A builder who reads drawings the way an architect does — because he was trained to.

Doty began in an architecture school's model shop. Before it was a construction company it was a pair of hands learning that a joint you can draw is not the same as a joint you can build, and that the distance between the two is where most houses fall apart.

James Doty holds a Bachelor of Architecture. He spent the years after school on working sites — first framing and finishing, then managing — and what he took from both halves of that education is the sense of a drawing as a promise a builder owes the architect. That view shapes how the company runs today.

We take on a small number of projects each year, led personally by James and always in concert with the design team. Past collaborators include Artu Architecture, Denegri Bessai Studio, MacroSpaces, Studio AC, and Canfield & Co. The trades we bring with us are a small roster we have built one project at a time over more than a decade.

Our job, in the end, is unglamorous and exact: read every sheet, raise the detail that needs raising before it becomes a problem on site, and deliver the house the architect drew. Nothing less, and nothing else.