Imagine if...All New HomesWere
Net Zero Carbon
Zero Energy Bill
Now Imagine...These Homes
Solved Social Issues
Activated Young People
Resolving Talent Shortages
That's what we're delivering with
Carbon Coyote Ecosystem
At the centre of this ecosystem, Carbon Coyote orchestrates Net Zero home design, housebuilding delivery and the creation of Circular Social Value. With the addition of built-sector AI systems we've created one joined-up framework that accelerates dealing with social, climate and housing crises.
Homes
Our sister Community Interest Company - housebuilder and delivery body, redirecting surplus development profit into Circular Social Value.
AI systems
Our AI Business operating system for the built sector - focused on making your staff dedicate their time to value creation, not repetative tasks.We're looking for...
Home Buyers Delivery Partners AI-Ready Businesses Investors
Most new homes ask you to fit around them.
Our Net Zero Carbon homes
are shaped around you from the start.
No extending later.
No retrofitting later.
No energy bills from day one.
That's what we provide with our custom homes.
We allow your new home to fit your lifestyle from the outset, while helping protect you from future running costs.
Here's the journey, start to finish...
You'll see the development advertised on a local site.
Like the look of the house and the price, much like any other house buying process.
You let us know you're interested.
Then we work with you to adjust your home to fit.
This is where the home starts to become yours.
Don't want that ensuite, want a bigger bathroom? Done.
Want a wetroom downstairs for the kids? Done.
Want another room in the attic space? Done.
We've made it as easy to build a home as buy one.
You pick your ideal setup.
Pay a deposit.
We give you a move-in date.
You sit back and relax.
We'll take care of the design process, manage the build, and let you know when you can move in.
Simplicity at its best.
But it's not just about simplicity
Why? Because our homes are designed to be...
Net Zero Carbon
Zero Energy Bills certified
Future-proofed, ready for 2050 targets
Partly offsite manufactured
What does that mean to you?
Net Zero - reduces your carbon footprint
No need to retrofit - saves future costs to upgrade your home
No household energy bills from day one - reduces your monthly outgoings
Offsite system - higher build quality preventing quality issues prevalent in the new home sector
Ultimately saving you up to
£140,000 over your mortgage term.*
If you want a home
That's higher quality
Planet positive
provides long-term certainty
and lasting financial security
Register your interest
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But it doesn't stop there.
What if buying your new home
gave back to your community
creating positive outcomes and new homes
That's Circular Social Value
Our homes are delivered by We Build : Net Zero CIC.
Our sister company and a Community Interest Company.
It can't just chase profit.
It's bound to create community benefit.
Every development WB:NZ builds generates surplus profit.
A normal housebuilder keeps it.
WB:NZ puts it back into your community.
That's the circle.
We work with teams who believe new homes should do more than meet the minimum.
Those with sites where higher quality, Net Zero performance, buyer input, and social value can create a stronger outcome.
This is for teams who can see the direction the market is moving, and need a credible way to deliver it on a real site.
Housebuilders
For housebuilders with sites where Custom Self Build allocations are creating a headache or bottleneck to smooth delivery.
Carbon Coyote helps turn that obligation from a problem into a stronger proposition across the site:
Net Zero performance
Zero Energy Bills and
Social Value Uplift
We resolve that problem without affecting your own build program.
Making that route to planning that little bit smoother.
Get in touch and have us work with you from the beginning.
Landowners
For landowners, why not create legacy rather than another standard housing scheme.
Carbon Coyote and WB:NZ can help optimise your land to deliver planet positive, higher quality homes that put something back into the community.
Creating a legacy you can stand behind.
We can take the whole process off your hands and shape the delivery around that benefit from the beginning.
Public bodies & mission-led partners
For public bodies and mission-led partners, housing can do more than meet demand.
