What CoBuild is
Nobody builds a building alone.
A single project pulls in a land use attorney, an architect, a civil engineer, a lender, a title officer, a general contractor and twenty subcontractors, an accountant, an insurance broker, a realtor. Each of them is competent. Each of them is working from a different document.
That gap — not zoning, not interest rates, not the weather — is what kills schedules. CoBuild exists to close it.
The problem
Twelve specialists, twelve versions of the truth.
The attorney doesn't know the pour date
So the notice gets published against a schedule that changed two weeks ago, and the hearing lands after the rate lock expires.
The contractor doesn't know the conditions of approval
So the landscaping is value-engineered out in March and holds the certificate of occupancy in November.
The lender doesn't know what's actually built
So the draw is argued over percentages instead of read off a schedule everyone already agreed to.
The realtor doesn't know the real delivery date
So buyers are told a month that was optimistic when someone said it and fictional by the time they hear it.
The owner knows all of it, badly
Reconstructing the project every week from a dozen phone calls, holding the only complete picture in their head, where it cannot be checked or inherited.
And nobody wrote down why
Two years later, in a dispute, the question is who decided what and when. The answer is in someone's sent folder, if it survived at all.
None of this is anyone's fault. It is what happens when a project is co-built by people who have no shared surface to build on.
The idea
Co-building is not a philosophy. It is what already happens.
Every development project is already co-built. The attorney's variance argument depends on the architect's massing. The architect's massing depends on the geotechnical report. The lender's draw depends on the contractor's requisition, which depends on the inspector showing up. Pull any one out and the rest stops.
The only real question is whether the people doing it can see the same thing at the same time. CoBuild does not invent the collaboration. It gives it somewhere to live.
Who is in the wall
Every course is somebody's work.
These are the trades and professions a single project draws on. Not all of them on every job — but more of them, more often, than an owner expects when they start.
The courses overlap on purpose. The attorney's work does not stop when the permit issues, and the contractor's does not start there. Most of what goes wrong on a project goes wrong in the overlap.
What each person gets
One record, read differently by everyone who opens it.
The whole picture, without the phone calls
Gate status, cost-weighted progress, forecast variance, and what is expiring — on one screen, current, without reconstructing it every Monday from a dozen conversations.
A bulk worksheet that is already an argument
Required against proposed, row by row, with each non-compliance classified as the relief it will actually take — in the vocabulary that jurisdiction uses, with the citation attached.
The conditions of approval, before they bite
Every condition carried into C8 with an owner, so the landscaping count and the bike racks are verified months before an inspector is standing in front of them.
Draws read off the same schedule
Cost-weighted progress against the schedule of values, with the committed, paid and forecast columns already reconciled. Percent complete becomes a number, not a negotiation.
Registers that survive turnover
Risk, decision, document and inspection logs that outlive whoever kept them. The decision log in particular is the record nobody keeps and everybody needs two years later.
A delivery date with something behind it
Target certificate of occupancy against real phase progress, so what buyers and tenants are told matches what the job is doing.
Knowledge that compounds
Research once. Reuse it forever.
Land use practice is local. What relief is called, what vote it takes, how far notice reaches, which appeal deadline is jurisdictional, which code edition governs an alteration — all of it changes at the municipal line, and none of it is published in any national machine-readable form.
So CoBuild does not pretend to fetch it. It gives you somewhere to put it once, with the citation, the link, the date and the name of whoever checked. Every later project in that city inherits the work — and when a value goes cold, the app says so instead of letting it quietly become wrong.
The mark
One vision. One team. Building together.
The badge holds three things at once: a skyline for what gets built, a roof for what it becomes, and a handshake underneath both — because the handshake is what holds the rest up.
Navy for the record, gold for the work. The line under the wordmark is not decoration; it is the argument this whole site is built on.
What CoBuild is not
The honest limits.
Not legal or financial advice
CoBuild organises your project and records what your professionals decide. It does not replace any of them, and nothing in it is a substitute for counsel who knows your jurisdiction.
Seeded values are not authority
New projects start from general state practice so the screens are not empty. Those defaults are a starting point for verification, not an answer. Until someone checks one against the ordinance, the app calls it unchecked.
No live feed of your ordinance
There is no national machine-readable source for municipal code or local amendments, and the publishers that hold it do not license it that way. Anyone claiming otherwise is guessing or scraping.
What CoBuild guarantees is narrower and more useful: that the thing you are looking at is the same thing everyone else on the project is looking at, and that you can see how old it is.
Version 1.1.1 · released October 27, 2026