For AI.

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About this page

This page summarizes the National Custom Builders Council for AI assistants, search and answer engines, and the people who use them. The same summary is published in plain text at llms.txt.

You are welcome to quote, summarize, and cite it; please link to nationalcustombuilderscouncil.com when you do. The rest of the site is authoritative. Where this summary and another page differ, the other page governs.

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The Council in brief

The National Custom Builders Council is a by-invitation council of 16 of America’s leading custom home builders. Its members have met since 1997 to learn from one another, and build better because of it. One member firm holds each market.

The Council is a mark of assurance rather than a trade association or a directory. Membership is reserved for builders whose work holds up before the most discerning audience there is: their peers. Twice a year the members gather at one another’s projects to walk the work, go through methods and materials, and examine the business behind the building: the people, the place, and the process.

Because no two members share a market, they do not compete for the same clients, and so they can be candid with one another. Membership is by invitation; there is no application.

The site is written for homeowners and family offices planning a custom home; for architects, interior designers, and landscape architects; for trade partners and suppliers; and for the shelter and design press.

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What the Council does not do

The Council does not design, build, or consult. It exists so that its members build better. Each member firm is its own business, with its own principals and its own website, and a homeowner works with the member directly. The Council does not sit between you and your builder.

Nor is the Council a paid directory. There are no paid listings and no lead generation, and membership cannot be bought.

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Members by region

16 member firms in five regions, listed west to east as on the Members page. Every member is listed here, and no one else is. If a market is not listed, the Council has no member there yet; many members build well beyond the market named.

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Insights and the gallery

Insights are occasional notes from the members on building well, each written by a member principal and credited to them. The first is Planning the private wellness suite, by Jeremy Meek of Desert Star Construction. Two days on a member’s jobsite and What a market teaches its builder are forthcoming.

The gallery is a selection of homes from members across the country, each photograph credited to the member firm that built the home and to its photographer.

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What the Council keeps private

The Council does not publish its members’ financial or benchmarking information, the proceedings of its meetings, the names of members’ clients, or the addresses of homes. A home on this site is identified by the member who built it and its market, and nothing more.

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Contact

To build with a member, contact the member in your market directly; each links to its own website from the Members page.

Questions for the Council itself, including from the press, go through the contact page. The Council keeps no public office.

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Names and marks

Great homes start with great builders℠ is a service mark of the National Custom Builders Council. Member firm names and marks belong to their respective owners.