Carbon Coyote, WB:NZ and our wider delivery partners can optimise your housing delivery to exceed expectations in:
Net Zero Carbon
Affordable Homes
Social Value Outcomes
We can price-match speculative housebuilders while delivering homes that create far fewer future problems for the communities you represent.
Delivery Partners
- octopusenergy
Octopus Energy
Certified Zero Bills delivery partner - WardWilliams
Ward Williams Associates
Cost, project and built-environment consultancy -
Marrons
Planning and development consultancy -
PYC Group
Offsite / timber-frame delivery partner -
Shiel Developments
Development delivery partner -
Agile Property
Affordable, Low Carbon Housing Partner -
Inspire 2 Ignite
Supporting young people who are NEET
If you run a built-sector business,
you already know AI is going to change the way work gets done.
The question is what to do with it.
Not another chatbot.
Not another dashboard.
You need a structured way to move your people out of operational drag,
and back into the work that grows the business.
The real waste in your business is not time.
It's talent.
If 60% of your team's week is going into work AI can already support.
then the other 40% is where your business actually grows.
That is where judgement lives.
Relationships, Strategy, Margin
and ultimately Growth.
is our AI operating system for SMEs.
Built around one living business memory.
and specialist AI Packs that support the operation around it.
Click through and explore Carbon Coyote Cortex
Explore Cortex Carbon Coyote Ltd is currently raising equity investment.
SEIS / EIS relief is available to eligible investors.
If you're interested in supporting a future where homes are:
Net Zero Carbon
Zero Energy Bills
Planet positive
And if you want to help launch Circular Social Value, and contribute to solving the social, housing and climate emergencies facing the UK, get in touch and we'll take you through the opportunity.
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Questions
Quick answers across the Ecosystem. Click the chevron to expand any question.
Ecosystem
What is the Carbon Coyote Ecosystem?
The Carbon Coyote Ecosystem is a...
The Carbon Coyote Ecosystem is a connected group of mission-aligned companies and delivery partners, working together to deliver Net Zero, Zero Bills, future-proofed homes, and to reinvest the surplus from housebuilding into measurable social value in the communities around them.
Carbon Coyote Ltd sits at the hub, leading design, running the professional services that coordinate delivery, and developing the tech stack that supports the wider operation. Around that hub sit our sister CIC housebuilder WB:NZ, our built-sector AI services layer CC Cortex, and a curated set of delivery partners, each chosen because they share the same goal of making housing work for everyone.
One operating model, one mission, several entities each playing a distinct role. The questions below unpack how each piece works, why the model is shaped this way, and what it means for buyers, partners, and the communities we build in.
How do Carbon Coyote, WB:NZ and CC Cortex each fit into the wider model?
Carbon Coyote Ltd is the hub...
Carbon Coyote Ltd is the hub of the ecosystem. It leads the design of the homes, coordinates the professional team responsible for delivering each project, provides built-sector management and advisory services, and takes the Principal Designer role where it applies. It is also where CC Cortex is developed. In simple terms, Carbon Coyote Ltd is where the design intent, the project coordination, and the technology come from.
WB:NZ is our sister Community Interest Company within the ecosystem. It is the housebuilder and delivery body responsible for taking sites through to completed homes. WB:NZ also operates the Circular Social Value model, redirecting surplus development profit into measurable social value uplift in the communities the homes are built in. Where Carbon Coyote Ltd designs and coordinates, WB:NZ builds and delivers.
CC Cortex is our built-sector AI services layer. It supports research, drafting, analysis, project documentation, and internal knowledge work for built-environment teams, including our own. Cortex is developed inside Carbon Coyote Ltd, but its purpose runs wider, helping the sector shift from manual operational drag to higher-value work.
Together, the three fit a clean shape. Carbon Coyote Ltd designs and runs the operation, WB:NZ delivers the homes and operates the Circular Social Value model, and CC Cortex makes the whole stack run faster and smarter. Each entity has a distinct role, and each one strengthens the others.
