AI FOR ARCHITECTS · CHICAGO

AI for architecture firms, installed around your practice.

Q: How does AI help an architecture firm?

It takes the writing and chasing off your plate. Proposals and fee letters draft from your past work, specs and reports draft from precedent, RFIs get answered with sourced information, consultant deadlines are tracked automatically, and your whole archive becomes searchable in plain English. Design stays with the architects. The paperwork around it runs itself.

Q: Does AI replace designers?

No. Nothing we install designs buildings. The AI handles documentation, correspondence, coordination, and search, which is where most of a studio's unbilled hours go. Your architects keep authorship of every design decision, and every document the AI drafts is reviewed by a person before it leaves the studio.

Q: What does it cost for a studio?

The audit and blueprint is a fixed fee, so you see the return math before committing. A full implementation for a 5 to 50 person practice is quoted by headcount and complexity, and most land in the low five figures, done in about 30 days. Platform licenses are paid directly to the provider. We never mark up licenses.

Q: Is our drawings and client data safe?

Yes. We build on enterprise AI platforms where your data is never used to train public models. Access is controlled per role with single sign-on and audit logs, so project teams see their projects and nothing else. The knowledge base, prompts, and structure belong to your firm.

Q: Does it work with Revit or ArchiCAD?

Your design tools stay exactly as they are. We do not touch your BIM or CAD environment. The AI layer works around it: the documents, emails, reports, and coordination that surround the drawings. That is where the recoverable hours live.

Q: Our team is not technical. How long does this take?

About 30 days, and nobody needs to become an AI expert. One week of mapping, two weeks of building, one week of live training on your real work. After launch most studios keep a monthly retainer for new workflows and new hires. Knowing AI is our job. Architecture is yours.

You did not study architecture to manage software. FOS AI moves firms into AI: we come into your studio, set up the systems around how you actually work, teach every person on real projects, and keep it tuned as you grow. You design. We handle the migration.

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In short: we move architecture studios into AI. Proposals from past wins, a searchable archive, and a trained team in about 30 days, without touching your design tools.

Day 30 adoption guarantee, in writing

$0 license markup, ever

About 30 days to install

Chicago first, on site

The numbers

What an architecture firm loses without AI

Three numbers. One story. Keep scrolling.

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Documentation

37%

faster writing

Faster on writing work with AI help

MIT researchers measured professionals finishing writing tasks 37 percent faster with AI, with quality going up. For a studio that is specs, proposals, fee letters, and reports.

Team lift

14%

Productivity gain, biggest for junior staff

A Stanford led field study found staff working with an AI assistant produced 14 percent more, and the newest people improved the most. Your emerging architects get senior support from day one.

Days, not months

~30

AuditInstallTeachRun

From first audit to a studio that runs on AI

Week one we audit. Weeks two and three we install. Week four we teach your team on real projects. Then we maintain it as you grow.

What changes

What changes when a studio runs on AI

Win work

Proposals and fee letters

Your assistant knows your past projects, your fee logic, and your voice. Full first drafts are built from work you have already won.

Real example: an RFP lands Friday at 4 pm. Monday at 9 there is a complete draft, and the partners refine for an hour instead of writing all weekend.

Document

Specs, reports, and documentation

Specification sections, planning statements, and progress reports draft themselves from precedent and project data. A person reviews before anything leaves.

Real example: a spec section that used to take an evening becomes a twenty minute review. MIT measured writing work finishing 37 percent faster with AI help.

Coordinate

Consultant coordination

RFIs, engineer queries, and client chasers get drafted from sourced project information, and every deadline is tracked without a spreadsheet.

Real example: a contractor emails an RFI at 4 pm. The system finds the drawing notes, drafts the reply for review, and logs it against the project.

Remember

Your archive becomes a brain

Twenty years of projects stop being boxes and folders. Anyone can ask a question in plain English and get the answer with the source shown.

Real example: which past project used that cladding detail? Answered in seconds, with the drawing reference. New staff learn your standards in days.

One real week

A week inside a studio that runs on AI

Watch each day change as you scroll. Before is your week now. Now is your week after the migration.

MondayThe week plans itself

Before: an hour in a meeting working out where every project stands.

Now: a briefing is ready at 9 am. Every project, every deadline, every reply you are still waiting for.20 minute meeting

WednesdayAn RFP answers itself first

Before: partners lose a weekend writing a proposal from scratch.

Now: a first draft is ready within the hour, built from your past projects. You spend one hour making it great.Draft in 1 hour

ThursdaySite notes become actions

Before: meeting notes sit in a notebook until someone retypes them.

Now: the minutes turn into a task list on their own, and the follow up emails are drafted before you are back at the studio.Zero retyping

Month endInvoices go out on time

Before: billing slips because nobody has time to write it up.

Now: invoices and progress reports are drafted from real project activity, checked by a person, and sent.On time, every time

HOW IT WORKS

How the AI migration works for an architecture studio

We build the migration around your projects, your archive, and your consultants, and we never touch your design tools. Here is the path, week by week, and where we usually start.

Package 1 · The Blueprint. Week 1. $1,900, fully credited.

We sit inside the studio for a week and map where the unbilled hours go: proposals, specs, RFIs, planning paperwork, consultant chasing. Revit and ArchiCAD stay untouched. You get a written plan with the ROI math. If you stop here, the plan is yours.

Package 2 · The Migration: install. Weeks 2 and 3. From $9,500.

We build your workspace: an account for every person, a proposal assistant that writes from your past wins in your voice, your archive organized into one searchable knowledge base, and the first automations live: RFI drafting and deadline tracking. A 15 person company lands around $14,500 all in.

Package 2 · The Migration: training. Week 4. Included.

On real projects. A live RFP response, a real spec section, an actual RFI from a contractor. Designers keep designing. The paperwork around them starts running itself.

Package 3 · Care. Month 2 onward. From $950 a month.

Monthly tuning as the practice grows: new workflows, new staff onboarded onto your standards, the knowledge base fed with every finished project. When better AI models ship, we upgrade the engine.

YOUR FIRST WIN

Your archive, finally searchable

We load your past projects, specs, and details into one knowledge base first. Within days, anyone in the studio can ask which project used that cladding detail, or what the planning condition said, and get the answer with the source shown. It is the simplest install, the one your team will use most, and every other automation builds on top of it.

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OUR PROMISE

If your team is not using the system daily by day 30, we keep working at no extra cost until they are. Adoption is the deliverable. That is the whole point of hiring us instead of buying licenses.

Every FOS AI engagement. In writing.

CHICAGO FIRST

Built for Chicago studios first

Chicago is an architecture city, and it is our home market. Studios here carry enough projects, consultants, and planning paperwork to lose real hours every week, and they are exactly the size where one install covers the whole practice. We work on site across Chicago and Illinois, with New York next. Audits can start remotely for firms anywhere in the US.