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A partner program is planned. It is not open yet.

PlotBarn is a free planning tool for people building a one-story barndominium. We intend to pay for it with a partner program for the businesses those owners need. This page explains the idea and where it stands.

Not open yet. There are no partner fees, no listings and no verification today. Every vendor and lender currently shown in PlotBarn is a fictional, labeled demo entry.

The idea

Owners arrive with the project already described.

By the time an owner is ready to talk to a builder, a trade or a lender, PlotBarn has helped them put the basics in one place.

  1. A dimensioned design A one-story footprint with rooms, doors, windows, garage and porches drawn to scale, and a 15-sheet conceptual plan set made from it.
  2. An itemized estimate Low, base and high planning figures line by line, with a preliminary material takeoff from the same geometry.
  3. Trade scopes A scope-of-work template for each trade, so a request starts from a description of the work rather than a blank page.

All of it is conceptual: the plan set is not engineered, permit-ready or for construction, and the estimate is a planning estimate from an illustrative rate catalog, not a contractor quote. It is a starting point for your own takeoff, bid or underwriting — not a substitute for it.

What an owner brings Modern Farmhouse preset
Great Room Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 Primary Bedroom Garage Porch Porch
Footprint
60′ × 36′
Conditioned
2,160 sq ft
Estimate lines
32
Trade scopes
68

Sample design, with an illustrative planning estimate of $373k – $747k before land. Not a quote.

What we have in mind

What partners would be able to do.

The model is a lead marketplace: the businesses pay, and owners decide who hears from them. Everything below is intent, written in the conditional on purpose.

  • Contractors and trades

    • Would be able to be listed as a verified vendor for the trades they cover.
    • Would be able to receive requests that owners choose to send them.
    • Would pay PlotBarn to be verified and to receive project leads.

  • Lenders

    • Would be able to be listed alongside the financing planner.
    • Would be able to receive referrals from owners who ask for an introduction.
    • Would pay PlotBarn for those referrals.

Owners would stay in control: a partner would hear from an owner only when that owner chooses to send a request. What verification involves, what a request contains and what partners would pay have not been decided, so this page does not describe them.

Where it stands

What exists today, and what does not.

Nothing in the right-hand column is live, and we are not giving a date for it.

Listings
Today Fictional demo vendors and demo lenders only, each labeled as a demo. No real business is listed.
If the program opens Real businesses could be listed.
Verification
Today None. Nobody is verified, and PlotBarn does not vet or recommend vendors.
If the program opens Partners would be verified. What that involves has not been defined.
Fees
Today None. No vendor or lender pays PlotBarn.
If the program opens Partners would pay. No amounts have been set.
Leads and messages
Today None. PlotBarn sends no leads or messages to anyone.
If the program opens Partners would receive requests that owners choose to send.
Cost to owners
Today Free.
If the program opens Free. Owners will not be charged.

Owners can read the same account on the Free for owners page. If a program launches, the Privacy Policy and Terms would be updated first.

Interested? Tell us.

There is no application and no sign-up form, because there is nothing to sign up for yet. If you would like to hear about the program should it open, write to us through the contact page with your trade or type of lending and the area you serve.

Go to the contact page

Writing to us does not list your business, reserve a place or commit either of us to anything.