Pricing
One price.
It’s on this page.
Nothing is hidden.
Relic charges the owner a flat 10% of construction cost, with a minimum fee of $75,000, billed across the build. The $100,000deposit is the first payment toward it. The fee covers concept architecture, concept interior design and management. Your architect of record’s permit drawings, engineering and project insurance are billed at cost from the construction budget. Move the slider and you have your number. There is no quote to request and no “contact us for pricing.”
Everyone else on your job — your architect, your general contractor, every sub, your designer, your lender — is free, forever. You are the customer. They are not.
Your number
Put your contract value in. That is the whole calculation.
The contract value is what your builder is contracted to build the house for — not the land, and not your architect’s fee. Typing and dragging stay in sync; the slider stops at $20,000,000, the number does not.
Billed over
18 months, in equal instalments. That is the default term; your actual term is set when the project opens. Changing the term changes the size of each instalment, not the total.
Total Relic fee
$300,000
Effective rate
10.00%
of the contract
Monthly
$16,667
× 18 months
How it is calculated
The rate is flat. Every dollar of the contract value is charged at 10.00%, with a minimum fee of $75,000.
| Range | Rate | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Above $0 | 10.00% | $300,000 |
| Total | $300,000 |
Nothing is charged until you engage Relic to run the build.
What the fee is, and what it is not
Both columns, on the same page.
Included
- Unlimited seats for your architect, your general contractor, every sub, your designer and your lender — at no charge, forever.
- Every feature Relic has. There are no modules, no tiers and no add-ons to buy later.
- Export everything at any time, in open formats — your drawings, your documents, your budget, your messages, your whole record.
- Cancel any time on 30 days' notice, and your record stays available to you.
Not included
- The construction cost itself. This fee is what Relic charges to run the build — it is not the house, the land, the trades or the materials.
- The permit set. Your architect of record turns Relic's concept into permit drawings, seals them and holds that responsibility. Their fee is billed at cost from the construction budget, with no markup.
- Engineering. Your structural, civil and MEP engineers are paid from the construction budget, at cost, with no markup.
- Project insurance. Builder's risk and the project's liability cover are arranged by Relic and paid from the construction budget, at cost, with no markup.
- Your construction money. Relic holds it at Mercury on your project's record and pays your builder and trades from it only against work you have certified — nothing leaves without your approval, and every payment in and out is on your project record.
- Relic's two people. Construction management — the software and Scarab — is in the fee. When you want a human — a Relic construction manager to make a call at $250 an hour, or a Relic local inspector to walk the site at $175 an hour — that is billed separately, for the hours you use.
Everyone else is free
Your architect, your GC, every sub, your designer and your lender pay nothing. Forever.
Not a trial seat, not a limited “collaborator” view, not a portal they export to. A real seat, scoped to their role, with the drawings, the scope, the dates and the money they need — for as long as the project exists, at no cost to them and no cost to you.
They are not the customer. You are. The moment Relic charges per seat, the rational move is to keep people off the record — and a record with half your team missing is not a record, it is a filing cabinet. Relic is only useful if everyone building your house is standing in it.
Relic’s two people, by the hour
$250 and $175 an hour. Only the hours you use.
The owner’s representative on your build is the software and Scarab, and it is in the fee above. These are the people. A Relic Construction Manager reads what the software found and decides what to do about it — a draw worth contesting, a change order worth refusing, a schedule worth resequencing. A Relic Local Inspector walks the site, photographs what is built, and records their own percentage against each contract line.
Both are requested from inside the project and billed for the hours actually used. Never a retainer, never a minimum, never a charge for hours nobody worked. Two rates rather than one, because they are two different things and an invoice that calls them the same thing is how a consulting line becomes unarguable.
The whole price list
- Relic runs your build
- 10.00% flat
- Minimum fee
- $75,000
- Relic Construction Manager
- $250/hr
- Relic Local Inspector
- $175/hr
- Every other seat
- $0
That is the entire list. There is not a second page.
Leaving is easy
You can take everything and go, in one click, on any day.
Export everything.
Drawings, documents, budget, change orders, decisions, photos, messages — all of it, at any time, in open formats that open somewhere other than Relic. Not a support ticket, not a data-request form, not a fee.
Cancel in one click.
Thirty days’ notice, no cancellation call, no retention offer. The instalments stop and your record stays available to you — the history of your house belongs to the house, not to the vendor.
This is deliberate, and it is not generosity. A company that has to trap you is telling you what it thinks of its own product. Relic would rather you stayed because leaving is easy and you don’t want to.
Start
You already know the price. That was the point.
Open a real project, walk the whole thing, invite your architect and your builder in — all of that is free. Relic only asks to be paid when you engage it to run the build, and by then you will have read the number twice.
Start a projectNothing is charged until you engage Relic to run the build. Engagement requires a $100,000 wire deposit — credited dollar-for-dollar against your monthly fee instalments. Already have a project?
Questions about the price
Call or text, any hour. Scarab answers — a real conversation about your project, no queue, no hold music.
Scarab can walk through the arithmetic on your own contract value, and will tell you plainly when Relic is not the right answer for your project. She is on your side, including against Relic.