AI agents for architecture studios.

Where studio hours actually disappear

Talk to any architect running a 10-25 person studio and the same pattern shows up. The design hours — the work the firm exists to do — are squeezed by everything around them. Competition write-ups, tender documents, client onboarding decks, planning-context research, social posts, invoice chasing, the website nobody has time to update. The principals end up doing it at 9pm or paying juniors to do it during the day, both of which are expensive.

Managed agents are a good fit precisely here: predictable, document-heavy, language-heavy work that benefits from research and structure, not from architectural judgement. We let the studio reclaim design hours by absorbing the rest.

1. Competition and tender research takes weeks per submission

Site history, planning context, comparable projects, jury composition, reference material, page-one narrative drafting. The Research Team builds a structured brief inside 3-5 business days, with sources cited. A licensed architect on your team reviews and signs off before submission — we never sign professional work.

2. The studio website hasn't been updated in 18 months

You finished four notable projects last year. None of them are on the site. No case studies, no project pages, no press coverage roundup. The Growth Team writes operator-edited project pages, news posts, and award submissions in your house voice. See how the content engine actually runs.

3. Client communication runs through one principal's inbox

Project status emails, weekly client updates, meeting notes, follow-ups — all bottlenecked at the principal level. The Operations Team drafts updates from your project management tool, routes them for a 30-second review, and sends. The principal stays in the loop without writing every line.

4. Back office runs on PDF chaos

Invoices in email threads, contracts in three different folders, expense receipts in someone's phone. The Operations and Finance Teams set up a clean intake — agents extract, categorise, file, and flag exceptions to a named human. Monthly close compresses to a week.

What the first 90 days look like

Architecture studios are conservative buyers and they should be. We expect, and welcome, a slow first month. Anyone promising results in week one is selling you a demo.

• Week 1. Discovery, NDA, access to project archive and CRM, voice samples from past project descriptions and competition entries, agent configuration. No external output.
• Week 2. First operator-reviewed drafts — a project case study, a competition research brief, or a client update flow, depending on scope. Internal preview only.
• Week 3-4. First public publications go live. New competition brief produced end-to-end. Reporting dashboard wired up.
• Month 2. Steady-state cadence. 45-minute review with the named operator. Adjustments based on what the principal pushes back on.
• Month 3. First honest readout: how many design hours have we actually given back? Where is the studio still bottlenecked? What should we drop?

Pricing for architecture studios

We publish ranges. All managed, all operator-supervised, month-to-month after a 30-day commitment.

• €1,500/month. One team, narrow scope. Good pilot. Example: Research Team producing one competition research brief per month + light project-page writing.
• €3,000-€5,000/month. Two teams. Most studios sit here. Example: Research + Growth (briefs + content), or Growth + Operations (content + client comms).
• €7,500/month and up. Three or more teams, full operating layer. Usually 25+ person studios with multiple bottlenecks.

For the broader buying framework, see how to choose an AI agents services company, or read the studio-specific overview in AI services for architecture studios.

What we explicitly don't do

This list matters as much as the one above. If you need any of these, we will tell you so and step aside.

• No CAD, no BIM, no modelling. We do not draft in AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Revit, Vectorworks, or Rhino. We do not produce plans, sections, or details. We do not generate renderings or visualisations. Design work stays with licensed architects.
• No planning approvals or regulatory submissions. We assist with research and drafting; the licensed architect on your team owns and signs everything submitted to authorities.
• No structural, MEP, or code calculations. Not our scope. Use your engineering consultants.
• No site supervision or construction administration. These are licensed activities. Out of scope.

How we work alongside your studio team

One question we hear early: does this replace the office manager, the marketing junior, the bid coordinator? Generally no — it gives them leverage. The studios we work with use the agents to handle the volume and the first-draft work, then put their existing people on the judgement layer: which competitions to enter, which projects to feature, which clients to call back. A 12-person studio with a part-time marketer typically gets back 15-25 hours of senior architect time per month within the first 90 days. That is the real measure, not output volume.

We assign a named operator who knows your studio — your voice, your portfolio, your principals. That operator is your point of contact, signs every public deliverable, and runs the monthly review. No anonymous account managers, no rotating juniors.

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FAQ

Do you do CAD, BIM, or 3D modelling?

No. We do not draft, we do not model in Revit or ArchiCAD, and we do not produce renderings. We handle the research, writing, and back-office work around the design — never the design itself.

What size of studio is this best for?

Studios between 5 and 40 architects. Smaller and the principal is still doing back-office work themselves. Larger and you usually have a dedicated marketing and operations function.

Can you write competition briefs and tender documents?

We draft them. A licensed architect on your team must sign off before submission. The Research Team compiles site context, regulatory references, comparable projects, and structures the narrative.

How do you handle confidential client and project data?

NDAs are standard. Project files stay in your system. Agents access through documented APIs or scoped folders only. EU data residency by default. We do not train models on your data.

What does it cost?

Pilot from €1,500/month. Most studios sit at €3,000-€5,000/month for two teams. Multi-team scopes run €7,500/month and up.