Plans Are Now Free to Ask For

Asking for a plan is now free thinking

Until today, choosing "Plan first" on a new idea quietly did real work: Buildra created a project, booted a workspace, and used one of a free plan's daily project slots — all before you had agreed to build anything. That was backwards. A plan is a question, and asking a question shouldn't cost you a project.

Now a plan turn on a new idea creates nothing at all. Your crew reads your request, drafts a numbered plan — what will be built, step by step, with the risks called out — and lands it in the preview pane for your decision. Approve it, and that is the moment the project is created and the build of exactly that plan begins. Reject it with a note, and the crew revises. Walk away, and nothing was spent.

The workspace is more honest about it too. While the plan is being drafted you'll see "Your crew is drawing up a plan" instead of a construction animation, and if a request can't go through — say you've hit the free plan's daily project limit — you now get a clear card explaining what happened, when a slot frees up, and a link back to your existing project. No more screens that never answer.

One more thing: open Buildra tabs now notice when a newer version has shipped and offer a one-tap refresh, so a fix we deploy actually reaches the tab you're looking at. Try Plan first from the composer on your next idea — planning is free now, in every sense.