Design Partner Program
Working With Architects and Interior Designers
We work as an extension of your team, not around it. If you're an architect or interior designer with a client planning a large renovation, addition, or custom build in Charlotte or Lake Norman, we'd like to be your first call for the construction side.
How the Relationship Works
Your design intent, delivered to the job site intact.
We bring the construction management, field execution, and trade coordination. You keep the design relationship with your client. We stay in our lane and make sure your vision makes it to the job site intact.
Every project we build alongside a design partner goes through the same Pre-Construction Retainer as our other work: a dedicated phase where we align budget, scope, and selections with you before a construction contract is signed. That keeps your design intent, the client's budget, and our build schedule all pointed the same direction from day one.
We report the same way to a design partner as we do to a homeowner: same-day responses, daily Buildertrend photo logs, and biweekly walkthroughs. You'll never be guessing what's happening on-site.
Why Architects & Designers Refer to Us
We protect your client relationship, and your reputation.
We don't compete for your client relationship. We're not trying to become the designer on your project, and we're not going to quietly push a client toward our own in-house selections over yours.
We're picky about fit before we take a project on, which protects your reputation as much as ours. If a client isn't ready, or a project isn't a fit for our model, we'll say so rather than take it on and let it go sideways.
We've built strong working relationships with local architects and interior designers, and we're always looking to build more.
How We Work Together
One team, in the client's eyes.
Three commitments we make to every architect and designer we build with.
A realistic timeline
Design and scope get finalized in pre-construction, and we hold that line. We won't start a project carrying a long list of unknowns, and we'll tell you early if the drawings aren't there yet, so the schedule you give your client is one we can actually keep.
Early involvement
Ideally before construction documents are finalized, so we can weigh in on constructability and cost while it's still cheap to change.
Collaboration throughout
We don't point fingers. When something comes up in the field, we bring a solution, not a memo about whose fault it is, and we want the architect and designer on the job working the same way. To the client, it's one team, and we act like it.
Partner With Us
Introduce us to a client, or start a conversation about working together.
Reach out directly and we'll talk through how the collaboration would run on your project.