Features & benefits

The whole lifecycle, one login

From the first lead through construction administration and the final pay application — built inside a working architecture practice, not imagined in a boardroom.

01Projex

Run delivery the way architects actually work

Stop rebuilding submittal logs in Excel and chasing markups across email. Every record — from the first issued set to the final pay application — lives in one place, in your format.

Publish Sets + drawing intelligence

Process issued drawings, read title blocks automatically, track revisions, and surface sheet cross-references from the register.

Submittals & RFIs with consultant routing

Full review cycles with your consultants in the loop — determinations, revision rounds, and a clean record of who said what, when.

AI submittal review

ARK reads each submittal against your project's own specifications and returns findings — the quoted requirement, the evidence, the exact gap — with suggested comments you add to your review in one click.

AI RFI drafting

ARK drafts the response from the project record so you start from a written answer and edit, instead of staring at an empty box at 6pm.

ARK View — review in the browser

Stamp, cloud, dimension, and mark up PDFs — submittals, RFIs, PCOs, and pay applications — without leaving the app. Your stamps, your initials, your signature. No Bluebeam seat required to review.

Design scheduling & staffing

Gantt scheduling and milestones with the people attached — assign tasks to staff, see who is loaded and who is free, and watch completion roll up to the schedule instead of chasing it in a meeting.

Client portal

Give the client one link: reviewable deliverables, 3D models, and live progress on the schedule and task completion — with feedback and approvals captured against the record instead of buried in email.

3D models in the browser

Publish the model alongside the drawings so the owner and the contractor can look at the building, not just the sheets — no software to install.

Changes, done properly

ASIs, Proposal Requests, CCDs, and Change Orders with architect-format PDFs and the contract-party header on every document.

Pay applications end to end

Contractors build from the Schedule of Values, e-sign, and submit; you review, mark up, and certify — G702/G703-style output.

Bidding + Value Engineering

Public or invitation bid rooms, planholders, Q&A, tabulation, award, and VE — with a free public bid site for open work.

Specifications

Project specs held with the drawings, so the submittal review has something authoritative to read against.

Field reports & meeting minutes

Structured field reports with PDF export, and meeting minutes with AI summaries from your Zoom, Teams, Fireflies, or Read AI recordings.

Punch, completion & closeout

Punch lists through substantial completion, and an owner closeout package the client can actually use after you hand over the keys.

Connected to your tools

QuickBooks and Microsoft 365 connections, Bluebeam Studio round-trips, and per-person Zoom accounts — your existing tools, wired into the same project record.

02Funnel

Win the work before the work begins

Most firms lose leads to slow follow-up. Funnel answers a new inquiry in seconds, books the consult without email ping-pong, and keeps every prospect moving through your pipeline.

Embeddable lead forms

Drop a branded form on your website; every submission creates a contact and an opportunity in your pipeline.

Speed-to-lead automation

Instant email and text back to the lead — plus a ping to you — the moment a form lands.

Booking pages, multi-host

Let prospects book a consult that works for the lead architect and the PM. Double-booking is impossible by design.

Pipelines & opportunities

Drag deals through your stages, from first inquiry to signed proposal, and see exactly where every prospect stands.

Conversations & campaigns

Email threads per contact, newsletters and blasts with templates, recurring schedules, and one-click unsubscribe compliance.

Won deal → real project

When you win, one click ports the opportunity into a live project — no re-typing.

03Finance

Know where every hour and dollar stands

Fee budgets built the way architecture fees actually work — phases, staffing, and percent splits — connected to real timesheets and invoices, so realization isn't a year-end surprise.

Project fee budgets

Phases with staffing plans and percent-of-fee splits; the budget drives the schedule and the reports.

Weekly timesheets

A fast grid your staff will actually fill out — activities, task check-off, and PTO in one view.

Invoices & payments

Professional letter-format invoices generated from the work, with payment tracking against each one.

Expenses & vendor bills

Firm expenses and consultant bills captured against projects for true project cost.

Five real reports

Realization, consultant spend, profit, profit forecast, and revenue forecast — live from your own data.

Design bundle discount

With Finance, the Design module bills at $12/active project/mo instead of $34, firm-wide.

See every feature on a real project

A 30-minute walkthrough beats a feature list. Bring one of your projects and watch it run.

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