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Nobody designed your technology stack. It accumulated.

That's not a criticism but it's the default state of almost every architecture practice I work with. A tool gets bought for a project. The licence auto-renews. A better option appears, gets added alongside the old one. Enterprise tier gets selected because it seemed safer. Years pass. The stack grows. Nobody reviews it.

The result: practices routinely overpay by 10–15% of their annual software spend. For a 30-person practice spending £50,000 on software, that's over £5,000 a year - quietly leaving every year, unnoticed.

The Revit conversation is a useful entry point. At £2,800 per seat, it's the most visible cost in the stack and the most likely to prompt the question: what else are we paying for that we haven't looked at properly? Adobe would be high on my list.

A software cost audit isn't complicated. It's a structured review of what you pay, who uses it, and what you actually need. What's surprising is how rarely practices do one and how quickly the numbers add up once someone looks.

This is the work. Not the exciting part of technology strategy. But often the most immediately valuable.

I've formalised the software cost audit as a standalone engagement. Here's what it is:

A focused two-week review of every tool your practice pays for - what it costs, usage, and what you should cut. Delivered as a clear cost map with specific recommendations.

What you receive:

- Software Cost Map: every tool, mapped by cost, license count, and usage

- Duplication & Shelfware Report: tools doing the same job, licences nobody uses, tiers that don't match need

- Line-by-line Savings Summary with estimated annual impact per item

- Three Priority Actions ranked by impact and ease

- 30-minute walkthrough call to present findings

The guarantee: if the total identified savings are less than the cost of the engagement, I'll refund the difference.

If this sounds relevant — the first step is a 30-minute call. No commitment required.

→ Book a call: 30 min with Allister Lewis

Architecture firms are sitting on decades of knowledge - yet most of it disappears between projects. This special session marks the launch of the new industry white paper:

“The Knowledge Cliff: Why Architecture Companies Are Losing Expertise.”

As senior experts retire, teams become more distributed, and project timelines accelerate, architecture practices face a growing knowledge continuity crisis. Design decisions, detailing expertise, and constructability insight are often trapped inside project files, emails, and individual memory.

There is free download here: https://47267504.hs-sites.com/d.to-the-knowledge-cliff

Thursday 28 May | 6:00pm – 8:30pm @ Laminar Projects, London

Two of London's construction tech communities are joining forces for one evening. Constructech and ConTech Is... are co-hosting an event focused on one of the most persistent problems in the built environment: the tools are multiplying, but they're not connecting.

I'll be delivering the interactive talk - exploring how architecture and construction practices can move from software accumulation to deliberate digital strategy.

The agenda:

6:00pm – Networking

6:45pm – Interactive Talk

7:45pm – Networking

8:30pm – Post-event drinks

Come if you can - it's the conversation this industry needs to have. Limited numbers - register here: https://luma.com/nw6nacnm

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You'll wear two hats: one as a hands-on contributor to Arkyv's core product suite, making sure it fits into real world workflows and one as a practitioner deploying these tools inside large architecture firms. You'll be the bridge between what we build and how it gets used in the real world, identifying where AI genuinely transforms workflows, and proving it with results.

This is not a traditional architecture role. It's for someone who is deeply curious about AI, frustrated by the slow pace of change in the industry, and eager to demonstrate what's actually possible when cutting-edge tools meet real projects.”

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This newsletter exists to help architects navigate technology with confidence, not hype by focusing on workflows, decisions, and real practice constraints.

Thanks for reading!

Allister