CMap FOR Architects
Behind the work
that matters
Our firm intelligence suite helps architects build better businesses, giving you & your team the time, insights & finances to pursue your purpose.
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CMAP IS TRUSTED BY 400+ AEC CUSTOMERS & 20,000+ USERS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA & THE UK
Offers architected for you
More time on the work you love.
Three unique ways architecture firms get ahead with CMap
First month & QuickBooks (Online & Desktop) integration free1
Easily move off spreadsheets or your current firm management tool, while helping your cash flow.
CMap Mail - 12 months for the price of 12
Firm intelligence users get our market-leading project email management tool at a 91% discount.
AI readiness - your data onboarded
We migrate your people and project data, then optimize your proposals, resourcing and invoicing so AI has something worth reading.
1. When you sign up to a 12-month agreement. Available on any plan.
2. First-year offer only.
CMap intelligence
AI that helps you run your firm,
you take the craft.
We've turbocharged our core firm intelligence & Mail solutions with helpful AI. Ask CMap Chat a question about your people, projects, or profitability, and get instant answers from your own trusted advisor.
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Designed for Architects, not retro-fit
We know AIA phases, sub-consultants and the many different ways you invoice.
Ask your practice anything
Insights from your real data, not generic AI - fully secure & protected. Just ask CMap.
Less admin, more design
Quoting, resourcing, reporting - Intelligence handles the grind, your team handles the work.
Form follows function - the tools you need to build an architect firm
Job costing & CRM
beforE CMAP
Best guessing, underquoting, and hours going back and forth over every fee proposal.
AFTER CMAP
Fees built phase by phase, backed by what your past projects actually cost.
Price work to drive margin, not leak it.
Build SOWs based on resourcing, not just client budget.
Manage leads & opportunities with rigor to win more work.
I used to spend hours working up a quote. With CMap, I can produce a quote in just half an hour.
Resourcing
beforE CMAP
A Monday morning spent working out who is free, and who is right for the job.
AFTER CMAP
Hours back every week, with clear visuals and AI-powered suggestions.
Resourcing Intelligence recommends the right people for the phase, not just whoever is free.
Staffing Prediction shows demand across live and pipeline work, months out.
Skills matrix finds the right architect or specialist you need, fast.
Matching resources to the work we have is absolutely crucial.
By looking at CMap's resourcing & staff availability reports,
we can run a tight ship.
By looking at CMap's resourcing & staff availability reports,
we can run a tight ship.
Task Management
beforE CMAP
Surprise overruns at month-end, because delivery and the fee never talk to each other.
AFTER CMAP
Tasks tied to phases and budgets, so progress and profit stay in lockstep, every day.
Tasks sit inside the phase they belong to, and against the fee that pays for them.
Native Kanban means one less subscription from your stack
My Tasks ends the chase for status updates before the Monday meeting.
“The difference since moving to CMap has been night and day. In our previous software, generating reports was painful. Now, I can do it in ten minutes.”
Project performance
beforE CMAP
Projects reviewed in the rear-view mirror, when it is far too late to act.
AFTER CMAP
Every project monitored live, so a bad week never becomes a bad quarter.
Budget vs. actual by phase, so you see erosion while you can still price for it
Project automation updates invoicing, revenue and resourcing without anyone remembering to
Hours used against fee earned, per project and per person.
Project performance in-depth
[With CMap] we know where we stand. Architects can see on their dashboard exactly where they stand [which] informs how they look at the next phase of the job. That's really important, we love that.
Invoicing & revenue
beforE CMAP
Month-end is a multi-day slog across spreadsheets, timesheets and QuickBooks.
after CMAP
Billing takes hours, not days, with Intelligence flagging risk before it costs you.
Percent complete, fixed fee by phase, hourly not-to-exceed and reimbursables, all handled natively.
Billing Insights flag what to raise, send and chase this week.
Two-way sync with QuickBooks Online, plus support for QuickBooks Desktop.
The most important function for us is CMap’s invoicing capability. It’s completely changed how we create invoices, and we can create them so much faster than we used to be able to do.
Reporting
beforE CMAP
Flying blind, too much guessing about future demand & firm performance
after CMAP
Full visibility across resourcing, projects, & firm profitability - just ask Chat
CMap Chat creates custom reports from a single prompt
Chat Report Recommendations point you to the right report instantly
Pre-built reports designed just for architecture firms, not generic services dashboards
With CMap, everyone on our team can drill down into the data to answer important questions about the state of the practice’s business. We can see right away whether a project is being performed at a profit or a loss.
Most firms come to us from one of four places
moving from
what usually prompts the move
what changes WITH CMAP
Spreadsheets + QuickBooks
The spreadsheet is now load-bearing, and only one person understands it.
Your fee, hours and invoices live in one place, still syncing to QuickBooks.
A time & billing tool
It tracks time well, but cannot tell you whether a phase is profitable until it is over.
Forward-looking resourcing and fee forecasting, not just the record of what happened.
A lightweight architecture PM tool
The firm passed 20 people and the tool stopped scaling with it.
Multi-phase fee structures, sub-consultant handling and firm-level reporting.
An enterprise AE platform
Paying enterprise money for a system a 30-person firm cannot get its team to adopt.
Something your whole team will actually use, with implementation measured in weeks.
THE CMAP COMMUNITY
Built alongside practices,
every step of the way.
For over ten years we’ve been partnering with architecture & engineering firms. What we’ve heard has shaped every part of CMap, from the way it handles fees to the way it plans your team.
We’re proudly independent, and proud to support the industry that inspires everything we build.
We’re proudly independent, and proud to support the industry that inspires everything we build.
A decade alongside your industry
Our team have spent over a decade working with practices of every size. We know how practices really run, and we’ll help you set up CMap around how you work – and stay alongside you as you grow.
Built for our customers, by our customers
Every year, our user forum brings customers together to share what’s working and what they need next. Your feedback shapes our roadmap.
Bringing practices together
From live events and webinars with the Architects’ Journal and RIBA to roundtables with practice leaders and professionals, we bring the industry together to talk about the issues that matter.
CMAP MAIL
Centralize every project email in one place
CMap's firm management & email products both have client work at their core.
Manage, file & search your emails in Outlook
Built for the way architecture firms actually correspond — owners, contractors, sub-consultants and building departments, all on the same thread, all needing an audit trail.
CMap Mail
Single source of truth for project email, not four separate inboxes
File emails directly from Outlook
Assign email threads to a project and phase
integrations
Works with the tools
your firm already runs on
CMap replaces your spreadsheets & point solutions while integrating with the major platforms you use, including:
- Accounting: Quickbooks (Online & Desktop), Xero, Sage, and more
- CRM: Salesforce, HubSpot
- BIM (Documents): AutoCad, AutoDesk, Revit
- BI: Excel, PowerBI, Tableau, and more
- HR: Bamboo, HiBob, BreatheHR, Personio, Rippling,
NetSuite and more
Ready to get back to
the work you love?
See how CMap brings your fees, resourcing, time, and invoicing together on projects like yours. We’ll meet you wherever you are in your journey, show you practices like yours have made the move, and stay with you for whatever comes next.
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