For Architecture Firms

AI Automation for
Architecture Firms.

Custom AI systems for architecture practices that replace the monthly reporting rituals, sector research, and business development grunt work eating senior time.

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At a glance

AI automation for architecture firms, in plain English.

JQ AI SYSTEMS builds custom AI automation for architecture firms that removes the repetitive operational layer: monthly LinkedIn and portfolio reporting, weekly sector research briefings, competitor intelligence, and tender preparation. Every system is built around the firm's own IT policy, runs offline or inside your existing workspace, and is delivered with full source code so the practice owns the result.

The Reality

What architecture firms actually struggle with.

The bottlenecks nobody puts in a pitch deck, but everyone recognises.

01
Monthly reporting eats senior time
LinkedIn analytics, portfolio updates, marketing dashboards, project performance. A senior person spends between two and four hours per month assembling reports that leadership barely reads, using Excel templates that break every time the source data moves.
02
Sector research is unsystematic
Everyone agrees the firm should be tracking competitor work, industry news, embodied carbon research and new regulation. Nobody has two hours on a Monday morning to actually do it. So it gets skipped, or it falls on one person who burns out doing it.
03
Tenders are written from scratch every time
Every competition brief needs a custom response, but most of the content is the same: practice credentials, sustainability approach, team bios, past project narratives. The first two days of every tender are spent copying from old proposals and reformatting.
04
Your IT policy blocks the obvious tools
Generic SaaS tools need logins, cloud uploads, and outbound API calls your IT team will not approve. You end up stuck between a workflow that needs fixing and a policy that says no to the fix.
What I Build

What an AI build looks like for you.

Not a product list. A shortlist of the builds that actually move the needle for this type of work.

Build 01

Offline reporting tools

Single-file browser tools that take raw CSV exports (LinkedIn, project management, CRM) and produce formatted Word or PDF reports in seconds. Runs entirely offline inside Chrome or Edge. Zero cloud, zero login, zero IT friction. Already built and running for AGC Architectes in France.

Build 02

Weekly sector research briefings

A scheduled Claude-powered pipeline that fires every Monday morning, pulls industry news from your curated sources, reasons about it using your firm's embedded architecture knowledge document, and delivers a structured briefing to your workspace before the weekly team meeting.

Build 03

Tender and proposal accelerators

A prompt system that reads a competition brief and pulls the relevant content from your proposal library: practice credentials, project narratives, sustainability approach, team bios. Drafts a structured first pass you can refine. Cuts tender prep from days to hours.

Build 04

Competitor and project-watch systems

Scheduled monitoring of competitor firm pages, industry press and competition results. Structured alerts when a specific firm wins a tender, publishes a new project, or changes their messaging. Delivered as a weekly digest or real-time notification.

Build 05

Firm knowledge bases with Claude on top

Your project archive, past proposals, technical standards and client records loaded into a Claude-powered knowledge base. Ask questions in plain English and get answers grounded in your own firm's history. No data leaves your control.

Real Builds

Systems built for architecture firms.

Live case studies. Click through for the full technical and commercial breakdown.

Case Study · Live

AGC LinkedIn Reporting Tool

A browser-only HTML tool built for AGC Architectes, a French architecture firm. Drop three LinkedIn CSVs onto the page, click once, and a branded Word report downloads. No cloud, no server, no install. Replaced a 3-hour monthly ritual with a 3-minute one, under strict IT constraints.

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Automated Sector Research Briefing

A scheduled Claude-powered system built for a Paris-based architecture firm. Every Monday at 9am it pulls industry news, reasons about it using an embedded architecture knowledge document, and delivers a structured briefing. Replaced two hours of manual research every week.

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Why We Get You

This isn't a generic landing page.

Architecture firms are one of the few client types where I already have two live, delivered systems running in production inside French practices. AGC Architectes runs a browser-only LinkedIn reporting tool every month. A Paris-based firm runs a weekly sector research briefing every Monday at 9am. Both builds are tagged with the specific constraints that real architecture practices operate under: strict IT policy, no cloud, no login, no installation, and output that has to read like an architect wrote it.

That last point is the one generic AI tools miss. A firm that works in embodied carbon, adaptive reuse and climate adaptation does not want a generic news roundup, and it does not want output that sounds like a startup blog. I solve that with embedded knowledge documents: the vocabulary, movements, competitors and concerns that actually matter to your practice, loaded into Claude before it reads anything. The output knows what good looks like for your firm.

