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Welcome to BQE University, where we’re more than just your software partner. Created by an architect and an engineer, we’re here to give back to the professional services industry by providing you with the foundation for making well-grounded business decisions.
Learn how to nurture a business-thinking mindset for your firm so you’re well-organized, efficient, and successful. Transition from simply providing services to a thriving firm that delivers projects that yield delighted clients and predictable profits.
At BQE University, we’re as invested in your success as you are, so start learning today to build a better firm tomorrow.
Upcoming live webinars
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The Four Conversations: A New Model for Selling Expertise

AE Profitability Metrics Demystified: Utilization Rate, Efficiency Rate, and Cost Rate Multiplier
Part 7 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Douglas as he unravels the vital KPI of profitability, the cost rate multiplier, and explores the crucial distinctions between utilization rate and efficiency rate. He'll explain precisely how to define your breakeven multiplier and unveil your true cost rate, ensuring that financial clarity guides your decision-making. Additionally, discover how to set and analyze your firm's maximum office billing potential, a critical step toward achieving your financial goals. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to drive profitability, both at the project level and across your entire firm.

How to Attract, Engage and Retain Top Talent in 2025
Unpacking the Results of the Latest ‘Present and Future of Work in Engineering and Architecture’ Report
Most AEC consulting firms are looking to grow at a rapid pace; however, they face many challenges around recruiting, development, and retention in this competitive atmosphere.
EMI and ActionsProve have once again asked AEC professionals questions that their firms are afraid to ask! This must-attend session will review the findings to the questions asked in the “Present and Future of Work in Engineering and Architecture Reports” that can help firm owners and managers better recruit, develop, and retain team members in 2024 and beyond. Do not miss access to this game-changing information!

The 4-Hour Workweek for AE Professionals: Business Secrets to Increase Productivity, Profits and Happiness

What to Track and How to Track It: Essential KPIs for Every AE Firm
Part 8 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In today's dynamic landscape, staying ahead requires a real-time view into the heartbeat of your AE firm. Dashboards, reports, and scorecards offer critical insights into employee performance, projects, and financials. Join Founder of Teiger Consulting and architectural entrepreneur Douglas Teiger, FAIA, for a transformative course where you'll discover the essential KPIs that drive AE firm success. You’ll also learn to create a system that tracks these metrics month-over-month, reflecting your firm's unique trends and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Join us for this enlightening session and embark on a journey to unlock the power of KPIs to optimize your firm. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to navigate the AE landscape with precision and achieve unparalleled success.

Succession Planning and Leadership Transition: Securing Your AE Firm’s Future
For many architecture and engineering firms, the business is not just a career, but a lifestyle. However, when the time comes to retire or slow down, the most important investment you can rely on might not be your 401(k), IRA, or real estate portfolio—but your firm. Succession planning is not just about ensuring your practice can continue without you; it’s about building a valuable asset that can provide significant financial security and wealth, potentially making your firm your most significant retirement asset.
He’ll cover the critical steps for ownership transition, from strategic and financial planning to cultivating leadership within your team. By empowering the next generation and creating a strong, sustainable firm, you’ll be setting yourself up for a future where your hard work pays off in more ways than one.

The AE Firm’s Foundational Trio: Defining Your Business Structure, Org Chart and Role Accountability
Part 9 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Discover the myriad of options for business structures and their unique benefits, gaining the insight to make informed decisions that align with your firm's goals. But it doesn't stop there – in this transformative webinar, Douglas delves into the crucial distinction between organizational and accountability charts and how to ensure that the right person is in the right seat to supercharge your firm's performance. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to craft an organizational structure that ignites alignment, propels productivity, and fuels your firm's ascent to greatness.

The Aligned Firm: Crafting Your AE Firm’s Story & Mission-Vision Statement
Part 10 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Though it may seem aspirational, your AE firm's core values and mission can define the trajectory of your firm. Are your clients aligned with YOUR story? In this session led by Douglas Teiger, FAIA, we'll embark on a journey to sculpt a value-centric practice that resonates with your identity. Discover a step-by-step process to define your firm's core values and craft mission-vision statements that reflect your biggest goals. Additionally, we’ll explore the power of an analyzer tool that confirms if your employees, clients, and projects are harmoniously aligned with your core values.
Join us for this enlightening session and unlock the tools and techniques to forge an AE practice that thrives on its core values and your highest vision. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to create alignment, purpose, and success in your firm.

