A better way to find residential architecture clients in Australia

So how Archive Design works is it has both the homeowner side and the architect side, and both work in parallel. The architects sign up, create a profile, and upload their photos, portfolio and information about the type of projects they do and what kind of projects they want to do. And at the same time, the homeowners create their profile, where they put their brief criteria, what they want in the project, as well as location and the kind of architects they're looking to find. On the homepage here there are a few different things about how homeowners can create a profile, but if you click here you have "For Architects", where you apply as an architect, with a bunch of other information, where you can also find the terms and conditions, how it works, and other tools that will help you go through the process. So for today, I'm going to explain how to sign up as an architect.

You put your full name, your practice name and email address, you create a password, and you can add your registration number. You add this information in, click Create Profile, and you will then receive an email to verify your email. Then you add a bit more information about the practice. So I'll put a name here, location, ABN — I'll just put a number here. You can upload your own practice logo here. This will help create a more complete profile. Click Next. So where can people see your work? You can put your Instagram here, your Pinterest, website, all these links that help provide more information for potential clients to find you.

This is more of the legal stuff: whether you have professional indemnity insurance as an architect, whether you own your IP, that you're going to follow the building codes, as well as any other relevant information you'd be able to confirm.

Then your architect profile. You put where you usually practise — if it's the Inner West, or you can put Northern Beaches, or whichever area you're comfortable with. This is just indicative; it's for the client to know more or less where you're located and where you usually practise. Then you can put family homes, single homes you might be doing, courtyard houses, and some information about the office. So the office is focused on sustainable design, or modern style, or whatever information you'd want clients to know about your practice. Yep — sustainable design, modern style. Just a brief introduction about that. Yep.

So what you're providing is full design, sustainable renovation — whichever style, whichever project you want to do. And also what kind of project range you're comfortable with, whether you're going with lower-end or high-tier projects and everything in between. This is optional, but it helps us understand more or less which range you want to work within. It gives the algorithm more parameters so it can assign you to the right client. Yep. So basically that will enable you to get projects out of that. Here you just upload a project — as you can see, PDF, JPEG, PNG, whatever images you have — and then you can just submit your profile.

Here you go. Now you're on the main page of your profile, where, once you upload, you'll see your example designs. At the point where everything is completed, you can then be matched with potential clients, and see profile views as well — how many people have seen your profile. This is in progress at the moment, so there will be a few clients being assigned according to the parameters you put in, the projects and the type of projects you upload. The more information you put on the website, the more accurate and better it will be for matching you with the right client.

This was a quick overview of how to sign up to the Archive Design platform as an architect. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out — there's a chat box at the bottom, or just contact us via email. Thank you.