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You pick two dates
The day you want to begin, and the day you want to be living in your home.
Free to use · Nothing to install
The Sierra Action Planner & Projection
It shows you every step of building your log home, and how long each one takes.
Building on your own land brings a lot of questions. What comes first? How long will this take? What am I forgetting? Put in two dates and the planner lays out all 10 phases for you — in plain English, free, with no building experience needed.
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Which one are you here for?
They all work the same way: two dates in, and every step comes back with a date on it. What changes is the phases each one carries.
Log home build
You are building on your own land
The whole build, from the first loan meeting to the day you get your keys. Put in the day you want to start and the day you want to move in, and every job lands on a real calendar date.
Open the planner Real estate agentsYou are listing land or an estate
Four ready-made plans — raw land, a 90-day farm rotation, vacant-land escrow, and estate to close — so nothing slips between the listing and the closing table.
See the plans Anything elseYou have a project of your own
Any project with a start, an end, and steps in between. Name your own phases and milestones, or describe the project and edit the draft we write for you.
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For builders
Open the Builder Portal
Are you a log-home builder?
The Sierra Builder Portal is the other side of the same build: your jobs, your crew, and the photos and paperwork from site, in one place on the phone as well as the desk. It is free while in beta — for a limited time.
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What is the Action Planner?
It is a free planning tool. You tell it when you want to start and when you want to move in. It then shows you every job that has to happen in between, in the right order, with a date on each one.
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It fills in the work
All 10 phases and 56 milestones — loans, well, septic, permits, foundation, framing, finishes — spread across your dates.
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You check things off
Tick jobs as you finish them and print a clean report for your bank or builder any time.
The simple idea behind it
Time+the jobs you do in it=a plan
That is all a plan really is. The Action Planner just does the hard part for you — putting the right jobs in the right order, over the time you actually have.
The Sierra Log & Timber Action Framework
The complete log home journey
From dream to reality, in three steps. Every one of them is free.
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One free set of drawings, with 10 real uses — from talking to lenders to walking your land.
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The Sierra Action Planner
All 10 phases, from first loan meeting to the day you get your keys.
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Why we made it
We built this for you, and we paid for it
Anything you get for free, somebody paid for. We paid for this one. After 30-plus years of building log homes, we know exactly where people get stuck — so we put what we know into a tool and gave it away. Use it with us, or use it with anyone. It is yours either way.
So you know what is coming
In seconds you can see what has to happen, why it happens in that order, and how long it really takes.
Better meetings at the bank
Walk in with a real drawing and a dated schedule instead of an idea. It changes how people treat you.
A schedule you can read
Builders use big spreadsheets. This shows the same thing as a simple picture of your phases over time.
Your builder can adjust it
Add what your county requires, remove what does not apply, and stretch any phase to match your land.
A picture of the whole thing
The “Time Dome”
Here is the whole plan in one picture. Think of an arch standing over your future home. One foot is the day you start. The other foot is the day you move in. All the work sits underneath it, in order. Change your dates and watch everything move.
How long do you want to take?
⏱ Your timeline · 12 months
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Where you start
The day you begin, or close on your land
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Where you finish
The day you move in
Under the arch sit all the phases, in order. You give the planner your two dates and it spreads the work out underneath — getting the land ready, drawings and permits, then the building itself. Each block below is one phase, and the wider it is, the longer it takes.
Useful today, and all the way to move-in
It helps the first day you open it, and it keeps helping until you get your keys.
It teaches you the process in 30 seconds
You find out what you did not know before you sign anything or spend a dollar.
See the right orderWell, septic, permits, grading, foundation — all in the order they have to happen.
Fit it to your datesPut your own start and finish dates on it and see if your plan is realistic.
Handy right away: bring it to your first call with the bank, or to the kitchen-table talk with family.
It keeps track of where you are
Once the work starts, the planner keeps up with it. Nothing to learn, nothing to install.
Tick off the workCheck jobs off as they get done and see how far along you are.
Handles delaysIf something runs late, stretch that phase and the rest of your dates move with it.
Keeps your paperworkAdd your well report, soil test, and permits to the phase they belong to.
Stays with you: the same plan, kept up to date until the day you move in.
What you walk away with
A printed plan you can hand to anyone
When you are done, the planner makes you a Sierra Action Plan & Projection Report — every job, every date, and your drawings, in one PDF you can print or email.
Add your own paperworkDrop in your deed, site survey, or soil test and it goes in the right phase.
Shows you are seriousGive it to your bank or your builder and they can see you have done your homework.
Output template
Action Plan & Projection
FINAL-SITE-PLAN.pdf
Coming soon
Your whole build, in your pocket
The Sierra Action Planner mobile app is in development. Check off milestones from the jobsite, photograph progress straight into a phase, and get a nudge when the next inspection is due — your dome, your dates, always in sync.
✓ Check off milestones on site, offline
✓ Snap photos and files into any phase
✓ Reminders before every inspection and draw
iOS · in beta▶ Android · in beta
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Go from an empty lot to a real plan
Put in your two dates, add your land details, and print a plan you can actually use. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing.