Relic · Concept to keys
Build the house.
Don’t get taken
apart by it.
Relic runs your build from the first sketch to the keys. One record for you, your architect, your builder and every sub, watched day and night by an AI that tells you what is coming before it costs you.
The problem
Owners pay for what they cannot see.
A custom build runs on an architect, an engineer, a builder, a dozen trades and a lender, and the only person who sees all of it is the owner. Draws are billed ahead of the work. Subs go unpaid while the builder is paid, and the lien lands on your house. A change order sits unsigned until the silence is read as a yes. Long-lead items are ordered the week the trade cannot start.
What Relic is
The owner’s representative, rebuilt as software.
Relic is the owner’s representative, the construction manager and the project record in one company. It is not your general contractor. Relic hires the right local builder for your project, then stands on your side of the table for every dollar and every decision until you have the keys.
Concept to keys
Five stages.
One project.
01
Concept
Relic designs the concept architecture and the concept interiors for your land, so you see the house and the budget before anyone is hired.
02
Team
Relic finds your local architect of record, your engineers and your general contractor, and puts every one of them in the project with a seat of their own.
03
Money
Payment applications are checked against the work in place. Money is released only against work you have certified, and only with a lien waiver on file.
04
Build
Procurement dates, schedule, change orders, RFIs and inspections run on one record. Scarab reads it every day and says what is coming, worst first.
05
Keys
Retainage is held until punch items, lien exposure and closeout paperwork are clear. Every warranty carries its last day. The whole record transfers with the house.
Concept drawings are not construction documents · Your architect of record seals the permit set · Relic coordinates licensed professionals for all permitted work
Scarab
An AI that
never sleeps
on your job.
Scarab reads your record every day: the billing, the schedule, the change orders, the waivers, the open decisions. When a fact has a consequence, it tells the one person who can act on it, once, by push, text or email.
It answers the phone any hour. It speaks in short sentences, and it always has an answer or knows who does.
One record.
Contracts, drawings, budget, invoices, photos, decisions and messages live in one place. Nothing is edited away, and the history stays with the house.
Decide from the alert.
When something needs you, the decision is in the message. You do not open a screen, hunt for a form or ask what is being asked. You stamp it, and it is done.
No invented numbers.
Software never guesses a dimension or a price. Every figure shows where it came from and how sure we are, and concept stays labeled as concept.
A human on the line.
Call or text any hour. Scarab answers first, in short sentences, and a Relic Team Member is behind it.
The price
One fee.
Published.
10.00%
Flat, of construction cost
One rate at every size · $75,000 minimum · billed as the build progresses
$0
To open a project
Look at everything first · nothing is charged until you engage Relic to run the build
$250
Construction manager, hourly
A Relic person, only when you ask · local inspector $175 an hour · no markup
The fee covers concept architecture, concept interiors, management and the platform. Your architect of record, your engineers and the project insurance are billed at cost from the construction budget, with no markup. Work out your own number →
Built to last
Designed to
outlast the people
who built it.
Relic designs in poured concrete, stone and brick, with every service in accessible conduit, so the house can be maintained for centuries instead of replaced in decades.
The thousand-year home →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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Giving
10% of profits.
To end homelessness.
Relic gives 10% of profits to Community Solutions and its Built for Zero initiative. The commitment is structural, not a pledge.