MAKE HISTORY

Buildings that last 1000 years

Concept to keys

For developers who own the land. Relic designs the concept and the interiors, brings your architect of record, hires and runs the builder, holds the money and puts an inspector on site. Enter your parcel’s address for a free concept, cost and schedule.

10% of construction cost.
One flat fee, concept to keys.

Lowrise Condos

High Rise

Aztec
01

Aztec

Stepped stone pyramid, dark glass spine, lit crown

HIGH RISE
↗Chicago
02

Chicago

Bronze setback tower striped with horizontal louvers

HIGH RISE
↗Sky Deck
03

Sky Deck

Flying concrete decks on a tapering stem

HIGH RISE
↗Monolith
04

Monolith

A silk-smooth concrete monolith split by one slot of light

HIGH RISE
↗Nordic Timber
05

Nordic Timber

Stacked charred-timber modules with a gable crown

HIGH RISE
↗Temple Stack
06

Temple Stack

Stepped solar-clad tiers with a ceremonial stair

HIGH RISE
↗Mayan Stack
07

Mayan Stack

Stacked dark stone frustums, a glass band per tier

HIGH RISE
↗Japanese
08

Japanese

Corten floors, black eaves every eight storeys

HIGH RISE
↗Solar Shingle
09

Solar Shingle

A whole skin of solar panels hung like shingles

HIGH RISE
↗Sun Ladder
10

Sun Ladder

A solar wing on every floor — a ladder of sun

HIGH RISE
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Relic Build

Concept to keys, for one flat fee.

You own the land. Relic runs the project from the first drawing to the day you get the keys. Relic’s own team designs the concept architecture and the concept interiors, and a Relic Team Member oversees the entire project. We bring your architect of record and engineers, hire and manage the builder, hold the construction money in your project account, and put an inspector on your site. Relic’s fee is a flat 10% of construction cost, with a minimum fee of $75,000. There is no markup on materials or subcontracts. The building itself, including engineering and project insurance, is paid from the construction budget at cost, on the record.

10%

of construction cost

Covers concept architecture, concept interior design and management. Minimum fee $75,000.

$100,000

deposit to begin

The first payment toward Relic's 10%, credited in full.

$250 · $175

per hour, only when used

Your construction manager and your local inspector, billed only for the hours they work.

Who runs your build

Builders who have done this for decades

Every Relic project is run by a construction manager from our network and checked on site by a Relic Local Inspector. These are some of the people who run Relic builds.

Sean Starnes

Sean Starnes

Construction Manager

A decade leading luxury residential projects from design and permitting through closeout.

Charles Edmunds

Charles Edmunds

Construction Executive

30 years of luxury residential construction at CSE & Associates.

Rusty Tatsch

Rusty Tatsch

General Superintendent

General Superintendent at The Beck Group, running complex high-specification sites.

Your money, on your record

Construction funds are held at Mercury on your project's record, and every dollar in and out is shown to you.

Paid against inspection

The builder is paid only for work a Local Inspector has seen on site and you have approved.

Nothing released blind

Every payment is released by hand, with lien waivers and insurance checked first.

Meet the construction managers →

Relic concept home

Concept visualization · illustrative only

What the ten percent buys

Twelve things you would otherwise hire, chase, or carry yourself

These are not add-ons and they are not tiers. Every Relic project gets all of it, and it is all inside the 10%. Your architect of record’s permit drawings, engineering and project insurance are billed at cost from the construction budget, and the hours of your construction manager ($250 an hour) and local inspector ($175 an hour) are billed separately.

Concept architecture

Relic designs your building — plans, massing, elevations and materials — built to last a thousand years. Your architect of record turns it into permit drawings, billed at cost.

Concept interior design

Every room designed: layouts, palettes, materials, lighting and furniture, so the finished building is resolved inside and out.

Oversight, start to keys

A Relic Team Member oversees your entire project: the architect, the engineers, the permits, the schedule and every trade on site.

Proactive AI

Scarab watches your budget, schedule, insurance and payments around the clock and tells you what needs a decision before it becomes a problem.

Builder selection

Relic bids the job, hires the general contractor, and holds them to the contract, price and schedule.

Procurement tools

Vendors sourced, orders placed and long-lead items tracked to your door, all administered against the budget.

