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Embedded Payroll in CORE:

Group Demo


Thursday, December 11, 2025
12pm ET | 9am PT 

Payroll Without the Busywork 

Running payroll shouldn’t feel like running a project of its own. With CORE Payroll, powered by Gusto, you can process payroll, pay your team, and handle all tax filings without ever leaving the system you already use to manage projects and billing. 

Whether you’re looking to save time, improve accuracy, or reduce compliance headaches, CORE Payroll helps A/E firms focus on what matters most: designing, building, and serving clients. 

We’ll also leave ample time for Q&A, so you can get your specific payroll questions answered live. 

Guest Speakers:  

  • Matt Cooper, BQE's Chief Executive Officer
  • Chris Vernon, VP of Product Management
  • Faisal Syed, Director of Product Management

During this session, you'll learn how integrated payroll can benefit your firm: 

1

Timesheet hours and pay rates flow automatically into payroll (ie: no manual re-entry). 

2

Payroll totals post instantly to CORE’s general ledger, giving you up-to-date financials.

3

Real-time sync with Gusto reduces errors, shortens payroll cycles, and saves hours every pay period. 

4

Job costing data updates instantly, so you see the true cost of every project as it happens. 

BQE CORE presents

The Dashboard-Driven Firm

What Every Role Needs to See to Perform Better

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

1pm ET | 10am PT

This webinar earns 1 CEU

Most A&E firms are surrounded by data, but that does not mean their people have the information they need to make better decisions. Principals need visibility into profitability, cash flow, backlog, and firm-wide performance. Project managers need to monitor budgets, percent complete, scope creep, billing status, and project health. Studio leaders need to understand workload, staffing capacity, and delivery risk. CFOs need reliable insight into WIP, AR, collections, forecasting, and financial exposure. Project architects and engineers need clarity around tasks, budgeted hours, deadlines, and deliverables.

The challenge is that many firms either share too little information or overwhelm people with reports that were never designed for their role. In this webinar, Steven Burns, FAIA, will explore how role-based dashboards help every part of the firm perform better. Attendees will learn what each role should be watching, how transparency improves accountability and profitability, and why firm management software becomes more valuable when it is used daily by the whole team—not just by finance or administration.

The session will show how a robust software platform can become a shared operating system for the firm, helping leaders and teams move from after-the-fact reporting to timely, role-specific decision-making.

Guest Speaker:

  • Steven Burns, FAIA
    Founder, The Well-Designed Firm

During this session, you'll learn how to:

  • 1
    Develop a practical framework for using a software platform as a firm-wide operating system, not just an administrative or finance tool.
  • 2
    Distinguish between useful transparency and information overload, so firms can share data in ways that improve performance without creating confusion or anxiety.
  • 3
    Learn how role-based dashboards can improve project profitability, staffing decisions, billing discipline, and accountability.
  • 4
    Evaluate whether your current reporting systems provide timely, actionable information or merely historical accounting data.

Guest Speakers:

  • Matt Cooper, BQE's Chief Executive Officer
  • Chris Vernon, VP of Product Management
  • Faisal Syed, Director of Product Management
CORE Payroll Webinars (3)
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Designed by A&E pros for A&E firms

We built the software that helped us run our own firms better. Since then, we’ve spent the last 30 years optimizing it. As the industry evolves, so does BQE CORE. It’s the only proposal-to-paid solution that empowers everyone at a firm to streamline processes, close workflow gaps, and unlock real-time visibility into project performance and profitability.

Finally, you can get back to doing the impactful work you love.