Verity for architecture firms

The drawing was right. The wrong revision reached the site. Verity keeps every issue on record.

An architecture practice runs on drawings, approvals and fee stages, and each one has a state that changes weekly: issued, queried, sanctioned, billed. Verity keeps that state for every project in one place, so the right drawing reaches the right person and the stage fee is billed when the stage ends.

Verity in one line

One system that shows, for every project, which drawings are current, which approvals are pending, which stages are billable and which site queries are open.

See your architecture firm in Verity See the 14 problems we solve

Free: we set up a working demo of your own business, on your own data, within 7 days. You pay only if your team decides to use it.

Your team keeps drawing in CAD and BIM tools. Verity does not replace them. It keeps the project and practice side around them.

Verity / Practice / This week

All live projects

Live

Live projects

17

5 in construction

Approvals waiting

6

2 past usual time

Stages to bill

₹9.4 L

4 signed off

Team load

91%

booked next week

Booked against available hours, next week

  • Sunita (senior)100%
  • Aditya88%
  • Pooja74%
  • Nikhil (junior)35%

Mehta Villa detailed design is at 190 of 120 quoted hours. 4 client changes after approval.

Open project

Illustrative screen with sample figures. Yours is set up with your own projects, stages, team and fees.

How it runs today

The drawings are controlled. Everything around them is on trust.

Inside the drawing set there is order: sheet numbers, revision clouds, a title block. Outside it, a project lives in a shared folder, a client WhatsApp group, a consultant email chain and a few site photos. Which revision went to the contractor? Did the structural engineer acknowledge the latest layout? Has the municipal query been answered?

The principal usually holds the real status in their head: which projects are waiting on a sanction, which stage fee is due, which site visit has to happen this week. Junior architects hold their own pieces. When a person is away, or a project is handed over mid-way, the picture has to be rebuilt from emails.

Nothing fails loudly. A late drawing issue, a missed stage invoice or an unanswered query each cost a few days, and the cost shows up as late projects, uncomfortable calls with contractors and fees collected months after the work.

What most architecture firms run on

  • CAD and BIM files on a shared drive
  • Email chains with consultants
  • Client WhatsApp groups
  • Excel project and fee tracker
  • Site photos on phones
  • The principal’s memory

Each of these does its own job. None of them knows what state a project is in.

14 problems, one by one

Where an architecture practice loses time and fees.

These are the situations principals and project architects describe. For each one: what it looks like in a normal week, what it costs, and what Verity does about it.

  1. 01Clients

    The brief changes after the design was approved

    What it looks like

    The client approved the concept and the schematic plan. Three weeks into detailed drawings they want a bigger kitchen, an extra bedroom and a new elevation. The drawings change, the structure changes, and the original fee stays the same.

    What it costs you

    Example arithmetic: a villa fee of ₹6 lakh for a 120-hour design stage that runs to 190 hours has lost 70 hours, or about ₹70,000 at a ₹1,000 hourly cost, with no one having agreed to it.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each project keeps its approved stages and a log of client change requests. A change after approval is recorded with the date, the extra hours it needed and a decision: charged, absorbed or declined. The project architect sees the running total on the project.

    See the screen
  2. 02Fees

    A stage ends and nobody bills it

    What it looks like

    The schematic stage was signed off in July. The detailed drawing stage is half done. The fee instalment for the first stage was never invoiced because the principal forgot and the accounts person did not know it was signed off.

    What it costs you

    Cash arrives months after the work. The Council of Architecture’s conditions of engagement tie fees to stages of work, so a stage that is finished and unbilled is simply money not collected.

    How Verity fixes it

    Fee instalments are tied to project stages. When a stage is marked complete and the client sign-off is recorded, a task is created for the accounts person to raise the invoice, and the stage appears on the fees screen until it is paid.

    See the screen
  3. 03Drawings

    The wrong revision reaches the site

    What it looks like

    The contractor builds a wall from a drawing that was revised twice. The revision was emailed to the project manager but never reached the site engineer. The wall has to be broken.

