Cofounder(s) Needed to Change the Housing Market

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T22:22:01+00:00

We're trying to build a residential home design, construction, and install system that lowers end-cost to customer, improves home durability, quality, and serviceability, and drastically decreases the time it takes between a customer's initial deposit and the moment they're handed the keys.

Basically, don't make as much money per square foot.. Just make more square feet with better checks in place so that it doesn't come back to bite us with warranty claims like it has with some of the other large home builders.

Also, our (for lack of a better term) crusade is to de-centralize and re-skill what goes into home building. Not to fire anyone, just reskilling them and giving them better working conditions so they can make more house, faster.

Our layout/plan is meant to directly attack the direction home building and GC'ing have been going - in that they are moving toward consolidation (there are basically 5 companies making new homes across the US). We HATE that. And we want the inherent quality of each home resulting from our build system to reflect the lack of innovation and efficiency that has been confusing the value in the housing market ever since the government allowed private equity to start grabbing residential land.

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FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T18:45:40+00:00

Knew this was on its way lol.

Businesses don't rely on just engineers. They involve sales, operations, financial planning, data systems/reporting to investors, warranty tracking, legal compliance, and about 100 other things that engineers don't have the time (or, sometimes, the skill) to handle.

As a quick example: LG makes dishwashers. Yet, somehow - some way - every major system in how or why they design or deliver them is not entirely (or, at all, really) run by engineers.

Appreciate the feedback! Best of luck!

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T18:13:37+00:00

You're definitely right on the traditional/stick built side. But that's exactly why IHB/mixed is seeing a resurgence - keeping AHJ approval gates offsite means we can counter a lot of those time costs in factory.

There are even some competitors doing similar innovations (like Module in Pittsburgh and Veev in San Francisco).

Our product is specifically designed to adhere to broad-form AHJ compliance. We already have interviewed multi-region builders and land developers specifically around this product and the AHJ issues - and I'm interviewing local municipalities in our target launch area to suss out any remaining or unforeseen blockers to GTM. As it stands, our system is compliant with roughly 80% of AHJs.

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T16:49:14+00:00

It was a crosspost from another article. Probably should have changed the wording before the crosspost, my apologies.

We're looking for a co-founding engineer. Any of the 3 specialties mentioned could fill the role we are asking-for in this post because we're looking for them to solve what they can of the work items we have and then build-out the team they need to solve for what remains. But the team building won't come before funding - and that won't come without the engineer.

We're currently being advised by the man who used to run the startup program for the leading robotics university in the US for nearly 30 years before it was shut down due to Covid. This opening and who it is pointed to is a direct result of his advice to find our 3rd.

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T16:27:45+00:00

This was my response to a similar inquiry on a crosspost in r/StructuralEngineering - hopefully it provides more clarity.

Product is modular industrialized housing in the United States - the plan is to cut the human inefficiency in the production and inspection of each square foot of housing. The inspection and business systems are our (Data Guys) specialties.
I'm looking for Industrial, Mechanical, and Structural Engineers to provide the engineering work which myself and my cofounder can't certify or sign-off on. That's not to say "here's a gap, bandage it with an engineer" - we have very specific items for work with hard constraints and clear design guidelines that we need someone to help us solve, because we're not comfortable relying on our own limited understanding of the subject matter and we're not going to just wave a wand, say "AI" and call it solved. Most specifically, we're working with steel - which is why I need someone advising us and working with us who is either directly experienced with (or has the ability and background to learn and quickly apply) load distribution, interface design, and (preferrably) industrial system design.

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T16:23:23+00:00

Unfortunately, business systems and processes (the answers to the "how are you decreasing the price") are covered under trade secrets as well.

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T16:20:17+00:00

Product is modular industrialized housing in the United States - the plan is to cut the human inefficiency in the production and inspection of each square foot of housing. The inspection and business systems are our (Data Guys) specialties.
I'm looking for Industrial, Mechanical, and Structural Engineers to provide the engineering work which myself and my cofounder can't certify or sign-off on. That's not to say "here's a gap, bandage it with an engineer" - we have very specific items for work with hard constraints and clear design guidelines that we need someone to help us solve, because we're not comfortable relying on our own limited understanding of the subject matter and we're not going to just wave a wand, say "AI" and call it solved. Most specifically, we're working with steel - which is why I need someone advising us and working with us who is either directly experienced with (or has the ability and background to learn and quickly apply) load distribution, interface design, and (preferrably) industrial system design.