10 KPIs Your A & E Firm Needs to Track for Maximum Project Profitability
Projects are the core of your architecture or engineering firm. Not only do they generate profits, but they are also at the center of your firm’s business operations. As such, doing everything you can to ensure their success should be one of your top priorities.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) track project success by measuring how your projects (or team, clients, and so on) are performing. Because each architecture and engineering firm has different goals and ways of working, your vital KPIs will vary from project to project.
Within the world of project performance and finance, certain KPIs should always be used to monitor and improve your success.

The Path to Prosperity: How to Build & Measure Against Your AE Firm’s Strategic Plan
Part 11 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Douglas Teiger, FAIA, for this game-changing session, where AE leaders discover the financial secrets hidden within strategic planning. In this session, Douglas gives a simple breakdown of the strategic planning process, providing a roadmap for development. He dives into the 'who, what, when, where, and how' of strategic planning, making it accessible and actionable. Moreover, he shows you how to identify and leverage essential Key Performance Indicators that will transform your strategic plan into a financial powerhouse, setting your firm on the path to prosperity for years to come.

Seven Pillars of Highly Successful AE Firms
Culled from experiences working with more than 3,000 AE firms over 25 years, this session will examine the seven common denominators of every successful firm. Success comes in many flavors. For some, it’s money; for others, it is peer recognition, awards, or fame; for most of us, it’s having access to challenging or exciting projects.
Regardless of how you measure success, by adopting these Seven Pillars you will create the framework from which you and every member of your firm can achieve their professional goals.

The AE Firm’s Guide to Growth: How Marketing & Business Development Create Predictable Revenue
Part 12 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Founder of Teiger Consulting Douglas Teiger, FAIA, as he unravels the secrets to sustainable growth and revenue predictability. Distinguish between marketing, the craft of establishing your brand and nurturing qualified leads, and business development, the strategic art of cultivating relationships with potential, new, and existing clients.
In this session, Douglas unveils a systematic approach to tracking leads, tailored to teams of all sizes, and helps you design an opportunity pipeline. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to master finding and retaining ideal clients for consistent and predictable revenue.
On-demand webinars

Beyond the Numbers: How Benchmarking is Driving Smarter Decisions in AE Firms
In today’s evolving AE landscape, firms face increasing pressure from economic volatility, talent retention challenges, and shifting client expectations. This webinar explores how benchmarking empowers AE leaders to meet these challenges with clarity and confidence.
We’ll walk through key findings from the newly released 2025 Architecture and Engineering Benchmarking Report, built on real performance data from over 2,000 AE firms and 46,000 active users. You’ll learn how firms are setting meaningful performance targets, tracking progress, and using benchmarking to guide smarter, faster decisions.

Why Aren't You Getting the Referrals You Deserve?
You’ve built a firm rooted in expertise, precision, and client service—but the steady stream of referrals you expected just isn’t flowing in. Why? It’s not about your work quality; it’s about how your value is communicated by the people around you.
In this focused session, we’ll explore the real reasons referrals stall for A/E professionals. Whether it's an unclear message, a lack of visibility beyond project completions, or simply a network that doesn’t fully understand what makes your firm different, we’ll address it head-on.
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Securing Your Legacy: Building, Transitioning, and Planning for the Future of Your AEC Firm
Part 6 of the ‘Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth and Financial Abundance ’ Series
Your architecture or engineering firm is more than a business—it’s a cornerstone of your legacy. In this final session of Ryan Sullivan’s AEC series, he discusses how to strategically build your firm to maximize its value and prepare for an eventual transition. Explore different methods for transferring ownership, from selling to external buyers to family succession. Then, learn estate planning essentials to ensure wealth preservation and efficient transfer, and discover strategies for charitable giving and family gifting that align your financial plans with your values. This session will equip you with the tools to secure both your business and personal legacy for generations to come!