    What it costs you

    Rework paid for by someone, a dispute about who is at fault, and a project architect who cannot prove which drawing was issued to whom and when.

    How Verity fixes it

    Every drawing issue is a record: sheet number, revision, date, who received it and for what purpose, such as for approval, for tender or for construction. The current revision is clear, and a superseded one is marked so.

    See the screen
  4. 04Approvals

    Municipal sanction sits in a queue and no one chases

    What it looks like

    The plan was submitted six weeks ago. A query came back about a setback, and was answered, and then nothing. The client asks every week. Nobody can say which office has the file.

    What it costs you

    Timelines vary a lot: one law-firm guide puts small houses at 15 to 30 days where processing is online and commercial or multi-storey buildings at 6 to 12 weeks, and complex projects with several clearances far longer. Each unnoticed week of waiting is a week the client cannot build.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each statutory approval is a record with the authority, date submitted, queries raised and answered, and the next step with an owner. Approvals waiting longer than your usual time appear on a list, and where the local rules allow deemed approval, the relevant date is shown.

    See the screen
  5. 05Approvals

    Clearances from fire, airport, pollution and other departments drift

    What it looks like

    The building plan is sanctioned, but the fire NOC is with one office and the pollution board consent with another. Each needs a document that someone has to remember to collect from the structural engineer.

    What it costs you

    Projects with several clearances can run to many months. A missing clearance can hold up a start on site, or an occupancy certificate at the end.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each project lists the clearances it needs. Each clearance has a status, an owner, the documents required and who has to supply them, so a missing structural certificate is a task for the right consultant, not a surprise.

    See the screen
  6. 06Consultants

    Consultant drawings clash and nobody sees it in time

    What it looks like

    The structural engineer moved a column. The MEP consultant ran a duct through it. The clash is spotted on site when the shuttering is in place.

    What it costs you

    Redesign during construction is the most expensive kind. It also damages the architect’s name with a client who sees two consultants blaming each other.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each consultant is recorded with their scope and the drawings they owe. A coordination list shows which consultant drawings are received, which are overdue, and which have open comments, and a coordination meeting leaves tasks with owners.

    See the screen
  7. 07Site

    Site queries and instructions are answered on the phone

    What it looks like

    The contractor asks about a window detail. The project architect answers on a call and forgets to write it down. Weeks later the contractor says it was the architect’s instruction.

    What it costs you

    Variation claims and disputes, with no record of who said what. Verbal instructions are the most common start of a variation claim.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each site query is a record with the question, the drawing it refers to, the person asked, the date and the answer. Site visit notes and photos attach to the project. Open queries older than a few days show on the site screen.

    See the screen
  8. 08Site

    Running bills are certified late, or without a trail

    What it looks like

    The contractor submits a running bill. The architect is asked to certify the work done. The site visit is delayed, the quantities are rechecked in a hurry, and the contractor complains of delayed payment.

    What it costs you

    A strained relationship with the contractor, a client who pays late, and a certificate that cannot be defended later because the measurement basis was never saved.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each contractor bill is recorded against the project with its measurement notes, who certified it and when. A bill waiting for the architect appears with its age so certification does not sit on a desk.

    See the screen
  9. 09Compliance

    Developer clients need certificates on a deadline

    What it looks like

    A residential developer client needs the architect’s certificate of percentage of construction completed before drawing money from the project account. The request arrives the day before.

    What it costs you

    A rushed certificate on a legal document is a risk to the architect. A late one holds up the client’s funds and their patience.

    How Verity fixes it

    Under RERA rules the form and timing of such certificates vary by state. Verity records each certificate request, the site visit that supports it, who signed it and the date, so the evidence behind a certificate sits with the project.

    See the screen
  10. 10People

    Architects and draftspersons are overloaded or idle by accident

    What it looks like

    Three projects hit submission on the same Friday. The senior architect is on all three. A junior has no work this week because nobody told them what was coming.

