NORMA

Agentic Decision Intelligence


Architecture firms don't need another dashboard.
They need better decisions.

Where firm data becomes judgment.

Norma reads the firm data you already produce: timesheets, pipeline, AR, contracts, and financials. The output is prioritized recommendations a principal can act on.

Representative workspace · illustrative figures

Operating questions


Ask Norma the questions principals actually ask.

  1. 01

    Can we bill for this?

    Norma evaluates contract language, scope history, and client requests. You get a defensible read on whether additional services are billable.

  2. 02

    Can we afford to hire?

    Norma connects revenue forecast, backlog, payroll exposure, and utilization. You see whether headcount is safe before you commit.

  3. 03

    Are we underpricing this work?

    Norma weighs fee pressure, scope complexity, realization, and revenue per employee. You get a clear underpricing signal or not.

  4. 04

    What's our biggest risk this quarter?

    Norma surfaces financial, operational, and concentration risks in one view. You address what could hurt the firm next, not what feels loudest.

  5. 05

    What is the firm worth?

    Norma builds a valuation memo from revenue quality, concentration, margins, backlog, and owner dependency. You walk into negotiations with a number you can explain.

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    Where are we leaking margin?

    Norma separates pricing drag from staffing, scope creep, collections, and utilization. You fix the actual leak instead of the loudest symptom.

Why Norma is different


You've always had data.
Now you can talk to it.

Norma is a vertical AI platform built for architecture and design firms. The economics of the profession, the structure of the work, the decisions that recur at firms like yours, encoded in the system.

Your existing tools store data. They are systems of record, and they do their jobs. None of them consolidate your firm's full operating context in one place. Norma does. It is the layer above your stack where the firm's full picture lives, and where the work principals would otherwise hand to internal staff gets done.

The reasoning is deterministic. The same question, on the same firm, produces the same answer with the same chain of logic. Not the probabilistic output of a generalized AI tool. Reasoning a principal can take into a meeting and defend.

Workspace excerpts

See Norma in action.

Real workspace tone: overhead, realization, and the next move, with reasoning you can trace.

Is our overhead too high?

Your overhead multiplier is 1.97× against an industry target of 1.60×. The largest controllable categories are business development at $142K (28% over budget), indirect labor at $118K, and software at $67K. Cutting BD spend to budget recovers $31K annually.

But the faster fix is pricing. Lifting realization from 87% to 92% recovers $195K, without cutting anything.

Riverdale Commons client wants a lobby redesign after DD sign-off. Can we bill for that?

Yes. Your contract supports billing this as an additional service. Layout revisions after Design Development sign-off match a pre-identified scope scenario classified as likely additional, high confidence. Section §2.8.2.1 of your agreement requires written authorization before proceeding.

Estimated value at current rates: ~$28K. I can draft the change-order language.

What's our biggest risk this quarter?

Client concentration. Northwood Health represents 38% of forecasted Q3 revenue. If that engagement contracts or pauses, you have 5.2 months of payroll exposure against 2.8 months of cash reserves.

Two recommended actions: shift incremental Northwood staffing to contractors (you're currently FTE-loaded) and accelerate BD into your top three diversification targets. I've flagged the candidates.

Data in, decisions out


What Norma reads. What Norma produces.

Same workspace. Firm-generated inputs on the left, structured outputs on the right.

What Norma reads

  • Timesheets
  • AR aging
  • Pipeline
  • Project budgets
  • Contracts
  • Firm financials

What Norma produces

  • Decision recommendations
  • Contract scope classifications
  • Revenue gap models
  • Collections priorities
  • Firm risk analysis
  • Valuation memos
  • Exportable outputs

Workflow

From answer to action.

Norma does not stop at the recommendation. It gives principals the reasoning, language, priorities, and outputs needed to act.

  1. 01

    Explain the reasoning

    See the assumptions, data points, thresholds, and logic behind each recommendation.

  2. 02

    Draft the response

    Turn contract findings, scope issues, or client requests into clear, defensible language.

  3. 03

    Prioritize the next move

    Rank receivables, pursuits, staffing decisions, and firm risks by urgency and impact.

  4. 04

    Export the memo

    Save decision summaries, valuation memos, contract analyses, or partner-ready recommendations.

See how the workspace thinks

Built for architecture firms

Built on the economics of your profession.
Not adapted from generic financial software.

Fee, scope, pipeline, capacity, cash, overhead, and concentration. All interpreted through how studios actually run, not generic SaaS finance.

What the workspace covers

  • Fee setting & pricing floors
  • Scope change detection
  • Pipeline sufficiency
  • Revenue gap forecasting
  • Overhead analysis
  • Collections & cash flow
  • Contract risk assessment
  • Additional services evaluation
  • Utilization & realization
  • Client concentration
  • Rate calibration
  • Firm valuation

Credibility


Built from inside the architecture business.

Norma was built by a finance leader with 12+ years inside architecture and design firms, including project controlling, forecasting, firm financial reporting, contract analysis, and partner-level advisory work.

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    Designed around real architecture-firm operating patterns

  2. 02

    Built for project-based revenue, scope creep, utilization pressure, and fee discipline

  3. 03

    Calibrated for the decisions principals actually face

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    Not a generic dashboard repackaged for architects

Norma is built for firms where the hardest questions are not "what happened?" but "what should we do next?"

Fit

Built for firms that have outgrown instinct.

Built for

  • Architecture and design firms with roughly 10–100 employees
  • Studios with project-based revenue and complex staffing decisions
  • Firms dealing with scope creep, weak forecasting visibility, or inconsistent fee discipline
  • Principals who want better operating judgment without hiring a full-time CFO
  • Finance leaders who need a decision layer above spreadsheets

Not built for

  • Solo freelancers who only need invoicing
  • Firms only looking for bookkeeping
  • Enterprises looking for generic BI dashboards
  • Teams unwilling to upload basic financial, project, or contract data

Security and trust


Firm workspaces, scoped context, no training on your files.

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    Each customer workspace is isolated from others.

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    Standard API terms with our AI providers: data you send is not used to train public models.

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    Uploads stay tied to your workspace; export and deletion requests are handled in product.

How we protect firm data

Pricing · firm-level platform


$895/ month

What $895/month includes.

  • Unlimitedfee proposal and scope evaluations
  • Unlimitedvaluation and financial scenario analysis
  • Unlimitedstaffing, capacity, and partner decision briefs
  • Revenue, cash flow, and AR diagnosticsincluded

A single underpriced proposal can cost more than a year of Norma.

Unlimited for standard firm use. Larger firms or custom needs, contact us.

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