See the possibility in a site.
Landowners, property owners and local organizations can help identify places where housing, productive space and neighborhood life could come together.
Share a propertyPartner with us
You bring a piece. Together, we build a place.
Property, materials, expertise, training and capital all have a role in creating a neighborhood. Help connect what you have to something your community needs.
A practical place to start
What can we put to work together?
Keep useful things useful.
Connect reusable building materials, tools and equipment to people who can work with them. Material reuse is part of the Foundry approach.
Meet the FoundryHelp more people learn by doing.
Tradespeople, educators, designers and specialists can help connect practical knowledge to real work and develop the capability a community can build on.
Explore contributingBack places with a lasting purpose.
Explore the development model, its ownership structure and the role capital can play in bringing the physical work together.
Visit the investor overviewA shared purpose
Build local capability alongside physical places.
The building is part of the result. So are the people who learn to maintain it, the materials given another useful life and the businesses that can grow around it.
Built By DAO connects housing, practical work and community ownership. A strong partnership makes those connections more useful: a clearer project, the right expertise and a contribution people can carry forward.
Understand the whole modelMake the introduction count
Start with something concrete.
Tell us what you bring.
A site, a skill, a supply of materials, a local relationship or an investment interest. Give us the practical starting point.
Describe the opportunity.
Share the location, the people involved and what a useful outcome would look like.
Find the right fit.
Use that starting point to discuss a scope, responsibilities and the next step worth taking together.
A good place to begin
From a promising site to a workable plan
Evaluate
Screen a property
Test control, permitted use, condition, demand and project capacity.
Explore this path Picture itFollow a building transformation
See how an underused place can become working capacity.
Explore this path FinanceSee the project budget
Follow a worked sources-and-uses example and its funding gap.
Explore this pathStart a conversation
Tell us what you could bring to a project.
A property, materials, specialist skills or local relationships can each be the start. Share the location, the people involved and the next step you want to explore.
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Built by people. Built to last.
There is a place for what you bring.
Introduce your organization or idea. Let’s explore the work we could do together.