They teach you to design. Nobody teaches you to run an office.
An office management tool for architecture, engineering, and design firms that takes the guesswork out of running a small business
Built by a team that also runs a small architecture office every day.
Eliminate guesswork
Most project management tools help teams track to-dos. Accounting software handles your books. Format Projects handles the layer in between — the operational questions that keep practice owners up at night.
- “ What should I charge for this service?”
- “ What's my real hourly rate?”
- “ Is this project profitable?”
- “ Can I afford to bring on another person?”
- “ Will this be a good year?”
- “ How long does this phase typically take?”
Projects
Track budgets, schedules, billing, and staffing across every active project — and build the dataset that makes your next proposal a confident one.
Timesheets
Log hours by project and service to understand where your time actually goes, set rates backed by real data, and write proposals that hold up.
Operations
See your firm's revenue, expenses, profit, and staffing in one place — and make the decisions that used to require an office manager you didn't have.
Contacts
Keep clients, consultants, and collaborators organized in one place — linked directly to the projects they belong to.
Crafted for practices like yours.
You're probably a few years into your practice. Maybe you're solo, maybe you have a small team. You're good at what you do — and you're figuring out the business side as you go. You're writing proposals based on gut feelings. You're not sure if your rates are right. You're wondering how the year is going to shake out. If any of that sounds familiar, Format Projects was built for you.
- Architects
- Engineers
- Designers
We built this for our own office.
We're Format Architecture Office — a small architecture and design practice based in Brooklyn, NY. We've been running our firm for nearly a decade, and in our early years, we were guessing at almost everything: what to charge for a service, whether a project fee made sense, if we could afford to grow. We built Format Projects to stop guessing, and we're sharing it because you shouldn't have to either.
- Format Architecture Office
- Office
- Brooklyn, NY
- Location
- 2017
- Since
- 6 Employees
- Size
Ready to stop guessing?
Get started today, or send us an email and we'll talk through whether Format Projects is the right fit for your practice. We've been where you are, and we're happy to help!