Senior Time Recovery
Your principal is the bottleneck on every project.
Some days they do not get to design at all. Most days they are answering RFIs, hunting for that detail from a project three years ago, or proofreading junior drafts. We make a lot of that go away.
What it is costing you
The most expensive person in the firm is doing the cheapest work.
- A principal bills out at hundreds of dollars an hour. Spending half their week hunting documents and proofreading is the most expensive way to use them.
- Junior staff do not learn the craft by formatting RFIs. They learn to be assistants.
- The firm grows slower, because the principal is the gate on every project, not the multiplier.
- The principal burns out, and the firm has no real succession plan.
What we do
Take the lookup and the drafting. Leave the judgment.
A drafting assistant in your firm’s voice
Handles RFIs, site instructions, change orders, and proposal copy, drawing on your own precedents.
A searchable knowledge base
Across years of past projects, cited and clickable, through Ask the Archive. Tribal knowledge stops walking out the door when staff leave.
A consistency layer
So the principal is no longer the last line of defense on every draft that leaves the office.
An AI usage policy written for your firm
Built around professional liability and the boundary between AI-assisted and AI-autonomous work.
All four are delivered through Managed AI, the service that builds and runs a governed AI system for your firm. Not sure where to start? The Strategic AI Assessment maps which workflow returns the hours first.
The opportunity
A 40-person architecture firm could reclaim an estimated 20 to 30 hours a week for its principal, redirected to design and client conversations.
That is what an AI system trained on a firm's own work is built to make possible, applied to real, day-to-day tasks. A modeled estimate, not a guaranteed result.
In a trial an architecture firm ran on its own, an AI review pass over a single project sample flagged a dozen consistency errors that had gone unnoticed for years, the kind that are expensive to fix after they ship.
What changes for the firm
Senior people back on senior work.
The principal designs again
Time shifts from lookup and proofreading to design judgment, client relationships, and growth decisions.
Juniors learn the craft
Time shifts from formatting and proofreading to learning under the principal’s actual attention.
Senior work at senior volume
The firm produces senior-quality output at senior-quality volume, because senior people are doing senior work.
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FAQ
Senior Time Recovery questions
What is Senior Time Recovery, in plain terms? +
It moves document drafting, proofreading, and precedent lookup to an AI system trained on your firm's own work, so your principal's time shifts back to design judgment, client relationships, and growth decisions. It is delivered through Managed AI.
How much time could this actually give back? +
A 40-person architecture firm could reclaim an estimated 20 to 30 hours a week for its principal. That is a modeled estimate based on typical search-and-draft time, not a guaranteed result.
Does the AI make decisions or just assist? +
It takes the lookup and the drafting and leaves the judgment. Part of the setup is an AI usage policy written for your firm, built around professional liability and the line between AI-assisted and AI-autonomous work.
We are not sure where AI would help first. How do we start? +
Book a free 30-minute discovery call, or start with the Strategic AI Assessment, which maps which workflow returns the hours first.
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Thirty minutes on where your principal’s hours go.
We will walk you through how senior time gets recovered in a firm like yours. No deck, no audit pitch.