Fee + profitability tools for small architecture firms
Test your proposed fee against the people, hours, overhead, and scope required to deliver the project—before the proposal goes out.
Start with the leak you can see
Most firms do not need more project-management software. They need a clean line between the work they promise, the cost of delivering it, and the profit left at the end.
Project-level diagnostic
Test one live proposal against labor, overhead, and scope risk. Find out whether the fee creates a margin—or quietly consumes it.
Firm-level cost intelligence
Calculate what every role truly costs after payroll, overhead, and utilization—then build rates and fixed fees on reality.
Why trust the method
Behind the Stamp was created by a licensed architect and practice operator who has priced, staffed, and delivered hundreds of real projects. The method is deliberately practical: enough rigor to protect the business, without turning architects into accountants.
Busy is not the same as profitable.
Questions worth asking
The tools are narrow on purpose: understand the cost, test the fee, and make the decision with your eyes open.
Owners and senior operators at small architecture firms—especially teams of 2–20 people working with fixed fees, lean staffing, and limited financial visibility.
No. If you can enter payroll, overhead, utilization, staff hours, and a proposed fee, the tools do the math and show you what the numbers mean.
For the free check: your project fee, planned staff hours or labor cost, overhead allocation, and a realistic scope contingency. The full toolkit goes deeper into payroll, utilization, and role-based cost rates.
No. The cost-rate tool helps you understand what every hour truly costs; the fixed-fee tool applies that knowledge to lump-sum proposals and exposes margin risk before the work begins.
No. They are pricing and decision tools—not bookkeeping, tax, or legal advice. Your accountant reports what happened. These tools help you make a better fee decision before it happens.
Because you should see value before buying anything. Run one real project through it. If the result changes how you see the fee, the deeper toolkit is the logical next step.
Your next proposal is too important to guess.