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 "
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
when paid annually
($300/year per user)
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.