Founding Designer Program
Your projects shouldn't live in your inbox.
Archen organizes every decision, file, approval, and client communication — automatically. No setup. No manual sorting. Just your projects, finally in one place.
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 you already use
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Most firms finish a project and lose everything they learned.
The approvals.
The vendor issues.
The client preferences discovered in month two.
The decision that took three rounds to land.
It all ends up buried in inboxes, Slack threads, and someone's memory.
So the next project starts from scratch. Again.
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Archen fixes that.
Connect your email, calls, and storage in one click.
Archen reads your projects and builds a live workspace — tasks, decisions, approvals, specs — organized without you touching a thing.
The longer you use it, the smarter it gets. Your studio builds institutional memory instead of starting over every time.
Design tools manage tasks.
Archen learns projects.
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We're starting with 50 designers.
No public launch. No ads.
We hand-selected a small cohort of working designers to try Archen first, shape the product directly, and lock in founding pricing — permanently.
If you're here, you found us before the launch. That matters to us.
3 Months Free
Full access. No credit card. Enough time to run a real project and feel the difference.
50% Off for 6 Months
After founding pricing locked at signup. No bait-and-switch, ever.
Direct Line to the Founders
Your feedback gets built — not logged, not triaged. Built.
Named Founding Designer
Your name on archen.io. Part of the story from day one.
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Who should apply?
Archen is built for studios juggling real projects, real clients, and real deadlines. If this sounds like you, we'd love to read your application.
- Interior design firms
- Architecture + interiors firms
- Design-build firms
- Studios running several active projects at once
- Teams who want a hand in shaping the future of design operations
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Why an application?
We could take an email and call it done. We choose not to.
Founding Designers help shape what Archen becomes — so we select them the way we'd choose a studio collaborator. We read every application ourselves, looking for firms whose work and way of working we genuinely understand.
Archen is built by a former interior designer — thirteen years spent watching hard-won project knowledge vanish the moment a job wrapped. That's the problem we're here to fix, and it's why we care who helps us build it.
This isn't a scramble for a limited number of seats. It's us being deliberate about the first fifty studios we build alongside.
Read personally. Answered personally. If it's a fit, a founder will reach out — not an autoresponder.
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What happens next.
No black box. Here's exactly how the process works from the moment you apply.
- 1
Apply
A short application — about three minutes.
- 2
We read every application ourselves
Personally reviewed by the team. No autoresponders.
- 3
A short conversation
If there's a strong mutual fit, we'll set up a quick call.
- 4
Reserve your Founding Designer spot
Founding pricing, locked in for good.
- 5
White-glove onboarding
We get you and your first project set up ourselves.
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50 spots.
Closed when full.
The Founding Designer Application takes about three minutes — and every answer is read personally.