Amanda Oaks | Walk Your Plans Nashville
Founder of Walk Your Plans Nashville
Amanda Oaks is the founder of Walk Your Plans Nashville. In this video, she shares how she turned market insight and her own experience as a consumer into a completely new service for a fast-growing city.
What businesses do you run?
Amanda is the founder of Walk Your Plans Nashville. A first-of-its-kind facility where builders, architects, designers, and homeowners can see their construction plans projected at full scale. It’s a tool that helps people literally walk through their blueprints before construction begins, giving them the chance to spot mistakes early, avoid costly change orders, and feel confident about what’s ahead.
Whether it’s a single-family home, a multi-unit development, or a commercial project, Amanda’s team is creating clarity where it matters most, on the front end.
How did you get started as an entrepreneur?
Amanda’s first big wins came from thinking like a customer. She paid attention to what Nashville’s market needed, but more importantly, she understood it from a consumer lens. She asked questions like: What would I want if I were in their shoes? What would make this process easier? That mindset helped her take a new idea—something that didn’t exist yet in Nashville—and turn it into a tangible solution in a city where construction and growth move fast.
How do you think about growth in your current business? How do you plan for the future?
Right now, Amanda’s focus is on education and awareness. Walk Your Plans is still new to many people, even in a development-heavy city like Nashville. Growth, for her, is less about pushing volume and more about clarity. She wants architects, designers, developers, and homeowners to understand how much this can help them.
She’s also thinking long-term: laying down the infrastructure, refining the message, and making sure the foundation of the business is built to last. In her words, “If you’re not setting yourself up for success from the beginning—with the right systems, projections, and understanding of the market—you’re starting with a shaky foundation.”
What advice do you have for aspiring entrepreneurs?
Amanda’s advice is to listen but not blindly follow. “Reach out to people who are doing it. Ask questions. Gather data. But don’t treat their path as gospel.” She believes your job is to take all that input and build your own plan, one that makes sense for your vision, your market, and your energy.
And above all else: just start. Entrepreneurship isn’t a clean or linear process. It’s messy, full of risk, and often exhausting. But if you know your why, and you’re willing to build the right foundation from day one, the long-term impact is worth it.