For interior design studios that run on email.
Every project.
One place.
Automatically.
Project memory software for interior design studios.
When a client says they never signed off, you have the receipt. Archen reads your email and keeps the record: every decision, approval, and scope change, automatically.
Design approval
Kitchen layout approved by client.
Sarah R. · Feb 14, 2027
Vendor approved
Stone slab approved - Atelier Stone
John M. · Feb 13, 2027
Specification change
Faucet specification updated
Emily R. · Feb 12, 2027
Client preference saved
Prefers warmer metals and natural stone
Works with the tools your team already uses
The problem
You already know this problem.
Lost approvals. The client approval that lived in a text thread, and disappeared.
Lost decisions. The client who "thought we decided on the other tile."
Fishing for emails. The vendor update buried three weeks deep in a chain.
Re-work. Sunday evening spent reorganizing what should already be organized.
That's not a people problem. Your tools were built for data entry no designer has time to do.
Archen gives your studio a memory
Capture. Structure. Compound.
Capture
Connect your email and drive once. Every message, file, and decision starts flowing into one place.
Structure
Approvals, selections, specs, timelines: it all becomes a live project record. No tagging. No sorting.
Compound
Knowledge doesn't reset between projects. Every job makes your studio smarter.
How it works
From scattered information to studio intelligence.
Connect your tools
Archen connects to the places your team already works.
Archen captures what matters
Every decision, approval, and change becomes part of a searchable record, tied back to the email or file it came from.
Ask your studio what it knows
Find answers, see the context, and reuse knowledge across projects.
Before Archen
- Search email
- Search Slack
- Search Drive
- Ask the project manager
- Recreate the decision
- Hope someone remembers
After Archen
- Ask the question
- See the source
- Understand the context
- Reuse the lesson
- Move forward
Most used vendor
Atelier Stone (24 projects)
Common lesson
Lead times cause 27% of delays
Top material
Taj Mahal Quartzite
Recurring decision
Lighting spec changed in 18 projects
The real unlock
Design tools manage tasks. Archen learns projects.
Every other system is empty until someone fills it. That's why they fail. Archen fills itself, and what it builds isn't a task list. It's a record that carries forward: the vendor who runs late, the client who disputes invoices, the decision that took three rounds last time.
Explore cross-project intelligence
Built for design studios and the fabricators they work with: interior designers, architects, millwork and cabinet shops
Interior design studios
Capture client decisions, specifications, approvals, and vendor history.
Architecture teams
Preserve project knowledge across long timelines and changing teams.
Boutique firms
Create institutional memory without adding operational overhead.
Multi-stakeholder projects
Keep decisions connected across clients, consultants, vendors, and internal teams.
Insights
Research, ideas, and frameworks exploring the future of project knowledge.
Research and frameworks on project knowledge, a few times a month. No spam.
I Built the Thing That Would Have Saved Me
I'm not an outsider who found a market. I'm someone who lived the problem, hid from it like everyone else.
How to Document Scope Changes in Interior Design Projects (and Turn Every Variation Into a Paid, Protected Record)
The scope change you don't document becomes the dispute you can't win. A five-step system for capturing every change in writing.
The $120,000 Gap
Across more than 2,200 architecture and engineering firms, the realization-rate gap on a $500,000 project comes to $120,000 to $160,000. Without billing a single additional hour.
See it work, on a real email thread.
Watch Archen read a real threadQuestions
Common questions about project memory.
What is project memory software?
Project memory software keeps a running record of every decision, approval, and change on a project. Archen builds that record automatically from the email and files your studio already produces, so the history is there whenever you need it.
How is this different from typical project management software?
Project management tools ask you to enter and maintain data: tasks, statuses, updates. Archen works the other way around. It reads the work you already do and captures the record for you, so there is nothing new to keep current.
Does this require changing how a studio already emails and files things?
No. You keep working exactly as you do today. Archen connects to the tools you already use and builds the record in the background. There is no new inbox, no new filing system, and no data entry.
Founder story
Built by someone
who lived the problem.
Archen was born from years inside design and architecture workflows, where the most valuable project knowledge was often trapped in emails, meetings, screenshots, PDFs, and people's heads.
The question became simple:
"Why does every project force us to relearn what we already know?"
Archen exists to make sure firms don't lose their memory as they grow.
50 founding members. One window.
We're not launching publicly. We're starting with a small group whose feedback will shape the product, founding pricing locked for life.