Shaping Success: Strategies for Nurturing Your AE Firm’s Project Managers
Part 6 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In this transformative course, Douglas Teiger, FAIA, a former managing partner at his own firm for 30 years and Founder of Teiger Consulting, gives an overview of the skillset and training necessary for firm leaders to hire and effectively nurture project managers. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to elevate your project management practices and drive excellence in your firm's project profitability.

Profit by Design: A Financial Bootcamp for AE Leaders

Thriving In Economic Uncertainty - The Architectural Firm Owner’s Playbook
This free, high-impact masterclass reveals a proven framework for navigating economic uncertainty and enabling your practice to thrive: even when the market seems frozen. Join us live to discover:
- 4 dangerous mistakes that make small firms vulnerable to economic downturns (and the counterintuitive solutions)
- A 3-part business system that creates stability and growth regardless of market conditions
- How top-performing firm owners maintain design quality and profitability despite economic challenges
- Why traditional architectural education leaves firms ill-equipped for economic headwinds – and how to implement the playbook that works

From Chaos to Clarity: A Case Study in Financial Mastery for an AEC Firm Owner
Part 5 of the 'Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth & Financial Abundance' series
In this webinar, Ryan Sullivan, PE, of Off the Beaten Path Financial, brings the principles from the previous sessions to life with a real-world case study. Follow the journey of an AEC firm owner who went from financial disorganization and over-reliance on their business to achieving financial clarity, stability, and growth. This session highlights the strategies they used to integrate personal and business finances, leverage their firm for wealth generation, and master advanced investment and risk management techniques. Join us and get ready to walk away with actionable insights to apply these lessons to your own financial journey!

The A/E Firm Maturity Index:A Roadmap to Sustainable Growth
Discover where your firm stands today—and how to reach the next level.
Is your AE firm operating at peak efficiency, or are you constantly putting out fires?
Many firms struggle with inconsistent business development, project bottlenecks, financial uncertainty, and disorganized operations—often without realizing the root cause is a lack of business maturity.
In this 60-minute webinar, Founder of The Well-Designed Firm Steve Burns, FAIA, will walk you through a structured Maturity Index to help you assess your firm’s strengths and weaknesses across six critical areas: Winning Work, Project Management, Client Experience, Finances, Billing, and Operations
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Mastering Investing & Risk Management for Architects & Engineers
Part 4 of the ‘Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth and Financial Abundance’ Masterclass Series
After leveraging your architecture or engineering firm’s success for wealth generation, the next step is managing and growing that wealth through smart investments and effective risk management. In this session, Founder of Off the Beaten Path Financial Ryan Sullivan, PE, provides a deep dive into advanced investment strategies, diversification across asset classes, and approaches to assess and manage financial risk. Learn how to balance growth with protection, ensuring your wealth is secure and positioned for long-term success.

Breaking Free from Hourly Billing: A Strategic Guide for AE Firms

A Guide to Client Onboarding: Crafting Winning Proposals and Contracts
Part 4 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
The proposal is the pivotal part in the client onboarding process, a gateway that holds the power to set the stage for a successful project journey. However, in the world of architecture and engineering, there's no one-size-fits-all proposal. Join Founder of Teiger Consulting and architectural entrepreneur Douglas Teiger, FAIA, in this comprehensive course where he’ll dive deep into the art of crafting compelling proposals that resonate with each unique project and client.

Atomic Habits for AE Professionals: Secrets that Boost Productivity & Profits
Part 2 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In the bestselling book Atomic Habits, James Clear illustrates that the key to unlocking significant improvements in our lives lies in small, incremental changes, emphasizing systems over goals for sustained progress. This webinar explores how integrating technologies into our daily routines, guided by Clear's four laws of behavior change (make it obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying), can transform our work processes and AE firm’s culture. By adopting a mindset shift towards seeing ourselves not just as design professionals, but as innovators, we align technology with our identity, ensuring its seamless adoption.

Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth Generation
Part 3 of the ‘Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth and Financial Abundance’ Series
Your architecture or engineering firm is more than just a business—it’s a powerful tool for building personal wealth. During this webinar, Ryan Sullivan, PE, focuses on strategies to turn your firm’s success into financial abundance. Learn how to optimize your firm’s profitability, balance reinvestment with personal financial stability, and build wealth beyond the business. Discover actionable steps for achieving financial independence while positioning your firm for long-term growth and flexibility.

The Art of Estimating Fees: Unlocking Profitable Projects for Your AE Firm
Part 3 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Ready to master the art of estimating fees and gain profound insights into their impact on your bottom line? Join Douglas Teiger, FAIA, on a journey that begins at the very inception of a project—when that initial request for a proposal lands on your desk or in your inbox. In this comprehensive course, you will not only learn to define project scope, but also develop a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) for construction costs and estimate project hours. We'll culminate by dissecting how fees are structured and introduce a simplified system to enhance your overall project profitability.

Your AE Firm is Leaking Money: How to Identify Losses and Plug the Holes
Most firms look at profitability as a bottom-line metric. They use this as a gauge to determine if the firm is financially healthy. However, every firm is composed of countless independent elements: employees, clients, projects, phases, consultants, and a myriad of expenses.
What does a firm do when they aren’t achieving the profit margins they desire or experiencing losses? Knowing the answer to this question is the purpose of this webinar.
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Integrating Business & Personal Finances for AEC Firm Owners
Part 2 of the ‘Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth and Financial Abundance’ Series
Integrating personal and business finances can feel overwhelming and lead to inefficiencies or missed opportunities. In this session, expert financial advisor Ryan Sullivan, PE, provides a roadmap for assessing where you stand, balancing goals, and creating a clear system for managing and tracking finances effectively. Gain clarity and control to ensure both your business and personal finances work in harmony.

The Chart of Accounts: Your AE Firm’s Path to Financial Control
Part 2 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
The chart of accounts is the bedrock of financial insight for your AE firm. In this course, Douglas Teiger, FAIA, demystifies some often-confusing, essential accounting terms and equips you with the power to wield them effectively. Discover the art of creating a customized chart of accounts, tailored to the unique needs of your AE firm, and dive deep into its organizational prowess, understanding how it can illuminate the flow of money within your practice. Join Douglas as he takes you beyond the numbers! Learn how your chart of accounts becomes the cornerstone of budgeting, empowering you to set ambitious goals and navigate the financial terrain of the upcoming quarters with precision.

The 60-Minute MBA for Architects & Engineers
In this session, we will learn the fundamentals of all successful AE firms and provide the basis for making well-grounded business decisions. We will learn how firms can transition from being professionals providing services, to highly tuned businesses that can identify the needs of the marketplace and create services and products that are appropriately priced and yield consistent and greater profits.
Rather than seeking out new projects that merely build upon your current skills, you will start from a business-thinking mindset, where processes that are critical to building a thriving firm are examined and constituted in your firm. We will explore the importance of data within an AE firm and demonstrate how careful collection and interpretation can lead your firm into more exciting and profitable territory.
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Death of a Firm Owner: Why Architects and Engineers Struggle to Build Personal Wealth
Part 1 of the ‘Leveraging Your AEC Firm for Personal Wealth and Financial Abundance’ Series
Too many architects and engineers assume their firm’s success will secure their future—but what happens when work is no longer an option? In this webinar, we’ll explore the cautionary tale of David, a firm owner who found himself financially unprepared when life didn’t go as planned. Discover the risks of relying solely on your business and learn actionable strategies to diversify income, build a sellable firm, and create a financial plan that ensures freedom and flexibility for the future. Don’t leave your financial security to chance—join us and take control today!

The Power of Time Management: Balancing Projects, Profitability & Life in the AE World
Part 1 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In AE practices, time is money. Without proper tracking and allocation of your team’s time, there is no way to understand and manage profitability on your projects. In this foundational session, Douglas Teiger, FAIA, Founder of Teiger Consulting and former managing partner of his own architectural firm for 30-plus years, shows you how to execute advanced time management strategies, including budgeting time to align with project activities rather than just traditional phases, and analyzing the impact of non-billable time on firm profitability. He will also review proven tactics that he uses for his own schedule, like tracking time via buckets, implementing calendar blocking, and creating a realistic, harmonic work-life balance.

