Architecture. Stages, drawings and decisions on the record.
A residential or small civic practice taking clients through design stages, with decisions that need a date and a name on them.
A morning at Ostrander Architecture. An example practice.
Ostrander Architecture and everyone in it are invented to show the app in a practice’s own words: commissions, design decisions, fee proposals and site visits.
Thursday
Good morning, Ruth. Four things need you.
Needs you 4
DD fee invoice 1214 viewed three times, unpaid
The Harcourts · $14,200 · due FridaySimon Harcourt approved the structural engineer’s fee
Millbrook Farmhouse · addition framingIris Dunmore asked whether the studio could face north
Claverack Studio · 12 min agoFee proposal FP-118 opened a third time
The Sorensens · lake camp · undecided 6 daysToday Thu
In motion 7 commissions
Millbrook Farmhouse Addition
Construction documents · MEP set MondayRhinebeck Barn Conversion
Permitting · comments WednesdayCatskill Creek House
Cladding decisionWarren Street Rowhouse
Landmarks approvedYour words. On every screen.
- Client
- client
- Project
- commission
- What they decide
- design decision
- Proposal
- fee proposal
- Invoice
- invoice
- Order
- consultant order
- Visit
- site visit
- Lead
- project architect
- Part of a project
- space
- What they sign
- agreement
Your phases. As the client’s timeline.
- 1Brief
- 2Schematic design
- 3Design development
- 4Construction documents
- 5Permitting
- 6Construction admin
The queue. What needs you, and what’s out with clients.
Example rows from Ostrander Architecture’s morning, in the order the app puts them.
Needs you
- DD fee invoice 1214 viewed three times, unpaidThe Harcourts · $14,200 · due FridaySend reminder
- Simon Harcourt approved the structural engineer’s feeMillbrook Farmhouse · addition framingEngage consultant
- Iris Dunmore asked whether the studio could face northClaverack Studio · 12 min agoReply
- Fee proposal FP-118 opened a third timeThe Sorensens · lake camp · undecided 6 daysFollow up
Waiting on clients
- The building department returned six permit commentsRhinebeck Barn · response due WednesdayReview
- The 90% construction set is with the client for reviewKinderhook · 38 sheets · issued 5 days agoSend reminder
- The MEP engineer’s drawings are due MondayMillbrook Farmhouse · heat pump layoutTrack
What you’d use. Plainly, including what isn’t built yet.
- Stages as phases
- Brief to construction admin, with dates, as the client’s timeline.
- Design decisions
- Options and drawings sent for sign-off, approved or discussed, with who decided and when.
- Fee proposals and agreements
- Your fee proposal and appointment, signed and fingerprinted, with variations alongside.
- Fee stages
- Invoices by stage or percentage complete, paid online into your own Stripe account.
- Consultants
- Structural, MEP and other consultants engaged per commission, tracked to their due dates.
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