The founder, João Queirós, has 12 years of brand and communications work behind him before moving fully into AI systems. That matters here because most architecture firm problems are not technical. They are communications and operational problems where the right AI build has to respect the firm\'s voice, craft and house style. This is not a generic developer building you a chatbot. It is a communications-led build, delivered in working code.

What It Costs

Indicative ranges.

Every project is scoped and fixed-priced before work starts. These are the bands most architecture firms builds fall into.

From €2,400 Single-purpose tools

Browser-only reporting tools, CSV-to-Word generators, single-workflow scripts. Typically 1 to 2 weeks of work, fixed price.

From €5,500 Scheduled systems

Sector research briefings, competitor watch systems, tender accelerators with memory and scheduled delivery. 3 to 5 weeks.

From €12,000 Multi-agent builds

Firm knowledge bases with Claude on top, multi-agent systems with integrated workflows, full operational platforms. 4 to 8 weeks.

Custom projects start with a free 30-minute consultation. A precise, fixed quote is provided before any commitment. All deliverables include full source code and documentation. You own the result outright.

Process

How it actually runs.

01
Discovery
Free 30-minute call. You describe the workflow, the frustration, and the IT constraints. I map it against what Claude can realistically do now inside your policy boundaries.
02
Scope + IT review
I write a one-page scope document with inputs, outputs, data flow, and exactly where data lives. Your IT team reviews before anything starts. Fixed quote after sign-off.
03
Build
The system is built in Python, JavaScript or as a browser-only tool, depending on your constraints. Real firm data is used from day one so the output is tuned to your voice, not a generic template.
04
Test + tune
Edge cases are stress-tested against real briefs, CSVs or competitor sites. Prompts are tuned until the output meets the firm's quality bar. You approve every output format before delivery.
05
Deliver + train
Full handoff with source code, documentation, and a walkthrough call for the people who will run it. 14-day warranty on bug fixes. The firm owns everything outright.
FAQ

Before you book.

Our IT policy blocks cloud tools and external logins. Can you work inside that?
Yes. The AGC reporting tool is the exact example: one HTML file, zero cloud, zero network calls, zero login. It runs inside Chrome or Edge on a machine that has never been online. For systems that need external data (news fetching, competitor monitoring), I isolate the API layer so your IT team can review exactly what leaves the machine and what does not. Every build is designed around your policy, not around my preference.
Does the output sound like AI wrote it?
That is the first problem I solve. Generic Claude output reads like a startup blog. Architecture firm output needs to sound like an architect. I fix that with embedded knowledge documents: a structured brief of your vocabulary, the movements you follow, the concerns that matter to your practice, the publications you trust. Claude reads this before it reads anything else. The result is output grounded in your firm's voice and technical register, not generic.
Do your systems work in French?
Yes. Claude is fluent in French and the existing architecture firm builds are operating inside French practices with French source material. Briefings, reports and proposals can be produced in French, English, or both. The knowledge document and prompt system are built in whichever language the firm works in.
Can the system integrate with our existing tools (Archicad, Revit, BIM workflows)?
The current focus is the communications, research, reporting and business development layer. That is where the time savings are largest and the technical risk is lowest. BIM-level integration is possible in principle via file exports, but it is not where most firms should start. The fastest, cleanest wins are on the operational layer sitting above the CAD work, not inside it.
What about GDPR and client confidentiality?
Every build is scoped around confidentiality from day one. For offline tools (AGC pattern), no data ever leaves the firm's machines. For scheduled research systems, only curated public sources are read. Client project data, internal briefs and proposals stay inside your systems. Anthropic's API is zero-retention for commercial accounts, which I set up properly during delivery. Nothing is used for training.
Who owns the code and the prompts after delivery?
You do. Every deliverable includes full source code, the prompt library, configuration files, and documentation explaining how to run, extend, and debug the system. The firm owns the result outright. There is no licensing fee, no ongoing subscription to JQ AI SYSTEMS, no dependency on this consultancy continuing to exist. You could hand the code to a different developer tomorrow.
How do we know it is worth it before we commit?
The first call is free and takes 30 minutes. By the end of it you will know whether the problem is a good fit for AI, what a realistic scope looks like, and whether the numbers work. If it is not the right build, I will tell you. The project quote is fixed and delivered in writing before anything starts. You are not committing to anything before you see the scope document.
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