Next-Gen Leadership: Essential Training for AE Firm Growth
Developing the next generation of leaders is essential for every AE firm's long-term success and sustainability, whether you're a solo practitioner or amongst the largest firms in the world. Leadership development is not just about succession—it's a critical investment in building firm value, motivating employees, increasing retention, and ensuring profitability. Firms that embed leadership training into their culture earn the trust and loyalty of their employees and clients while positioning themselves as industry leaders.
This 1-hour webinar provides practical, scalable strategies to create a leadership pipeline tailored to firms of all sizes. Building on the principles of succession planning, this session demonstrates how leadership development drives innovation, strengthens business resilience, and secures your firm’s future.

The AE Firm’s Guide to Growth: How Marketing & Business Development Create Predictable Revenue
Part 12 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Most AE teams are extremely thoughtful when developing their designs, but often let communicating their brand or actively pursuing ideal clients fall to the wayside. Marketing and business development are the twin engines that fuel your AE firm's ascent, and understanding their synergy is paramount.
Join Founder of Teiger Consulting Douglas Teiger, FAIA, as he unravels the secrets to sustainable growth and revenue predictability.

Avoiding the Hidden Traps of Ownership Transitions: Why Even The Most “Well-Planned” Architecture Firm Transitions Sometimes Struggle (And How to Make Yours Succeed)

Benchmarking: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Firms

Succession Planning and Leadership Transition
Securing Your AE Firm’s Future
Join Steve Burns, FAIA, Founder of The Well-Designed Firm, for an essential webinar on the best practices for succession planning and leadership transition. This session, designed specifically for firm owners who may not have considered the long-term financial benefits of planning ahead, will be led by an industry expert, who successfully sold his 17-person firm in 2007. Steve will show you how to strategically grow your firm’s value, preparing it for a successful transition that can offer you the financial freedom to step back when you are ready.

Is Your Website Helping or Hurting Your Architecture Firm?
Five Key Lessons Learned From Testing 750+ Architecture Firm Websites
If your architecture firm’s website was an employee, would you promote it, demote it, or fire it? The honest truth is that most firms have no idea if their website is helping or hurting their firm's ability to attract and engage potential clients. In this webinar, Bryon McCartney of Archmark will share five key insights gained from testing more than 750 architecture firm websites.

Generational Alchemy
Turning Age Diversity into Organizational Gold
Today's workforce is shaped by two concurrent trends: an increase in 'wisdom workers' as people work longer, and the rising importance of digital intelligence brought by younger employees. These dynamics—seemingly at odds—can be a powerful combination when properly leveraged.
In this interactive 90-minute session, we'll examine each generation's unique strengths and discuss strategies to bridge generational gaps, fostering a more cohesive and productive workplace. Whether you're an experienced executive or an emerging leader, you'll gain insights and methods to transform generational differences into catalysts for innovation and growth.

Project Budgeting & Planning Best Practices for AE Firms
Every project is different, but they all have the same goal: keep the client happy by delivering a project on-time and on-budget. With over 20 years serving the AE industry, we’ve developed best practices, tips, tricks, and technology to help firms take control of their projects.
Join BQE’s Director of Content & Community, Lucas Gray and Director of Product, Chris Vernon for an interactive discussion on project management, project budgeting and planning best practices to improve your firm’s performance and execution. Throughout this webinar, they’ll discuss strategies and workflows to help deliver quality that fits your client’s schedule and your firm’s workload.

Marketing and Business Development Planning for Architects
Part 3 of the Business Planning Basics for Architects
What does a marketing and business development plan look like, and why does it matter? A plan shows you where you should focus your efforts and why, so that you're using the right tactics to attract the best prospects for your firm. In this webinar, we’ll review how to start a marketing strategy and build an actionable marketing plan that is realistic, budget-friendly, and measurable. Finally, we’ll discuss how authentic business development is separate from marketing but critical to building profitable relationships.

