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:
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Timesheet hours and pay rates flow automatically into payroll (ie: no manual re-entry).
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Payroll totals post instantly to CORE’s general ledger, giving you up-to-date financials.
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Real-time sync with Gusto reduces errors, shortens payroll cycles, and saves hours every pay period.
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Job costing data updates instantly, so you see the true cost of every project as it happens.
BQE CORE presents
The Tech-Forward A&E Firm
How Modern Systems Create Competitive Advantage
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
1pm ET |10am PT
This webinar earns 1 AIA LU
Technology is no longer a back-office issue for A&E firms. It is becoming one of the clearest differences between firms that operate with confidence and those that are constantly reacting. Many firms still manage projects, staffing, billing, reporting, and profitability through a patchwork of spreadsheets, accounting tools, disconnected systems, and manual processes. That approach may feel familiar, but it increasingly limits visibility, slows decisions, creates risk, and makes growth harder to manage.
In this webinar, Steven Burns, FAIA, will explore what it means to become a tech-forward A&E firm. Drawing on his experience as an architect, software entrepreneur, former BQE executive, and consultant to design firms, Steven will show how integrated systems, clean data, consistent workflows, and strong adoption practices can create meaningful competitive advantage.
The session will also examine why AI readiness depends on operational readiness. Before firms can benefit from AI agents, automation, forecasting, and intelligent recommendations, they need reliable data and connected systems. Attendees will learn how to reduce dependence on spreadsheets, prioritize technology investments, manage software transitions in practical phases, and build a stronger digital foundation.
The result is a firm that can make faster decisions, manage risk earlier, serve clients better, and scale with greater confidence.
Guest Speaker:
- Steven Burns, FAIA
Founder, The Well-Designed Firm
During this session, you'll learn how to:
- 1Appreciate why technology modernization is now a strategic priority, not merely an administrative or accounting decision.
- 2Identify the risks of relying on spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and manual workflows to manage project performance, staffing, billing, and profitability.
- 3Recognize the characteristics of a tech-forward firm, including integrated systems, clean data, consistent processes, role-based dashboards, and firm-wide adoption.
- 4Understand why AI readiness depends on the quality and structure of a firm’s underlying business data.
- 5Outline a practical approach for modernizing firm operations without overwhelming staff or disrupting daily work.
Guest Speakers:
- Matt Cooper, BQE's Chief Executive Officer
- Chris Vernon, VP of Product Management
- Faisal Syed, Director of Product Management
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.