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...
by Chuck Perret | Apr 8, 2026 | Blog
You've looked at the big construction project management platforms. Maybe you've even tried one. And you've probably noticed something: they're built for general contractors, not architects. You're managing the project from an entirely different...
by Chuck Perret | Apr 1, 2026 | Blog
Your project architects are burning 20-30 hours a week on administrative work that doesn’t get billed. Email threads. Spreadsheet updates. Chasing submittal approvals. Compiling closeout documentation from files scattered across five different drives....