Financial Management Basics for Architects
Part 2 of the ‘Business Planning Basics for Architects’ Series
Financial management is an integral part of running an architecture firm. In fact, having a system in place to manage your finances has a direct impact on your firm’s cash flow and profitability. In this webinar, our experts will help you understand the basics of planning and managing your finances and how this can make a significant impact on your firm's bottom line.

An Introduction to Business Planning for Architects
Part 1 of the ‘Business Planning Basics for Architects’ Series
Managing a growing design firm offers a variety of unique challenges and opportunities. An unpredictable business environment and a quickening pace of change requires firm owners to adapt, but how can firm owners proactively prepare for growth in uncertain times? In this session, we will demystify the business planning process.

How to Attract, Engage and Retain Top Talent in 2024
Most AEC consulting firms are looking to grow at a rapid pace; however, they face many challenges around recruiting, development, and retention in this competitive atmosphere.
EMI and ActionsProve have once again asked AEC professionals questions that their firms are afraid to ask! This must-attend session will review the findings to the questions asked in the “Present and Future of Work in Engineering and Architecture Reports” that can help firm owners and managers better recruit, develop, and retain team members in 2024 and beyond. Do not miss access to this game-changing information!

The 4-Hour Workweek for AE Professionals: Business Secrets to Increase Productivity, Profits and Happiness

Atomic Habits for AE Professionals: Secrets that Boost Productivity & Profits

Profit by Design: A Financial Bootcamp for AE Leaders

Love at First Insight: 5 Ways AI and BI Boost Client Acquisition
This session will also focus on identifying the right clients, winning them over, and positioning your firm uniquely in the market.
Prepare to be inspired by one of the most accomplished and forward-thinking experts in the AE industry! We invite you to attend this dynamic webinar led by Steven Burns, FAIA, a visionary with nearly 40 years of entrepreneurial and AE business consulting experience. As the founder of The Well-Designed Firm and former Chief Creative Officer of BQE Software, Steve has witnessed the full spectrum of the industry – from the best to the worst.

Eliminating Time-Sucking Work: Transformative Business Automation Technologies Beyond CAD & BIM

Pre-Design to Post-Construction: Strategies That Maximize Profits For Architects & Engineers

The 60-Minute MBA for Architects & Engineers

The Art of Estimating Fees: Creating a Simple Process for Success

The Zen of AE Practice Management

Cash is King: A Consultant’s Guide to Managing Cashflow for Profit & Growth

Improving Your AE Firm’s Profitability Through Business Intelligence

Data-Driven Success: Streamlining Your Business Operation

Recession Roundtable: Maintain a Thriving AE Firm During Uncertain Economic Times

RAISE Your Value and Charge What You’re Worth

Scope Creep: Identifying and Reducing this HUGE Project Management Pitfall
All AE consulting firms want their projects to be as profitable as possible; however, most will identify their biggest project management pitfall as: doing work outside of the scope (aka scope creep), which greatly reduces profits. Depending on the size of your firm, scope creep could cost you thousands, or even millions, of dollars annually.
While this is a common and debilitating challenge that MOST firms face, the reality is that by installing a few simple processes you can greatly reduce scope creep on your projects.

Seven Pillars of Highly Successful AE Firms
Culled from experiences working with more than 3,000 AE firms over 25 years, this session will examine the seven common denominators of every successful firm. Success comes in many flavors. For some, it’s money; for others, it is peer recognition, awards, or fame; for most of us, it’s having access to challenging or exciting projects.
Regardless of how you measure success, by adopting these Seven Pillars you will create the framework from which you and every member of your firm can achieve their professional goals.

Your Office is Leaking Money: How to Identify Losses and Plug the Holes
Most A&E firms don’t apply the same rigor, discipline, and consistency that they use when executing their projects. We will show how easy it is for your firm to be well-organized, efficient, and profitable by applying best practices and utilizing modern, effortless, affordable computing technologies.
Join us for an engaging, live webinar presented by Steven Burns, FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software, as he shares lessons learned over 35 years working with over 1,000 A&E firms.

