Built for architecture firms doing CA: a current drawings register, RFI and submittal turn-time tracking, design-issue tracking with photo evidence, and the pay-app certification workflow on a screen — not in a folder of PDFs and a 14-message email thread. We roll out A/E depth with your team when your GC or owner runs on AOS.
Owners pick the construction platform. You inherit it. You log into a different system per project, each with its own approval flow and its own bad UX for the things architects actually do.
You re-issued A-501 last week, but the field is still building from R2. By the time someone notices the dimension changed, the framing is already wrong.
The GC's RFI tool shows "open" or "closed." You can't see your firm's average turn time, your portfolio-wide SLA breaches, or whose desk a question is sitting on.
The pay app arrives as a flattened PDF in your principal's inbox. They redline percentage complete by hand, scan it, send it back. The audit trail of your professional judgment is in someone's email.
Site visits surface real issues — a chase routed wrong, a height that won't work, finish-line risk. You write them up; the GC marks them "closed" without resolution.
When your owner or GC is on AOS, you get active workflows for the things architects do — drawings, RFIs, submittals, pay app certification, and design-issue tracking. Full firm-level A/E tools roll out with your team when you're ready.
A single source of truth for drawings: A-, S-, M-, E-, P- with revision history. When you re-issue, AOS notifies the field automatically and the prior revision goes "for reference only." No more building from R2 after R3 is out.
Inbound RFIs threaded with the relevant drawing reference. Track turn-time per project and per firm — your average, your team's average, the slow file on your desk. Overdue items surface before they bite.
Submittal log keyed to spec sections. Stamp options (no exceptions, make corrections, revise & resubmit, rejected) with redline annotations attached to the right PDF page. Turn-time tracked.
The pay app on a screen. Mark percentage complete per line item, attach site-photo evidence, certify in two clicks. Standard certification language baked in; your professional judgment becomes part of the audit trail.
Field-discovered design issues with site photo, location pin, severity, and assigned trade. Status: open → in-resolution → resolved. The GC can't close them without your sign-off.
Tablet-friendly site visit reports with photo capture, location on site, observation/recommendation pairs, and a one-click PDF that lands in the owner's inbox before you leave the parking lot.
Every project your firm is doing CA on, on one screen. RFIs older than your target turn time, submittals about to age out, pay apps queued — sorted by which principal owns it.
The owner sees what they need to see, scoped by what you and they have agreed to. No "the architect has the data; we don't" friction.
When a GC invites your firm onto their project, you use AOS at no extra seat charge for that CA work. Want your firm to have its own AOS account (project pipeline, time tracking, billing, multi-client reporting)? See the A/E bundle on pricing.
Whether you run the firm, design the project, engineer the systems, or administer the contract, AOS gives every role a screen tuned to their workflow — sharing one record with the GC, the subs, and the owner.
Project backlog, fee-burn vs. budget by phase, write-down forecast, business-development pipeline, and the early-warning queue across every active project — one screen, no monthly PowerPoint.
Drawing-set revision register, RFI/submittal SLA tracking, design-issue log tied to the drawing set, and a coordination calendar shared with the GC and the consulting engineers.
Calc-set version control, code-compliance log tied to the AHJ permit set, RFI/submittal disposition with cross-discipline review, and a punchlist that survives bid alternates.
Pay-app certification against the SOV, CO review with cost-and-time impact analysis, RFI/submittal queue with breach alerts, and a full design-issue audit trail for closeout.
Working with GCs, owners, or sub-consultants? AOS also fits commercial general contractors, owners and developers, and subcontractors on the same shared record.
30-minute walkthrough scoped to the CA workflow. We'll show you the RFI flow, the submittal log, the design-issue tracker, and the pay app certification screen — and what rolls out when your firm is ready for its own account.