    What it costs you

    Late submissions on one side and paid idle time on the other, plus overtime that quietly builds and then burns people out.

    How Verity fixes it

    Staff are assigned to projects by week. A load view shows booked against available hours per person and the clash of deadlines, so work is moved a week before the Friday pile-up.

    See the screen
  11. 11Fees

    You do not know which projects earn money

    What it looks like

    Hours are written down on Fridays, from memory, if at all. A residential interior-heavy job takes far more drafting than its fee allows. Competition entries take a month and win nothing.

    What it costs you

    Fees are set by habit, not by what a project costs to deliver, and the practice cannot tell its profitable work from its tiring work.

    How Verity fixes it

    Hours are logged to the project and stage. Fee, hours and consultant costs sit together, so the practice sees margin per project and per stage, and which kinds of project and client are worth taking.

    See the screen
  12. 12Money

    Clients pay late and the follow-up is awkward

    What it looks like

    An invoice for ₹3.5 lakh is 70 days old. The principal does not want to chase a client they will work with again. The accounts person keeps a list in a notebook.

    What it costs you

    The practice finances the client. Under the MSMED Act a micro or small supplier can generally expect payment within a written term of up to 45 days, but only if the invoice was raised on time and the terms are on paper.

    How Verity fixes it

    Invoices carry their agreed terms. Overdue ones list by client and age with a follow-up task and an owner, and each contact and promise to pay is recorded. The principal sees only the amounts that need a personal call.

    See the screen
  13. 13Business

    Enquiries, proposals and competitions are tracked loosely

    What it looks like

    Three enquiries came in this month through friends, a builder and a past client. Two proposals are drafted. Nobody remembers when the third was promised.

    What it costs you

    Referrals are the main source of work for most practices and they expect a quick, clear reply. A slow response loses the job to someone who answered sooner.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each enquiry is a record with a source, an owner, the proposal sent and a next step. Proposals with no reply after your set interval become follow-up tasks. Wins and losses are recorded with a reason.

    See the screen
  14. 14Knowledge

    Details, specifications and past project knowledge leave with people

    What it looks like

    A good waterproofing detail was drawn for a school project five years ago. A new project needs one. Nobody remembers who drew it or where the file is.

    What it costs you

    The same detail is redrawn, the same mistake is repeated, and a senior architect’s experience goes with them when they leave.

    How Verity fixes it

    Project records keep drawings issued, specifications, decisions and site lessons attached to the project. Anyone can open an old project and see what was built, what went wrong on site and what the architect decided. Verity AI can answer questions about it in plain words.

    See the screen

The numbers behind it

The numbers behind these problems.

From published sources, with the source named under each figure. Your own numbers will differ, and showing you yours is the first thing Verity does.

  • 1 Sept 1972

    is the date the Architects Act came into force. It set up the Council of Architecture and provides for registering architects and for standards of practice.

    Council of Architecture

  • 15 to 30 days

    is a typical approval time for an individual house where building plans are processed online. Commercial and multi-storey residential buildings typically take about 6 to 12 weeks, and projects needing several clearances far longer.

    Sansa Legal, building permission guide

  • 30 days

    is the period after which Delhi’s uniform building bye-laws deem a permission granted if the authority raises no objection. Deemed approval rules and timelines differ by state.

    Sansa Legal, building permission guide

  • 18%

    is the GST rate commonly charged on architects’ professional services, and professional fees paid to architects commonly attract TDS at 10 percent above a yearly threshold. Both are worth confirming for the current year.

    TaxBuddy, guide on GST for architects and interior designers (vendor)

The approval times come from a law firm’s general guide and are not a government survey. The tax rates come from a tax services vendor’s guide, and the TDS provisions were renumbered when the new Income-tax Act took effect, so confirm with your accountant.

What you will actually see

The screens a practice would use every week.

Six views, each built for one job. Stages, drawing numbers and approvals use your practice’s own terms.

Screen 1 of 6

The principal’s weekly view

Projects by stage, what is waiting on whom, who is overloaded and which stage fees are ready to bill. It replaces the Monday walk-around where everyone updates from memory.

