Architecture
Schematics, drawings, revisions, coordination: CANOPE understands the real work in your studio and protects your fees at every phase.
A deadline crunch, three client revisions, a back-and-forth with the structural engineer. Billable time slips away, and the timesheet gets filled from memory on Friday night. What isn’t captured never gets invoiced.
You signed a percentage of construction value, or a fixed amount per phase. But schematic design drags on, change requests pile up, and no one sees that DD has already burned its budget before construction documents even start.
The contract in an email, the latest revision on the server, the addendum in an inbox, the purchase order nowhere. Finding the right version and knowing who approved what costs you non-billable hours.
CANOPE
CANOPE recognizes time spent on schematics, drawings, or a coordination meeting and prepares each architect’s timesheet, ready to approve in one tap.
CANOPE tracks the progress of every phase — SD, DD, CD, construction — across the project, sub-project, and task hierarchy, each with its own budget and rate.
CANOPE prepares your fee invoices by percent complete or by time and materials, applies GST and QST, and freezes the document at production.
CANOPE predicts a phase overrun before it happens and catches billable hours forgotten on a file before you close the month.
CANOPE knows where every version, every addendum, and every approval lives, and links drawings, emails, and purchase orders to the right project.
A day with CANOPE
8:30 a.m. — You open CANOPE. Yesterday’s time on the massing revision and the call with the structural engineer is already there, ready to confirm.
10 a.m. — The client asks to move a partition. CANOPE attaches the change request to the right sub-project and flags that the DD phase is nearing its fixed fee.
1 p.m. — You prepare the quarterly fee invoice. CANOPE computes each phase’s progress, applies taxes, and produces the invoice to approve.
4 p.m. — An addendum goes out to the contractors. CANOPE files it to the project, links it to the purchase order, and tracks who received what.
5 p.m. — Before you leave, CANOPE flags two billable hours forgotten on a nearby project. They’ll be on the next invoice, not lost.
Design the buildings. CANOPE handles the rest.