More than a task board for your practice.

Monday.com is one of the most popular project management platforms in the world, and for good reason. It’s beautifully designed, infinitely flexible, and works for virtually any industry. The integration ecosystem is massive — hundreds of apps, automations, and connections. If you need a tool that adapts to anything, Monday.com is hard to beat.

Many architecture practices have tried it — some successfully. With enough time and configuration, you can build a system that tracks project stages, manages deliverables, and keeps your team aligned. Monday.com’s custom dashboards and reporting are genuinely powerful, and the mobile app is well-made.

The trade-off is that flexibility shifts the work to you. Want to track project stages? Build a board. Need deliverable tracking? Configure some columns. Client decisions? Maybe a separate board with automations. After weeks of configuration, you end up with a custom system that only the person who built it truly understands. When they leave, the knowledge goes with them.

Setout ships with architecture project structure built in — stages, deliverables, decisions, documents, time tracking, and billing. Not as configurable templates you piece together, but as a coherent system designed around how architecture projects actually progress.

If your practice uses Monday.com for broader team coordination beyond just architecture projects — marketing, operations, hiring — its versatility makes sense. But if your core need is managing architecture projects with clients, Setout gives you that structure without the setup cost.