Architecture firms often accept any project that comes their way, but what if you could use data to choose only the clients who value your expertise?
In this episode, you will learn:
→ How to replace fragmented spreadsheets with unified financial tracking systems
→ Why historical project data transforms proposal accuracy and profitability
→ How to identify profitable vs. unprofitable project types using past performance
→ Unexpected scheduling benefits for firms with mixed employment models
→ How financial clarity gives you confidence to price appropriately and choose better clients
Meet Wendy Klepcyk, AIA, Principal Architect at Envisage Architecture, a 8-person Cincinnati firm that evolved from reactive project acceptance to strategic client selection through three years of data-driven decision making.
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Most architects treat engineers like a service you hand work to, but what if your breakthrough moments happen when you start conceptual conversations before making any structural decisions?
What you'll learn:
→ Why bringing consultants to the table "as quickly and early as possible" unlocks structural innovation most firms never discover
→ How to reject the three-legged stool myth and achieve budget, schedule, AND quality through honest upfront planning
→ The resource coordination system that prevents "everyone else's fires from becoming your fire" across multiple firms
→ Why picking up the phone beats endless teams chats for solving complex design problems fast
→ How fifteen-year professional partnerships enable vulnerability and breakthrough collaboration
In this episode:
Ken and Jeff reveal how their fifteen-year partnership transforms projects through early integration, transparent resource planning, and maintaining human connection in an increasingly digital world. From conceptual conversations about "what the building wants to do" to weekly coordination meetings that prevent project chaos, this episode challenges every assumption about how architects and engineers should work together.
Guest Bios:
Ken Andrews is a principal and partner at Arch11 in Boulder and Denver, delivering artful and resilient design across residential, commercial, and institutional scales for over 20 years.
Jeff Myers is an executive principal at KL&A Engineers and Builders, a 30-year-old firm generating $40-50 million annually across five Rocky Mountain offices. With 25 years of structural engineering experience and an architecture degree, he brings unique dual-discipline perspective to collaborative practice.
Ready to transform your consultant relationships? Visit https://monograph.com to see how over 12,000 architects and engineers coordinate resources and manage projects.
Architects don’t design alone. But real collaboration between firms? That’s the hard part.
In this episode, you’ll learn what it actually takes to run successful projects across architecture and engineering teams, such as:
→ How to build trust between teams and clients
→ How to structure timelines across consultants
→ How to handle late invoices, design surprises, and municipal curveballs
→ The role of tools like Revit, Monograph, and Deltek
→ How to manage 384 active projects without burning out
→ What’s changing next in A&E collaboration
Be sure to listen until the end to hear the mistakes that taught them how to work smarter together.
About our guests:
💜 Studio GWA: A 14-person firm focused on adaptive reuse and urban planning, led by Jennifer Spencer and Aaron Holverson.
💜 Angus-Young: A 60+ person full-service architecture and engineering firm, led by a team of principals, including Steven Genin.
💜 Hosted by Monograph. Project management software built for architecture and engineering teams.
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A&E project collaboration sounds great–until projects go over budget, scope gets muddy, and no one's sure who's doing what.
In this episode, two award-winning design firms share how they actually make collaboration work:
→ How to staff and structure projects across two firms
→ How to run weekly planning and manage deadlines
→ How to divide scope, run client meetings, and stay on track
→ What tools to rely on: Slack, trace paper, Monograph, and more
→ How should Architects + Landscape Architects work together?
Make sure to listen until the end to hear what they'd never do again!
In this conversation, you'll hear about:
🟡 Shape Architecture is a Colorado-based firm recently recognized as the 2024 AIA Colorado Young Firm of the Year. Led by Principals Steve Scribner and Morgan Law, they focus on creating high-performance, site-connected buildings across the Mountain West.
🟢 Superbloom is a landscape architecture studio recently awarded a 2024 ASLA Colorado Merit Award for their innovative, climate-adaptive designs. Led by Principals Stacy Passmore and Diane Lipovsky, the team focuses on connecting people to landscapes in ways that are meaningful and resilient.
💜 HOSTED BY MONOGRAPH The easiest project management software for Architects & Engineers. Get started now: https://monograph.com/book-a-demo
Unbilled hours. Constant firefighting. Are broken systems holding back your A&E firm? In this episode, you’ll learn a simple question to find broken systems and get a concrete example of how a 10-person structural engineering firm in Florida grew profits by 25% after switching from Excel to Monograph.
Key takeaways:
Need to streamline your firm? Visit monograph.com to get started.
Many architects and engineers struggle to manage their business, from staying on top of budgets to streamlining invoicing and forecasting. In this episode, we explore how Workbench, a California architect-developer + design-build firm, transformed their operations. By switching to Monograph from BQE Core + Smartsheets, they reduced unbilled fees by 75%, cut their billing time from 20 hours a month to just 4 hours, and sped up staffing and scheduling for their team by 8x.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Workbench used Monograph to save time, improve transparency, and focus on growing their business.
If you’re ready to spend less time managing spreadsheets and more time doing the work you love, this episode is for you.
Want to learn more? Visit monograph.com to book a demo today!
Many architects and engineers feel overwhelmed by the business side of their work. In this episode, we explore how Workshop/APD, a leading multidisciplinary design firm, tackled these challenges and grew their team by 78% with Monograph.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
If you’re ready to solve the business challenges in your firm and scale with confidence, this episode is for you. Listen now and discover actionable strategies to grow your firm while staying focused on what you love—design.
Want to learn more? Visit monograph.com to book a demo today!
Meet Garrison Architects — a Brooklyn-based architecture firm that specializes in sustainable, modular building design through highly refined modernist aesthetics across private residential and large scale public projects.
In 2023, the firm left ArchiOffice for Monograph to streamline and improve project tracking, staffing, and billing, while reducing the cost associated with managing their systems by 50%.
Here's what happened:
Before Monograph
- +$34k annual cost on project management and billing systems
- 40-48 hours a month on monthly invoicing
- 45-60 days time-to-payment
After Monograph
- 50% reduced cost on project management and billing systems
- 66% less time on monthly invoicing
- 2.6x faster time-to-payment
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Meet the design-build firm Woodhull — an integrated architecture, construction, and millwork firm delivering thoughtful and enduring residential and commercial projects throughout New England. Their holistic ethos and business model relies on transparency, communication, and collaboration to drive successful internal operations. Everything starts with the 80 active projects in Woodhull's 25-person design studio, which switched from BQE Core to Monograph to improve speed and accuracy across the entire business.
Here's what happened:
Before Monograph
- 4-6 hours per week on reporting latest project schedules
- 5-10 days invoicing process due to back-and-forth between PMs and bookkeeper
- 50% errors on retainer fee invoicing, causing client refunds
After Monograph
- 95% less time preparing project reports for firm owners
- 53% faster monthly invoicing process
- 100% error reduction on retainer invoicing, avoiding client refunds
Read the story here - https://bit.ly/3OBJ7Lj
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