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Engineering and architecture studio

Organize permits, filings, site reports, milestones and tender files. A starting structure for keeping the professional signature with the designers while the registers, the boards and the follow-ups run around them.

A typical Engineering, architecture and surveying practice with 5 people covers 14 functions.

Up to 9 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโ€™s supervision.

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Dedicated functions
4

Functions someone does full time.

Shared functions
6

Functions carried by someone who already carries others.

To cover
3

Functions nobody does today.

Outsourced
1

Functions entrusted to an external specialist.

How does it look at your place?

Start with the model and change only what differs in your company. One person can cover several functions.

Include yourself. Functions do not mean new people to hire.

5 people
Dedicated functions
4
Shared functions
6
To cover
3
Outsourced
1

This is an initial estimate, not your companyโ€™s org chart. Youโ€™ll review it in your Scovai workspace.

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Who handles these functions in your company?

The โ€œIn the modelโ€ line describes the example, not your company. If you leave an answer unchanged, we keep that reference.

  1. In the model: One dedicated person

  2. In the model: One dedicated person

  3. In the model: Shared with other duties

  4. In the model: One dedicated person

  5. In the model: One dedicated person

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

8 more functions in the model
  1. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  2. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  3. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  4. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  5. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  7. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  8. In the model: Outsourced

What a typical Engineering, architecture and surveying practice has to cover

Explore the modelโ€™s functions, area by area. Coverage is a starting point; suggested Digital Employees need to be reviewed before activation.

Studio direction

(2)

Principal engineer or architect

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

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Portfolio, website and project stories

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

The website shows projects from five years ago, and the studio's best work is in a folder nobody opens.

Digital Employee ยท Marketing Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Design and permits

(1)

Design, calculations and permit files

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Site and surveys

(2)

Site supervision and safety coordination

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Site supervision and safety coordination are the principal's afternoons and the surveyor's mornings, and the site reports are written on Sunday.

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Surveys, cadastral and land registry filings

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Front office and clients

(2)

Front office, phone and the principal's agenda

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

One assistant answers the phone, keeps the principal's agenda, files the permits and issues the invoices, so the client who calls twice gets the voicemail.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Client engagement, fee letter and project opening

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

A project starts on a phone call and a fee letter copied from the last one, and the documents the permit needs are asked for one at a time.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Administration

(7)

Permits, filings and certifications register

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Every project is a chain of permits and filings with dates the municipality sets, tracked in the designers' heads and paid for by the studio when missed.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Project tracking, milestones and status reports

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Milestones live in the principal's head and the client discovers the slip when asking for the certificate.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Tenders, public procurement and bid files

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Tenders are read at night and answered at the last minute, and a missing document is the usual way to lose.

Digital Employee ยท Sales Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Milestone billing and collections

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Fees are billed at milestones nobody tracks until the client asks for the certificate, and the reminders go out when the bank balance says so.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Subcontractor and supplier invoices and payment packs

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Invoices for calculations, geology and energy reports arrive by mail and are paid when the client pays, and a double payment is found by the accountant.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Hiring of designers and engineers and candidate screening

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

A designer's notice starts a search through colleagues and the universities, and the projects slip while the seat is empty.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

External accountant of the studio

Coverage in the model: Outsourced

Receipts and invoices reach the accountant in batches and the corrections come back at the quarter.

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

The first week

What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.

  1. A task from the role brief

    Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.

  2. A useful daily summary

    At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.

  3. Phone updates by choice

    The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.

From a reference model to your structure

1

Start from the model

Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.

Found your company
2

Assign the hats

Say who handles each function. See the overall coverage estimate update and where a Digital Employee is suggested. Youโ€™ll review the structure in your Scovai workspace.

See how Digital Employees work
3

Choose where to add digital support

Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.

Explore Digital Employees

Straight answers

Who supervises the digital employees?

Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the studio, usually the principal or the project lead. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.

What does a digital employee never decide?

Anything a registered professional signs: a design, a calculation, a permit application, a site report, a safety plan, a certification, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: fees and estimates, dates promised to a client, anything sent to a municipality, an authority or a public client. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.

Where does it take its data from?

From the project management software, the municipal and authority portals, the procurement portals, the mailbox and the folders you connect to its seat, and from what the designers and the site managers tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.

What does it cost?

Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.