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Saves time.
Decisions made once in the model propagate to every stakeholder instantly. No re-keying, no re-sending, no version drift.
A collaborative, client-centric methodology built and refined over a decade of designing and constructing Rocky Mountain Superhomes — a way of building where the model itself manages the project. Now made faster, more accurate, and infinitely more connected by an AI-augmented suite of software tools.
Connect. Create. Construct. · Boots on the Ground, Eyes on the Sky.
Once in the computer — to fully vet structure, finishes, and views, and to bring complete understanding to every line item. Then once again in the real world. By the time we break ground, the home has already been walked, approved, and value-engineered. Surprises don't survive the model.
Architects, engineers, interior designers, builders, and clients meet inside one shared 3D model. Every discipline contributes; every decision is visible. The model becomes a common language — no decoding 2D drawings, no "trust me" moments.
Have a seat with your own dedicated design team. Let your imagination fly while our designers bring your ideas to life.
Real-time design sessions where clients drive. Materials swapped in seconds, views previewed from every window, fixtures placed and priced before a wall goes up. Anything you can imagine, we can draw and specify — in minutes, not hours.
Test drive your home before construction begins. Capture the morning light from your bathtub. Reduce the windows in your bedroom. Walk the room in VR until it feels like yours.
The model coordinates the construction. Subs see exactly what their finished work should look like — not as a substitute for the construction documents, but as a coordinated companion to them. Quantities are precise. Costs are calculated. Bi-weekly transparent budget reports keep clients in control of every dollar — to the very day.
Daily logs and photos. Any change you want made will be made in the model first — so you can approve it before it's built.
Most builders manage projects through documents. Drawings get marked up. Spec sheets pile up in inboxes. Spreadsheets multiply. Every document is a snapshot of one moment, owned by one role — and the moment a decision changes, that document is wrong.
We don't manage the project through documents. We manage it through the model — a single, living, three-dimensional truth that every stakeholder reads from and writes to. Change the cabinet finish in the model and the price updates, the vendor knows, the sub sees the new spec, the client signs off in VR, the budget reflects it.
The model isn't a deliverable. The model is the project.
Decisions made once in the model propagate to every stakeholder instantly. No re-keying, no re-sending, no version drift.
Every component carries its own intelligence — geometry, finish, vendor, price, install spec — captured once, used everywhere.
One canonical Sheet per project, fed by one canonical model. There is no second version of the truth.
The whole stack runs on tools your team already has — SketchUp, Google Drive, Buildertrend. No enterprise license required, no new platform to learn, nothing to migrate.
A subcontractor with a phone can see exactly what an architect with a workstation sees. The barrier to participation is zero.
Components are tagged by Cost Category, Storey, Status, and 30+ other dimensions. Filter, query, and audit the whole project in seconds.
When the answer is already in the model, you stop submitting requests for information. The model is the information.
PMM on the Ground means a sub on a roof in February has the same data as the project manager at her desk in June.
Every project gathers the same cast of disciplines around the same coordinated model — each contributing what they know best, each reading what they need most. Hover or tap any role to see what they put into the model and what they get from it.
Hover or tap any role to see what they put into the model — and what they get from it.
They give the model its bones. Whether their authoritative drawings live in Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, or any other BIM platform, an IFC export becomes the structural foundation every other layer of intelligence rests on. They retain authorship of the construction documents; PMM gives them continuous clash detection and constructability feedback in return.
Structural, mechanical, electrical, civil — engineering disciplines contribute their systems to the same coordinated model. Conflicts surface before construction, not after. When the architect or designer changes something upstream, the engineer sees it the moment it happens, not three weeks later in a drawing review.
Selections, finishes, fixtures, fabrics, furniture, decor — the layer of the home that makes it feel like home. PMM Connection lets them tag every component with type, vendor, cost code, and finish. Real-time pricing means no client falls in love with a chandelier they can't afford. Allowance status is visible at a glance.
Vendors, prices, schedules, deadlines, change orders, draw requests. The PM lives in the Sheet — adding commercial intelligence to the model the designers built. Bi-weekly transparent budget rollups mean the client always knows where their money is. PMM Compass provides the cross-project rollup that lets leadership see every project at once.