Fixes

  • 10 Architects and draftspersons are overloaded or idle by accident
  • 11 You do not know which projects earn money

Verity / Practice / This week

All live projects

Live projects

17

5 in construction

Approvals waiting

6

2 past usual time

Stages to bill

₹9.4 L

4 signed off

Team load

91%

booked next week

Booked against available hours, next week

  • Sunita (senior)100%
  • Aditya88%
  • Pooja74%
  • Nikhil (junior)35%

Mehta Villa detailed design is at 190 of 120 quoted hours. 4 client changes after approval.

Open project

Screen 2 of 6

One record for each project, from brief to handover

The stages, fee, client changes, consultants, approvals and decisions for one project, so anyone can step in without rebuilding the story from email.

Fixes

  • 01 The brief changes after the design was approved
  • 09 Developer clients need certificates on a deadline
  • 14 Details, specifications and past project knowledge leave with people

Verity / Project

Record

Mehta Villa, Whitefield

Client: Rakesh Mehta. Lead: Sunita. Stage: detailed design

Fee
₹6.0 lakh, 4 stages
Current stage
Detailed design, 190 of 120 h
Client changes
4 after approval
Sanction
Queried
Consultants
Structural: Rao & Co. MEP: Delta
Next invoice
Stage 2, ₹1.8 lakh, signed off 9 Oct
  1. 14 OctClient asks for a larger kitchen, extra 18 hours, recorded as change 4
  2. 9 OctSchematic stage signed off by Mr Mehta, invoice task created
  3. 2 OctSanction query on setback answered
  4. NoteClient prefers drawings on A3 with colour sections. Site is on a slope.

Screen 3 of 6

Which drawing went to whom, and which is current

Every drawing issue with sheet, revision, date, recipient and purpose. Consultant drawings owed and received sit beside it, so clashes are caught before site.

Fixes

  • 03 The wrong revision reaches the site
  • 06 Consultant drawings clash and nobody sees it in time

Verity / Drawings and consultants

Issue register

SheetRevisionIssued toPurposeStatus
A-201 Ground floor planR3Contractor, StructuralFor constructionCurrent
A-305 ElevationsR2ClientFor approvalAwaiting
A-410 Window scheduleR1ContractorFor constructionSuperseded by R2
S-101 FoundationR2ArchitectConsultant drawingComments open

MEP layout is 9 days overdue from Delta Consultants. It affects slab openings in A-201.

Chase consultant

Screen 4 of 6

Where each approval is, and who has it

Every sanction and clearance a project needs, with the authority, the date submitted, queries raised and answered, and the next step. The weekly client question gets a real answer.

Fixes

  • 04 Municipal sanction sits in a queue and no one chases
  • 05 Clearances from fire, airport, pollution and other departments drift

Verity / Approvals

Statutory and NOC

To submit1

  • Fire NOC, Joshi ApartmentsStructural certificate pending from Rao & Co.Chase

With authority2

  • Building sanction, Mehta VillaSubmitted 29 Aug, 1 query answered6 weeks
  • Plan sanction, Desai ClinicSubmitted 8 OctIn time

Granted1

  • Commencement, Patel WarehouseGranted 3 Oct, valid 12 monthsDone

Screen 5 of 6

Site questions and bills with a written answer

Contractor queries, site instructions and running bills in one list, each with a date, an owner and an answer on record. Verbal instructions get written down the same day.

Fixes

  • 07 Site queries and instructions are answered on the phone
  • 08 Running bills are certified late, or without a trail

Verity / Site

Queries, visits and bills

ItemProjectRaisedOwnerStatus
Window detail W4Joshi Apartments10 OctAdityaOpen 5 days
Bill 3, ₹18.6 LPatel Warehouse9 OctSunitaTo certify
Variation: extra doorMehta Villa12 OctPoojaWith client
Site visit noteDesai Clinic13 OctAdityaFiled

2 site queries have been open for over 4 days. The contractor may start work without an answer.

