Every hour tracked, every dollar accounted for.

Architecture billing is not like other professional services. You might charge a fixed fee broken into stage milestones. You might charge a percentage of construction cost — a number that changes as the project evolves. You might use hourly rates for contract administration while the rest of the project is fixed fee. Generic time tracking tools do not understand this.

Setout supports the fee structures architects actually use. Fixed fee with stage-based milestones. Percentage of construction cost with automatic recalculation when the budget changes. Hourly rates with different rate cards for different roles. And combinations of all three on the same project, because that is how real agreements work.

Budget tracking shows you where every project stands financially — not just hours logged, but fee burn-down against project progress. You can see at a glance whether a project is tracking to budget or whether sketch design consumed more hours than planned and the remaining stages need to compensate. That visibility is the difference between a profitable practice and one that is always wondering where the money went.