Quality,
built into the day.
The QMS that runs in the background of design practice — turning what your firm already does into ISO-compliant evidence. Better work, raised earlier. Less paperwork. No consultant. Auditor-ready every day of the year.
Founding members lock in 35% off list price for 3 years · $49 / month Solo · limited places.
Less paperwork. Less consultant time. Less audit-eve panic.
A 6-person practice running ISO 9001 the conventional way spends ~$11,000 + and 150+ staff hours in year one — most of it on work that adds nothing to a project. ArchiQMS removes the middle layer.
The conventional path.
The byproduct path.
Indicative figures for a 6-person Australian architectural practice in year one of ISO 9001:2015 certification. Consultant rates from quoted ranges $4,700–$15,700. Certification body fees per TQCSI / JASANZ schedules. Staff time costed at $110/hr loaded. Subsequent years: ArchiQMS continues at subscription; conventional path requires ~$4,065/yr surveillance + ongoing internal effort. The hidden costs — weeks of director stress, missed billables, work avoided because no-one knows where the procedure lives — don't appear on the invoice.
You're already running a quality management system.
Stage gates. Peer review. Director sign-off. Client briefs. Document control. Consultant evaluation. NCC compliance checks. Lessons learned. These are already the moves your practice makes — they just aren't legible as evidence. ArchiQMS makes them legible.
- ✓Stage gates become immutable approvals.The peer-review and sign-off you already do at the end of Schematic, DA, CD, and Construction Documentation get captured at the moment they happen — with reviewer, date, and conditions logged automatically.
- ✓Project emails become RFI and scope records.BCC ArchiQMS on a thread. We classify, flag, and surface dissatisfaction or scope drift — without anyone keying anything into a register.
- ✓Drawing review becomes traceable QA.Mode-3 drawing checks happen anyway. ArchiQMS logs that the check happened, the issue raised, the rev that resolved it — building a §8.3 evidence trail by accident.
- ✓Client satisfaction becomes §9.1.2 evidence.A short structured survey at practical completion (8 questions, ~3 minutes). Scores, comments, follow-ups — captured against the project, ready for the auditor without further effort.
- ✓Consultants become a controlled supply chain.Insurance, registrations, evaluations and reappointment criteria — tracked the same way you already track project teams, satisfying §8.4 without a spreadsheet.
- ✓Internal audit becomes a quarterly digest.Instead of one frantic exercise per year, every Tuesday the director sees the practice's compliance posture — and the system itself runs the §9.2 internal audit in the background.
Your firm vs. the standard
Better work. Raised earlier. Anchored in something solid.
Compliance is the obvious win. The quieter one — quality, every day. Staff get a system that prompts the right next move at each stage, raises issues early, and stores what was decided, when, and why. Practice memory — not tribal lore.
A prompt at every stage, not a manual to read.
When a staff member moves a project into a new stage, ArchiQMS asks the right quality questions — drawn from your practice's own AQIL library, mapped to the ISO clauses that apply at that gate.
- →Concept Design? Has it been peer-reviewed?
- →DA submission? Have planning conditions been captured?
- →CD release? Has the structural consultant's scope been logged?
A junior staff member's protection. A senior's habit, formalised.
For every decision that changes scope, fee, brief, or risk — ArchiQMS surfaces what to confirm in writing, to whom, and where it gets logged. The instinct senior architects have learned the hard way, available to everyone.
- →Client requests a finish change late in DD
- →Consultant flags an issue verbally on site
- →Builder asks for clarification on a detail
Practice memory, searchable.
No more digging through email threads, drawing markups, or the previous architect's brain. Every stage gate, every peer review, every consultant exchange — indexed against the project, retrievable by anyone who needs it.
- →“Why did we go to in-situ concrete on level 3?”
- →“When did the brief change scope on the basement?”
- →“Who signed off the variation in May?”
Quality questions ask themselves at the gate — not at the auditor's table six months later.
A culture of structured peer review and documented decisions raises the floor on everyone's work.
A new hire reads the project history, not the senior architect's mind. Productive on day one.
Practice posture is visible weekly. No surprises, no last-minute weekends, no 2am audit prep.
One platform. Three audiences. Always in sync.
The director sees practice health. The auditor sees a read-only portal. The whole system is backed by a real-time evidence map — one source of truth, three lenses on it.
Practice health, live.
