For small and mid-size architecture firms

Draw the schedule.
Build the workplan.
Price the whole team.

Fee Studio replaces the stack of spreadsheets your firm rebuilds for every proposal. Schedule, workplan, consultant fees and the final number live in one file — and everyone working on the pursuit sees the same one.

Free during beta · Built by a practising architect · Vancouver, BC

How it works today

Five files, four versions, one person who knows which is current. Fee Studio is one file.

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Example Project · No. 2658
In Progress
Construction value
$22.0M
Architectural fee
$935,000
Fee percentage
4.25%
Consultants
$177,000
Fee method: % of constructionDone
Project schedule createdDone
Consultant review matrix uploadedDone
Confirm reimbursables and site visitsOpen
Schedule
12 months · Sep 2026 → Aug 2027
2 milestones
SEPNOVJANMARMAYJUL
Schematic Design
Design Development
Construction Docs
Tender
Construction Admin
Close Out
Building Permit Submission15 Mar 2027Milestone
Substantial Completion01 Aug 2027Milestone
Workplan
Hours by person, by task
Construction Documentation
Team memberRoleRateHoursValue
Jordan LeePIC$22594$21,150
Morgan AlvarezProject Architect$150690$103,500
Sam OkaforTechnologist$901,008$90,720
Casey WhitfieldInterior Design$150252$37,800
Phase hours
2,044
Phase value
$306,600
FTE over 3.5 mo
3.4
Consultants
Best team vs. lowest fee
Δ $74,500
StructuralIronwood Structural$46,000$29,000
MechanicalMeridian Mechanical$50,000$21,000
ElectricalBrightGrid Electrical$44,000$15,500
CivilGroundline Civil$37,000$37,000
Ironwood Structural — fee split across phases $46,000
SD · DD · CD · Tender · CA · Close Out
Fees
$1,116,200 total proposal
% of construction
Phase%Fee
Schematic Design10%$93,500
Design Development15%$140,250
Construction Documentation35%$327,250
Construction Administration35%$327,250
Architectural
$935,000
Consultants
$177,000
Reimbursables
$4,200
RFP Dashboard

One tracker, not one per person.

Nearly every firm tracks its RFPs in a spreadsheet — and then in a second spreadsheet someone else keeps, plus a calendar, plus an inbox. The data is all there, just split across the office and out of date the moment it's copied.

Fee Studio holds it in one place, so the whole firm is reading the same pipeline: status, due date, client, sector, and who owns it.

  • Status, due date, client and sector recorded once, visible to everyone
  • An RFP lead and coordinator on every pursuit, so nothing sits unowned
  • A live checklist per proposal — fee method, schedule, consultant matrix
  • Won and lost tracked in the same place, so the pipeline becomes firm data
Current proposals
7 active
Riverbend Middle SchoolIn ReviewDue 04 Sep
Harbourside ChildcareWill pursueDue 11 Sep
Example ProjectIn ProgressDue 19 Sep
Northgate Health AnnexSubmittedSent 02 Aug
Cedar Lane Civic HallOn hold
Submitted YTD
14
Awarded
5
Win rate
36%
Workplan & Fee Calculator

Two ways to price. Both in one place.

Build the fee bottom-up from hours, or top-down from a percentage of construction value. Run both and you can see whether the number you're proposing is a number you can actually staff — and how far apart the two answers really are.

  • Workplan hours — tasks by phase, hours by person, billing rates you set once
  • % of construction — your firm's phase percentages, applied instantly
  • FTE loading per phase, so you know if you can actually staff it
  • Reimbursables and site visits costed in, not guessed at
Fee method
Switchable
Selected
% of construction
$22.0M × 4.25%
$935,000
Alternative
Workplan hours
5,840 hrs @ $150 avg
$876,000
Schematic Design10%$93,500
Design Development15%$140,250
Construction Docs35%$327,250
Construction Admin35%$327,250
Total100%$935,000
Collaboration

Stop emailing versions around.

Your principal, project architect and coordinator all work in the same proposal. Every sheet carries its own comment thread, and every change is attributed — so you can see who set that number and ask them why.

  • Comment threads on each sheet, not buried in an email chain
  • Last-edited badges on the numbers that matter
  • One firm workspace — invite your team with a join code
  • Export to Excel or PDF when it's time to hand it to the client
Consultants
3 comments
JL
Jordan Lee · 2 days ago
Voltage Point's number looks light. Can we confirm they've priced the full lighting scope before we carry it?
MA
Morgan Alvarez · yesterday
Confirmed — scope is equivalent. Noted it against their entry.
PN Priya edited Structural fee split 14:02
CW Casey edited Reimbursables 11:47
Project Schedule

Build the schedule the client asked for.

Set phase durations and Fee Studio draws the bar chart, places your milestones and hands you a schedule you can put straight into the submission. Change a duration and everything downstream shifts.

  • Drag phase durations and gaps directly on the chart
  • Milestones for permit, tender and completion dates
  • Phase durations feed the FTE calculation on the workplan
  • Include or exclude phases per project — no deleting rows
12-month schedule
Sep 2026 → Aug 2027
SEPNOVJANMARMAYJUL
Schematic
Design Dev
Const. Docs
Tender
Const. Admin
Close Out
Duration
12 mo
Phases
6
Milestones
2
Consultant Fees

See what the team actually costs you.

Log every respondent by discipline, compare them side by side, and build two teams — the one you want and the one that wins on price. Fee Studio shows you the gap between them before you commit.

  • Track who you asked, who responded, and who's still outstanding
  • Split each consultant's fee across phases — evenly or custom
  • Best-team vs. lowest-fee comparison in one click
  • Exclusions and notes stored against each respondent
Mechanical — 3 respondents
All received
Meridian Mechanical
Strong energy modelling
$50,000Best
Coastal MEP Solutions
No exclusions noted
$34,500
Vantage Mechanical
Lowest fee received
$21,000Cheapest
Best team
$177,000
Lowest fee
$102,500
Difference
$74,500
Beta — limited firms

Try it on your next RFP.

Fee Studio is in open beta and free while it is. Bring a live pursuit, build it in the app, and tell me what's missing — beta firms shape what gets built next.

Free during beta Your firm's data stays yours Built for firms of 5–50