Project Management for Architects

Studio Manager is built by architects, for architects.

Transform your project management to achieve predictable outcomes and boost profitability.

Streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and focus on what matters most - your designs.

Benefits

Built by architects, for architects

Studio Manager streamlines your architectural practice with intelligent project management tools designed specifically for your workflow.

Create Winning Proposals

  • Kickstart your project planning right from the proposal stage using our customizable templates, designed to save you time and add intelligence.
  • Effortlessly assess the necessary resources and skills, along with the timeline, to calculate fees, costs, and profitability automatically—ensuring you maximize your project's potential.
  • Transform a proposal into a booked project in an instant, eliminating the hassle of redundant data entry. Make your proposals not just a formality, but a pathway to success!

AI Informed Resource Planning

  • Keep your projects on track with powerful resource allocation tools. Use AI-driven recommendations for strategic team assignments, ensuring the right expertise is matched to tasks based on project needs and budget.
  • Promote accountability with clear assignments that create tailored task lists and deadlines. Boost productivity by monitoring staff utilization to balance workloads and reduce stress.
  • Achieve accurate resource allocation from a single platform that integrates proposals and booked projects. Use long-term forecasting to identify hiring needs and prepare your team for future success.

Timesheets

  • Harness an intuitive interface for streamlined time entry, providing precise and reliable data on project costs while enhancing overall efficiency.
  • Enhance staff utilization insights by effectively tracking leave and non-project time, allowing for better resource management across all levels.
  • Empower project leaders with real-time cost data through timely timesheet entries, enabling swift identification of potential cost overruns and allowing for proactive decision-making.

Detailed Project Planning

  • Develop multi-stage, multi-task project programs that clearly outline role assignments and team responsibilities.
  • Break down complex projects into manageable, bite-sized tasks to maintain momentum and ensure satisfaction in achieving milestones.
  • Create profitable project plans by providing a clear definition of roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and timelines to minimize wasted effort and costs.
  • Enable proactive project management rather than reactive management.
  • Enhance project execution efficiency by enabling foresight to identify potential delivery risks.

Project Tracking & Status Reporting

  • Monitor project budgets and progress using real-time task tracking and automated status reporting.
  • Keep stakeholders informed with customizable dashboards and detailed progress updates.
  • Optimize profitability by generating real-time status reports for management, providing early warnings of potential project overruns.
  • Utilize the dropline program feature to accurately identify actual versus planned progress at any point in time.
  • Analyze budget versus actual cost performance by project manager, project, sector, office, or company-wide.

Invoicing & Variations

  • Streamline cash flow by generating and tracking invoices and managing project variations to ensure timely and accurate billings.
  • Increase revenue by identifying variations and understanding the true costs of a project through recording and tracking unpaid work and rejected variations.
  • Effortlessly track change requests, analyze variation costs, and maintain comprehensive documentation of all scope changes and their financial impacts.
  • Track project progress through individual task completion percentages to accurately determine earned value, billings, and work-in-progress (WIP).

Data-driven Business Insights

  • Comprehensive project reporting and analytics help identify potential issues before they become problematic.
  • Make data-driven decisions using real-time project performance metrics.
  • Easily configure dashboards to focus on performance against your business key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Analyze project or business performance to gain strategic insights that can increase revenue and profitability.

" If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail "

— Benjamin Franklin

Pricing

Simple per-user pricing

Pay only for the users you need. Create unlimited projects and manage your entire practice with no project limits.

User-Based Plan

Perfect for architectural practices of any size

Starting from
$25 /month per user

when paid annually
($300/year per user)

$30 /month per user, paid monthly

All prices in USD and exclude GST

One-time setup fee: $3,600 (+ GST)

  • Preset templates
  • Personalized setup
  • 8 hours of Project Management training

Features include:

  • Project tracking and management
  • Resource allocation
  • Unlimited projects
  • Time tracking and billing

Streamline Your Practice

From initial proposal to project completion, Studio Manager provides the tools you need to run a successful architectural practice. Focus on design while we handle the project management complexities.

Early Access

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We're currently working with a select group of architecture firms in New Zealand and Australia. Join our early access program and be among the first to streamline your project management with Studio Manager.