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Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

Technology

Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

With its 2025 Ivory Prize win, Reframe Systems moves from a promising innovation to a validated force in reshaping housing affordability through modular microfactories, climate-resilient design, and workforce reinvention.

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

Technology

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

After selling Elliott Homes to Meritage, the Gulfport, Miss.-based entrepreneur sets his sights on transforming trades with a logistics-tech startup that aims to make construction faster, smarter, and more affordable—starting with siding.

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New Home Star

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Technology

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Vantem’s strategic acquisition: A case study in scaling smart in a post-easy-money capital investment and operational regime.

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

Technology

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

The combination of Synergos’ hands-on, tech-enabled, locally-trusted contractor services and Asahi Kasei’s long-term operational roadmap points to a transformative potential for U.S. homebuilders seeking to streamline operations in a cost-sensitive environment.

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Technology

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Our TBD Player episode with Cuby co-founder Aleks Gampel gives a progress report on one of homebuilding technology's operational models to watch, a CapEx-light mobile micro factory.

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Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

Technology

Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

With its 2025 Ivory Prize win, Reframe Systems moves from a promising innovation to a validated force in reshaping housing affordability through modular microfactories, climate-resilient design, and workforce reinvention.

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

Technology

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

After selling Elliott Homes to Meritage, the Gulfport, Miss.-based entrepreneur sets his sights on transforming trades with a logistics-tech startup that aims to make construction faster, smarter, and more affordable—starting with siding.

Together with

New Home Star

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Technology

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Vantem’s strategic acquisition: A case study in scaling smart in a post-easy-money capital investment and operational regime.

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

Technology

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

The combination of Synergos’ hands-on, tech-enabled, locally-trusted contractor services and Asahi Kasei’s long-term operational roadmap points to a transformative potential for U.S. homebuilders seeking to streamline operations in a cost-sensitive environment.

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Technology

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Our TBD Player episode with Cuby co-founder Aleks Gampel gives a progress report on one of homebuilding technology's operational models to watch, a CapEx-light mobile micro factory.

building technology

Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

Technology 05.20.25

Reframing What’s Possible: A Housing Factory On The Move

With its 2025 Ivory Prize win, Reframe Systems moves from a promising innovation to a validated force in reshaping housing affordability through modular microfactories, climate-resilient design, and workforce reinvention.

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

Technology 03.27.25

Brandon Elliott’s Next Big Thing: An Uber-Style Building Trades Platform

After selling Elliott Homes to Meritage, the Gulfport, Miss.-based entrepreneur sets his sights on transforming trades with a logistics-tech startup that aims to make construction faster, smarter, and more affordable—starting with siding.

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Technology 01.16.25

Offsite Manufacturing Pivots To Adaptation: Vantem Bets On Arris

Vantem’s strategic acquisition: A case study in scaling smart in a post-easy-money capital investment and operational regime.

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

Technology 09.09.24

Little Big Deal: What Synergos' Purchase Of Florida-Based ODC Means

The combination of Synergos’ hands-on, tech-enabled, locally-trusted contractor services and Asahi Kasei’s long-term operational roadmap points to a transformative potential for U.S. homebuilders seeking to streamline operations in a cost-sensitive environment.

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Technology 04.02.24

Cuby Breaks Ground On Mobile Micro Factory U.S. Home Model Output

Our TBD Player episode with Cuby co-founder Aleks Gampel gives a progress report on one of homebuilding technology's operational models to watch, a CapEx-light mobile micro factory.