Finish a house. Wait on the next start. Watch your best framer take work somewhere else, then pay to rebuild the crew. That gap isn't a management failure — it's what happens when every job is negotiated one at a time by an operation buying at retail. The fix is a queue, and a queue needs a book.
A book of signed homes is a promise until somebody can actually build them. Lenders don't fund pipelines and suppliers don't reserve capacity on paperwork alone — they need proven hands attached to the number. Your crews and your calendar are what turn a list of intended homes into demand a serious counterparty will underwrite.
Capacity is what makes demand bankable.
Not your lane? Every seat is a live page — the whole chain is being seated at once, on purpose.
Scheduling across member work so your trades roll job to job — sequencing, never contracting. Lot-owner members get introduced to you, with the Network coordinating the fit.
Quotable-grade material takeoffs from your plan set, included with book entry. Standalone $500, credited in full against your first material order.
Printed sheet, capped markup you can audit, every member on it including Together.Homes' own projects. Real movement starts around 100 homes.
Panels, trusses and residential mass timber from the local facility, with crane-free delivery that fits under old-neighborhood powerlines. Members first, at founding pricing.
Panels don't replace your framers — they change what your framers do with the day. The work stays local and stays yours; the schedule is what gets shorter.
“You keep your crews. The labor doesn't leave the neighborhood — the waiting does.”The one thing we will not trade away for efficiency
The first 71 homes are already confirmed — you're not being asked to go first. The state moved first: Missouri has already awarded $2.8M in NPA tax credits against them, and its clock runs to 12/31/2028. This tally updates as homes confirm.
Then: members charter the KC Housing Production Cooperative — the whole chain in one member body, by class, licensing the Together.Homes platform.
Never. Coordination here means sequencing — lining member jobs up so your trades roll from one to the next — not contracting. We don't hire your subs, we don't hold your contracts, and we don't talk to your client. And you don't have to change how you build: stick builders are first-class members, panels are an option when the facility exists, never a requirement.
Membership is free — no dues, no minimums. The Network is funded by the suppliers who want access to the group's volume, not by the members in it. The only priced service is a standalone takeoff ($500) if you want the work without putting homes in the book — and even that credits in full against your first material order.
No private capital, no — and anyone who tells you otherwise, walk away. What exists today is the state's $2.8M award with its deadline, the pricing work a dedicated team is building around the book, and the book itself. The credit facility is a goal we are openly raising toward, not a thing we have. The book is what makes it raisable.
Three distinct jobs, held apart on purpose. A council of members — seated by class: a developer, a builder, a lot owner, a design professional, an operator — governs. Together.Homes staffs the day-to-day services. And Daniel Edwards holds one job: build the book and bring the capital to it — the aggregator, not your foreman.
Your capacity is what makes them buildable.