24/7 phone and text

Call or text any hour. You reach a person and an AI that both know your drawings, your budget and your schedule.

Software built around you

Your own console for drawings, budget, decisions, photos and daily logs. Need a change or a new feature? It can be added the same day.

Centralized invoicing

One invoice from one company. Every vendor is paid through Relic against inspection, with a complete record for you and your lender.

Insurance, arranged

Relic places the project's insurance before work starts and verifies every trade's certificate. A lapsed certificate anywhere on the job stops the money automatically.

Legal & compliance

Contracts, lien waivers, accounting and the compliance work that quietly sinks self-managed builds.

Hire any of these separately and you are writing eight cheques to seven people who do not talk to each other. Relic is one contract, one console, one fee.

Zero risk

Insured, verified, and never your problem

The reason building is frightening is that the risk quietly becomes yours — an uninsured trade, a lien you never saw, a draw paid for work nobody checked. Relic makes sure the project and every trade on it are insured, takes each of those off the table, and the software enforces it rather than promising it.

Every trade insured, every day

General liability and workers' compensation verified before anyone sets foot on your site — and re-checked before every payment. A lapsed certificate stops the money automatically.

Insurance arranged for you

Relic arranges the project's insurance before work starts. It is paid from the construction budget at cost, with no markup, and it is not one more thing left for you to chase.

Protected from liens

Waivers collected and tracked against every dollar released, so a subcontractor dispute never becomes a claim on your property.

No dollar leaves unchecked

Every draw is measured against what an independent site visit actually found before it is released.

Coverage, limits and warranty terms are set out in your project agreement before anything is signed. Where Relic does not have a number, it says so — it never invents one.

Relic concept home

Concept visualization · illustrative only

How it works

Address to keys, on one record

SITEFRAMEENCLOSEDKEYS
  1. 01

    Type your address

    Relic reads the parcel, the setbacks and the zoning, and designs a building that fits it. Free, in seconds.

  2. 02

    Choose how it looks

    Ten architectural styles, homes or lowrise condos. Every one priced honestly for what it costs to build.

  3. 03

    Start your project

    This is where Relic goes to work. Drawings, engineering and permits begin — your project record opens.

  4. 04

    Watch it go up

    Trades contracted, money released against inspections, progress on your screen daily. Then the keys.

Everything up to starting your project is free. The 10% only ever applies to a project you decide to build.

Early access

Build something that outlives you

Get a free concept, cost and schedule for your parcel. When you are ready to build, Relic runs it from concept to keys for a flat 10% of construction cost, covering concept architecture, concept interior design and management.

Relic Deposit

$100,000USD · credited toward the 10% fee

Paid by the owner to Relic before Relic mobilizes the project. It is the first payment toward Relic’s 10% fee, credited in full, and it starts:

Everything after the deposit — architecture, engineering, permitting, construction management, and delivery — is Relic’s problem.

Start with your address →Contact us to begin

Construction Funding

Relic is never the one fronting a vendor’s bill.

This is the money that pays your builder and trades — separate from the Relic Deposit above, which is the first payment toward Relic’s 10% fee. Relic holds construction funds on your project’s account and pays vendors only against draws you have certified. The schedule below is how the account stays funded before it owes anyone, so Relic is never on the hook for a bill the project hasn’t paid for yet.

  1. 01A first funding call of $100,000 opens the accountHeld at Relic's Mercury project account, identified to your project by the wire reference. It mobilizes the first trades — site work, permitting fees, long-lead orders — before the framing and MEP bills that come next.
  2. 02Funding is called ahead of the work, in $250,000 stepsAs the schedule brings on bigger scopes, Relic calls more into the account — $250,000, $500,000, or $750,000, sized to what's coming, not a flat cadence. Every call is rounded up to the next $250,000 over the shortfall, so the account is funded before a vendor's invoice arrives, never after.
  3. 03The balance is billed at closeout, or the surplus is refundedOnce every draw is certified and paid, whatever is left on the contract is billed once, to the dollar. If the job finished under budget — savings, a scoped-down change order — the difference is wired back. Nothing sits as an unexplained credit.

Every call, every draw, and every refund lands on the same project record you and your builder both see — the arithmetic behind each one is never a black box.