About

A Texas builder that draws before it builds.

Founded in 2009, SmartBuild is a full-service general contractor working across Austin, San Antonio, and the surrounding Hill Country counties.

We started SmartBuild to fix the two things people dread about construction: surprise costs and vanishing accountability.

The name is the method. We treat every build, a custom home or a commercial shell, as a measured problem: draw it precisely, price it in the open, and hand it to one crew that owns the outcome. That is how a project comes in on the number and on the calendar, and how it still holds up a decade later.

Fifteen years in, we build for homeowners and developers across Central Texas who would rather see the plan than hear the pitch.

A tower crane rising over an active SmartBuild construction site.
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Our standard

Four rules we don't bend.

  1. 01

    Draw it first

    Every project is measured, detailed, and priced before a single board is cut. Precision on paper is cheaper than precision on site.

  2. 02

    Price it honestly

    A real line-item estimate up front. If something changes, you hear it from us early, in writing, before it costs you.

  3. 03

    One superintendent

    One person owns your schedule and your site from start to handover. You always know who to call.

  4. 04

    Build for the climate

    Texas heat, sun, and soil are unforgiving. We spec and detail for the long run, not the first year.

Warm vertical cedar cladding boards. A rugged dry-stacked stone wall detail.

Materials & craft

Honest materials, detailed to last.

Limestone and masonry, blackened steel, cedar and hardwood: the materials Texas has always built with, detailed by people who care how an edge meets a corner. We would rather do one thing right than three things fast.

  • Licensed & insured in Texas
  • Texas Association of Builders member
  • 10-year structural warranty
  • One superintendent per project
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