Why does Carbon Coyote combine Net Zero homes, Circular Social Value and built-sector AI in one framework?
Net Zero homes are being delivered...
Net Zero homes are being delivered today by good housebuilders. Built-sector AI is being built today by good technology companies. Both are real, both are useful, but on their own they leave the bigger problem untouched. The housing sector still works for the few rather than the many.
Circular Social Value is the piece that closes that loop, and it is ours. It is a self-sustaining model that redirects surplus development profit into measurable social value uplift in the communities the homes are built in. Nobody else is structuring housebuilding this way. It is the connective tissue that turns Net Zero homes and built-sector AI from two separate good ideas into a single model with compounding, real-world impact.
Net Zero homes generate the surplus. Circular Social Value gives that surplus a job. Built-sector AI gives the whole operation the speed and capacity to scale that model without losing quality or care, freeing professional teams from operational drag and letting them focus on the higher-value work that better homes actually require.
We arrived at this combination by looking at what the housing sector could already do, not what it might do one day. Net Zero homes can be built now. Energy bills can be eliminated now. AI can take meaningful operational load off built-environment teams now. The piece that was missing, the one that turns all of this into a connected, self-sustaining model with a mission, is Circular Social Value. That is why Carbon Coyote, WB:NZ and CC Cortex live inside one framework.
Home Buyers
How much input can I have into the design of my new home?
More than a standard new-build, with...
More than a standard new-build, with sensible limits. The exterior of your home is set by the design scheme for the site, which keeps the development visually coherent and means the planning constraints are already worked through. Inside the home is where the input happens.
Interior layouts can be adjusted, as long as the change is not structural and does not conflict with building regulations. Walls that are not load-bearing can be moved to suit how you actually want to live. Ensuites and wetrooms can be added or removed. Where the design and roof structure allows, you can add bedrooms, either above a flat roof section or as a dormer into the loft space. Kitchen interior layouts can be adjusted within a set of options, which keeps quality and finish consistent without forcing you into a single template.
Where you choose to add rooms or upgrade specifications, there will naturally be additional cost. The benefit is that it is all worked through, costed, and built in before you move in, rather than becoming a retrofit project that disrupts your life two or five years down the line.
It is a guided process with one point of contact, and a design team whose job is to be straight with you about what is possible, what is not, and how to get the most out of the choices that are open.
How is this different from buying a standard new-build home?
The short version: a Carbon Coyote...
The short version: a Carbon Coyote home is built to a higher standard, performs better, costs less to run, and gives you a say in how it works on the inside. A standard new-build does not usually offer any of those things.
Look at the wider UK new-build market and the picture is well known. Roughly three quarters of new homes are rated mediocre or poor, and around half experience serious problems in their first year. They tend to arrive without meaningful buyer input, with build quality that frequently disappoints, and with energy performance that will need retrofitting to meet 2050 standards. The buyer ends up living with the snags, paying the energy bills, and absorbing the upgrade cost later.
Carbon Coyote homes are designed and delivered differently. They are commissioned, so the interior layout is shaped around you within the limits of the site scheme. They are Net Zero in operation and designed under the Octopus Zero Bills model, which is built to eliminate household energy bills. They are future-proofed against 2050 performance expectations, so there is no retrofit burden coming down the line. And they are coordinated by a single professional team, with one point of contact, rather than handed off to whichever sales office answers the phone.
In other words, the difference is not a feature or two. It is a different category of new home, built to do better by the buyer and by the community around it.
What does "Zero Energy Bills certified" mean for me as a buyer?
Zero Energy Bills certified is a...
Zero Energy Bills certified is a programme run by Octopus Energy. Homes that meet the required performance standard are designed and equipped to eliminate household energy bills under an Octopus Zero Bills tariff. Carbon Coyote homes are designed and built to qualify under that model.
