Your architecture practice,
running 24/7.
ScaleArc brings qualified enquiries to your studio, answers every one of them in seconds on WhatsApp, follows up until they’re booked, and keeps your work visible everywhere, so you can stay on the drawing board.
The real problem
You’re not short on enquiries.
You’re losing them.
Most studios don’t have a demand problem. They have a response problem. The enquiry arrives on a Saturday, or mid-site-visit, or while you’re deep in a drawing. By the time you reply on Tuesday, someone else already booked the meeting.
of architecture firms have fewer than 10 people, the owner is the designer, the salesperson and the admin team
AIA Firm Survey 2024the share of billings going to small firms fell by one half between 2015 and 2023, while the share going to large firms rose by 40 per cent
AIA Firm Survey Report 2024the longest billings slump on record, with firms reporting enquiries that never convert into signed contracts
AIA Architecture Billings Indexopen rate on WhatsApp versus roughly 20% on email, where your clients actually reply
Industry messaging benchmarksReferrals you can’t control
Word of mouth built your practice. It also caps it, you can’t schedule a referral, and it rarely takes you somewhere new.
Time-wasters who eat your week
Free advice, no site, no budget, never signs. More leads only helps if something filters them before they reach your calendar.
Marketing that stops when you get busy
You post when there’s time. There’s never time. Then the project ends and the pipeline is empty, the feast-and-famine cycle every studio knows.
The ScaleArc system
Four parts. One loop that
keeps running without you.
Attract, qualify, convert, deliver. Each part feeds the next, and every finished project feeds the top again.
Be the studio they find first, on Google and inside AI.
We build the demand instead of waiting for it. Search and local SEO, visibility inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini when someone asks for an architect, and a founder-led content engine that publishes in your voice every week, without you shooting a single video.
- Search and local SEO for the projects you want, in the areas you serve
- AI search visibility: ranked and cited when ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini recommend an architect
- Founder content engine: your AI clone on camera first, you when you’re ready, because people watch people
- Always-on social: project reels, before/after and process, published weekly
- Paid campaigns aimed at homeowners and developers with real budgets
- Every enquiry tracked back to the thing that created it
An AI agent that replies in seconds, and screens out the rest.
Your agent lives on WhatsApp, Instagram and your website. It answers instantly, in your voice, at any hour. It asks the questions you’d ask, site, budget, timeline, scope, and only real prospects reach your calendar.
- 24/7 first response, in English, Arabic or Hindi
- Qualifies on plot ownership, build budget, timeline and scope
- Books the consultation straight into your calendar
- Hands over to you the moment a human should take it
Follow-up that never forgets.
Most projects aren’t lost at the pitch, they’re lost in the silence afterwards. ScaleArc keeps every proposal, every warm lead and every old enquiry moving, on the channel your client actually reads.
- Proposal follow-up sequences that run until you get an answer
- Consultation reminders that cut no-shows
- Re-engagement of enquiries that went quiet months ago
- Everything logged in your CRM, nothing living in someone’s inbox
From signed to handed over, on autopilot.
Winning the project is half of it. ScaleArc automates the admin that surrounds delivery, onboarding, updates, approvals, payment reminders, so the studio runs calmly and gets paid on time.
- Client onboarding, contracts and welcome packs sent automatically
- Weekly project updates so clients stop chasing you
- Approvals and decisions chased on WhatsApp until they land
- Stage-payment reminders, then review and referral requests at handover
A compounding advantage
Your practice gets better
at winning work every month.
Every conversation teaches the system which enquiries turn into projects, which suburbs, which budgets, which questions signal a serious client. The filter sharpens. The follow-up gets smarter. Your time goes to fewer, better meetings.
- 01Capture
Every enquiry from every channel lands in one place. Nothing is lost to a missed call or a buried DM.
- 02Qualify
The agent asks the qualifying questions in seconds, so you meet people who have a site, a budget and a date.
- 03Nurture
The ones who aren’t ready today stay warm for months without you remembering to chase them.
- 04Learn
Won and lost projects feed back in, so targeting, content and qualification keep tightening.
The maths
One extra project pays for the year.
This is the only ROI calculation that matters in architecture. A single additional commission covers the whole engagement several times over, everything after that is margin.
typical architect’s fee on a $500k residential build, at 8 to 15%
typical design fee on an AED 2.5M villa, at 5 to 8% of construction value
typical fee on a ₹50 lakh home, at 4 to 6%, more in the metros
Fee ranges are market benchmarks for each region, not a projection of your results. In your audit we run these numbers against your actual fees, conversion rate and enquiry volume.
Free for architects
Start with the numbers. No signup.
22 free calculators that run in your browser, and research on fees, margin and winning work for practices in the US, the UAE and India.
Architect Fee Proposal Builder
Turn a construction budget into a fee, a stage payment schedule and a proposal you can send.
Free toolBreak-Even and Billing Rate Calculator
Find the hourly rate below which your studio loses money on every hour it sells.
Free toolProject Profitability Reality Check
Find the hour at which a project stops making money and starts costing you.
Free toolEnquiry Leak Calculator
Work out how much work you lose every year to slow replies and follow-up that stops too early.
Free toolOccupancy Load Calculator
Calculate occupant load and required egress width, with the gross and net distinction handled properly.
Free toolIndia FSI and Buildable Area Calculator
Find the buildable area on an Indian plot, and which rule actually limits you.
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PracticeIs AI saving your practice time?
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PracticeSelling energy and resilience work after the credits ended
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I started out designing buildings and stadiums. I know exactly what it feels like to be brilliant at the work and invisible in the market.
After years on the drawing board I moved into startup growth marketing and scaled venture-backed companies in the US and Paris to millions of users. In parallel I grew my family’s property valuation business from a local practice into a national and international operation.
ScaleArc is those two halves put together: the growth systems that scale technology companies, rebuilt for the way an architecture practice actually wins work. Not a marketing agency that read a blog post about architects. This is a studio owner’s answer to a problem I lived.
Let’s find where your projects are leaking.
A free growth audit: we map every route an enquiry takes into your studio, show you where they’re dropping, and give you the fix, whether or not you work with us.