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GroundUp

The Development Operating System for the Built World.

Know what to build — and whether it pencils — before you commit.

GroundUp combines Local Rules, Site, Market & Economics, and Factory constraints into one computable project model—then tests viable scenarios to optimize yield, returns, factory fit, and execution against your stated goals and known constraints.

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Conceptual scenarios keep assumptions, unresolved questions, and professional verification requirements visible.

A completed factory-built home representing the outcome of a coordinated residential development

One computable model

Local Rules · Site · Market & Economics · Factory

The GroundUp model

Every constraint, computed together.

A development only works when four systems work at the same time.

Local Rules

01

Zoning, building code, and jurisdiction requirements.

Site

02

Geometry, topography, utilities, access, and physical site constraints.

Market & Economics

03

Demand, absorption, costs, development assumptions, and target returns.

Factory

04

Products, plant capabilities, service regions, logistics, pricing, and production constraints.

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Executable Development Scenario
Development Project Package (DPP)

Scenario testing

Find the project configuration that works best.

GroundUp tests viable combinations of site layout, density, product, factory, and project assumptions against the developer’s goals.

Compare unit count, model mix, orientation, building system, manufacturer, economics, and execution trade-offs without presenting assumptions as approvals.

GroundUp site planning interface showing a conceptual development layout and supporting project analysis
Viable alternatives remain visible alongside the strongest executable scenario based on stated goals and known constraints.

Primary outputs

Four outputs for the next development decision.

See the project from four decision-critical angles before the selected scenario is packaged for handoff.

01

Yield & Site Plan

How much can fit and how the project can be configured.

02

Factory Fit

Which products and manufacturers can realistically execute the project.

03

Economics

How each scenario performs against cost and return targets.

04

Constraints & Risks

What is known, assumed, unresolved, or still requires professional verification.

The output

One Development Project Package.

GroundUp is the engine. The Development Project Package is the output.

The selected scenario becomes a versioned Development Project Package containing the site evidence, conceptual plan, yield, preliminary economics, factory fit, assumptions, risks, and next actions needed to move the project forward.

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A Development Project Package presented as the structured output of a GroundUp project model
  1. 01

    Evidence

    Sources, timestamps, jurisdiction and site conditions, and verification status.

  2. 02

    Selected scenario

    Conceptual plan, yield, product mix, and the assumptions that produced it.

  3. 03

    Economics & factory fit

    Preliminary performance, compatible systems, logistics, and open confirmations.

  4. 04

    Decision record

    Material risks, unresolved items, owners, versions, and next actions.

Evidence and trust

Decisions stay tied to what produced them.

Material conclusions retain their source, timestamp, assumptions, confidence, status, version, unresolved questions, and professional verification requirements.

The four systems that determine a project often speak different languages. GroundUp converts them into one computable development model.

GroundUp conceptual site plan with its supporting project analysis
Conceptual yield remains connected to the inputs and assumptions controlling the next plan.
GroundUp platform project overview showing connected predevelopment information
Project memory

Keep evidence, scenarios, decisions, and changes in one retained project context.

Project-to-factory compatibility

Developer goals meet factory reality in one model.

GroundUp connects what a project needs with what a factory can actually execute.

Developer inputs

Goals and project constraints

Site, buy box, geography, program, yield objectives, economics, return targets, timing, and strategy.

For developers

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Project-to-factory compatibility

Manufacturer inputs

Capabilities and production constraints

Products, plants, building systems, dimensions, service regions, logistics, lead times, pricing, and production constraints.

For manufacturers

From the GroundUp journal

A founder-written point of view on the digital infrastructure housing delivery still needs.

Jul 13, 2026 · 5 min read

A New Road to Housing and the Digital Infrastructure to Deliver It

Housing delivery depends on connecting land, rules, products, manufacturers, and decisions—not adding another disconnected database.

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Founder-led

Bring the project decision you need to make next.

Book time directly with GroundUp’s founders to review a site, buy box, active project, or development goal.

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