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Turn project briefs into design proposals with scoped fees and milestones.
You get a business proposal draft with costs tied to your service rates and open questions ready for your review.
Compare subconsultant quotes with signed client scope and fees.
See where a revised supplier quote differs from your signed customer agreement before you decide whether to approve it.
Draft fee and scope replies against the current project proposal.
Your sales email reply draws on the conversation and current deal, with uncertain promises marked for your review before sending.
Check design fee concessions against the client's email agreement.
See whether a negotiated quote matches the customer's written agreement before it goes to the buyer, with a clear explanation when terms differ.
Draft design proposals with agreed scope and project milestones.
Your business proposal starts with your call recap and lands in your proposal workspace as a draft with the pricing you approved.
Prompt design teams on due project tasks and report unreachable assignees.
Your assignees get due date reminder emails, and you see which tasks need your help reaching an owner.
Remind drawing owners to update their work before project milestones.
Owners get due date reminder emails, and your project lead sees who has not posted an update by the milestone cutoff.
Pause design scope approval when a revision reaches the review chat.
Your reviewer can see the revised scope before signing off, while the pending approval waits with a link to the announcement.
Bring project partners into one design channel with owner approval.
People can join the Microsoft Teams shared channel they need without joining the whole team. You get a clear answer when access needs approval.
Attach the reviewed project scope to the draft client quote.
Your draft quote carries the scope version your team signed off, so approvers can review the right file.
Show which drawing changes affect a change order and need another review.
Keep construction work from moving ahead on an outdated drawing decision. Your coordinator gets a linked review when a revision affects a change order.
Add the client's project scope to the draft design quote.
Your quote approver can review the client's scope beside the draft quote, with the uploaded file attached from the scope form.