Getting started
Learn what Solum is, how it is organized, and what you can do before signing in.
Solum is Forcir's new-construction home discovery platform. It helps buyers compare builders, communities, developments, home types, floorplans, prices, documents, and timelines while a project is still being marketed or built.
Solum is organized around the real-world shape of new-construction buying:
- A buyer is often deciding between communities before deciding between exact homes.
- A builder may sell multiple developments inside one community.
- A development can have multiple floorplans, documents, media, and inquiry paths.
- A team workspace may exist for the builder or billing contact, but public discovery remains available to signed-out visitors.
What Solum is
Solum is a product for:
- Finding new-construction homes.
- Comparing builders and communities.
- Reviewing public development detail pages.
- Downloading available documents after signing in.
- Submitting buyer inquiries.
- Managing selected builder profile, media, billing, and promotion tasks for invited teams.
What Solum is not
Solum is not:
- A resale MLS search.
- A mortgage qualification or application product.
- A purchase contract product.
- A closing or conveyancing product.
- A guarantee of price, availability, incentive, or completion date.
- A fully self-serve public builder catalog editor.
Core concepts
| Concept | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Builder | The company building or selling new-construction homes. |
| Community | The area, neighborhood, or master-planned place where developments are located. |
| Development | A specific builder offering that can appear in search and receive inquiries. |
| Development group | A public card that groups one builder's developments inside one community. |
| Floorplan | A home plan associated with a development when structured data is available. |
| Asset | A public image or document, such as a logo, hero image, gallery image, or PDF. |
| Inquiry | A buyer-submitted request for follow-up about a specific development. |
| Team | A signed-in workspace for shared product access. |
| Role | A team-scoped permission bundle such as Owner, Admin, Member, or Billing. |
| Platform role | A Forcir operator role that can expose internal admin tooling. |
Main navigation
The public header includes:
| Item | What it does | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Explore | Opens the main search experience. | This is the primary buyer task. |
| Builders | Opens the public builder directory. | Builder pages depend on published builder data. |
| Saved | Opens a saved-homes placeholder. | Saved homes are not available yet. |
| Feedback | Opens a feedback form. | Use this for incorrect data, broken pages, or product feedback. |
| Sign in | Opens account login. | Replaced by the avatar menu when signed in. |
Signed-in users see an avatar menu that can include:
| Item | Appears when | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Teams | User is signed in. | Opens the dashboard of available teams. |
| Settings | User is signed in. | Opens personal profile settings. |
| Admin Panel | User has a Forcir platform role. | Opens internal operator tooling. Team roles do not create this link. |
| Theme options | User is signed in on desktop, or using the mobile menu. | Switches light, dark, or system appearance. |
| Sign out | User is signed in. | Ends the current session. |
Public browsing
Public visitors can:
- Search new-construction inventory.
- Use city, price, bedroom, home type, construction status, and map filters where available.
- Open public development pages.
- Open builder pages, community pages, and builder-in-community pages.
- Share search, builder, community, and development URLs.
- Submit a buyer inquiry.
- Send feedback.
Public visitors cannot download locked development documents. Locked documents show a sign-in prompt.
Signed-in access
Signing in can unlock:
- Account settings.
- Team dashboard.
- Invitation acceptance.
- Team workspaces.
- Billing portal access when permitted.
- Authenticated document downloads.
- Builder profile and media tools for linked builder teams.
- Operator/admin links for Forcir platform roles.
Signing in alone does not grant every feature. Many actions also require team membership, a specific role, a linked builder profile, or an available product area.
Regional coverage
The current buyer experience is centered on Calgary and nearby new-construction inventory. Solum's data model can support more markets, but each market needs prepared catalog, location, and map data before public coverage should be treated as complete.
If map pins or neighborhoods are sparse, list search may be more complete than map browsing.
Data accuracy expectations
New-construction data changes often. A builder may update:
- Base prices.
- Lot premiums.
- Incentives.
- Availability.
- Model names.
- Square footage.
- Completion timing.
- Deposit requirements.
- Brochures, specification sheets, and PDFs.
Solum displays the best structured catalog information available. Treat it as a discovery and comparison tool. Confirm purchase-sensitive details with the builder or assigned follow-up contact before making decisions.
First tasks
Search for new homes
Start on Explore new-construction homes. Use search suggestions, quick filters, typed filters, or the map to narrow options.
Compare a public page
Open a development, builder, community, or builder-in-community page from search. See Development, builder, and community pages for what each page can show.
Submit buyer intent
Use Take the next step on a development page. See Submit an inquiry for required fields and follow-up expectations.
Accept team access
Use the invitation link sent by a team owner, admin, or Forcir operator. See Accounts, settings, and invitations.
Diagnose missing controls
If a user expects a button or page but cannot see it, start with Access, permissions, and missing controls.