How is iDBQuery used by architecture firms?
Architecture firms use iDBQuery to ask plain-language questions across project, time-tracking, billing and resource data, getting cited answers in seconds without SQL. It joins your practice-management system and spreadsheets into one live model so principals track project profitability and utilisation without a data team.
Architecture practices run on project accounting, timesheets, billing and resourcing data that rarely sit together. iDBQuery unifies them into one live model so principals and studio managers ask plain-language questions and get a cited answer.
Typical questions:
- What is net revenue and profit by project and by studio this year?
- Which projects are over their fee budget on hours, and by how much?
- Show staff utilisation and realisation by team.
- What is our backlog and projected workload over the next two quarters?
- Which clients or project types are most profitable?
iDBQuery ingests the practice-management database, timesheet exports and billing spreadsheets together with no ETL, joins them, and cites each figure back to the source row so principals trust the project P&Ls. It builds shareable dashboards for partner meetings, and the Analyst agent can investigate a question like "which project phases blow the fee" on its own.
Deployment is flexible: cloud, your own VPC, or the Desktop app to keep client and financial data local with query-in-place. The differentiator over a spreadsheet or generic BI tool is that a design-led, non-technical team gets instant answers on utilisation and profitability across every project at once.
Updated 2026-06-22