A designer reaching to a wall of neatly labeled binders and archive boxes in a sunlit studio, with a sample table of stone and books in the foreground

Product

Knowledge management for design firms, built automatically.

Every knowledge base your firm has tried died the same way: someone had to maintain it. This one does not.

A designer at her desk surrounded by an old process binder, a stale shared drive, and a wiki last updated two years ago, with sticky notes reading "who owns this?" and "don't forget to update this"

The problem

Your last knowledge base is a graveyard.

The shared drive. The wiki. The "process doc" from two years ago. They all started with good intentions and died the moment updating them became somebody's job on top of the real work.

Knowledge management fails for one reason: it depends on people to keep it alive.

The solution

Knowledge management that nobody has to maintain.

Archen does not give you another wiki to update. It builds your firm's project knowledge from the communication your team already produces.

There is no maintenance step to skip, because there is no maintenance step. The knowledge accumulates on its own.

The communication your team already creates, email, recaps, and project conversations, flows through Archen and becomes decisions, approvals, and specifications, with no maintenance step

Institutional memory

Institutional memory as a property of the firm.

The way a project was run, the standards you hold, the reason behind a call: that is your firm's expertise. Today it lives in individual heads. Archen makes it belong to the company.

A Firm Knowledge search answering how the studio approves stone, drawn automatically from four past projects, each cited as a source that nobody wrote down by hand
Two designers standing over a table of plans and material samples, one pointing as she explains, the firm's knowledge passing from one to the other

Compounding

The knowledge compounds instead of resetting.

Every project adds to what the firm knows. The vendor who always runs late. The client who disputes the first invoice. The detail that always needs a revision. Your studio has already learned this. Archen keeps it in the record instead of one person's memory, so the next project starts with everything the last one taught you.

Founding 50

You are invited to help shape what comes next.

Fifty founding firms. A direct line to the team, a real say in the roadmap, and the first look at everything new, the self-updating client portal included.

Fifty seats. Applications are open now.

50 founding firms · Direct access to the team · A voice in what we build next