What does an architect do on a phone during a site visit?

Open the enquiry before arriving and read what the client said last time. On the plot, record dimensions, orientation, road access, level differences and neighbouring construction, and photograph the approach, the boundaries and the surroundings. Capture the brief in the client own words with intended use, rough area and budget indication. Note the referral source. Set the next step. Drawing and fee working belong at the desk.

Do plots and partially built sites have coverage?

Not reliably. Plots on the edge of a town, basements, and partially built structures with thick walls all drop the signal. Notes and photographs captured without a connection are held on the device and sent once the architect is back on a road with a network, and enquiries opened earlier stay readable. Calls and messages need a live connection at the moment they run.

Which architecture tasks belong firmly on a desktop?

Drawing, modelling, area statements, fee calculation, tender documentation and any statutory submission. Comparing two layout options or checking a drawing against a bye law is not handset work. The phone owns the plot: the measurements, the photographs, the brief as spoken, the referral source and the dated next action that keeps a slow enquiry alive.

Architectural enquiries take months to convert. Does a CRM help?

That is exactly why it helps. A conversation in March that restarts in September usually goes to whoever is in touch when it does. A shared record with a last contact date and a light periodic touch is a low effort way to be that practice. Without it, follow up depends on remembering an enquiry from two seasons ago, which nobody reliably does.

What does a practice principal review?

Enquiries received and their source, site visits done, fee proposals awaiting a decision with ageing, and projects gone quiet beyond a chosen number of weeks. The quiet list is the most valuable, because architectural work rarely dies loudly. It simply stops replying, and a single well timed call months later recovers a surprising share of it.

How long does it take to set up and what does it cost?

A small practice can be running in a day or two: users, enquiry stages, project types, referral sources and loss reasons. Pricing is $10/user/month billed annually with a free plan available, so a two or three person studio can start without much thought. Existing enquiry lists usually migrate from a spreadsheet in an afternoon.

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HelloGrowthCRM mobile app showing an architecture practice plot visit with site photographs, brief notes and a fee proposal reminder

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Is HelloGrowthCRM right for Mobile CRM for Architecture Practices?

Yes. HelloGrowthCRM gives Mobile CRM for Architecture Practices a single system to capture every lead, automate follow-up across phone, WhatsApp, and email, prioritise leads with AI scoring, and forecast revenue — with calling and messaging built in instead of sold as add-ons. It's built for the problems these teams actually hit — like an architect visits a plot, discusses a brief for an hour, and by the time the fee proposal is drafted the requirements have blurred into assumptions — rather than generic sales busywork.

A visit list for the week covering plots, existing buildings and client offices, so a practice principal spends travel time deliberately rather than reactively
Plot details captured on site: dimensions, orientation, road access, setbacks discussed, neighbouring construction and the level difference nobody mentions on a call
Photographs of the plot, the approach road, the existing structure and the surroundings attached to the enquiry, since context decides the first design conversation

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The plot is where the project is decided

An architectural day is a plot on the edge of town in the morning, a client office at noon, a site under construction in the afternoon and a consultant meeting in the evening. The practice computer sees none of it. What survives is whatever gets written while standing at a boundary wall.

The brief is spoken and then it changes

Intended use, rough built up area, budget indication, the family requirement that is mentioned once and never repeated. Recording it in the client own words on site means the fee proposal addresses the project the client described, rather than the one the architect enjoyed imagining on the drive back.

Architecture runs on referrals and slow time

Most enquiries arrive through a past client, a contractor or a consultant, and most take months to become anything. Recording the source, and keeping a last contact date on every quiet enquiry, is what allows a practice to be present when a project finally restarts.

Plots and structures without signal

Plots outside a town and partially built structures drop coverage often. Notes and photographs captured offline are held on the device and sent once the architect reaches a road with signal, and enquiries opened earlier stay readable. Calls and messages need a live connection when they run.

Site work and studio work

Drawing, area statements and fee working need a proper screen; the plot needs a camera and a written brief.

Task	Site or studio	Why
Record plot dimensions on site	Site	Accurate only on the plot
Photograph approach and boundary	Site	Context exists nowhere else
Capture the brief as spoken	Site	Changes within a week
Note the referral source	Site	Asked naturally in person
Draw and model the scheme	Studio	Needs a proper screen
Work out the fee proposal	Studio	Many linked assumptions
Review enquiries and sources	Studio	Wide tables and filters

What the principal reviews

Enquiries and their sources, site visits done, fee proposals ageing without a decision, and projects gone quiet beyond a set number of weeks. The quiet list is where recoverable work sits.

Making site notes happen

Three photographs, a brief in the client words, and a next date. Nothing more. Then draft no fee proposal without them, which quietly enforces the habit across a small team without anyone needing to police it.

What this is not

It is not a design or project management tool. It does not draw, model, produce area statements or manage drawing revisions.

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The problems holding this industry back — and the fix

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An architect visits a plot, discusses a brief for an hour, and by the time the fee proposal is drafted the requirements have blurred into assumptions.

Plot details and the brief are captured on site in the client own words, so the proposal answers the project that was actually described.Brief captured on the plot

Fee proposals are sent and then nothing happens, and the practice has no idea which clients are deciding and which have gone elsewhere.

Proposals awaiting a decision appear with ageing and a dated next action, so a polite silence gets one honest call instead of six months of hope.Fee proposal ageing list

Projects go quiet for months and restart suddenly, usually with whichever practice happens to be in touch at that moment.

Stalled enquiries are listed by last contact date, so a light touch every few months keeps the practice in the conversation when it resumes.Stalled project follow up

Most work arrives through referrals and nobody records where it came from, so the relationships that matter are never actively maintained.

Referral sources are tracked on every enquiry, making the small network that produces most of the practice work visible and worth nurturing.Referral source tracking

What you get

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A visit list for the week covering plots, existing buildings and client offices, so a practice principal spends travel time deliberately rather than reactively

Plot details captured on site: dimensions, orientation, road access, setbacks discussed, neighbouring construction and the level difference nobody mentions on a call

Photographs of the plot, the approach road, the existing structure and the surroundings attached to the enquiry, since context decides the first design conversation

The client brief recorded in their own words, covering intended use, rough built up area, budget indication, family or organisational needs and the expected start

Approval and statutory context noted where relevant, because a project waiting on a plan sanction moves on a schedule the practice does not control

Referral sources tracked properly, so the contractor, the consultant or the past client who keeps sending work is visible and thanked rather than assumed

Stages that suit a practice: enquiry, site visit done, brief agreed, fee proposal sent, appointment confirmed, concept stage, drawings, project stalled

Calls placed from the enquiry record between site visits, with duration and outcome logged automatically instead of written up days later from memory

WhatsApp threads with clients and consultants held on the enquiry, since site photographs and revised requirements arrive as messages and get buried

Notes and photographs taken on a plot with no coverage or inside a partially built structure held on the device and sent once the architect reaches signal

Stalled project lists built from the last contact date, because architectural enquiries go quiet for months and then restart with whoever answers first

A principal view of enquiries received, fee proposals awaiting a decision and projects that have gone quiet, without a formal review meeting to produce it

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