Straight answers to what people actually ask about Archie AI — what it is, the full list of what it can do, what it costs, who can join, where it works, where its data comes from, why the negotiation report can be trusted, how realtor matching works, how Archie stays honest, and how member data is handled. Every answer is concrete and checkable on a live page.
The FAQ gives straight answers to what people actually ask about Archie: what it is, the full list of what it can do, what it costs (it is free, and today charges no one), who can join, where it works, and how member data is handled.
Every answer is written to be checkable on a live page rather than aspirational: if the FAQ says a tool exists, you can open it; if it describes a policy, the policy page says the same thing in the same terms.
It also explains where Archie's data comes from — named government sources like FEMA flood maps, NOAA climate records, and the FBI's public crime data, with a citation on every fact — how Archie stays honest with admitted unknowns and no invented scores, and how realtor matching works, including the future-tense referral model where the closing agent, never the member, will pay the fee.
The complete question-and-answer text is published openly on this page, so both people and AI assistants reading the raw page get the same answers, word for word.
Archie AI is a free web and mobile app for everything about a home, in one place. You can design a dream home from a plain-language description, turn it into a complete architectural blueprint set drafted sheet by sheet, run an AI plan check on drawings, follow permit guidance that links to official local applications, estimate build costs piece by piece, do the financing math, browse homes for sale with photo tours and inspection context, prepare for a negotiation with cited public facts, and connect with realtors and licensed professionals whose credentials are shown up front.
Archie is built to bring work to realtors — never away from them. It prepares people first, then connects them to the professionals who close, inspect, wire, and build.
Every one of these is a live page you can open right now: dream-home design from a plain-language description; room redesign and furnishing from a photo of your own space; complete architectural blueprint sets — cover sheet, floor plans, elevations, sections, and schedules — with an open gallery of finished sets; an AI plan check that reads uploaded drawings page by page; a permit guide with direct links to official local applications and a practice mode for rehearsing a real form; an itemized construction cost estimator; a financing calculator; a home market with photo tours, videos, and inspection context; fact-based negotiation prep built on cited public sources; a realtor directory built on real sales history; sixteen trades of licensed pros with license and insurance shown up front; a leaderboard where every ranked job was confirmed by the client it was done for; guides to inspections, title, taxes and zoning, land, home health hazards, and real-estate scams; a homeowner dictionary; and Ask Archie for plain-language answers.
When you get stuck, a real person joins you on a live support call — and with your OK can see your screen and walk you through it step by step.
Nothing. Archie is free, and today it charges no one — no subscriptions, no paywalls, and no fees for members, realtors, or licensed pros. There is no paid tier.
The plan for later is the oldest model in real estate: when referrals go live, an agent who closes a deal with a member they met through Archie will pay a referral fee out of their own commission. Members will never pay it, and Archie will never charge professionals for leads.
Anyone can use the public pages without an account — the gallery, the market, the permit guide, the calculators, and every educational guide are open to all.
Membership is free. Because Archie's whole job is matching each member with the realtor they meet through Archie, people join as buyers or sellers only if they are not already represented by their own agent — that keeps everyone clear of disputes over who earned the commission. Realtors and licensed pros are welcome and join through their own path, with license details shown publicly on their profiles.
Archie's realtor directory is built on facts you can check: each realtor's real sales history, the areas they actually serve, and the languages they speak — never self-written reviews. Members browse, compare, and message the realtor who fits through Archie when they are ready to talk.
The leaderboard ranks professionals only by client-confirmed work: a pro logs a completed job, the client it was done for confirms it, and only then does it count. Nothing on the leaderboard is self-reported.
Archie fully supports Florida, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, New Jersey today. Coverage of the U.S. East Coast is coming soon — no launch dates announced yet.
Live home-listing feeds today: Florida.
The permit guide goes down to the county or city level in every supported state, and the coverage list in the footer of every page comes from the same single registry as this answer — so it is always the current truth.
Wherever Archie gathers real-world facts — negotiation prep, cost market checks — every fact must carry a citation to a public source, and when something cannot be verified, Archie says so plainly instead of inventing a number. An honest "unknown" is treated as a valid answer.
Archie is also honest about being AI: it can make mistakes, so everything it produces is a sample for learning, and it tells you to verify important decisions with a licensed professional. Archie does not promise outcomes — it shows its sources so you can check them yourself.
From the government's own published numbers, cited by name. The negotiation report draws the home's flood zone from FEMA's flood maps; the local climate picture — heat, cold, storms, and what they mean for utility bills — from NOAA climate records; crime context from the FBI's public crime data, compared against the state rather than turned into an invented safety score; current mortgage math from the official weekly mortgage-rate survey; the area's home-price direction from the federal house-price index; property-tax and sale-history facts from county records; income and cost-of-living context from U.S. Census data; and environmental checks from EPA contamination listings and EPA and CDC radon data.
Every fact in a report links to the public source it came from, so you — or your agent — can open the citation and read the original. Archie's educational guides work the same way: official sources, named and dated.
Because you do not have to take Archie's word for anything: every fact in the report carries a live citation to a public source — government flood maps, climate records, crime data, county records — that you can open and check yourself. When the public record is silent, the report says "unknown" instead of inventing an answer, and there are no made-up scores or letter grades. Older public figures are labeled with their dates instead of being passed off as current, and if there is not enough verifiable information to reason from, the report says so plainly.
It is free for every approved member, and it is educational preparation — not an appraisal and not advice. The report ends in a suggested plan to bring to your realtor, who makes the actual calls with you.
Your private conversations with realtors and pros are encrypted and visible only to the participants — no one else, not even Archie admins, can read them. Messages you send to Archie Support are read by the Archie team so they can respond, and that access is logged.
Archie's Terms of Service include consent to marketing and to sharing personal information with partners — this is stated plainly rather than buried, and the Privacy Policy spells out exactly what is collected and kept. Read it before joining; it is short and written in plain language.
No — and it doesn't try. A home is human work: an agent reading a room during a negotiation, an inspector on a roof, an electrician who knows what's behind that wall. Every deal still needs licensed humans to close it, inspect it, wire it, and build it.
What Archie takes off your plate is the busywork — decoding forms, drawing options, running numbers, explaining jargon — so that when you sit down with a realtor, a lender, or a builder, you already understand what's going on. For professionals, that means clients who arrive prepared, a free public profile with your license up front, and a reputation built from client-confirmed work.
Yes. The blueprint gallery, the home market, the permit guide, the cost estimator, the financing calculator, the homeowner dictionary, the scam-protection guide, and every other educational page are public — no sign-up required. A free account is only needed to save your own work and generate your own designs, drawings, and reports.