Everything you need to build, review, or browse on WHOLE.

WHOLE Neighborhoods is a public marketplace of pre-reviewed single-family, duplex, and ADU designs matched to vacant Indianapolis parcels. Every design has already cleared a structured city review — so when you choose one, you skip months of plan review.

WHOLE Neighborhoods is a marketplace for licensed architects who want to build durable infill homes at neighborhood scale. You submit pre-reviewed designs once, list them publicly, and the City does plan-review work upfront — so each homeowner contract is fast, predictable, and parcel-specific.

• Active licensure in Indiana, verifiable against state records.
• Current E&O insurance covering residential design at ≥ $1M.
• Demonstrated infill experience — at least one residential project on a lot ≤ 5,000 sq ft within the last 5 years.
• A coherent practice statement that names a stance, not a service list.
• No active license discipline in any state.

City Staff at the Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) review pre-reviewed candidates through Accela — the City's system of record. WHOLE is observational; Accela governs. Reviewers check four classes of compliance:

1. Zoning — typology against the parcel's overlay (front yard, side yard, lot coverage, height, FAR).
2. Egress & life safety — IRC chapters R310 / R311.
3. Energy — Indiana Residential Code Ch. 11.
4. Form-based overlays — Mass Ave, Mile Square, and historic district guidelines where applicable.

You set the per-parcel license fee for each design (typical range $8k – $24k). WHOLE charges a transparent 10% platform fee on the license, plus a flat $250 consultation handling fee per matched consultation. Funds are held in escrow and released on milestone:

• 30% when the owner accepts the consultation.
• 70% when parcel-specific drawings are delivered to Accela.

Receivables show up on /architect/payments with a per-line breakdown and downloadable PDF receipts.

Accela governs. WHOLE observes. WHOLE Neighborhoods does not write to your records. It mirrors relevant signals — submission counts, review queues, inspection states — into a single editorial surface so DMD staff can spot trends without leaving the system of record.

A scheduled sync polls Accela every 15 minutes for cases in any stage between Submitted and Issued. The sync writes only into WHOLE's read replica:

• Case ID and current stage
• Parcel reference
• Linked design (if any)
• Reviewer notes that DMD has marked public

The Sync state is displayed on every case row: Synced, Pending sync, or Sync error. Errors are routed to devops@wholeneighborhoods.org and rarely block governance.

WHOLE's catalog is intentionally narrow. Six typologies cover ~92% of Indianapolis infill demand and let DMD invest review time once per typology, not once per project.

When DMD or City Council passes an ordinance that affects pre-reviewed designs (height limits, lot coverage, energy targets), it must be recorded on WHOLE so affected designs are flagged for resubmission. Platform Admin records the change at /admin/code-changes. WHOLE then notifies every architect whose designs intersect the change.

Fifteen terms used across the platform. If you only read one section before a stakeholder meeting, read this one.

A summary of the Indianapolis Revised Code and Indiana Residential Code sections most often invoked during WHOLE design reviews. These are summaries — always defer to the current code text at municode.com .

Working documents that match the WHOLE process exactly. Bring them into your first call with an architect or your first DMD pre-submittal meeting.

Four lanes — owners, architects, city, partnerships. Use the right one and you'll usually hear back the same business day.