Overview
AI Options For: Architecture Firms takes readers inside Hargrove Architecture - a fictional sixteen-person independent firm that looks a lot like yours. Owen Hargrove has spent eighteen years building a firm with a reputation for design quality and a second, less documented reputation for running projects that consume more principal time than the fee structure supports.
Every chapter follows the same honest four-part structure: the real situation, what it actually costs in billable hours, the reimagined outcome with the right tools in place, and the specific platforms and workflows that get you there.
Fourteen chapters. Fourteen problems that recur across independent architecture firms at Hargrove's scale:
- The RFP response written from scratch for the fortieth time - twelve hours when it should take ninety minutes
- The scope addition authorized verbally at a site visit and never documented - and never billed
- The project nobody knew was behind until close-out
- The consultant who went quiet three weeks before the permit deadline
- The senior architect with two unreturned calls from competing firms and no career conversation on the books
At Hargrove's blended billing rate of $160/hour, one hour of recovered efficiency per person per day across sixteen staff is nearly $450,000 in annual billable capacity. The systems in this book don't promise a full hour - but each one recovers something, and the aggregate is material.
The technology stack throughout - Deltek Ajera, Bluebeam Revia, Google Workspace, Make, Claude, Otter.ai, DocuSign - is sized for a sixteen-person independent firm, not a corporate enterprise. Named, priced, and connected to systems you likely already use. Specific enough to implement in a week with existing resources.
This is not a management consulting engagement. It is a configuration. Let's build it.
Fourteen chapters. Fourteen problems that recur at firms like yours. Each one follows the same structure: the real situation, what it costs in billable hours, the reimagined outcome, and the specific tools that get you there.
The stack - Deltek Ajera, Bluebeam Revia, Google Workspace, Make, Claude, Otter.ai - is sized for an independent firm, not a corporate enterprise. Priced, named, and implementable in a week with resources you already have.
At $160/hour blended rate, recovering even a fraction of the hours these fourteen situations consume changes the firm's financial picture materially.
This is a configuration, not a consulting engagement. Build it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798184865843
- ISBN-10: 9798184865843
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.34 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.38 pounds
- Page Count: 134
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