For Architecture Firms · United States Practice

Design studios competing to be selected before the shortlist forms.

An alternative to a marketing department, and an addition to the one you already have: external revenue procurement for architecture firms.

We analyze and plan
We create the opportunity
We introduce and endorse
You win

What you get from us

We create the opportunity. We do not wait for the RFQ.
Qualified project opportunities Projects fed to your firm through our experience and network.
Unmatched access Relationship-building meetings with decision-makers that would take years to earn.
Our personal endorsement We put our reputation on the line supporting your firm as the winner.
Untapped markets We analyze your needs, then look where you have not competed.
Work likely to be won Knowledge means pursuits that are high quality and likely to succeed.

What we do

We do not wait for an RFQ to be published. We analyze your studio’s strengths and plan where more revenue and better margin can be won, then place you in front of developers, agencies, and institutional owners while the scope is still open and the team is still being assembled.

How we work

STEP 1 Analyze your business Your needs, strengths, and capacity, so every pursuit fits work you can win.
STEP 2 Plan where the margin is Untapped sectors, geographies, and funding sources where more money can be made.
STEP 3 Open the right doors Meetings with decision-makers that would otherwise take years to earn.
STEP 4 Position you to win Access plus market knowledge means pursuits likely to succeed.

Where we open doors for architects

The team is picked long before the solicitation is written
Developers In front of them while the program is still being drawn, not after the architect is chosen.
Institutional owners Campus, healthcare, and civic clients planning capital programs years ahead.
Public agencies On-call and master-services agreements that keep a studio busy between projects.
Contractors Named as the design partner on design-build and progressive design-build teams.
Engineering primes Positioned as the architecture seat on multidisciplinary pursuits.
Landholders Owners with entitled land and no design team yet.

Who we have worked with

Every name here selects architects, or is one: the developers who commission the work and the national firms that team on it.

AvalonBay Communities · Lennar · Village Partners · Legacy Partners · Woodside Homes · Western Realco · Lincoln Property Company · Shea Properties · Brookfield Residential · Kennedy Wilson · Toll Brothers · Stantec · AECOM · HDR · HNTB · Psomas · Moffatt & Nichol · David Evans · SVA Architects · BLA Architects · SGH · EPD Solutions · PACE · 3M · Halliburton / Brown & Root

Why that variety matters

Serving architects, engineers, contractors, developers, technology firms, counsel, and the investors who fund them puts us at every seat of the table. We hear about projects while they are still being shaped, and we know who is short of capacity, capital, or a qualified partner.

Where we deliver

California Home market
Our deepest bench of relationships: developers, public agencies, institutional owners, and the design and construction firms that serve them.
Nationwide, and beyond 20 countries & territories
U.S. capital projects nationwide, plus infrastructure funded by the development banks abroad.
Get in touch

Begin a conversation

Tell us about your project — where it is, what stage it has reached, and what you are trying to win. We reply promptly.

Goes straight to Larry Mandell. We never share your details.