Can Pike follow RIBA or AIA work stages?

Yes. You name the phases. Set them up as RIBA stages, AIA phases, or your own, then save the structure as a template for every new commission.

How do we track a fixed fee?

Set the project to fixed price with a budget. Logged hours are costed at each person's hourly cost, so you see budget used and margin on the fee while the job runs.

Can we track consultant and expense costs?

Yes. Log consultant invoices and other costs as project expenses by category, and set a cost budget per category to see what is left.

Does Pike handle drawings or BIM?

No. Pike runs the practice side: stages, people, hours, fees, and invoices. Drawings stay in your CAD and BIM tools, and you can attach files to tasks.

Can we check capacity before taking on a commission?

Yes. Add the commission as a proposed project and book people on it. The capacity grid shows proposed and confirmed work together, before you sign.

Industries · Architecture firms

Know where the hours go
on every commission

Pike lays out each commission in work stages, books the team against them, and tracks hours against the fee. Directors see which jobs overrun while there is still a stage left to recover it.

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Commission timeline in Pike with work stages as phases, progress, and the team booked on each

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Where practice margin goes

Fees are agreed per commission. The hours that eat them are spread across stages, people, and redesigns, and they get totalled at the end.

Redesigns on a fixed fee

The client changes the brief after planning feedback. The team redraws for three weeks, and nobody checks the fee until the stage is invoiced.

The same architect on every deadline

Planning submissions and tender packages land in the same month. Project architects are double-booked before anyone looks at a plan.

Consultant fees outside the job

Structural, MEP, and landscape consultants invoice separately. Their cost sits in the accounts instead of on the commission it belongs to.

Work stages

Lay out the commission by stage

Each work stage becomes a phase with dates and its own colour on the timeline.

Phase progress updates as tasks close. Save your stage structure as a template and start each new commission from it.

Commission template with work stages as phases and tasks under each

Hours by stage

Label tasks by stage and the time dashboard shows where the hours went across the commission.

Project expenses for engineering consultants against cost budgets per category

Consultant costs on the job

Log structural and MEP consultant invoices as project expenses, with cost budgets per category.

Fees

Track hours against the fee

Set the commission to fixed price with a budget. Hours are costed at each person's hourly cost.

Directors see budget used, cost, and margin while the job runs, and can agree additional fees before the next stage starts.

Fixed fee commission with budget used, cost, and margin

Who uses it

One workspace for the whole practice

Each role opens Pike to the numbers it answers for.

Director

Fee burn across commissions, margin by client, and the work you have won but not started.

Project architect

Your stages, deadlines, and the team booked against them.

Architectural assistant

Your tasks for the stage, a timer, and a timesheet you submit weekly.

Questions from architecture firms

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The features behind this page

Projects

Board, list, and timeline views with milestones, dependencies, and templates.

Finance & invoicing

Live margin by client, project, and team, with invoices that flow to your bookkeeping.

Resourcing & capacity

See capacity at a glance, soft-book tentative work, and staff roles with placeholders.

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Industries · Architecture firms

Know where the hours go
on every commission

Pike lays out each commission in work stages, books the team against them, and tracks hours against the fee. Directors see which jobs overrun while there is still a stage left to recover it.

Contact sales

Sound familiar