Zunero for AEC firms

Your AEC firm is leaking time and margin without knowing it.

Architecture, engineering, planning, environmental, surveying, and design-led firms lose senior time to the same handful of workflow leaks, proposals rebuilt from scratch, handoffs that create rework, reports reformatted by hand. Industry-wide, staff utilization has barely moved in a decade even as firms invest in new tools, which suggests the problem usually isn't headcount. It's where the hours actually go.

Where AEC firms leak time

A proposal response rebuilt from old files because the right source is unclear

A handoff from project manager to accounts that keeps creating rework

A project report reformatted for hours when a reusable structure should exist

A team member searching for past project evidence while a deadline sits waiting

What the industry data shows

61.1%

Average staff utilization across AEC firms in 2025, effectively unchanged year over year despite firms actively trying to improve it.

Deltek Clarity 46th Annual A&E Industry Study, 2025

150–175%

What a well-run AEC firm spends on overhead for every dollar of direct labor. Most of that gap is non-billable time, and it's rarely broken down further than that.

PSMJ 2026 A/E Financial Performance Benchmark Survey

LeakMap is how we find which specific leaks are costing your firm the most, then we help you fix them with the right mix of process change, automation, or custom AI.

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