The keeper of process integrity. On many projects this is the Project Manager wearing a second hat; on larger ones it's a dedicated role. The Coordinator owns the schema — making sure components are tagged correctly, attributes are consistent, and the data discipline that makes PMM work doesn't drift over time. They are the reason ten projects look like one.
Trilogy on the ground — sequencing the actual construction, coordinating trades, managing field conditions, holding the schedule. The Builder reads the model continuously: what's specified, what's been ordered, what's been changed since the last walkthrough. The model tells them what to build; their boots on the ground make it real.
A roofer, a tile setter, a cabinet installer. They open the project link on their phone, search for their components, and see the spec, the photo, the price, and the install instructions — exactly what was approved, with no game of telephone in between. The same data the project manager sees, in their pocket, with no login required.
The reason all of this exists. They walk through their home in VR before construction begins. They sign off on selections inside the model. They receive bi-weekly budget reports that show every line, every vendor, every dollar. They are not sold a finished product — they are partners in building it.
The methodology had been forming for years before we gave it a name. Long before "BIM" became a buzzword, our designers were modeling homes in three dimensions — not as a marketing flourish, but because it was the only way to actually understand what we were about to build. The 2D drawing told you what should happen. The model told you what would happen.
In 2017 we made it official. We coined Project Management Modeling — PMM — to describe the way we'd been working: a unified process where architecture, design, engineering, construction, and client decisions all converged on a single coordinated model. The deliverable wasn't the drawing set. The deliverable was the model, and the home that came out of it.
Over the past decade, PMM has shaped projects like Mallard Lane, Storm Meadow, Tiger Road, Three Peaks, and Hamilton Creek. Each was its own design problem; each was solved through the same fundamental discipline. The Trilogy clients who've lived inside their virtual homes before walking the real ones describe the experience the same way every time: they knew what they were getting before we broke ground, because they had already lived in it.
It was while standing in a gallery in Hanoi one day that I learned to appreciate the true power of Trilogy's 3D modeling technology.
For a decade we ran the PMM process across four pieces of software that didn't talk to each other. Designers re-keyed selections from SketchUp into spreadsheets; project managers re-keyed those into Buildertrend; subs got the wrong version. PMM Tools is the bridge. Built in 2026 with AI assistance, it eliminates manual data entry across every handoff in our existing workflow — without forcing anyone to change the software they already use.
Hover or tap any stage to see what happens there →
Most of our architectural partners work in Revit, but PMM is platform-agnostic. ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Bentley, Rhino with IFC export — any tool that can produce a clean IFC file can feed PMM. The architect retains full ownership of their construction documents; PMM imports the intelligence of their model without disturbing the source.
For a decade the PMM process worked because our team made it work — manually carrying data across software that wouldn't talk to each other. The intelligence was always in the people, the methodology, and the model. In 2026 we partnered with AI to build the missing connective tissue: PMM Connection automates IFC tagging, PMM Horizon pushes the model to the Sheet on every save, PMM Relay auto-syncs to Buildertrend in the background. The methodology stayed. The friction disappeared.
Each tool plays a specific role in the PMM pipeline. Most projects don't need all eight — pick the surface that matches your seat at the table. Designer? Start with Connection and Horizon. Project Manager? Live in in the Sky and Compass. Sub? on the Ground is for you. The whole suite ships with full guides below.
Every tool ships with a full, downloadable user guide — written in the same Trilogy editorial voice as our project documentation. View in the browser or grab the markdown for offline reference.
| Tool | Audience | Version | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMM Connection | Designers · BIM Coordinators | v0.17.1 | HTML MD |
| PMM Horizon | Designers | v0.4.0 | HTML MD |
| PMM Converter | Designers | — | HTML MD |
| PMM on the Ground | Subcontractors · Foremen · Installers | v0.3.2 | HTML MD |
| PMM in the Sky | Project Managers | — | HTML MD |
| PMM Compass | Leadership · Admin | — | HTML MD |
| PMM Bridge | Project Managers · Designers | v1.0 | HTML MD |
| PMM Relay | Ops · IT | v0.1.1 | HTML MD |