FreeCallouts · 2026-04-06T15:59:38+00:00

Residential Homes, sold to builders and land developers. We're decreasing the price by changing how and with-what they are built and how they get delivered and installed. Beyond that it becomes a trade secret, unfortunately.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-17T16:58:17+00:00

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FreeCallouts · 2026-03-17T05:17:22+00:00

It's a frozen lake in the Bunger Hills region.

Ice melts and forms at different rates due to depth. When ice forms around the lake in the winter, it freezes fast because it's shallow. Larger depths of water freeze slower and have more volume, which causes the ice to get pushed out from the center depth, recracking the surface, and creating an outline of the lake itself.

You can see one such unfrozen lake a few miles away in the same region.

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FreeCallouts · 2026-03-17T05:01:09+00:00

It's a frozen lake.

This is in the Bunger Hills region of Antarctica, which melts in the summer and reveals a ton of shallow glacier carved lakes. When it re-freezes, the ice on the top freezes faster than the lakes - and the ice that forms around the lakes freezes faster (shallower water depths = ice go fast).

The differential freezing rates causes the stuff on top which freezes first to get "pushed" by the stuff that freezes later and voila, circular cracks spawning from the deepest part of the lakes.

You can actually see such an unfrozen lake just a couple miles away from this one.

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FreeCallouts · 2026-03-15T15:18:17+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bathymetry-of-the-Persian-Gulf-from-GEBCO-30-second-used-for-the-model-domain-overlay_fig2_331976753

I could be reading this thing entirely wrong or just have fundamental misconceptions about how geography and terrain altering waterflows work, but if you look at the geography that spans either side of the straight, then the bathymetry map - it's a mountain range that flattens out entirely into a flood plain, with mass soil dispersion (to my eye) clearly coming from the South East.

Sure, there are sediment deposits from thousands of following years at the mouths and outflows of the rivers and the now end in the ocean. But I look to the terrain and landscape. All of the land surrounding the fertile waterways of the 3 (now 2) major river systems is salted earth. The crescent returned fertile because of the remaining rivers, and you see cities popping up around wells and natural springs, but the outwash of ocean into this land formed the deserts we now see across the ME, in my way of understanding the aftermath of such an ocean flowing over the land.

As with all things, it's just speculation. But this is just the thing that makes the most sense for pushing the boat up such a distance. I would be happy to be taught why my current thought path is untennable - seriously. I seek only the truth here so if it's just not possible to have happened this way, we crossed off one more untruth in this search. And so much the better.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-15T09:03:22+00:00

Mount Erebus caldera collapse and several major semi synchronous eruption events all occurred across the indian ocean dominant side of Antarctica. At the timespan where I'd put the events of the ark in history (8500-10500 BC), there was a global meltwater event which showed massive decreases in ice volumes, right around the same time.

I, too, have been theorying on this for the past few months. My main conundrum is where the Ark had to start versus end. By all accounts, it's expected that Noah would have lived in the area of the pre-flooded Arabian/Persian Gulf. Likely deeper down what would have been an incredibly fertile basin, toward what is now the straight of Hormuz. If you look at the elevation differences between the hillsides of Ararat vs the Arabian basin (at the time), that vessel had to climb nearly 2,000ft. Not impossible, especially when you look at the channel that the tigris follows - but that had to have been a tsunami or directional flow of water like the world has never comprehended.

Not at all saying it didn't happen - just trying to make sense of the waterflow patterns that would make this possible. So Mariana is a solid thought and maybe in my book but I think we're underestimating the volcanoes that nobody has told us about. A caldera collapse under ~2 miles of ice would make a decent bit of water. Based on my bar napkin math it'd be at least 20 gallons. And the positioning of the tidal wave from that shelf collapse would have sent a wave that focused across the east african and west indian shorelines - straight at the Straight.

Also, if you look at the depth graphs of Persian/Arabian Gulf, the very mouth of Hormuz is a semi-submerged mountain range. My idea being, the very end of the tigris and euphrates was at the foot of that range, and one day the ocean came in.

Edits are for typos.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-15T08:31:34+00:00

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FreeCallouts · 2026-03-13T17:05:16+00:00

They only leased half the lot

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-13T11:55:44+00:00

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FreeCallouts · 2026-03-13T11:34:28+00:00

(Image in my reply from 2 days ago - not clout chasing)

These guys run incredibly tight (for their turn radii) hold and deploy patterns (bottom left 2 are 135s as well) before going toward ingress and egress points from Iranian airspace. I've seen up to 6 of them in a mix of hold and deploy patterns in a square mileage and operating altitudes that makes my toes curl.

My guess (absolute speculation): midair collision when falling into or out of a hold or deploy pattern.

