AI for architecture studios
Your architects should be designing, not writing up minutes.
Meeting notes, fee proposals, planning research, statements and contractor emails eat into fee-earning time. We find which of them AI can take on, and train your team to use it.
- Architecture and design studios
- For practices of 5 to 50 staff
- £600 to get your team started
Where AI helps
Six places studios lose fee-earning hours.
These are the tasks we usually look at on an office day. Some only need a training day. Others are worth a custom tool.
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Training day
Meeting minutes and actions
- The problem
- Client and site meetings need minutes nobody wants to write, and actions get lost.
- How AI helps
- Recorded meetings (with everyone’s agreement) turned into minutes and an action list for the project architect to check.
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Training day
Fee proposals
- The problem
- Every proposal starts from an old one and still takes half a day.
- How AI helps
- A first draft from a short brief and your past proposals. You set the scope and the fee.
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Training day
Planning research
- The problem
- Hours spent reading local plan policies and previous decisions near the site.
- How AI helps
- The relevant policies and nearby decisions summarised with references, so you check sources instead of starting cold.
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Training day
Planning statements and reports
- The problem
- Design and access statements start from a blank page every time.
- How AI helps
- A structured first draft from your notes and drawings. The architect writes the argument.
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Custom tool
Contractor and client emails
- The problem
- Queries from contractors, consultants and clients are all mixed up in one inbox.
- How AI helps
- Emails sorted by project and urgency, with routine replies drafted for you to send.
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Custom tool
Timesheets and fee tracking
- The problem
- Timesheets filled in from memory on Friday, and overruns spotted too late.
- How AI helps
- Weekly reminders, plus a simple time-against-fee report for every live project.
Do the maths
One job, counted in hours.
6 architects times 3 hours a week each on minutes, emails and first drafts divided by 2 if AI halves it equals 9 fee-earning hours a week back.
At a billing rate of £75 an hour, that’s £675 a week.
This is a worked example to show the scale, not a promise. On the office day we measure your real numbers.
What stays human
Some things AI shouldn’t touch in architecture studios.
- Design decisions. AI can help with research and paperwork. The design is yours.
- Anything you put your professional name to. Drawings, specifications and compliance advice are checked by a qualified person.
- Client relationships. Clients hire a studio for its people and its judgement, not its software.
If AI isn’t the right fix for your business, we’ll tell you in the free audit.
How it works
Four steps, with the prices up front.
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Free audit
How your business runs, who does what, which software you use, and how much AI you use already.
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Office day
We watch 3 time-consuming tasks being done, take notes and record.
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Training day
Your team learns to use AI on the exact tasks we saw, so it’s useful from day one.
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Custom AI tools
Where a task needs more than training, we set up the tool and train your team on it.
Free 1-hour audit
Find out where your week is going.
Tell us four things and we’ll email you to find an hour that suits. You’ll come away knowing where AI could save your team time, and where it couldn’t. Free, and no obligation.
No phone number needed.