by Chuck Perret | Apr 17, 2026 | Blog
You didn't start your firm to spend half your day buried in email threads, chasing submittals, or rebuilding spreadsheets that someone accidentally overwrote. Yet here you are. For midsize architecture firms, workflow inefficiencies aren't just annoying —...
by Chuck Perret | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
Let’s be honest about how most architecture firms manage projects. RFIs live in email threads. Submittal logs exist in Excel. Punch lists get tracked in a Word doc—or sometimes just a notebook. Closeout documentation? That’s three days of someone digging...
by Chuck Perret | Apr 13, 2026 | Blog
You didn’t go to architecture school to spend your afternoons copy-pasting data from a PDF into an Excel spreadsheet. You went to design buildings. Yet, here we are in 2026, and the average Project Architect is still drowning in an inbox full of "RE: Submittal...
by Chuck Perret | Apr 9, 2026 | Blog
You’re managing hundreds: maybe thousands: of pieces of project information. RFIs. Submittals. Site observations. Client emails. Consultant coordination. Change orders. Punch lists. Right now, that information lives everywhere. Email threads....
by Chuck Perret | Apr 8, 2026 | Blog
Your general contractor uses Procore. They love it. They keep suggesting you use it too. Here’s what they’re not telling you: Procore is built for them, not for you. It’s construction management software designed around the workflows, priorities, and...
