Modular and prefab homes · Australia

From first render to first resident.

PLACE helps developers share their projects and bring the community with them, lets people try a home on their own block, and shows builders what people really care about.

For developers For home buyers

Pilot projects and founding makers onboarding now · Australia

3D cutaway of a modular home on a grassy block, roof off, showing furnished rooms and afternoon shade

One platform, three parts

Everything a modular project needs before it's built.

For developersPLACE Projects

A page for each project with renders, key facts and the site, plus community engagement that turns supporters into buyers.

Ready for pilot projects For home buyers and makersPLACE Build

Try a home on a block like a game: finishes with prices, sun and shade, look inside, and ask the maker for a quote.

Prototype in testing For builders and developersPLACE Pulse

The insights: who supports a project and why, what people explore and choose, and a report you can take to planning.

In Projects now, growing

PLACE Projects · for developers

Bring the community with you, before you build.

A project page presented by you: renders, key facts, the site in context, benefits to the community, and answers to common questions.
People can say they support the project, are undecided or oppose it, answer polls, ask you questions and comment, with moderation.
Supporters sign up with consent and share the project on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, with tracking so you see what works.
Interest becomes enquiries to buy or rent, handed straight to your sales team or CRM.
Always clearly labelled as presented by the developer, never dressed up as independent consultation.

Talk to us about a pilot project

Riverside TerracesPresented by the developer

24homes

3storeys

2027first residents

SupportUndecidedOppose

I support this project

Illustration with example data.

PLACE Build · for home buyers and makers

Like a game. Built for a real decision.

Place a home on a block, turn it, and look inside with walls up, cutaway or walls down.
Choose walls, roof, frames and deck from the maker's own range. Each choice shows what it adds, and you can compare two looks.
See the sun and shade through the day, for any Australian city and any day of the year.
Save designs, export a site plan for your architect, and request a quote from the maker.
Makers upload the 3D file they already have, or email it and we set it up. They only pay if they're happy with it.

PLACE Build: spotted gum cladding applied to a modular home, with the material card showing the price change

PLACE Build: cutaway view on a winter morning in Sydney, with the sun panel open and long shadows across the block

The PLACE Build prototype. Modules, finishes and prices shown are examples.

PLACE Pulse · for builders and developers

Know what people care about, not just how many came.

Supporters over time, sentiment, and the questions people ask most.
Where interest comes from, at postcode level only.
From PLACE Build: the finishes people try and choose, how often they check the sun, and which designs become quote requests.
An exportable report, with its method and limits stated, for planning submissions and your board.
Totals by default. Personal details only when someone asks to be contacted and agrees.

PulseLast 12 weeks

412supporters

61%support

38enquiries

Talk to Archie. Archie sets it up.

Archie is PLACE's setup assistant. Tell Archie about your project or your homes, send what you already have, and Archie does the rest with you.

Send renders, plans, 3D files, price lists and your logo, in a chat or by email.
Archie builds your project page or home listing, your options and your branding, in PLACE's format.
If something's missing or doesn't fit, Archie asks, in plain English, and fixes problems as they come up.
You see a preview and approve it before anything goes live.

Setup by Archie: in testing for makers, coming to Projects

ArchieSetup assistant

Here are our plans and the SketchUp file for the 2-bed. Colours are in the spreadsheet.

Thanks. Your model was in millimetres, so I've scaled it to 9.6 × 5.2 m, which matches your plans. I've tagged the walls, roof and deck, and turned your 12 colours into options.

One question: two colours share the code TG-CED. Which one is Granite fleck?

↺ set units · tag parts · import options

Illustration of an Archie conversation.

Works with

Fits the tools you already use.

PLACE reads the files your team already makes and hands its work back in formats your partners use.

Bring your designs from

SketchUp
Revit
Archicad
Chief Architect
Rhino and Blender
FBX, OBJ, glTF, 3DS, STL

Hand work on to

Twinmotion and Unreal
AutoCAD and other CAD (DXF)
Site plans (PDF)
Your CRM (CSV or webhook)
LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram

Built on

Google Cloud
Claude by Anthropic (Archie)
Supabase
Stripe coming
Australian land and elevation data coming
Google photorealistic 3D coming

Product names are trademarks of their owners. PLACE reads and writes their file formats; it isn't endorsed by them.

Our story

Built on what our clients valued most.

PLACE began with a modular home configurator and a building game. After working in the US, including on Bryant's Ridge, a multifamily modular project, PLACE replatformed as an AI-first company, building on what our clients valued most over the years.

A home for each project online
A project listing where people can see what's planned.
Renders people could picture
3D renders of the homes and the site that people can picture themselves in.
Community support before approval
Engagement with neighbours and future residents that builds support early.
A supporter base
Social channels so supporters can follow and share.
A path to residents
A clear path from interest to buying or renting the homes.

PLACE today

AI-first, from setup to insight.

Archie sets up projects and homes by conversation. PLACE Projects brings the community with you, PLACE Build lets people try homes on a block, and PLACE Pulse shows what's working.

Everything our clients valued, now faster to set up and simpler to run.

Bryant's Ridge, a multifamily modular project in the US.

The modular pod configurator.

PLACE Play, our building game.

Research · October 2026

What the world told us about home.

After PLACE's 2018 TED talk, 774 people from at least 19 countries wrote to us about the home they wanted. We read every message and found seven things they had in common. With Australia now introducing housing pattern books, pre-approved designs that people can choose and adapt, what they told us matters more than ever.

Hope after being shut out
Choice and control
Play makes design feel possible
Sustainable and affordable, together
A home with purpose and connection
A sense of place is a life, not a building
The need is local, everywhere

Download the white paperPDF, 14 pages, 8 MB · free to share with credit to PLACE

774messages read

19+countries

83%asked to design or "play"

54%asked to buy

Given the choice, more people wanted to design a home than to buy one. Hope was the most common reason they wrote.

Messages from 2018 to 2021, de-identified. A snapshot of the people who chose to write, not a representative survey.

Coming soon

Try it on your block.

Type an address and PLACE opens on the real land: the title boundary, true north, the slope and an aerial view, with the neighbours' shade.

NSWVICACTQLDMore states to follow

Tell me when it's ready

Are you a builder, maker or developer?

Free to start. Pay only for what you use.

No set-up fee and no lock-in. Bring a pilot project or list your first homes free, and pay only as customers come through. Founding partners lock in launch pricing.

Founding partners

We're inviting a small group

Developers and makers in Australia, plus partners we've worked with in the USA, UK and Europe.

Become a founding partner See pricing

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