Our work · Case study 01

Sold on paper. Here is the paper.

Vesper at Snowbird Hollow is the model for every project we take on: a 58-acre tract with nothing on it but a survey, turned into a named, branded, rendered and priced community with its own site, in days. What follows is the whole kit, in the order it was built.

Artist's concept: the Vesper meadow, barn and crossbuck fence at dawn
Vesper at Snowbird Hollow · Franklin, TennesseeArtist's concept
6 parcels
Estate lots, 6.19 to 15 acres
58 acres
Goose Creek end of Snowbird Hollow Road
2.0 miles
To Interstate 65
Days
Survey to launch, from one facts file
01 · The brief

A tract, a survey, and a price we believed.

Bought as raw acreage in 2026. Six estate parcels on rolling pasture and hardwood ridge, two miles from the interstate on the Franklin side of the county. The competition sells lots with a builder attached; this one would be sold as land.

The decision that shaped everything else was made before a single word of copy: price the tract under its own submarket on a per-acre basis and prove it. Every deliverable that followed — the site, the brochure, the builder deck — carries the same argument, because they were all built from the same facts file.

Pre-development pricing runs until the plat records. No builder requirement, no approved roster, no required house type. Buyers bring their own architect.

Offered$11.2M list · $9.52M pre-development Parcels$1.2M to $2.75M Per acre$194k list against $246k submarket closed PositioningSold as land, no builder requirement BuyerEnd users with an architect; custom builders Sitevesperfranklin.com
02 · Name & brand

Vesper. Evening, on this land.

A name that belongs to the land, a mark that works on a road sign at forty miles an hour, and parcel names for what is actually there — so the plan, the pins, the signs and the social all say the same thing.

Artist's concept at dusk, windows lit — the Vesper brand mood
Dusk · artist's concept
Vesper road sign artwork
Road sign 96 × 48
01
The Ridge
15 acres
02
The Pasture
8.06 acres
03
The Grove
6.7 acres
04
The Spring
6.19 acres
05
The Bench
6.64 acres
06
The Hollow
15 acres
03 · The site plan

Traced over the aerial. Tap a parcel, see the price.

The single most-used asset in the kit. Drawn as vectors over the full-resolution aerial, with each parcel a live hit area on the website, then rendered once at print size for the brochure, the builder deck and the entry sign. One geometry, every deliverable.

Vesper interactive site plan traced over the aerial basemap with six numbered parcels
Interactive site plan · six parcels
04 · The renderings

What gets built here, in five kinds of light.

Fifteen images and two flyovers. Modern heritage — fieldstone gables, cedar entry, standing seam, black steel — set well back from the road on the real terrain, in dawn mist, bright day, golden hour and dusk. Every one an artist's concept; none of them a house that exists.

Dawn mist from the road, artist's concept
Dawn mist · artist's concept
Front elevation at dusk, artist's concept
Front elevation · artist's concept
Golden hour from the meadow, artist's concept
Golden hour · artist's concept
Aerial of the outdoor room and pool at dusk, artist's concept
Aerial at dusk · artist's concept
Aerial of the lot in bright day, artist's concept
Aerial · artist's concept
Great room, artist's concept
Great room · artist's concept
The outdoor room looking to the hills, artist's concept
Outdoor room · artist's concept
Kitchen, artist's concept
Kitchen · artist's concept
Primary suite, artist's concept
Primary suite · artist's concept
Drone flyover · dawn mist · artist's concept
Drone flyover · golden hour · artist's concept
05 · The kit

Everything a project needs to sell before it exists.

Built from the same source data as the site, so nothing can disagree. Every status change after launch is a rebuild and a post.

Website

vesperfranklin.com

Editorial one-pager on its own domain: hero, interactive plan, parcel schedule, market argument, gated brochure, enquiry form.

Brochure

Three pages, print and PDF

Parcels, plan, price schedule and the per-acre argument with its comp chart — the page a buyer forwards to their architect.

Builder deck

The briefing

What gets built here, who buys it, the numbers, the timeline. For custom builders and the investors behind them.

Launch playbook

Ninety days, dated

The sequence from sign-up to plat: outreach, posts, open-land days, price steps, and what triggers each.

Signage

Road sign and parcel stakes

96 × 48 at the frontage, numbered stakes at each pad, all carrying the plan and the parcel names.

Social

Tiles and a five-email sequence

Twelve tiles in the brand, square and portrait, plus the emails that follow a brochure download.

06 · The numbers

What the same kit bills elsewhere.

The inventory above is the Sellout package. Here is what it costs when a New York or Miami presales house builds it, when a good regional agency does, and here.

What the same kit billsFeeBasis
A New York / Miami presales house$55–80kBrand $10–15k, custom site with interactive plan $20–35k, a dozen renderings as photoreal CGI, deck, brochure, playbook, signage, social
A good regional agency$32–45kSame inventory at regional rates, renderings priced as concept art
Hardware Lane Studio$25,000The Sellout package — and it includes the pricing argument nobody else sells
Your project

Sixteen taps, then a call.

Tell us about the land and the look you have in mind. Luke calls within two working days with a read-back and a package recommendation.

Plat$10,000 · 3–12 lots · about three weeks Launch$15,000 · 6–40 lots · four to five weeks Sellout$25,000 · raw tract or 20+ lots · six to eight weeks À la carteAny piece on its own