A practice OS shaped like your studio — not Deltek's chart of accounts.
Legacy AE platforms are ERPs first and design tools second — five figures to implement, per-seat licensing, and a workflow written for accountants. We build custom practice operating systems with AI in weeks — projects, phases, RFIs, submittals, timesheets and drawing review in one place, on a flat monthly subscription with unlimited seats.
Lemon Labs is ranked in the top 10% of custom builders on Lovable.dev — the AI-native development platform.
Plus $95 – $175 per user per month, per-module add-ons for CRM / HR / project management, and a services contract for anything not in the standard template.
One monthly subscription. Build, hosting, iteration, AI upgrades — unlimited seats.
Walk us through your project types, your consultant stack and your fee model on a 45-min discovery call, or send a written brief.
Legacy AE platforms vs. Lemon Labs.
What the platforms actually cost.
Sticker price is one line. Real cost is per-user licensing + implementation + module add-ons + the drawing, RFI and submittal tools that legacy AE suites don't include.
- ERP roots — designed for accountants, not architects
- Project dashboards require a consultant to configure
- Drawing review, RFIs and submittals live in a different tool
- Time and billing focus — light on production and phase tracking
- Every add-on (CRM, HR, projects) is priced separately
- Reports templated for GC firms, not design studios
- Purpose-built for architects — but a fixed opinion of your workflow
- No RFI / submittal / drawing markup — you still need Newforma or Bluebeam
- Consultant coordination lives in email and spreadsheets
- Projects, drawings, RFIs, time, and financials live in 4+ tools
- Weekly PM reports are hand-assembled from exports
- No single view of project health, WIP or fee burn
A system that fits your studio.
We start from your project types, phase structure and consultant stack — then design production, coordination and financial tooling around them. Everything below is included in your monthly subscription.
- Project portal per client — phases, milestones, fee burn and schedule
- Phase-based fee tracking (SD / DD / CD / CA) with earned-value roll-up
- RFI, submittal and change-order logs with status and aging
- Drawing set management with revisions, transmittals and consultant sign-off
- Timesheets with project / phase codes and mobile capture
- Consultant coordination portal — MEP, structural, civil, landscape
- AI drawing review — flags code, coordination and spec inconsistencies
- Proposal and fee-schedule builder with historical burn benchmarks
- Live utilization, backlog and WIP dashboards per studio and PM
- QuickBooks / Xero + Autodesk / Revit + DocuSign + Dropbox integrations
See it running.
A working simulation of what a custom architecture firms build feels like — clickable, opinionated, and shipped with AI-native speed.
A practice you can run from a single tab.
Step into a working operating picture we built for a mid-sized architecture studio — browse the project board, open a job, and watch the AI copilot triage RFIs and flag a fee-burn risk.
- Live project board with phase, fee burn and schedule health
- Project detail with RFIs, submittals and consultant status
- Timesheet & utilization roll-up per studio
- AI copilot drafting RFI responses and spotting coordination gaps
Ready to own your practice operating system?
No up-front fee. No per-seat tax. One monthly subscription and a system built for the way your studio actually designs and delivers.