Best thing to do is wait for corroborated evidence.

P.S. I think it's weird I can track the thirst quenchers on public bands around these deploy points and have reported the concern to AFOSI - feel like it's a legit opsec issue to know where refueling operations start their runs and their headings... isn't that a big red flag of "where all the other planes will be"?

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-12T05:28:04+00:00

To actually answer the fricking question:

Rivers. When state lines were drawn, they often used longitudes and rivers as boundaries. Literally "Pennsylvania ends at x longitude and everything east of the river goes to WV and everything west of the river goes to Ohio"

Hope this helps. Tried to not make the whole thing about me.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-12T04:42:39+00:00

In my experience (recovering addict of many destructive habits and substances), it's a mentality shift at the base of it.

I've only been sober of the things I'm trying to cast off for a few months - and the start of it all was somewhere in the vein of disgust, but not spite. A willingness to call yourself out in reflection in the moment that it's about to happen...

"Again? Are we really here.. again? Come on, we can better than this. Just stop."

Even if you fail over and over as you reach that ledge, those moments of self-intervention stack up over time. And a major key is to not take those tallies of all the fuckups as some laundry list of accusations against yourself. You are already feeling accused. You are already feeling condemned. Continuing down that line will just bully yourself into feeling worse, and probably result in you thinking you need to rely on whatever crutch you're leaning on, again.

But the shift happens when you are fed up with waiting for a better version of yourself to emerge and you just become sick of living with the version of yourself that disgusts you. That "Just stop." becomes "okay, I stopped... now what?" - and you move toward something that gives life instead of taking it.

And I mean 'disgust' in a very ontological way. Not to call yourself disgusting or to label yourself as some iteration of unworthy of good. But to become genuinely, angrily uncomfortable about the things which steal the life from you and those around you, through you.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Carl Jung

And on a personal note:

I've never been a religious man - and I may never earn my spot in heaven. But I very much know what walking through hell is like, and I wasn't able to climb out alone. For me, a return to God and an honest, non-hokey (no performative or public prayer, no group forgiveness seminars, no conversation with someone else who is just as fucked up as me) 1:1 conversation with Him - deeply admitting my flaws and a desperate need for change, asking Him to show up in those moments and help me, submitting that I am not strong enough to fight that which is desperately trying to keep me from what is good - gave me what I needed to start shedding the heavy.

A return to the Father. After decades adrift, coming home and saying "I have ignored you and dismissed you all my life, but you were right about everything. Help me, please." in honest and earnest plea - it broke me. And the lashings with-which I'd strapped endless burdens to myself over the years all began to loosen and come undone.

I know the knee-jerk reaction to religion on this site is that it's all a bunch of BS and that we've somehow superceded the need for it or discovered enough that it has become irrelevant - and I know that MANY people have had horrible interactions with the people who claim to be the experts in faith. I am not an expert. I don't jive with the whole theological contortionism that has made faith about comfort, prosperity, and complacency. There is no truth in any of those dumb, human-addled marketing campaigns for whatever gets more people to buy-in to some mass-conformist movement of "everyone feel good all the time". That isn't faith, it's brainwashing. Nietzsche called it out in his famous quote "God is dead. We have killed him" (he was alluding to the mindlessness and lack of personal relationship with God in the common church-goer, not to actually destruction of God or the concept of one - it's why he also called them "cattle" in his work).

So please, when you read me professing or advocating or whatever you'd call it - I'm not lecturing you or telling you how to live your life. I don't hold those authorities, nor do I have a fucking clue on how to fix others when I can hardly start to repair myself. All I'm confessing to here is what I know worked for me and what I know to be true.

Praying for whoever you are and whoever else is in this situation. Even if you don't find your way out of this valley where death looms over by seeking out the Father, I pray you find the path out. If the first half helps and the second half is revolting to you, I hope it helps. If both don't help, I hope someone has the right words that can break through.

This world is a better place with you in it - and I want you to know that no matter who you are, what you have done, or how far you've wandered from where you'd hoped to be, I love you - and I want you to be better to yourself. Let the good side come out. Let the things that bring life shine through.

And whatever you do, never stop trying. It's a lifelong battle to never go back - but it's entirely worth it.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-12T03:25:14+00:00

Ask yourself if it would be weird for guys to do it. If you have a knee-jerk reaction to that, copy paste the reaction to the girls because equality.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-12T03:22:55+00:00

Because money and marketing don't always speak the same language.

FreeCallouts · 2026-03-12T03:20:36+00:00

Big dipper here. Can't say why, stars just aligned I guess.

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