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The AI your firm
needed before fee variations.

Stage billing, consultant pass-throughs, and drawing revisions — Brunell keeps every pound and every hour tied to the right project, without another spreadsheet.

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40%
Faster fee proposal turnaround
Live
Consultant cost visibility per stage
8 min
Average month-end WIP review

Architecture firms sell design. Not reconciliation.

Directors lose a day a week chasing timesheets, consultant invoices, and stage fee status across projects that never sit still.

Stage fees out of sync with effort
Teams log time against tasks; fee stages and variations live somewhere else. Margin surprises hit at month-end.
Consultant costs arrive late
Structural, MEP, and specialist fees land in email. Matching them to the right job and markup takes hours.
Variations buried in email
Client-approved scope changes don’t always make it into the job budget until it’s too late to recover.
Without Brunell · a typical week

📐  Principal opens three tools to see fee burn on Riverside Townhouses.

📋  MEP consultant invoice — which stage, which markup? Manual split across two jobs.

💸  Variation for additional planning drawings approved Friday; budget updated Monday (maybe).

📊  WIP report requested for partnership meeting — export, pivot, pray.

Total: half a day gone. On a firm that bills by the hour.

Run every project stage from one conversation.

Brunell is your AI project coordinator — jobs, consultants, time, costs, and invoices in one place, spoken in the language your team already uses.

Quote a new commission
"Fee proposal for Westside mixed-use, concept through DA, $240k cap." Itemised stages and tasks in under a minute.
Log consultant costs with markup
"Log $4,200 structural fee on Riverside, 15% markup, subcontractor category." On the job instantly.
WIP by project and stage
"What's unbilled on active jobs?" Live canvas — every hour and pass-through ready to invoice.
With Brunell · same week
What's fee burn on Riverside Townhouses vs budget?
Riverside is at 72% of stage 3 fee with $18,400 WIP unbilled. MEP consultant costs are within markup. Canvas updated.
Invoice Westside for stage 2 milestone
Invoice INV-2026-031 — $28,500 stage fee + $3,100 approved variations. Send now?
Yes. Log 6h for Jamie on Riverside, design development
Sent ✓  6h logged — Jamie Chen, Riverside. $1,140 added to WIP.
Total time: under a minute. Margin protected.
Architecture workflow

From fee proposal to final account,
without leaving the chat.

01

Fee proposal & stages

Describe scope and Brunell drafts staged fees, tasks, and consultant allowances — ready for client issue.

02

Job setup & team

Accepted? One instruction creates the job, copies tasks, and assigns your team.

03

Track design hours

Daily time against tasks and stages. Brunell flags when a stage is running hot.

04

Pass-through consultants

Log specialist invoices with markup — always on the right job and stage.

05

Variations & extras

Record client-approved changes; budgets and quotes stay aligned.

06

Stage & final billing

Milestone, T&M, or hybrid — invoice when you say, with tax and PDFs handled.

"We used to reconcile consultant costs in a shared drive. Now I ask Brunell and invoice the client the same afternoon."

Elena Marsh, Firm Administrator — Forma Architecture, London

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