01  |  Services for Architects

Strategy

Bid strategy, pitch-planning and fee structure advice. For larger and more complex schemes, Arka can also act as a long-term team partner to help deliver future projects.

Market positioning analysis of your practice comms, desired sector targets and bidding material.

Long-term business planning, organisational structure growth and AI Transformation Planning

Co-Pilot

Specialist sector-based design guidance (in UK housing, office, education and health).

We can support you in client briefing on complex schemes and help your teams maximise development value for their clients on larger schemes.

Certified Passivhaus Design input and "Rapid PHPP" Production (using an Arka software service).

Technical review & troubleshooting including end-of-stage deliverables, package scoping and tender docs review.

Advice

Leadership guidance and mentoring for project leads, including support and mentoring on site.

Appointments, scope of services review and negotiation (including sub-contracting of team members).

Design Responsibility guidance and negotiation.

Rates & project performance planning advice in CMAP.  Including fee management, report building, budgeting and projection.

02  |  Services for Real Estate Developers

Design

Design Quality Advisor across all major use-classes, stages and scales. We help to unlock the quality vs value balance of your sites in the earliest stages.

Design and Technical Peer Review of end of stage submissions.

We can help you make the right Architect selection for the ambitions of your project, with fair terms for RfP & Competition Planning.

Technical

Design Team Liaison, focusing on clear briefing communication and feedback for your consultant team.

Certified Passivhaus designer input and "Rapid PHPP" Production (using an Arka software service).

Optimising design for off-site manufacture and MMC.

Early stage estimation of Whole Life Carbon impacts using AI prediction (via Preoptima, an Arka partner).

Creative

Co-pilot for in house site appraisal, initial layouts and massing studies.

Client-side adoption of new Generative Design tools and AI Transformation Planning.

Creative Direction on projects and planning success strategies.

03  |  Services for AEC Start Ups

product UX

Product testing for UX onboarding improvements, including “Friction Auditing”.

Facilitating early adoption through user engagement interviews, applied case studies and cross-platform experimentation.

Feature review & ROI analysis of development cost vs value for your PRD.  We help you to prioritise your Roadmap for adoption.

Design workshopping of UI and wireframe design options

UK Market

UK AEC Market Sizing (top down and bottom up) and pricing insight.

Competitive Analysis against current product landscape from practice perspective.Deep dive into feature set and roadmap of competing products.

Guidance on creating a differentiated product and refining your problem-solution fit with real world practice testing, purchasing knowledge and user experience.



Positioning

Storytelling Audit from AEC user perspective including review of sales strategy, website and wider comms.

Branding style, tone of voice and graphic design guidance (from AEC customer perspective).

Industry events keynote speaker and panelist.