When John Cannon and Wayne Visbeen teamed up as business partners in May 2025,   they quickly discovered that their professional chemistry came with an unexpected bonus: a genuine friendship. “Do Wayne and I work well together? Yes, we do. But we've also become friends. I truly enjoy his company,” says Cannon. “We’ve really taken that time to fully understand one another on a personal level, which makes the professional relationship that much more enduring.” Their collaboration began last summer when John Cannon Homes, of which Cannon is CEO and President, and Visbeen Architects, Visbeen’s firm specializing in custom residential and commercial design, began a partnership focused on streamlining the design and construction process at a lower cost and higher quality for clients. Through this partnership, Visbeen has joined John Cannon Homes’ in-house design team and works with clients through the process to create their ideal custom homes.  Their work together has been highly successful, in large part, because Cannon’s and Visbeen’s personalities complement each other—Cannon describes Visbeen as an extrovert, always first to jump in with new ideas, which Cannon can then build on with his own input. “Something tells me that we're going to be doing this a long time,” he says. Visbeen notes that the two are able to develop and enhance each other’s ideas. “When John speaks, everybody listens. The difference is, when John speaks to me, I listen, and then I challenge him,” Visbeen says. “It’s nice for John to have somebody challenging him. Otherwise, people are afraid to disagree with him, because he's so good at what he does, but I love to challenge everything.” Working together is not just enjoyable for the partners—they’ve also found that combining their expertise has allowed them to provide homes with higher value and lower construction costs to customers. Architects usually work independently from contractors, charging 7 to 12 percent of construction costs in fees. By uniting Visbeen’s design process with Cannon’s contracting team, John Cannon Homes has been able to save clients those costs. Because of this collaboration, Cannon adds, the firm can provide fixed cost estimates to clients before the design process even begins.  Looking ahead, Cannon and Visbeen are excited to see their early projects result in finished homes—while many are still works-in-progress, they’ve already begun collaborating on a range of builds, all in different stages of the design and construction processes. “I look forward to many more finished houses where John and I stand together, proud of the fact that we did it together to take the company to a new level,” says Visbeen.  For Cannon, the bottom line is creating increased value for clients. “If we do that, we will have plenty of grand openings, and we will have many new, beautiful models. I want to prove to people that no one else is providing what Wayne and I are providing in terms of benefits for clients.”