Practically, that means a home that does not need a traditional energy bill to keep the lights on, heat the rooms, and run the hot water. The performance is engineered into the fabric of the building and supported by on-site energy generation, battery storage, heat pump heating, and an Octopus smart tariff. The home produces enough of its own energy, manages what it stores and exports, and uses the grid as a backup rather than a primary supply.
What it means for you as a buyer is that running your home is no longer a constant outgoing in the way most households are used to. There is no traditional gas boiler servicing cycle. The home is designed to be comfortable across the year without depending on external energy supply. The specific terms of the Octopus Zero Bills programme apply, and the design team will walk you through how those work in practice for your home.
This is not a marketing badge. It is a certifiable performance standard, backed by one of the UK's largest energy companies. It is a real, working answer to the question of how much it costs to run a new home.
How does the process work from seeing a development advertised to moving in?
The process is much like buying...
The process is much like buying any other home off-plan, with one difference: the home you end up moving into is shaped around you.
Most buyers see a development advertised, register interest, and have a first conversation with our team to confirm what is available on the site. If you decide to proceed, you secure a plot by paying a reservation deposit, which is held in escrow.
From there, we ask for confirmation of how you intend to finance the home, either an Agreement in Principle from your mortgage provider, or proof of funds if you are a cash buyer. Once that is in place, the Carbon Coyote design team works with you to complete your design alterations, the agreed layout, finish, and any additions, all costed up front.
Carbon Coyote then takes the design through planning. Once consent is in place, WB:NZ deploys the funding to build your home, with the professional team handling construction on site. You will get progress updates and milestone walk-throughs where appropriate, but you are not project-managing anything during this phase.
At completion you take handover of a finished, certified home. We hand over keys, walk you through how the home operates, and get the Octopus Zero Bills setup activated so the home runs as designed from day one.
In short, it is a turnkey solution that gives you a custom home with the ease of buying off-plan. One point of contact, one design team, one delivery team, and a home that has been built around how you want to live.
Why are the homes described as future-proofed and ready for 2050 targets?
The UK has a legally binding...
The UK has a legally binding target to reach Net Zero by 2050, and the regulatory landscape is already moving towards it. Every home in the country will need to perform to that standard by then. Homes that fall short today will need to be brought up to standard later, and that work will fall to whoever owns the home at the time.
This is not just a new-build problem. Anyone buying an existing home, including the kind of period or characterful property that people often choose specifically to avoid new-build quality issues, is buying into the same retrofit obligation, and frequently a more complex one. Older buildings can be harder and more expensive to retrofit. Standard new-builds, meanwhile, tend to meet today's minimum rather than tomorrow's, so they need retrofitting too, just later in the curve. Either way, the retrofit cost lands on the homeowner, often disruptive, often expensive, and often arriving exactly when other life costs are at their peak.
Carbon Coyote homes are designed to clear those standards today rather than meet the minimum of yesterday's. They are fabric-first, Net Zero in operation, equipped with on-site generation, battery storage, and heat pump heating, and built to perform to standards that the wider housing market is still working towards. The result is a home that does not need a retrofit project bolted onto it in five, ten, or fifteen years' time.
That is what we mean by future-proofed. It is not a forecast, it is a deliberate design decision. We are building for the regulations and the climate reality coming down the line, not for the minimum sign-off threshold of today, and we are doing it in a way that is open to buyers who would otherwise avoid new-builds altogether.
How could a Carbon Coyote home save money over the mortgage term?
The saving comes mostly from costs...
The saving comes mostly from costs that a Carbon Coyote home is built not to have. The wider housing market is built around those costs, and over a typical mortgage term they add up to a sum the buyer of a standard home pays without ever really thinking about it.
Energy bills are the most visible line. A Carbon Coyote home is designed under the Octopus Zero Bills model and runs without a conventional household energy bill. That removes a payment most households make every single month, every year, for the entire time they own the home.