10 KPIs Your A & E Firm Needs to Track for Maximum Project Profitability
Key performance indicators (KPIs) track project success by measuring how your projects (or team, clients, and so on) are performing. Because each architecture and engineering firm has different goals and ways of working, your vital KPIs will vary from project to project.
Within the world of project performance and finance, certain KPIs should always be used to monitor and improve your success.

The CORE of Their Success: How Four Firms Turned Project Insights Into Action
We've rounded up some of our most successful customers, who have become more efficient, profitable, and organized with BQE CORE's real-time insights for better decision making.
Join BQE's Training & Consulting Manager Scott McKissock as he interviews four different CORE customers (with four different job functions) to discuss their experience implementing and utilizing CORE, as well as the wins, losses, and lessons learned along the way. At the end of the session, we’ll take questions from the audience, so you can hear answers and feedback from real customers.

What Can Small Architecture Firms Learn from Big Architecture Firms?

Communicating the Value of Design in Architecture

Improving Project Profitability: The 10 KPIs Your Consulting Firm Needs To Be Tracking

The Smart Practice Method for Managing an Architecture Firm That Doesn't Get in the Way of the Architecture

The CORE of Their Success: How These Firms Turned Project Insights Into Action

Billing & Invoicing Best Practices for AE Firms

Cash Flow Essentials: How to Calculate Burn Rate & Runway for Your AE Firm
Part 5 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In the dynamic world of AE firms, understanding your financial runway and burn rate is akin to having a GPS for your practice's financial journey. Your gross burn rate is a crucial metric that measures the rate at which your firm consumes capital before generating positive cash flow. It's the answer to the pivotal question: “How long can we stay in business without signing another project?” This enlightening webinar delves into the vital key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with your runway and burn rate, empowering you to estimate and project your firm's income with precision. Join Douglas Teiger, FAIA, for this illuminating session and unlock the keys to financial stability and prosperity in the AE industry. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to navigate your firm's financial journey with confidence and foresight, ensuring a secure path to success.

The Power of Time Management: Balancing Projects, Profitability & Life in the AE World
Part 1 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In AE practices, time is money. Without proper tracking and allocation of your team’s time, there is no way to understand and manage profitability on your projects. In this foundational session, Douglas Teiger, FAIA, Founder of Teiger Consulting and former managing partner of his own architectural firm for 30-plus years, shows you how to execute advanced time management strategies, including budgeting time to align with project activities rather than just traditional phases, and analyzing the impact of non-billable time on firm profitability. He will also review proven tactics that he uses for his own schedule, like tracking time via buckets, implementing calendar blocking, and creating a realistic, harmonic work-life balance.

The Chart of Accounts: Your AE Firm’s Path to Financial Control
Part 2 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
The chart of accounts is the bedrock of financial insight for your AE firm. In this course, Douglas Teiger, FAIA, demystifies some often-confusing, essential accounting terms and equips you with the power to wield them effectively. Discover the art of creating a customized chart of accounts, tailored to the unique needs of your AE firm, and dive deep into its organizational prowess, understanding how it can illuminate the flow of money within your practice.

The Art of Estimating Fees: Unlocking Profitable Projects for Your AE Firm
Part 3 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Ready to master the art of estimating fees and gain profound insights into their impact on your bottom line? Join Douglas Teiger, FAIA, on a journey that begins at the very inception of a project—when that initial request for a proposal lands on your desk or in your inbox. In this comprehensive course, you will not only learn to define project scope, but also develop a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) for construction costs and estimate project hours.

A Guide to Client Onboarding: Crafting Winning Proposals and Contracts
Part 4 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
The proposal is the pivotal part in the client onboarding process, a gateway that holds the power to set the stage for a successful project journey. However, in the world of architecture and engineering, there's no one-size-fits-all proposal. Join Founder of Teiger Consulting and architectural entrepreneur Douglas Teiger, FAIA, in this comprehensive course where he’ll dive deep into the art of crafting compelling proposals that resonate with each unique project and client.