Assign

Screen 6 of 6

Stage fees ready to bill, and money still to collect

Which signed-off stages are not yet invoiced, which invoices are overdue and by how much, and which proposals need a reply. One list for the principal and the accounts person.

Fixes

  • 02 A stage ends and nobody bills it
  • 12 Clients pay late and the follow-up is awkward
  • 13 Enquiries, proposals and competitions are tracked loosely

Verity / Fees and pipeline

Stages, invoices, proposals

ProjectStageFeeSigned offStatus
Mehta VillaSchematic₹1.8 L9 OctInvoice now
Joshi ApartmentsWorking drawings₹4.2 L28 SepInvoiced, 17 days
Desai ClinicConcept₹95,0002 OctPaid
  • Shah Residence proposalSent 8 days ago, ₹5.5 lakhFollow up
  • Bakers Row retail enquiryReferred by a past client, reply promised ThursdayReply

Illustrative screens with sample data. Layouts, fields, names and terms are set up around how your architecture firm works.

An ordinary day

The same Thursday in an architecture practice, before and after.

The drawing work does not change. What changes is that issues, queries, approvals and stages leave a record, and the record prompts the next step.

WhenTodayWith Verity
Morning TodayThe principal asks three project architects for a status. Each answers from memory, and one says "I think it was sanctioned." With VerityThe practice screen lists each project’s stage, pending approvals and open site queries. The Monday round takes ten minutes.
Late morning TodayA contractor calls with a window question. The answer is given on the phone and not noted. With VerityThe query is logged against the drawing and answered in writing. It is closed in the same sitting.
Midday TodayA revised drawing is emailed to the structural engineer and the client. The contractor is forgotten. With VerityThe issue register shows the new revision has not been sent to the contractor, with a task to send it.
Afternoon TodayA client signs off the schematic stage by message. The accounts person does not hear. With VerityThe sign-off is recorded and an invoice task lands on accounts that afternoon.
Evening TodayThe senior architect finds out at 6 pm that a submission is due tomorrow and she is also needed on site. With VerityThe load view showed this clash on Monday. A junior prepared the sheets by Wednesday.
Month end TodayThe practice learns from the accounts that two projects overran on hours. With VerityBoth were flagged during the work. One had a change charged, one was closed with a repriced next stage.

How we work with you

We set it up with you, in four weeks.

You do not get a login and a manual. We learn how a project moves through your practice from enquiry to handover, then build Verity around it and stay on to make it work.

  1. Week 1

    Discovery and mapping

    What we do
    Sit with the principal and a project architect. Follow two live projects from the fee proposal to the drawing issues, and see where approvals, site queries and fee stages are tracked today.
    What we need from you
    Two to three hours of your time and an hour from a senior project architect. Access to a fee proposal, a drawing register and the approval tracker of two projects.
    What you have at the end
    A written map of how projects run in your practice: stages, fee structure, consultants, approval types and the five problems we will fix first.

  2. Weeks 2 to 3

    Configuration

    What we do
    Set up your project stages, fee instalments, drawing numbering, approval types and checklists, site query flow, consultant scopes and staff roles. Build the screens in your own words.
    What we need from you
    Check the stages and numbering with your senior architect. Tell us where a rule or name is wrong.
    What you have at the end
    A working Verity with your project types, stages and approvals, ready for your live projects.

  3. Weeks 3 to 4

    Migration and training

    What we do
    Bring in your clients, live projects, drawing registers, consultant lists and fee schedules from your sheets, and attach agreements and sanction letters. Train the team in short sessions on their own projects.
    What we need from you
    Your project list, current fee schedule and drawing registers. Thirty minutes with each project architect.
    What you have at the end
    Every live project inside Verity with its stages, approvals and open queries, and a team that has logged a real drawing issue.

  4. After go-live

    Operations partnership

    What we do
    Stay on after launch. Review the first month with you, tune the flags and approvals lists, and handle changes as your project mix changes.
    What we need from you
    A short monthly review of fees, approvals and team load.
    What you have at the end
    A system that follows how the practice designs and bills, with someone responsible for it.

