Homes
ForgeLab adapts to where you build — climate, sun, hazards, rates and approvals. It can only do that with the facts you give it.
The place decides the currency, the cost per m², which side the sun is on, the hazards to design for (flood, seismic, termites, cyclone) and who approves the plans. “Kitengela” or “Cape Town, Constantia” works. “Somewhere warm” means regional facts and cost figures are withheld rather than guessed.
Give a budget in your own currency and say whether it includes land, furnishing and professional fees. The budget check runs before the design: if the brief cannot be built for the money, you are told and shown what to trade off. Costs are ranges built from typical local rates. If your quantity surveyor has quoted a rate per m², enter it in the Budget tab and every figure recalculates instantly — that is the most accurate thing you can do.
“Make it 4 bedrooms”, “move to a high-end finish”, “add a pool house”: each refinement revises the previous design, then verifies the change actually happened. Where something cannot be priced yet (a pool house), it is listed as unpriced rather than quietly ignored.
Three concept options with drawings, an interior direction, a decision matrix you can re-weight, a budget with a value-engineering list, and a land checklist. It is a concept-stage design: it is not construction documents, structural design or a permit submission. Have a registered architect and engineer in your country take it from here. Each answer shows a review board score, with what code verified separated from what an AI reviewer thought.
A thorough run (default) has a strict AI review and one rewrite pass per concept; it takes about 4–6 minutes. A quick run skips those and scores on code checks only — faster and cheaper, good for exploring, and labelled as such on the result.