in range covering land, hard costs, soft costs, contingency and reserves so the numbers are grounded from day one.
Financing-readiness review
A candid look at your position, timing and what a lender will expect, so financing does not become the surprise late in the process.
Written recommendation
A clear read on whether to proceed, revise, evaluate another property or pause, with reasoning you can act on.
What is delivered
Tangible artifacts you own and can act on.
At the end of the engagement you have a record, not just a conversation. The Vision Brief is yours to keep, share with your spouse, attorney or lender, and reference at any point in the years ahead.
- ·A downloadable written Vision Brief
- ·A permanent record in your client portal
- ·A risk summary highlighting what still needs diligence
- ·The defined scope for the next stage if you choose to advance
What is not included
Deliberately scoped. These are commissioned separately.
The engagement is discovery and diligence, not design production or property acquisition. Naming this line clearly protects you from paying for downstream work before it is warranted.
- ·Land surveys
- ·Civil, structural or geotechnical engineering
- ·Architectural construction documents
- ·Permitting or jurisdictional submissions
- ·Property reservation or removal from the market
Terms in plain language
How the fee works and what happens next.
- The fee is fixed and paid on execution
- $3,500 USD, paid on execution of the engagement. The fee compensates BuilderWarden for time and work performed and is non-refundable once discovery has begun.
- The property is not reserved
- This engagement does not reserve the property, take it off the market or grant you a right of first refusal. The property remains actively marketed until a separately executed purchase agreement, and if applicable a construction agreement, are signed and all required deposits have been received.
- Credit toward the next stage
- At BuilderWarden's discretion, the engagement fee may be credited against the next stage if you proceed within 90 days of the engagement's completion.
- Engagement term
- The engagement expires 60 days after acceptance unless both parties agree in writing to extend it.
- If the property fails feasibility
- The brief still has value. You can apply it to another property, revise the program to fit the site, or stop before making a much larger mistake. Stopping is a legitimate, respected outcome. A disciplined 'no' at this stage is one of the most valuable things this engagement can produce.
- What you own at the end
- You keep the written Vision Brief. It is yours, permanently, and travels with you whether or not you proceed with BuilderWarden.
What happens after completion
Four legitimate paths forward.
Proceed
Advance into commissioned design and pre-construction work under a separate agreement.
Revise
Refine the program, the property target or the investment framework and continue with a clearer picture.
Evaluate another property
Apply what you learned to a different site without repeating the discovery work.
Pause
Stop with a written record you own. Stopping is a legitimate, respected outcome.
Ready to begin
Start with a concierge brief, no account required.
Define the home, the property target and the investment framework in about ten minutes. You will see an immediate written summary. If you decide to move forward, that becomes the foundation of your Property & Vision Engagement.
All working budgets, allocations and preliminary directions remain illustrative and subject to diligence. Nothing is binding until you and the relevant counterparties execute the applicable engagement, purchase, financing or construction agreement.