From the design and access statement to handover.

Talk it through as you walk round.

Open the Arqor app on site, take your photos and say what you see. The walk is recorded with every photo and filed to the project as a Design and access walk, so your photos and notes are on the project before you are back in the office.

• Every photo kept with what you said as you took it
• Where the walk started offered as the site pin, for you to confirm
• A design and access statement started from the walk, reading every photo and the recording

Drafting the statement from your walk is with our design partners now.

Drop in the drawings.

Upload the drawing set and Arqor reads all of it at once. It picks out listed-building and conservation wording from the drawings themselves, so heritage questions surface on day one.

• The whole set read in one go, not sheet by sheet
• Anything it had to assume is marked as assumed
• Nothing is saved until you have checked it

Don’t start every project with a blank document.

From the drawings, Arqor drafts the schedule of works, the room, window and door schedules and the preliminaries, and proposes the quantities with its working shown. You review it, refine it in plain words, and approve it.

• Schedules drafted unpriced, ready for tender
• Preliminaries drafted from your own last set, with blanks listed rather than guessed
• A programme seeded from the schedule, with a link to share
• Design and access and heritage statements checked against the drawings, the list entry and the schedule: every finding marked fix, check or note

Drafting the statements themselves is with our design partners now.

The information doesn’t disappear when construction starts.

Site photos land pinned to your drawings, from the builder’s people scanning a QR code on site. Site reports from a voice walk-round, snag lists, instructions and the programme all stay on the same project.

• When the contractor runs the job in Arqor, they can open a portal view for you: costs, programme, photos and documents
• Raise queries there, and certify their applications for payment
• Planning conditions and their discharge, building control and key dates tracked to completion

And it runs the practice around the project.

The fees, time and stages that usually live in separate practice software are on the same project, so the numbers come from the work rather than a spreadsheet.

• RIBA stages on every project, with checklists and internal review gates
• Fees and budget hours by stage, and fee burn valued at the rate when the time was logged
• Timers built for switching jobs, calls logged as time, and a gentle timesheet chaser
• A weekly planner of people, projects and stages
• Invoices drafted from unbilled time by stage, and sent on to Xero
• A practice dashboard: fee burn, work in progress, debtors, tenders out and returns in
• Every planning application tracked from validation, with a chase log
• Email filed to the project, and meetings recorded into minutes and actions