Practice dashboard
Backlog, pipeline, utilization, profitability per project, CA hours vs. fee — live. Roll-up by sector, by partner, by client.
For A/E Principals
The practice, the projects, and where the hours are going.
A/E principals run a portfolio of projects with thin margins and tighter staff. AOS gives the principal a live view of pipeline, billable hours, profitability per project, and where contract administration is bleeding hours.
Live practice dashboard
Billable hours by project + 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 live records.
AOS gives A/E principals a practice view backed by real project data — hours, RFIs, submittals, site visits — rolled up to per-project profitability and per-person utilization in real time.
Per-project profitability
Hours-to-date vs. budgeted fee, by phase. CA overrun forecast based on RFI/submittal cadence. The loss surfaces before it happens.
Construction administration tracking
RFI volume, submittal turn-time, site visit hours, owner call hours — tracked against the CA fee budget. The bleed is visible at the source.
Billable utilization live
Per-person utilization, by week, by project. Underutilized people surface before the partner sees it.
Proposal pipeline
Proposals out, due dates, expected awards, hit rate by client + sector. The data behind your next proposal decision.
Hours rollup by project + phase
Timesheets enter once. Roll up by project, phase, person, client. The auditor and the principal get the same numbers.
Live
CA bleed (time vs. fee) surfaced per project, per discipline
100%
Of hours rolled to per-project P&L weekly
0
Quarter-end profitability surprises
SOC 2-aligned
Aligned controls; field-level 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-set revision register, RFI/submittal SLA tracking, and a design-issue log tied to the BIM.
For the Project Engineer →
Calc-set version control, code-compliance log tied to the AHJ permit set, and cross-discipline review.
For the Contract Admin (CA) →
Pay-app certification against the SOV, CO review with cost-and-time impact, and a full design-issue 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 live records.
30-minute walkthrough on a couple of your active projects. We'll show you CA hours vs. fee and utilization — live.