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Three tools, not thirteen.

Rchy is the back office for design studios. Your image library, projects, people, tasks, meetings, hours and invoices live in one connected record, behind one login.

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Built inside PARTISANS, where it runs the studio every day.

Comic illustration of an exhausted architect bent double under a towering stack of software: Revit, AutoCAD, Archicad, Rhino, SketchUp, Monograph, OpenAsset, Bluebeam, Photoshop, InDesign, Excel, QuickBooks and ClickUp. Speech bubbles say “My back is killing me!” and “This is bankrupting me!”

The thirteen tools

  • Your design tool
  • Microsoft 365 and email
  • Image library
  • File sharing
  • Project records
  • Resourcing
  • Timesheets
  • Expenses
  • Invoicing
  • Task board
  • Whiteboards
  • Meeting notes
  • Presentation builder

Eleven jobs move into Rchy. Your design tool and Microsoft 365 stay.

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One record

An image belongs to a project. The project belongs to its people. People log hours, and hours become the fee. Separate tools keep those links apart, so studios rebuild them by hand every week. In Rchy they're the same record.

  1. Image
  2. Project
  3. People
  4. Hours
  5. Fee
Rchy project page for Canvas House: the project photo and description, with 24 files, a team of seven, its status and a location map. Rchy project page for Canvas House: the project photo and description, with 24 files, a team of seven, its status and a location map.

What's inside

Everything a studio runs outside its design tools. These screens come from the Rchy that runs PARTISANS, with sample financial figures.

Library

Every image, drawing and file in one place, captioned by AI and searchable by what's in the picture. Face matching, share links and client upload portals are built in.

Rchy file library filtered to the Canvas House project: 24 photos, renders, brick mock-ups and drawings, with filters down the left side. Rchy file library filtered to the Canvas House project: 24 photos, renders, brick mock-ups and drawings, with filters down the left side.

Projects

Each project has one page for its team, phases, press coverage, custom fields and change history. Everything else in Rchy links back to it.

Rchy projects page: a grid of twelve studio projects with photos, codes, cities and Built or Active badges, above project type filters. Rchy projects page: a grid of twelve studio projects with photos, codes, cities and Built or Active badges, above project type filters.

People

Staff profiles, headshots and bios, with CVs built from each person's real project history.

Rchy team page: a grid of fifteen staff headshots with names and job titles, with filters at the side. Rchy team page: a grid of fifteen staff headshots with names and job titles, with filters at the side.

Work

Tasks with dependencies, grouped by phase. Weekly resourcing shows who's on what, and whiteboards pinned to projects keep early thinking attached, with Miro import.

Rchy task list for Canvas House, grouped by project phase, with status, priority, assignees, dates and hours. Rchy task list for Canvas House, grouped by project phase, with status, priority, assignees, dates and hours.

Meetings

A notetaker joins your Teams, Google Meet or Zoom calls, transcribes them, and proposes tasks, decisions and risks for the right project. Nothing is created until someone accepts it.

Rchy page for Canvas House site meeting 31: suggested action items with assignees, due dates and Accept buttons beside the speaker-labelled transcript. Rchy page for Canvas House site meeting 31: suggested action items with assignees, due dates and Accept buttons beside the speaker-labelled transcript.

Time and money

Timesheets, expenses and time off feed phase budgets, invoices, and reports on burn, realization and utilization.

Rchy budget tab for Canvas House: budget alerts, the fee type and budget, billing against work, hours, percent of budget used and margin, above a table by phase. Sample figures. Rchy budget tab for Canvas House: budget alerts, the fee type and budget, billing against work, hours, percent of budget used and margin, above a table by phase. Sample figures.

Presentations

Fill your own PowerPoint templates with the right images and project copy, or build a deck or press kit from scratch. The PowerPoint add-in brings the library straight into your slides.

Rchy press kit editor for Canvas House on its Pick images step: the chosen images in order with the hero first, above the project's other photos and plans. Rchy press kit editor for Canvas House on its Pick images step: the chosen images in order with the hero first, above the project's other photos and plans.

Connections

An InDesign plugin, an API compatible with OpenAsset, and imports from ClickUp and Miro. The API documentation includes a live console.

Rchy API documentation page headed “Every endpoint. Live console.”, with 607 endpoints, the /REST/1 base URL and endpoint groups down the left. Rchy API documentation page headed “Every endpoint. Live console.”, with 607 endpoints, the /REST/1 base URL and endpoint groups down the left.

From meeting to invoice

A sentence in a meeting becomes a line on an invoice. Billing comes straight from the work, so there's no second set of books.

  1. Capture

    An action item from the meeting becomes a task on the right project and phase.

  2. Log

    Hours are logged against that task at the right bill rate.

  3. Bill

    Invoice lines are drafted from those hours and expenses.

  4. Review

    Budget, burn and utilization update from the same entries.

Rchy project health dashboard: one project flagged red and seven healthy, with hours, revenue, contract, billed, cost, margin and flags for each. Sample figures. Rchy project health dashboard: one project flagged red and seven healthy, with hours, revenue, contract, billed, cost, margin and flags for each. Sample figures.

AI that starts from your work

Rchy's AI reads your studio's own images and project records, so it never starts from a blank page.

Rchy file detail for a photo of a skylit gallery stair, with its caption, metadata fields, a Generate button and a written description. Rchy file detail for a photo of a skylit gallery stair, with its caption, metadata fields, a Generate button and a written description.

  1. Search by what's in the picture

    Type “CNC-milled timber in the workshop” and find the file nobody named.

  2. Captions in your studio's terms

    Every image is described using its project, location and building type.

  3. Drafts on demand

    Descriptions, bios, CVs and decks start from your real images and project history.

Tag suggestions Rchy is confident about apply themselves. The rest wait for a person, so your taxonomy stays clean.

Built inside a studio

PARTISANS built Rchy to run its own practice. It was shaped by the people doing the work, not a vendor guessing at it.

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The PARTISANS home page inside Rchy: a project photo carousel showing the Canvas House brick facade, the studio's introduction, and a row of team headshots. The PARTISANS home page inside Rchy: a project photo carousel showing the Canvas House brick facade, the studio's introduction, and a row of team headshots.

Coming next

  • Accounting integrations.
  • A hosted version, with each studio in its own isolated space.
  • SOC 2 compliance for the hosted version.

Questions

Who is Rchy for?

Design studios of roughly 10 to 500 people: architecture, interiors, landscape, graphic and industrial design.

Is it cloud or self-hosted?

Rchy runs today on a studio's own server. A hosted version, with each studio kept in its own isolated space, is in development.

Can we move over from OpenAsset?

Yes. Rchy's API is compatible with OpenAsset's, and PARTISANS moved its own library across. We'll work with early studios on their migration.

What will it cost?

Per employee, in Canadian dollars plus tax: Regular CA$25 a month or CA$250 a year; Enterprise CA$45 a month or CA$450 a year (at least 10 employees).

  • Monthly: your first month free, then billed at the start of each month.
  • Annual: Try it free for 30 days, then billed yearly; cancel before day 31 and you won't be charged.
  • Free trials are for first-time customers: a firm that signs up again is billed straight away.
  • Employees added later are charged for the rest of the month or year (prorated), with their AI credits prorated too; removals take effect at renewal.
  • 1,000 AI credits per employee per month, shared by the studio; unused credits carry over.
  • If you cancel, your data is kept for 30 days (we remind you 5 days and 1 day before), then deleted.
What happens after I join?

We'll email you when early access opens for studios like yours. We won't send anything else unless you ask for product updates.

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