Bring these on day one

  • Two recent fee proposals or appointment letters
  • Your drawing register or numbering scheme
  • The tracker you use for approvals and consultants
  • Your list of live projects with stage and fee
  • Your team list with roles and weekly hours

Your time

About 8 to 10 hours of your own time across the four weeks, mostly in week 1. Each project architect needs about an hour in total.

After go-live

Nobody is hired to run Verity. Issues, queries and stage sign-offs are recorded as the work happens, and the reports come from those records.

Verity AI

Ask the practice a question and get an answer.

Verity AI reads your own project, drawing, approval, hours and fee records. Ask in plain words, then turn the answer into tasks for the right people.

  • Your records only Answers come from your own architecture firms data, not from generic knowledge.
  • Right person, right view It only shows what the person asking is allowed to see.
  • Turns into action An answer can become a task assigned to a named person.

Verity / Ask

Which signed-off stages have not been invoiced?

Four stages worth ₹9.4 lakh. The oldest is the Mehta Villa schematic stage, signed off on 9 October.

  • Mehta Villa, schematic₹1.8 L
  • Joshi Apartments, working drawings₹4.2 L
  • Patel Warehouse, tender₹2.1 L
  • Desai Clinic, drawings₹1.3 L

Create invoice tasks for accounts

Verity / Ask

Which approvals have been with an authority for more than six weeks?

Two. The Mehta Villa sanction was submitted on 29 August, and the Kulkarni Duplex plan on 2 September.

Create follow-up tasks for the project architects

Verity / Ask

Who will be overloaded next week?

Sunita is booked at 100 percent with three submissions on Friday. Nikhil is at 35 percent and could take the Desai Clinic sheets.

Move two tasks to Nikhil

Sample questions and answers with illustrative figures.

Without chasing

The follow-ups nobody has time to make.

Set once, then they run from your project records. Your team still talks to clients and consultants; Verity makes sure the right person knows to.

When

A project stage is signed off

  • Stage marked complete with date and name
  • Invoice task to accounts
  • Next stage opens with its checklist

When

A drawing revision is issued

  • Previous revision marked superseded
  • Recipients list checked against the project team
  • Missing recipients become a task

When

A statutory approval is past its usual time

  • Listed on the approvals screen
  • Follow-up task to the project architect
  • Reply from the authority recorded

When

A site query is open for four days

  • Flag to the project architect
  • Escalation to the principal after seven days
  • Answer recorded against the drawing

When

A client change comes after approval

  • Recorded with the extra hours estimated
  • Decision requested: charge, absorb or decline
  • Fee proposal updated if charged

When

An invoice is past its due date

  • Listed by client with age
  • Follow-up task to accounts or principal
  • Promise to pay recorded with date

Rules and paperwork

The rules an architecture practice has to keep up with.

Verity does not give legal or tax advice and does not file anything for you. It keeps the records these rules depend on in order, so you are not rebuilding them from email.

  • Council of Architecture registration

    What is expected

    The Architects Act, 1972 set up the Council of Architecture and provides for registering architects. Only registered individuals may use the title architect, and companies are generally not entitled to practise as architects, so each signing architect in the practice should hold a current certificate.

    How Verity helps

    Each architect’s registration number and renewal date are kept on their staff record, and plans or certificates show who signed them.

    Council of Architecture

  • Conditions of engagement and scale of charges

    What is expected

    The Architects (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 1989 require an architect in private practice to inform the client of the conditions of engagement and scale of charges, which form the basis of the appointment. Fee stages follow from the appointment letter.

    How Verity helps

    The appointment letter and fee stages are attached to the project, and stage sign-offs trigger the fee instalment tasks.

  • Building plan sanction and clearances

    What is expected

    Sanction is by the local authority under its bye-laws, with extra clearances such as fire or environment depending on the building. Timelines and deemed approval rules differ by state and city.