Cash Flow Essentials: How to Calculate Burn Rate & Runway for Your AE Firm
Part 5 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In the dynamic world of AE firms, understanding your financial runway and burn rate is akin to having a GPS for your practice's financial journey. Your gross burn rate is a crucial metric that measures the rate at which your firm consumes capital before generating positive cash flow. It's the answer to the pivotal question: “How long can we stay in business without signing another project?”

Shaping Success: Strategies for Nurturing Your AE Firm’s Project Managers
Part 6 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In the AE world, great project managers are sometimes under appreciated and overlooked. While they may not be the ones designing the buildings or producing drawings, they are the linchpin that holds the entire project together. It's a role that demands a unique skill set and finesse. However, for many AE firms, proper training and mentorship for project managers are often lacking.

AE Profitability Metrics Demystified: Utilization Rate, Efficiency Rate,and Cost Rate Multiplier
Part 7 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Douglas as he unravels the vital KPI of profitability, the cost rate multiplier, and explores the crucial distinctions between utilization rate and efficiency rate. He'll explain precisely how to define your breakeven multiplier and unveil your true cost rate, ensuring that financial clarity guides your decision-making. Additionally, discover how to set and analyze your firm's maximum office billing potential, a critical step toward achieving your financial goals. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to drive profitability, both at the project level and across your entire firm.

What to Track and How to Track It: Essential KPIs for Every AE Firm
Part 8 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
In today's dynamic landscape, staying ahead requires a real-time view into the heartbeat of your AE firm. Dashboards, reports, and scorecards offer critical insights into employee performance, projects, and financials. Learn how to create a system that tracks these metrics month-over-month, reflecting your firm's unique trends and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

The AE Firm’s Foundational Trio: Defining Your Business Structure, Org Chart and Role Accountability
Part 9 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Discover the myriad of options for business structures and their unique benefits, gaining the insight to make informed decisions that align with your firm's goals. But it doesn't stop there – in this transformative webinar, Douglas delves into the crucial distinction between organizational and accountability charts and how to ensure that the right person is in the right seat to supercharge your firm's performance. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to craft an organizational structure that ignites alignment, propels productivity, and fuels your firm's ascent to greatness.

The Aligned Firm: Crafting Your AE Firm’s Story & Mission-Vision Statement
Part 10 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Though it may seem aspirational, your AE firm's core values and mission can define the trajectory of your firm. Are your clients aligned with YOUR story? In this session led by Douglas Teiger, FAIA, we'll embark on a journey to sculpt a value-centric practice that resonates with your identity. Discover a step-by-step process to define your firm's core values and craft mission-vision statements that reflect your biggest goals. Additionally, we’ll explore the power of an analyzer tool that confirms if your employees, clients, and projects are harmoniously aligned with your core values.

The Path to Prosperity: How to Build & Measure Against Your AE Firm’s Strategic Plan
Part 11 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Douglas Teiger, FAIA, for this game-changing session, where AE leaders discover the financial secrets hidden within strategic planning. In this session, Douglas gives a simple breakdown of the strategic planning process, providing a roadmap for development. He dives into the 'who, what, when, where, and how' of strategic planning, making it accessible and actionable. Moreover, he shows you how to identify and leverage essential Key Performance Indicators that will transform your strategic plan into a financial powerhouse, setting your firm on the path to prosperity for years to come.

The AE Firm’s Guide to Growth: How Marketing & Business Development Create Predictable Revenue
Part 12 of the ‘Blueprint for Success’ Masterclass Series
Join Founder of Teiger Consulting Douglas Teiger, FAIA, as he unravels the secrets to sustainable growth and revenue predictability. Distinguish between marketing, the craft of establishing your brand and nurturing qualified leads, and business development, the strategic art of cultivating relationships with potential, new, and existing clients.
In this session, Douglas unveils a systematic approach to tracking leads, tailored to teams of all sizes, and helps you design an opportunity pipeline. By the end of this session, you'll possess the knowledge and tools to master finding and retaining ideal clients for consistent and predictable revenue.