The portfolio is the pitch
Websites and project systems for architecture practices, built around photography, planning stages and long decision cycles.
- Sold as
- One contract
- Starts with
- A free review
Architecture is chosen visually and then justified rationally. The portfolio does almost all of the selling, which makes photography and the way projects are presented the highest-return investment a practice can make, and the one most often left to whoever has time.
Operationally the difficulty is the length of a project. Stages, approvals, revisions and consultants stretch over months, and the practice that cannot show a client where things stand spends its evenings writing update emails.
The search side is not separate from that. "Architect" plus a city, plus project-type searches such as house extension, loft conversion or commercial fit-out. Ranking for those means the pages exist, the business is verified where it operates, and the reviews are real and recent.
What we build for architecture practices
- A portfolio that carries the workProjects presented properly, with photography sized and sequenced to be looked at rather than scrolled past.
- Project stages a client can seeWhere the project is, what is waiting on whom, without an update email.
- Enquiries that are qualifiedA form that asks about site, budget and timescale, so a first call is worth having.
- Being found for project typesPages for the work you want, because that is how a client searches before they know any practice names.
How a project moves through an architecture practice
Projects run for months across stages and consultants, and the practice loses time wherever nobody can see what is waiting.
Brief and fee proposal
Fee proposals are rebuilt from a blank page for each enquiry, so a stage-based template turns a brief into a proposal in an afternoon.
Design and revisions
Revision rounds drift without a record of what the client approved, so every sign-off is logged against the drawing issue.
Planning and consultants
Waiting on the engineer or the planning officer stalls quietly, so each outstanding item shows who owns it and since when.
Stage invoicing
A stage finishes and its invoice follows weeks later, so closing the stage raises the invoice.
Services that go with it
What usually comes next, once the first piece is running, and why it matters in this trade.
- Google Maps (Local SEO)Extensions and loft conversions are searched with a town, and homeowners shortlist from the practices they see on the map.
- System IntegrationTimesheets and stage fees reach your accounting package without a partner reconciling them at month end.
- Website MaintenanceNew project photography goes onto the site when it arrives, not when somebody in the studio finds a free evening.
What people in this trade ask us
How many projects should the portfolio show?
Is professional photography worth the cost?
Can clients see progress without emailing us?
Where should we keep large drawing and model files?
Can clients comment on drawings without printing them?
The infrastructure under it
Managed by the engineers who build the software, on the same contract and the same bill.
Cloud Servers
A managed server for shared project files lets large models open from the office and from site without everyone syncing gigabytes.
Backup & Recovery
Years of drawings and models are the practice's archive, and a single failed drive should never decide what survives.
Priced and ready to order
A fixed scope and the price on the card. The line on each one is why it matters in this trade.
ScopedBusiness website buildA portfolio organised by finished project and building type, which is how a client judges a practice.from €2,400on scope
One-timeBrand kitA mark, palette and type that hold together across drawings, boards and the website.from €1,200one-time
One-timePresentation designPitch and competition decks designed to be presented, and edited for the next bid.from €690one-time
What one contract covers
- One contract. The build, the infrastructure and the work that brings people to it, on one invoice.
- A named team. The person on the first call stays on the project. No account managers, no handoffs.
- Operated, not delivered. We keep it running after launch: patching, backups, monitoring and the phone when it breaks.
- European hosting. Servers in Europe, run by us, with the data staying where you expect it to.
- Monthly reporting. What changed, what it cost and what it produced, in language you can forward to a board.
- No lock-in. The code, the domains and the accounts are yours. Leaving is a handover.
See what is costing you customers before you spend anything.
A senior engineer walks your site, your search presence and the way enquiries reach you, then writes down the three things worth fixing first.
- 01You tell us what is not working
- 02We review the site, the search presence and the enquiry path
- 03You get the three fixes worth doing, and what each is worth