    How Verity helps

    Each approval records the authority, date submitted, queries and replies, and the relevant local timeline you enter.

    Sansa Legal

  • RERA certificates for developer clients

    What is expected

    Under RERA, architects, engineers and chartered accountants certify project information for registered projects, such as the percentage of construction completed. Forms and timing differ by state RERA.

    How Verity helps

    Each certificate request is a task with the supporting site visit, the signer and the date, filed on the project.

Rules change and differ by state. Confirm current requirements with the Council of Architecture, your lawyer or your accountant. Verity does not file anything.

Who sees what

Everyone sees the same project, through their own window.

A junior architect should not see what the practice earns on a project. Accounts do not need the drawing set. Each role opens on what it needs.

  • Principal

    Which projects are healthy and which need me?

    Stage and margin per project, approvals waiting, stage fees to bill, team load, overdue invoices.

  • Project architect

    What is open on my projects today?

    Drawing issues, consultant drawings owed, site queries, approvals and client changes.

  • Architect or draftsperson

    What am I drawing and by when?

    Their tasks, the current revision, the brief and their own booked hours.

  • Accounts

    What can I invoice and what is late?

    Signed-off stages awaiting invoice, ageing by client, contractor bills certified.

  • Consultant

    What drawings do you need from me?

    Only the projects they work on, with their drawings owed and open comments.

Straight answers

What changes, and what stays the same.

Keep using

  • Your CAD and BIM software. Drawings stay where your team works; Verity records the issues and revisions.
  • Your shared drive or cloud storage for the drawing files.
  • Your accounting software and your accountant, who still prepares returns.
  • Your own fee proposal and appointment letter templates.

Verity does not

  • Replace your drawing or modelling software.
  • Submit plans to the municipal portal for you.
  • File your GST returns or run your payroll.
  • Give legal advice or sign certificates on your behalf.

We bring your clients, live projects, drawing registers and fee schedules across from your sheets and folders in stages, so projects keep moving while it happens.

  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • Legacy ERP
  • CRM
  • One operating environment

Questions

Questions principals ask.

Will my architects actually use it?

They use only what applies to them: the current drawing issue, their open queries and their weekly hours. We keep it to a few clicks and train on a live project, not in a classroom. They also get a clear list of what is due instead of a stack of emails.

Does Verity replace AutoCAD, Revit or my shared drive?

No. Your team keeps drawing in its own tools and files stay where they are. Verity keeps the record around them: issues, revisions, approvals, queries, hours and fees.

Can it track municipal approvals for different cities?

Yes. Each approval is a record with its authority and your own timeline for it. Rules and deemed approval periods differ by city and state, so we set these with you and you confirm them locally.

We are a six-person practice. Is this too much?

The same leaks exist at six people, with less time to notice them. We set up only what you need, and the four weeks run the same way.

Can my structural and MEP consultants be part of it?

Yes, as people with a scope and a list of drawings they owe. They see only the projects they work on, and their drawings and comments appear on the coordination list.

Can it help with Council of Architecture fee scales?

It records your own fee stages and instalments for each project and prompts invoicing when a stage is signed off. It does not set your fees or check them against the Council’s scale; that stays your judgement and the appointment letter.

Who can see my client data and my fees?

Only the people you allow. Access is set by role, so architects, accounts and consultants each see what they need, and every change is recorded with who made it and when.

How long before I see something useful?

The drawing issue register, approval list and stage-to-bill list need only your live projects and fee schedules, so those come first. Margin and load become reliable after a few weeks of logged hours.

What does it cost?

It depends on the size of your team and what you want set up. Message us and we will give you a clear number after a short conversation about how your practice runs.

Where the figures come from

Sources

  1. Council of Architecture
  2. Sansa Legal, building permission guide
  3. TaxBuddy, guide on GST for architects and interior designers (vendor)
  4. Taxmann, on MSMED Act section 15 and section 43B(h)

Last checked 15 October 2026. Published figures vary by region and method, so treat them as indicative, not as a promise of your results.

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