Most people start with the wrong number
Work out whether your lot, your brief and your budget are the same project — before you talk to an architect.
Someone quotes a figure per square meter. It gets multiplied by a floor area that hasn’t been designed yet. That becomes the budget, and every decision for the next two years gets measured against a number nobody checked.
Per square meter is where the conversation starts. It’s not where good decisions get made.
The Pre-Design Suite is how you get to a defensible number on your own, before anyone is selling you anything.
Nine tools, in the order the questions arrive
Should you build at all?
The honest comparison, including the costs people leave out.
Whether the site you have, or are looking at, suits what you want to put on it.
Turns how you actually live into something an architect can work from.
What will it cost and how long?
A first-pass number, with its assumptions visible.
The same question answered properly, line by line, once you have something to price.
The full build-up: construction, professional fees, permits, contingency.
When money is actually needed, not just how much.
Will it work once you live in it?
Orientation, shading and ventilation against your site.
What the house costs to run over twenty years, which is usually the number nobody models.
There isn’t one worth worrying about
You give us an email to see your results. That’s it. No call unless you ask for one.
We built these because most of the expensive mistakes in a residential project happen before an architect is involved — and because a client who arrives with real numbers has a better project than one who arrives with a Pinterest board and a per-square-meter figure.
If the tools tell you not to build, that’s a good outcome. It cost you twenty minutes.
A preview, not a substitute for professional judgment
It works from what you tell it, and it doesn’t know your soil, your covenant, your neighbours or the thing you haven’t mentioned yet.
For that you need a person looking at your specific situation. That’s the Clarity Session — and the honest version of this page is: bring your numbers to it.
Common questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Email-gated results, nothing else.
Do I have to talk to anyone?
No. Plenty of people run the tools and we never hear from them.
How accurate are the estimates?
Accurate enough to plan with, not accurate enough to contract on. Every estimate shows its assumptions so you can see what it’s built on.
Can I use this if I’m not working with MET?
Yes. It’s not a sales funnel dressed as a calculator.
Does it work for a plan-set home?
Yes — start with Lot Suitability and Quick Estimate, then see MET Editions.
