For architecture firms of 1 to 20 people
Know where every fee stands, and bill without the spreadsheet.
Set each project's fee by phase, log time against it, and turn it into an invoice in a few clicks. Made for small practices, so there's no demo and no setup project.
15 minutes on how you bill today. No pitch.
- Fee used
- Remaining
- Over fee
- Project
- Hudson St. residence
- Drawing
- Fee by phase
- Total fee
- $84,000
- Next invoice
- $9,240
- Sheet
- F-101
(An early concept design. Founding firms will help shape the vision.)
How most small practices bill today
Fees and hours live in one place, invoices in another, and project status in someone's head. The tools built for this were made for bigger firms, with demos, onboarding calls and more setup than a five-person studio has time for.
Overruns show up late
You find out a phase went over its fee after the invoice is already late.
Billing day is copy and paste
Hours from one tool, fees from a spreadsheet, and the invoice built by hand.
The big tools are too much
Too heavy, too expensive, or a sales call before you can even try them.
Founding firms
We're building this with a small group of practices. They decide what it does first.
- Book a 15-minute callWalk us through how you track fees and bill today.
- Reserve a spotA refundable $100 deposit holds founding pricing.
- Use it firstGet early access and shape what gets built next.
Founding access
- $100 deposit, credited to your first year at founding pricing
- Refund any time before launch, no questions asked
- No demo or sales call to get started
Rather write? hello@designlab.fyi
Who's building this
I'm Alessandro, a designer and researcher. Most of my work is watching how people actually get things done and designing around it. I'm building this with a handful of small practices, one call at a time.
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