AI-assisted building procurement

Expansion building intake checklists.

Use these checklists before requesting numbers. Stella needs enough scope to separate standard package work from engineered commercial, AI infrastructure, and advanced-fab review without making the buyer repeat the same story three times.

1. Capture the operating goalWhat the building supports, who decides, and what timing matters.
2. Expose cost driversSpan, height, doors, envelope, site access, utility support, and phasing.
3. Route the supplier pathStandard package, engineered commercial, infrastructure, advanced fab, or municipal review.

Checklist library

Pick the lane that matches the expansion.

Each lane lists the details Ryan needs before he asks a manufacturer, builder network, or project partner for numbers and timeline signals.

AI infrastructure

Power, cooling, staging, and support buildings

Use this when a building supports compute, energy, data, secure staging, equipment, or site expansion.

  • Facility role: shell, utility support, maintenance, staging, storage, or retrofit.
  • Power, cooling, utility penetrations, access control, and equipment movement.
  • Security, phasing around live operations, and future expansion assumptions.
  • Decision-maker role, budget range, target timeline, and site state.
Advanced fab

Processing-center and specialty facility review

Use this when the building touches process support, clean utility areas, huge shells, or retrofit-heavy expansion.

  • New shell, addition, retrofit, process-adjacent envelope, or support building.
  • Clear-span need versus multi-span economics for large footprints.
  • Utility support, ventilation, drainage, fire/code path, and clean/process assumptions.
  • Shutdown limits, phasing, owner-side cost controls, and manufacturer capability questions.
Commercial

Warehouse, fleet, flex, production, and logistics space

Use this when the building is tied to capacity, revenue, production, inventory, or operating workflow.

  • Use case, dimensions, eave height, workflow, loading, racking, and vehicle movement.
  • Overhead doors, office/restroom needs, storefront, mezzanine, or crane prep.
  • Insulation, energy code, snow load, fire separation, and site constraints.
  • Speed, budget, finish level, future expansion, and supplier complexity.
Agricultural

Farm capacity, equipment paths, and winter use

Use this for equipment storage, farm shops, livestock support, feed, cold storage, or processing.

  • Equipment mix, bay count, door sizes, truck/trailer access, and future additions.
  • Livestock, hay, feed, washdown, processing, or cold-storage requirements.
  • Ventilation, condensation control, insulation, winter use, and site drainage.
  • Build window, budget, state/location, and whether the path is standard or engineered.
Contractor

Shops, service bays, storage, and owner-operator buildings

Use this when the building is mostly practical workspace and the goal is a clean, fast quote path.

  • Dimensions, bay layout, door schedule, slab use, and equipment movement.
  • Office, restroom, heat, insulation, liner panels, and comfort needs.
  • Storage, service areas, future expansion, and finish level.
  • Confirm whether this stays a standard package or becomes engineered commercial.
Municipal

Public works, utility, community, and approval-cycle projects

Use this when public use, procurement, board approval, grants, or formal pricing affects the path.

  • Public use, occupancy, accessibility, procurement path, and code assumptions.
  • Approval timing, budget cycle, grant deadlines, and bid requirements.
  • Dimensions, doors, equipment, finishes, parking, and maintenance needs.
  • Clarify conceptual pricing versus formal supplier or engineered review.

Minimum handoff before manufacturer pricing

Use/lane, dimensions, eave height, location, timeline, budget range if known, openings, insulation/envelope, site constraints, decision-maker role, and any power, cooling, utility, phasing, or process-support requirements. Unknown is acceptable, but Stella needs the unknowns named before the supplier path is chosen.