The AI-native operating system for design projects
Your studio's operating system. It never forgets.
Archen reads your email, files, and messages automatically — and turns them into a living system of record. Every decision, approval, spec, and file. Structured. Searchable. No data entry.
Design approval
Kitchen layout approved by client.
Sarah R. · May 14, 2024
Vendor approved
Stone slab approved – Asher Stone
John M. · May 13, 2024
Specification change
Faucet specification updated
Emily R. · May 12, 2024
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. Archen pulls in every message, file, and decision automatically. Nothing lives in a scattered inbox again.
Structure
Everything becomes a live project record: approvals, selections, specs, timelines. No tagging. No sorting. It just works.
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
Decisions, changes, approvals, specs, and lessons learned are identified and organized automatically.
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 31% 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: who approved what, when, with the file attached. When a client says they never signed off, you have the receipt.
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.
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.
The Founding Designer Program
Become One of Our First 50 Founding Designers
We're building Archen alongside 50 carefully selected design firms.
This isn't a waitlist. It's a curated founding cohort.
Founding Designers receive:
- Early access before public launch
- Direct collaboration with the founding team
- Product roadmap influence
- White-glove onboarding
- Preferred Founding Designer pricing