Inchoate comes from a Latin word for beginning. When something is inchoate, although you don’t yet understand what it is fully, you have a strong sense that it is indeed coming. It’s stronger than the wisp of an idea that never turns into anything. But it’s hard to really find the language to describe an inchoate idea. That’s the whole point: you don’t have the words for it yet! For us, inchoate means just beginning to form. You can have an inchoate feeling, like those first butterflies when you meet someone new. Or you can have an inchoate idea, like the earliest flickers of images for your masterpiece... adapted from vocabulary.com Our Mission Inchoate was formed with the goal of supporting the sustainable triple bottom line – environment, economy and equity – in all of the work that it does. Inchoate's focus is on urban and sustainability issues of all scales, working collaboratively with both public and private clients, as well as for non-profit organizations, on the environmental issues involved in design of buildings, sites and communities.