Recurring revenue for architects? Yes.
📰 Designing to operate, embracing self-disruption, treating AI as an interdependent teammate, building psychologically safe cultures, and shifting to recurring, outcome-based services.
Evan Troxel
205: ‘Rethinking Your A/E Practice’, with Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock
A conversation with Robert Otani and Alexandra Pollock rethinking architectural practices through technology, measuring innovation ROI, and embracing product thinking to enhance efficiency and collaboration in AEC firms while leveraging AI for knowledge management and professional development.
Architecture practice → product company: a case study
📰 Escaping billable hours, productizing a flagship cabin, structuring rent-to-rent land deals, using physical models to win trust, designing ops to scale outcomes (not headcount), and leveraging prefab to cut cost, time, and risk.
204: ‘How to Future-Proof Your Architecture Practice’, with Dave Gilmore
A conversation with Dave Gilmore disrupting traditional architecture business models, embracing digital transformation, and fostering psychological safety in leadership to navigate uncertainty and prepare for future challenges in the AEC industry.
The Invisible Tax Killing Your Projects
📰 Embedding knowledge sharing into daily workflows, surfacing hidden expertise at the moment of need, reducing friction with lightweight systems, cultivating psychological safety, and leading KM 3.0 as a firm-wide operating system.
203: ‘Rethinking the Architecture Business Model’, with Peter Markos
A conversation with Peter Markos rethinking the architecture business model by embracing productized architecture and prefabrication to unlock new opportunities, enhance scalability, and build resilience in architectural practices.
The Question Every AEC Leader Should Be Asking Today
📰 Redefining leadership through the “Give to Get” framework: why great leaders ask what life their team members want to build, and help them get there. Plus, the cost of replacing talent vs. retaining it, and how generational shifts are reshaping AEC firms.