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Mudo for small architecture practices

For studios of two to ten, where the director is also the resourcing plan, the fee tracker and the QA process, and the cost of that is invisible until it is not.

  • Resourcing
  • Commercial
  • Knowledge
  • Delivery
One person holds all four. Nothing is delegated because there is nobody to delegate to.

A small practice has no operations team. It has a director who is also the resourcing plan, the fee tracker, the quality process and the institutional memory.

That works, and it works well, right up to the point where it does not, usually when a fourth project arrives, or when the person holding it takes a fortnight off.

The specific failures

They are always the same three.

Resourcing is rebuilt weekly from memory, takes an hour, and is wrong by Wednesday because the programme moved on Tuesday.

The commercial position is known twice a year, thoroughly, and approximately the rest of the time. Variations get agreed on site and never invoiced.

Knowledge lives in one person. When they are unavailable, the practice slows down; when they leave, it loses years.

Why per-practice pricing matters at this size

Priced per seat, a small practice pays a penalty for including the people who most need to see the system: the part-time technician, the bookkeeper, the graduate.

Mudo is priced per practice. Adding a graduate does not change the bill, which means the whole studio can be in the system rather than only the people who could be justified.

Starting small is the point

Starter is free: one user, two projects, 1GB. That is not a trial with a countdown. It is enough to run a real job and find out whether the model matches how you work.

Connected to this

  • Mudo for architecture practices

    Built for practices whose work is staged, whose fees are agreed in advance, and whose projects involve consultants, approvals and drawing sets, not for generic knowledge work.

  • Mudo for growing architecture practices

    For studios past the point where one person can hold it all, where the work is now to make the practice legible to more than one head.

  • Pricing

    Mudo pricing in Australian dollars, charged per practice rather than per seat. Starter is free. Basic, Pro and Studio scale with the practice.

  • Resource planning for architectsAvailable

    See who is working on what across every live project, and who has capacity next week, without rebuilding the picture in a spreadsheet every Monday morning.

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Free for solo practices: one user, two projects, no card.