Know what a decision does to your money, your timeline and your planning — before you make it.
Sketchr sequences your build against the money you actually have — savings, income and staged lending — and re-simulates cost, programme, planning risk, running cost and carbon every time you change your mind. Then it proposes what to do instead.
- 3
- funding pathways per project
- 12
- compensating moves searched
- 5
- consequences re-derived at once
- 0
- guesses — every number has a trace
Every expert sees one slice. Nobody sees all five consequences at once.
The architect enlarges the kitchen. The builder raises the quote. The planner flags the boundary. The engineer asks for a beam. And the household finds out — months later — that they can no longer afford the roof by the time they need it.
Decisions made in silos
Design, cost, planning, structure and sustainability are handled by different people at different times, each answering one question.
No one models the money over time
A total budget says nothing about when each phase is fundable — or when borrowing quietly becomes necessary.
Things bought at the wrong time
Windows ordered before the openings are confirmed. Kitchens stored on site for six months. Cash committed before the phase is funded.
Problems reported, not solved
Existing tools tell you you're over budget. They don't tell you the three least-painful ways back under it.
One connected model. Change one thing; everything re-derives.
Affordability Pathway
Phases scheduled against savings, monthly contributions, one-off income and staged self-build lending (arrears or advance releases). Fast, balanced and lowest-pressure variants, with a month-by-month ledger.
Trade-Off Engine
When a change breaks your budget, target date or planning position, Sketchr searches a library of compensating moves and ranks them by your priorities — with the full consequence of each.
Future Simulator
Costs up 10%? No bricklayer for eight weeks? Savings £7,000 short? The whole project re-runs, and you see which pathway survives.
Design Studio
Describe a plot and a brief; get 2D plans, a 3D model you can orbit, elevations and an indicative design pack — then send it to the engine for the money, planning and timing consequences.
Regret & Don't-buy-yet
Flags decisions that save money now and cost more over ten years, and tells you the order window for every big purchase.
Not AI that designs buildings — software that predicts the consequences of building decisions, and generates the smartest realistic path before money is committed.
Self-builders and extenders
Plan a build you can actually fund. Understand what each choice costs across the whole project. Buy things at the right time.
Architects and designers
Answer “can we afford it?” live in the client meeting, with a ranked list of alternatives — instead of a week's wait for a revised estimate.
Self-build lenders and brokers
Structured phase-and-cash-flow models for staged lending, generated the same way for every applicant.
Pilot places for autumn 2026
We are working with a small number of architecture practices, self-builders and one lending partner to calibrate the engine against real projects.