Retrofit cost is the line most buyers do not price in. Existing homes and standard new-builds will both need work to meet 2050 Net Zero standards, and the bill lands on whoever owns the home at the time. The work is often disruptive and often expensive. A Carbon Coyote home is built to that standard already, so the retrofit cost simply does not arrive.
Taken together, our modelling suggests savings of up to £140,000 over a typical mortgage term, set against an equivalent average four-bedroom home in the wider housing market. We use that comparison deliberately. The higher focus on quality is intended to bring buyers who would normally stay away from the new-build sector back into it, and the saving needs to make sense against the home they would otherwise have bought.
Circular Social Value
What is Circular Social Value?
Housing is one of the highest-revenue...
Housing is one of the highest-revenue sectors in the UK economy, with very significant value moving through it each year. Very little of that value tends to stay in the communities that developments are built around. Margins flow up to investors, landowners, contractors, and head offices, and the place that hosted the work is usually left with a road, some Section 106 obligations, and not much else.
Circular Social Value is the operating model that gives some of that surplus a different job. It is the connecting tissue between commercial outcome and community outcome, and it is built into the way the Carbon Coyote Ecosystem is structured, rather than bolted on around the edges.
It is self-sustaining by design. It is not philanthropy, not corporate social responsibility, and not a grant-funded programme that switches off when funding cycles change or political priorities shift. It is funded by the housebuilding itself. As long as the homes are being built, the social value is being created. The two are structurally linked, not optionally linked.
That structural link matters. It means the social value work does not compete with charities for the same shrinking pool of public money, and it does not depend on a sponsor staying interested for one more financial year. It also means the model amplifies what good operators on the ground can already do. Local partners running training, youth services, and community programmes gain a reliable funding partner whose commercial interests are aligned with theirs from the start, rather than at odds with them.
Circular Social Value is, in short, our answer to a familiar question. How do you make sure development actually benefits the community it lands in? We have made that benefit part of the model itself, not a side effect of it.
How does WB:NZ put surplus development profit back into communities?
WB:NZ is structured as a Community...
WB:NZ is structured as a Community Interest Company, which is the part that makes the rest of the model possible. A CIC has a mission-locked legal form. Its assets and surpluses cannot quietly be distributed back to shareholders or stripped out by a future owner. They are committed, by the company's own legal constitution, to the social purpose it was set up to deliver. Choosing a housebuilding partner that had that structure was a deliberate decision, not an afterthought.
In practice the flow works like this. WB:NZ builds and sells the homes on a development. Once build costs, development costs, and financing obligations are settled, a portion of the resulting surplus is allocated to Circular Social Value rather than treated as conventional retained or distributed profit. That allocation is the surplus that does a different job, and it is directed, by design, into the community that hosted the development, rather than pooled centrally and spent somewhere else.
From there, the surplus is channelled through Inspire 2 Ignite, a Community Interest Company set up specifically to address the UK's NEET crisis. Nearly a million young people aged sixteen to twenty-four in this country are currently not in education, employment, or training. Inspire 2 Ignite exists to activate those young people and ultimately bring them into work, helping to resolve talent shortages in our industries and others. Circular Social Value gives Inspire 2 Ignite a reliable, structural funding partner to scale that work at the pace the problem demands. WB:NZ does not try to run programmes itself. Inspire 2 Ignite already does the work, and the development sitting alongside it becomes its underwriting.
Outcomes are tracked against recognised social-value frameworks, so the value generated by each development can be quantified, reported, and held to account, rather than left as a feel-good claim. The next question covers what those outcomes can look like in practice.
What kind of outcomes could Circular Social Value support for young people and local communities?
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Partners
How can Carbon Coyote help housebuilders with Custom Self Build allocations?
There are two ways the partnership...
There are two ways the partnership can work commercially. Either we acquire the CSB plots from the housebuilder at the same value they are already holding them at as serviced plots, or we take a land licence to deliver on those plots in their place. Either route is structured to be commercially neutral for the housebuilder on the land itself.
