Architecture & Engineering
Architecture and engineering firms lose margin between their tools
A&E firms lose margin where the tools stop talking, not inside the tools. Project data, time and invoicing, connected. Fixed price from $2,000, written spec.
What this looks like today
Project data lives in one tool, time in another, invoicing in a third. Somebody retypes the job into the invoice. A change order gets agreed on a call and never reaches billing. Margin leaks between the systems.
What it costs
The cost is not inside any one tool. It is the retyping, the reconciliation and the change orders that never reach billing, and it grows with headcount. We put the full numbers in one place rather than repeating them here.
Why the tools are the problem, not the people
A&E is a plumbing market before it is an AI market. Firms run a practice management system, a document layer, accounting and a drawing tool that were never designed to share state, so the work of moving information between them lands on the people who bill by the hour.
Systems
Ordered for this vertical
The order is the recommendation. The walkthrough confirms it against what your firm actually runs.
- Start hereDeliver Without ChasingJobs scheduled, assigned, documented, reported46 use cases
- Get Paid FasterInvoices out, reminders sent, cash collected, nobody chasing109 use cases
- Close More Deals, FasterLeads answered, researched, quoted and followed up without you130 use cases
- Never Miss a RequestEvery inquiry captured, routed, answered37 use cases
Prefer to build it in-house? Your team can build this System with us alongside.
Honest limits
Where this does not fit
Naming the cases we turn down is more useful than another claim.
- Firms under five people. The coordination cost is not large enough yet to pay for a system.
- Firms mid-way through a BIM platform migration. Wait until the platform lands, then connect it.
Further reading
What we have written about this
- Hidden Costs of Disconnected Systems in Engineering Firms
- BIM Implementation Without Breaking the Bank
- Competing with Giants: How Mid-Market Architecture Firms Win $15M+ Projects
- From Chaos to Systems: The 90-Day Plan for Architecture Firm Digital Transformation
- AI in Construction: Practical Plays for AEC Firms
Price and guarantee
$2,000
Starting at
It's a written spec and a fixed price. If the system doesn't do what the spec says, we keep working at no additional charge.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where do A&E firms lose margin?
Between tools that never shared state: practice management, documents, accounting and drawing tools. STOA connects those systems rather than replacing them.
- What does STOA build first for A&E?
The walkthrough maps three systems in priority order against how the firm actually runs. Typical pressure points are project data, time and invoicing.
- What does it cost?
Fixed price from $2,000 per system, written spec, one to eight weeks. Published tiers are on the pricing page.
Operations Walkthrough
Leave with a one-page map
90 minutes, free. Three systems in priority order, with prices.
Free · 90 min · no obligation