# Call to all Architects. Three months free.
If you're an architect who can't get approved for energy or daylight modelling software, this is for you. We're giving **three months of free platform access** to Better Building to practicing architects in **Australia, New Zealand and the United States**. No trial-size features, no bait-and-switch to a paid tier mid-way through. The only functional limitation is a maximum building size of 1000m2 (or 10764 square foot). ### **Why?** We haven't had a bump on the head or believe giving away anything for free converts you to a paid user. After seven years of running this platform, we've arrived at an honest and slightly uncomfortable conclusion: > architects, generally speaking, don't or can't engage deeply with energy or daylight modelling side of their designs. Let's be very clear, this isn't a complaint and varies highly depending on the market, location you are in and individuals in your business. Architects manage consultants, clients, council submissions, contractor queries, and about hundred other things simultaneously. Energy or daylight modelling tends to get handed to a specialist somewhere between schematic design and documentation, which means it also gets handed away as a design input. The project pays for that decision in consultant fees. But the less obvious cost is to the architect's own understanding of the building they've designed. Energy or daylight modelling becomes someone else's problem and something that happens to your project rather than something that informs it. That's the thing we're trying to shift. ### **What** Better Building **does?** Let's give you the quick overview. Better Building runs energy, daylight, moisture, and carbon analysis in one place, and it scales with how far you actually want to take it.
Most analysis tools assume you either want a quick compliance check or a full detailed model. Better Building works across that entire range, from early concept through to full energy modelling, and you can stop wherever the project warrants. Not every building needs a detailed model. But every building benefits from knowing it's heading in the right direction before that direction becomes expensive to change. The early-stage use case is probably the most underused. Running analysis during concept design, even rough analysis, tells you whether your orientation, massing, and glazing ratios are working with the climate or against it. That's information worth having in week two, not week twenty-two. And because Better Building covers energy, daylight, moisture, and carbon together rather than treating them as separate problems requiring separate tools, you're not making a decision about one variable while accidentally breaking another. It's not going to replace specialist simulation on technically complex projects. But it closes a gap that most practices currently manage by either skipping the analysis or outsourcing it at the point where the results can't change anything useful. Knowing you're heading the right direction, early enough to actually steer, is what it's built for. ### **What we need from you?** To be eligible, you'll need to be a current member of a **recognised professional association** in Australia, New Zealand, or the United States. That means NZIA, the AIA, the AAA, the AIASA, or equivalent state and national bodies. This isn't bureaucracy for its own sake. It's the only reasonable way we have of confirming you're a practicing architect. If you're not currently a member of a professional body, we'd have no reliable way to verify that, so we've drawn the line there. It's a blunt instrument, but it's the one we have. If you are a member, the signup process is straightforward. No portfolio submission, no justification of interest, no form asking you to describe your design philosophy in 200 words or less. You sign up, you get access, you use it. ### **Not convinced? Here is the final pitch** We believe that architects who engage with energy or daylight modelling early make better design decisions. We also believe that many of todays modelling tools are either too simple to be useful or too complex to be practical without dedicated training. We sit in the sweet spot. Three months is enough time to form an actual opinion about that rather than a first-impression one. [Book a Demo and let's see if we can peak your interest.](https://betterbuilding.io/book-a-demo) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.betterbuilding.io/sign-up-and-plans/news-and-updates/2026/call-to-all-architects.-three-months-free..md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.