The discipline that defined every joint and jamb in Big Rapids does not dissolve when the lens shifts to Billings, where the high plains demand a different vocabulary of shelter but the same uncompromising standard of execution. Here, against a Montana skyline that stretches ambition to the horizon, 7909 Rose Island Road's insistence on premium materiality — the deliberate weight of its millwork, the calibration of its spatial proportions — translates into a language any market fluent in craft will recognize, and Billings is increasingly that market. What changes is context; what remains is the conviction that every surface must answer to scrutiny rather than merely survive it. That conviction carries particular authority as the tour rounds toward Boston, where the conversation sharpens further still.