Practice dashboard
Backlog, pipeline, utilization, profitability per project, CA hours vs. fee — roll-up by sector, partner, or client.
For A/E Principals
Available on request
The practice, the projects, and where the hours are going.
A/E principals run a portfolio of projects with thin margins and tight staff. Principal seats on AOS roll out with your firm on request — pipeline, billable hours, profitability per project, and where contract administration is eating the fee.
Practice dashboard
Billable hours by project and person
Profitability per project
CA hours vs. contract budget
Your reality today
The practice runs on timesheets and intuition.
A/E principals find out where the hours went after they're gone. Profitability per project is calculated at year-end. CA bleed is found in a P&L review, not at the source.
Profitability is a quarterly surprise.
You bid a fee, then live with it. The actual hours don't roll up to a per-project P&L until quarter-end. By then, the loss is locked in.
CA hours bleed unseen.
Construction administration is the phase where fees turn into losses — RFIs, submittals, site visits, owner calls. The hours stack up; the fee doesn't move.
Utilization is a Monday spreadsheet.
Billable utilization per person, per week — calculated by hand. By the time you see a low-utilization person, they've been low for three weeks.
Pipeline lives in your head.
Proposals out, hit rate, win patterns — you know it. The data backing it is in a partner's inbox, your business development lead's CRM, and an Excel file.
What AOS does for you
The practice on job records — when your firm is ready.
A/E firm seats are available on request and roll out with your team. When you're on AOS — or working as a CA partner on a GC's job — hours, RFIs, submittals, and site visits roll up to per-project profitability and per-person utilization.
Per-project profitability
Hours-to-date vs. budgeted fee, by phase. CA overrun signals from RFI and submittal cadence — before the loss is locked in.
Construction administration tracking
RFI volume, submittal turn-time, site visit hours, owner calls — tracked against the CA fee budget.
Billable utilization
Per-person utilization by week and project. Underutilized people show up before the partner asks.
Proposal pipeline
Proposals out, due dates, expected awards, hit rate by client and sector.
Hours rollup by project and phase
Timesheets entered once. Roll up by project, phase, person, and client — same numbers for the principal and the auditor.
On request
A/E principal seats roll out with your firm
CA vs. fee
Construction admin hours tracked against the contract budget
1 record
Hours, RFIs, and submittals on the same job the GC runs
SOC 2-aligned
Security controls aligned to industry standards; full audit trail
Related roles on the firm
Built for the whole firm, not just one seat.
AOS gives every role on the firm a screen tuned to their workflow — sharing the same record with the GC, the subs, the owner, and the design team. See how it fits the rest of your firm, or start at the architecture firms overview.
For the Project Architect →
Drawing revision register, RFI and submittal tracking, and a design-issue log tied to the job.
For the Project Engineer →
Calc-set version control, code-compliance log, and cross-discipline review on active projects.
For the Contract Admin →
Pay-app certification against the schedule of values, change-order review, and a full CA audit trail.
Work alongside other parts of the project? AOS also fits commercial general contractors, owners and developers, and subcontractors on the same shared record.
Run the practice on job records, not quarter-end surprises.
30-minute walkthrough on a couple of active projects — CA hours vs. fee and utilization on the workflow we're rolling out with A/E firms.