One screen. Compliance score, BIM quality, certification readiness, projects on track or watch. Every Tuesday the digest tells you where to look first.
When something needs attention — a consultant's PI is expiring, a KPI is drifting — it surfaces in Act Now. No hunting through tabs.
- 3-score health band — practice / compliance / BIM
- Quality culture KPIs (suggestions, awareness)
- Audit-readiness — the 7 prerequisites at a glance
- Project grid with stage and status, refreshed daily
Audit-ready, every day.
When the auditor arrives, you send a link. They open a read-only portal — firm overview, all 24 clauses, evidence density at a glance, full audit notes capture.
No PDF bundles to assemble. No login. No last-minute panic. The 2–4 weeks of audit-eve work most practices spend? Zero.
- Token-based read-only access — no auditor account needed
- Evidence density signal per clause group (Strong / Watch / Gap)
- Hover any figure to see its source records
- Auditor's own notes captured inline — exportable to report
Every clause, traceable to a row.
The Evidence Map is the system's spine: all 24 ISO 9001 clause groups, mapped to their source tables, with the date of the latest evidence and a signal for currency.
When something's stale, it shows as Watch — three months before the auditor would have spotted it. Gaps surface as Gap with a clear next action.
- 26 ISO clauses · evidence per clause · source table · latest update
- Three-state signal — Current / Watch / Gap
- Click a row to land in the underlying records
- Auditor's view and the firm's view share the same map
Built for the design and construction team — not against it.
Discipline-specific AQIL prompts, stage configurations and drawing checklists. Not a generic template you bend to fit. Whatever shape your practice takes, the system models it.
Architecture
Structural engineering
Landscape architecture
Civil engineering
MEP / services engineering
Urban planning & design
Project management
Interior design
Every discipline ships with its own stage model, AQIL prompt library, and drawing-QA checklist. Founding practices help shape the prompts and gates for their discipline — a system that fits the way you work, not the other way around.
Nine modules, one system of record.
Every module reads from and writes to the same evidence map. The pieces compound — the more you use one, the stronger the rest become.
Quality questions, at the right moment.
Stage-sequenced prompts mapped to ISO clauses. Asked when relevant, logged with timestamp and staff attribution — creating an audit trail that satisfies both ISO 9001 evidence requirements and emerging AI governance standards.
Immutable approvals.
Peer review, pre-conditions, director sign-off — stored as audit evidence the moment a project advances. No back-fill, no synthesis at audit time. The record is the gate.
Project email, classified.
BCC ArchiQMS on a thread. Detects RFIs, WHS signals, client dissatisfaction, scope changes — populates the registers without manual data entry.
Documentation, validated.
Validates PDF text extractability before AI processing — the foundational quality layer your practice needs before deploying any AI tooling on live project documentation. §8.3 evidence accumulates as a side-effect.
Read-only access, on demand.
Token-based read-only access for your external auditor. Evidence timeline, ISO clause mapping, full document repository — no login, no PDF exports. Included on every plan.
Standard-current, today and tomorrow.
Fully operational against ISO 9001:2015 today — and structured for the 2026 revision. When the new standard lands, no disruption to your certification, no migration work.
DBP obligations, automated.
For NSW-registered practices, ArchiQMS provides immutable stage-gate records and drawing QA logs that satisfy DBP documentation obligations — turning a regulatory burden into a workflow byproduct.
One email. One read. Every week.
Every Tuesday morning, the director receives a 60-second digest: what changed, what needs attention, what's at risk. The rest stays in the background where it belongs.
Quality logged from your model.
Log drawing QA evidence and stage gate approvals directly from the Revit environment — making compliance an automatic output of the documentation you're already producing.
Simple, transparent pricing.
All plans include the full compliance base — AQIL, stage gates, document repository, auditor portal. Higher plans add team features, analytics, and priority support. Founding members lock in 35% off for 3 years.
The cost of doing nothing isn't the audit fee — it's the wages and the weekends. ISO 9001 audit fees are roughly $6,840 + GST year one and $4,065/yr after. That's the visible cost. The invisible cost is the weeks of director focus pulled off billable work at audit-eve, the ~150 staff hours spent hunting evidence and authoring procedures, and the slow leak of scope creep, undocumented decisions, and stress that quietly compounds across every live project. ArchiQMS Studio at $149/month founding rate costs less than your annual surveillance fee alone — and replaces every one of those hidden costs with a system running quietly in the background.
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