Start here

Describe your project

About three minutes for the first part; the rest is optional and can be added any time. Everything stays in this browser (nothing is sent anywhere) and turns the blue "Your project" boxes, the exercises and the binder tools into guidance for your project. "I don't know yet" is a useful answer: it tells the course where to send you first.

The project

Name or label (optional) Project type Scope in a sentence (optional) Approximate size, sq ft (optional) Location: town, state or region, country

Your location is used only to tell you where to verify things (which building department, which licensing board). The course never turns a location into a rule.

Where you are, and the role you have in mind

Current phase

Intended role. You can change this after Module 1; many people do.

Money and time (ranges are fine)

Budget range Is that budget… Preferred start (month) Hoped-for finish (month) Is the timing fixed? If there is a hard constraint, what is it?

Your capacity

Hours per week you can give to coordination (calls, decisions, site visits, paperwork) How often you can be on site during working hours Will the home stay occupied during the work?

You can stop here. The optional detail below sharpens the examples.

Optional detail: team, constraints, experience, what worries you

Team so far

Anyone else (optional)

Site and household constraints you already know about

You

Construction experience

Your biggest uncertainties (pick any):

Anything else worth knowing

Saved in this browser only. The share link encodes your answers in the address itself, so anyone you send it to sees your setup; nothing is stored on a server. Your binder tools (brief, bids, budget, logs) are separate and can be exported as a file from the binder page.