For many A&E firm owners, the business is their most valuable retirement asset. This session shows how smart succession planning protects your practice and builds long-term wealth. Learn the essential steps for ownership transition — from financial strategy to developing future leaders — so your firm thrives beyond your tenure and your hard work pays off.
Webinars
Our engaging webinars are run by some of the brightest minds in the professional services industry who are ready to offer advice and expertise to help you manage your firm. As a bonus, you can earn continuing education credits for qualifying courses.
Webinars
How to Get Employees to Think and Act Like Owners
Create a culture where employees think like owners. Join CFO Sean Cristea and President Douglas Zabonick as they share practical strategies for building financial literacy, transparency, and shared accountability across your firm. Learn how to empower teams, strengthen decision-making, and align performance with long-term success.
Webinars
Tuesday, January, 13th 2026 | 1pm ET | 10am PT
Your Next Hire Might Not Be Human: How AI and Outsourcing Are Rewriting the Rules
In an era where AI can draft proposals, automate invoicing, and even generate design options, the question facing firm leaders isn’t who to hire; it’s whether to hire at all.
Webinars
Wednesday, January, 14th 2026 | 1pm ET | 10am PT
Billing Smarter, Getting Paid Faster
Learn how to streamline billing, accelerate cash flow, and reduce collection delays with standardized workflows and electronic payments. This session covers smarter invoice templates, automated delivery, key financial metrics like DSO and AR aging, and best practices for modernizing your firm’s billing process heading into 2026.
Webinars
Rewriting the Fee Formula: A Smarter Model for Pricing Your Services
Most A&E firms deliver great work but don’t get paid what they’re worth. In this 50-minute session, learn why traditional pricing models fall short — and how value-based pricing can better reflect your expertise, improve margins, and help you win the right projects. Walk away with strategies to stop competing on cost and start capturing the value you create.
Webinars
The Economic Outlook for A&E Firms: What the Data is Telling Us
Join Aziz Sunderji, founder of Home Economics and former economic strategist at Barclays Investment Bank, for a data-driven look at the forces shaping the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. Drawing on more than 14 years in global finance and his time at the Wall Street Journal, Aziz uses compelling graphics, charts, and data visualizations to cut through the noise, reveal the economic trends that matter most to A&E firms, and project where the industry is headed next.
E-books & Guides
Improve your efficiency and profits with expert advice on project management, billing, top KPIs and more.
Whether you want an inside look at how to measure project performance or you’re looking for the best advice on building a stronger ROI, our complimentary e-Books and guides have the answer.
E-books & Guides
Firm Management Software Buyers Guide
A comprehensive buyer’s guide to evaluating firm management software for architecture and engineering firms.
E-books & Guides
2025 Architecture Salary Report
Our Architecture Salary Report gives firm leaders and professionals a clear view of pay trends across roles, regions, and firm sizes.
E-books & Guides
2025 Engineering Salary Report
Compensation drives retention and growth, and our Engineering Salary Report provides the hard data you need to get it right. Built on a large pool of anonymous industry salary data points, this report reveals pay trends across disciplines, career stages, and geographies.
E-books & Guides
Firm Valuation & Transition Report
You know your firm’s worth, now learn how to grow it. Download your next-step guide to building a more valuable, sellable architecture or engineering practice. This report was written in collaboration with the Business of Architecture.
E-books & Guides
2025 Architecture Benchmarking Report
Clarity starts with understanding how your firm is really performing—and how it compares to the rest of the industry.
E-books & Guides
2025 Engineering Benchmarking Report
Whether you’re monitoring utilization, managing labor costs, or forecasting revenue, it’s difficult to make the right decisions without industry context. The 2025 Engineering Firm Benchmarking Report helps you change that.
Tools & Templates
Running an A&E firm is complex, but the right tools can make it easier. These resources, templates, and tools were built to help you streamline operations, improve profitability, and focus on the work you love so you can build a thriving, efficient firm with confidence.
Tools & Templates
A&E Salary Map
Our salary visualization tool is an interactive resource with anonymous, industry-specific data you won’t find anywhere else, this report helps you benchmark compensation, address pay equity, and make informed staffing decisions.
Tools & Templates
A/E Firm Management Software ROI Calculator
Model the ROI of modern firm management software with a calculator built for architecture and engineering firms.
Tools & Templates
Checklist: Essential Features of Firm Management Software
A simple checklist to identify the essential features your firm needs when evaluating management software.
Tools & Templates
Firm Valuation Calculator
Understanding your AE firm’s value is the first step toward smarter business decisions, whether you’re planning for growth, succession, or a future sale. Get a quick, data-driven estimate with BQE's Firm Valuation Calculator and see where your firm stands.
Tools & Templates
AEC Software Survey
How are AEC firms using technology? Join our industry survey to uncover trends in software tools, integrations, and digital transformation. Brought to you by AEC+Tech and BQE CORE.
Tools & Templates
Revenue Projection Template
Plan with confidence using our Revenue Projection Template. Forecast future income across your project pipeline to make informed business decisions.
Blog
From industry trends and product updates to time-saving strategies and expert advice, we’re here to empower your firm with knowledge that drives results. Stay ahead of the curve with content designed to simplify operations, improve profitability, and help your team thrive.
Blog
18 December, 2025
The 2025 Product Updates That Helped A&E Firms Plan Better, Bill Faster, and Scale Confidently
A Year Focused on Clarity, Control, and Confidence Architecture and engineering firms operate in a uniquely complex environment. Projects are long....
Blog
4 November, 2025
Integrations Are the New Detail: How A/E Firms Turn Everyday Tools into an Operations Advantage
Integrations are the new detail Architects obsess over details because details decide outcomes. The same is true of your tech stack. The way your...
Blog
7 October, 2025
The Independent Director Imperative: Why AEC Firms Need Outside Voices to Drive Growth and Governance
Most AEC firms are standing at an inflection point, whether they realize it or not. The industry has never been more complex. Strategic decisions now...
Case Studies
We’re excited to showcase our customers and their stories of achievement using BQE CORE. Learn how BQE customers build better projects and improve their firm’s profitability.
Case Studies
Heights Venture Architecture + Design
From Battleship to Speedboat: Transforming How Architects Manage, Design, and Deliver
Case Studies
Shear Structural
Discover how Shear Structural, Georgia’s only woman-owned structural engineering firm, cut invoicing from 10 hours to 30 minutes with BQE CORE.
Case Studies
INC Architecture & Design
How INC Architecture & Design Built a Smarter, More Profitable Practice
Congrats to INC Architecture & Design Partners for being inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame!