From there, we take the rest of the work off their plate. We lead the buyer journey and bring the customers. We bring the development finance to the table, so the CSB element is not drawing on the housebuilder's balance sheet. Our sister CIC housebuilder WB:NZ delivers the homes to a strict build programme that integrates with the housebuilder's critical path, so the CSB element progresses alongside the main programme rather than holding it up.
The benefits stack from there. The planning condition on the CSB allocation is met. The buyer ends up in a home shaped around them. The housebuilder is associated with the quality, Net Zero performance, and Zero Bills delivery of our homes on their masterplan. Carbon Coyote's portion of the site also arrives with Circular Social Value already built in, which means the housebuilder is associated with measurable community uplift without having to design or run the programme themselves.
The simple version: we take the problem off their hands completely, with numerous benefits thrown in.
What kind of landowners, public bodies or mission-led partners is Carbon Coyote looking to work with?
Private landowners...
Private landowners
The planning system is getting tougher, and consents are increasingly judged on outcomes rather than indicative numbers. A landowner who works with us is putting their land into the hands of a partner whose homes are designed to higher Net Zero and Zero Bills performance standards, and whose delivery comes with measurable Circular Social Value attached. That combination can carry weight with planning authorities that a more conventional offer cannot, and it leaves a different legacy.
Most land releases are remembered as another row of standard new-builds. Ours are remembered for the homes themselves and for the community uplift that compounds long after the development is finished. For families, estates, and anyone with a deep connection to their land, that distinction is often the deciding factor.
We can either acquire the land outright or enter into licence and promotion arrangements where that fits the landowner's intent.
Public bodies
Local authorities, NHS trusts, public-sector estates, and bodies like Homes England often hold land that needs delivering against a broader public remit, not just commercial extraction. They are under increasing scrutiny on the social, economic, environmental, and affordability outcomes of any land disposal or partnership. Our model is purpose-built for that scrutiny.
We come to the table with delivery partners that specialise in low-carbon affordable housing, which means we can exceed the criteria most developments are held to. Homes are designed to Net Zero standards that go beyond planning minimums, delivered to higher quality using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), and the affordable housing quotas in the original consent get locked in and delivered rather than argued down through viability negotiations. Add Circular Social Value uplift on top of that, and a public body partnering with us is removing a long list of future problems it would otherwise have had to deal with itself.
Mission-led partners
Anchor institutions, charity-aligned landowners, housing associations, and community land trusts whose interests are already aligned with what we are trying to do. With these partners, the conversation is less about whether the social value piece is real and more about how to design it for a specific community's need. The model adapts to the partner's mission, rather than asking the partner to adapt to a generic developer offer.
We are looking for partners whose land, mandate, or mission asks for more than the minimum the market offers. That is the conversation we are built for.
AI Ready Businesses And Investors
How can Carbon Coyote Cortex help a built-sector business move staff out of operational drag and back into higher-value work?
Most built-sector teams are not short...
Most built-sector teams are not short of ability. They are short of clean structure around that ability.
Leads need chasing. Quotes need drafting. Documents need finding. Invoices need checking. Updates need passing between teams. Marketing stops when delivery gets busy. Knowledge sits in people's heads, inboxes, spreadsheets and old project folders. None of this is the highest-value work, but it quietly eats the week.
Carbon Coyote Cortex is designed to take that operational drag out of the human team.
It gives the business a shared AI operating layer: one living memory of how the business works, plus specialist AI agents that can support different parts of the operation. Sales, commercial, finance, marketing and coordination can each have agent support, all working from the same business context instead of separate tools and disconnected notes.
That means staff spend less time searching, repeating, chasing and re-explaining, and more time doing the work that actually needs judgement: building relationships, making decisions, solving project problems, improving service and growing the business.
The point is not to replace good people. It is to stop wasting them on work the system can carry.
Cortex handles the background structure so the team can move back into the work where human experience, trust and commercial judgement matter most.