Build Your Home Online With This New Hampshire Startup

Shane Brewer is a 29-year-old branch manager for Bangor Savings Bank in Maine who is about to build his dream home with his wife using a startup company called Profile Homes. It will be the Brewers’ third home and, they hope, their last. But for Profile Homes founder Matt Silva, 40, the Brewers’ home will mark the beginning of what he hopes is a new era in custom homebuilding. “We started in from the ground up,” Silva said. “What would the process look like from start to finish using the technology we have today, both in the building and the preparation process?” What Silva and his partners came up with is an online homebuying process that’s similar to building the car you want online, only for homes.