Fresh Projects is a UK-based software platform designed for architects, engineers, and other built-environment professionals to manage financial aspects of their projects. It helps teams track fees, timesheets, expenses, billing, and overall profitability to keep projects on budget and profitable. The platform also centralises project data, streamlines administrative tasks, and offers mobile app support for easy access and updates.
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SW15 6QG
© 2026 Fresh Projects
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Fresh Projects is a UK-based software platform designed for architects, engineers, and other built-environment professionals to manage financial aspects of their projects. It helps teams track fees, timesheets, expenses, billing, and overall profitability to keep projects on budget and profitable. The platform also centralises project data, streamlines administrative tasks, and offers mobile app support for easy access and updates.
1a Colinette Road
London
SW15 6QG
© 2026 Fresh Projects
Product
Is There a Secret to Being a Profitable Architecture Practice?
Is There a Secret to Being a Profitable Architecture Practice?
Is There a Secret to Being a Profitable Architecture Practice?
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What is certainly not a secret is that most architects are not particularly excited by the financial management side of running a practice.
At Fresh Projects, we believe that is exactly how it should be.
Architects become architects to design great spaces and create buildings that last. Not to forecast fees, analyse resource allocations or reconcile spreadsheets.
And yet, it is impossible to do one sustainably without the other.
So what do profitable architecture practices do differently?
Profitable practices spend less time managing finance
The most profitable architecture practices do not spend more time on financial management. They spend less.
Over the last five years, thousands of architects and architectural practices have used Fresh Projects to gain automatic, real-time insight into project profitability. Today, more than 50,000 projects across multiple continents are managed through the platform.
The difference is not effort. It is visibility.
Fresh Projects gives practices clear answers to the financial questions that matter, without asking teams to manually collect, reconcile or interpret data themselves.
This is what allows firms to focus on delivery, design quality and clients, while still maintaining control.
How Fresh Projects helps architecture practices become more profitable
Here are three core capabilities that Fresh Projects clients consistently rely on to improve profitability.
1. The Fresh Projects Fee Calculator
Setting the right fee is one of the most important commercial decisions any practice makes.
The Fresh Projects Fee Calculator allows firms to create profit-inherent fee proposals in minutes, grounded in delivery effort and value rather than guesswork.
“With the Fresh Projects Fee Calculator, we create profit-inherent fee proposals in a matter of minutes. Knowing that we are engaging clients with a reasonable proposal that reflects the effort and value required for the project gives us and our clients greater confidence in our ability to deliver.”
Ryan McGarrie, Associate Director, Space Zero
This approach supports consistent, defendable fee setting across teams and offices.
2. The Fresh Projects Profitability Tracking Dashboard
Profitability is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. It erodes quietly over time.
The Profitability Tracking Dashboard gives leadership teams real-time visibility into how projects are performing, allowing issues to be identified and addressed early.
“Fresh Projects was the profit-and-loss management tool we needed to kickstart our journey of organisational transformation.”
Leon Gouws, Director, Osmond Lange Architects
For larger practices, this level of insight is essential to maintaining control across multiple projects and teams.
3. The Fresh Projects Weighted Forecasting Tool
Planning confidently requires foresight, not hindsight.
The Weighted Forecasting Tool allows practices to understand future income based on real opportunities and probabilities, rather than optimism or gut feel.
“Fresh Projects has given us the benefit of foresight. Giving us sight of potential pitfalls well in advance.”
Peter Stokes, Partner, DHK Architects
This supports better decisions around resourcing, hiring and cash flow.
Profitability without spreadsheet overload
Fresh Projects is not about turning architects into finance professionals.
It is about giving architecture practices the right financial insight at the right time, without adding complexity or admin.
For those who genuinely enjoy spreadsheets and balance sheets, that is perfectly fine. But for everyone else, there is a better way.
Learning more about Fresh Projects is time profitably spent.
What is certainly not a secret is that most architects are not particularly excited by the financial management side of running a practice.
At Fresh Projects, we believe that is exactly how it should be.
Architects become architects to design great spaces and create buildings that last. Not to forecast fees, analyse resource allocations or reconcile spreadsheets.
And yet, it is impossible to do one sustainably without the other.
So what do profitable architecture practices do differently?
Profitable practices spend less time managing finance
The most profitable architecture practices do not spend more time on financial management. They spend less.
Over the last five years, thousands of architects and architectural practices have used Fresh Projects to gain automatic, real-time insight into project profitability. Today, more than 50,000 projects across multiple continents are managed through the platform.
The difference is not effort. It is visibility.
Fresh Projects gives practices clear answers to the financial questions that matter, without asking teams to manually collect, reconcile or interpret data themselves.
This is what allows firms to focus on delivery, design quality and clients, while still maintaining control.
How Fresh Projects helps architecture practices become more profitable
Here are three core capabilities that Fresh Projects clients consistently rely on to improve profitability.
1. The Fresh Projects Fee Calculator
Setting the right fee is one of the most important commercial decisions any practice makes.
The Fresh Projects Fee Calculator allows firms to create profit-inherent fee proposals in minutes, grounded in delivery effort and value rather than guesswork.
“With the Fresh Projects Fee Calculator, we create profit-inherent fee proposals in a matter of minutes. Knowing that we are engaging clients with a reasonable proposal that reflects the effort and value required for the project gives us and our clients greater confidence in our ability to deliver.”
Ryan McGarrie, Associate Director, Space Zero
This approach supports consistent, defendable fee setting across teams and offices.
2. The Fresh Projects Profitability Tracking Dashboard
Profitability is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. It erodes quietly over time.
The Profitability Tracking Dashboard gives leadership teams real-time visibility into how projects are performing, allowing issues to be identified and addressed early.
“Fresh Projects was the profit-and-loss management tool we needed to kickstart our journey of organisational transformation.”
Leon Gouws, Director, Osmond Lange Architects
For larger practices, this level of insight is essential to maintaining control across multiple projects and teams.
3. The Fresh Projects Weighted Forecasting Tool
Planning confidently requires foresight, not hindsight.
The Weighted Forecasting Tool allows practices to understand future income based on real opportunities and probabilities, rather than optimism or gut feel.
“Fresh Projects has given us the benefit of foresight. Giving us sight of potential pitfalls well in advance.”
Peter Stokes, Partner, DHK Architects
This supports better decisions around resourcing, hiring and cash flow.
Profitability without spreadsheet overload
Fresh Projects is not about turning architects into finance professionals.
It is about giving architecture practices the right financial insight at the right time, without adding complexity or admin.
For those who genuinely enjoy spreadsheets and balance sheets, that is perfectly fine. But for everyone else, there is a better way.
Learning more about Fresh Projects is time profitably spent.
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Fresh Projects is a UK-based software platform designed for architects, engineers, and other built-environment professionals to manage financial aspects of their projects. It helps teams track fees, timesheets, expenses, billing, and overall profitability to keep projects on budget and profitable. The platform also centralises project data, streamlines administrative tasks, and offers mobile app support for easy access and updates.
1a Colinette Road
London
SW15 6QG
© 2026 Fresh Projects
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