We’ve created a workspace that takes a piece of land from “can I even build here?” to permit-ready plans — built on everything this channel has spent twenty years documenting.

For two decades we’ve filmed people who build their own homes. Owner-builders, tiny-house dwellers, cohousing groups, families restoring a ruin, architects working with mud and straw and reclaimed timber.

The recurring lesson isn’t that building your own place is impossible — it’s that the hard part is rarely the hammer. It’s everything before and around it: Is this parcel even buildable? What does the county allow? What form belongs in this place? What will it actually cost? How do I get it permitted without paying for the whole team up front?

So we built a tool for that part. It’s called *faircompanies.build.

Check it out at *faircompanies.build, soon in open beta for all!