Recurring revenue for architects? Yes.
📰 Designing to operate, embracing self-disruption, treating AI as an interdependent teammate, building psychologically safe cultures, and shifting to recurring, outcome-based services.
Business Model
205: ‘Rethinking Your A/E Practice’, with Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock
A conversation with Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock rethinking architectural practices through technology, measuring innovation ROI, and embracing product thinking to enhance efficiency and collaboration in AEC firms while leveraging AI for knowledge management and professional development.
Architecture practice → product company: a case study
📰 Escaping billable hours, productizing a flagship cabin, structuring rent-to-rent land deals, using physical models to win trust, designing ops to scale outcomes (not headcount), and leveraging prefab to cut cost, time, and risk.
204: ‘How to Future-Proof Your Architecture Practice’, with Dave Gilmore
A conversation with Dave Gilmore disrupting traditional architecture business models, embracing digital transformation, and fostering psychological safety in leadership to navigate uncertainty and prepare for future challenges in the AEC industry.
203: ‘Rethinking the Architecture Business Model’, with Peter Markos
A conversation with Peter Markos rethinking the architecture business model by embracing productized architecture and prefabrication to unlock new opportunities, enhance scalability, and build resilience in architectural practices.
Leadership Edge: TRXL 192
What does it mean to build an AI-first architecture firm from the ground up? In this edition, Patrick Chopson and Eric Cesal explore the legal, cultural, and technical reinvention of practice where architects don’t just use AI, they lead it.
192: ‘Building an AI-First Practice’, with Patrick Chopson and Eric Cesal
A conversation with Patrick Chopson and Eric Cesal exploring the future of architecture through an AI-first lens, discussing the importance of adaptive practices, and redefining workflows to enhance collaboration and creativity in design.