Built by two practicing PEs. Running in their own firm today.
The AI operating platform for AEC firms.
We're licensed engineers who got tired of finding out a project was underwater in month four. So we built what we needed — Growth, Execution, and Finance in one system — and our own MEP practice runs on it. Then our engineers deploy into your firm and build it around how you actually work.
Our engineers build it around your firm. Not the other way around.
Every engagement starts with a dedicated team that learns your business — no templates, no DIY setup.
Discovery
We map your workflows, integrations, and team structure to design a platform configuration unique to your firm — whether you're an engineering consultancy, architecture practice, GC, or owner's rep.
Implementation
Our engineers deploy on-site or embedded with your team to build, test, and refine every workflow before go-live. No templates — everything is tailored to how your firm actually operates.
Ongoing Partnership
Post-launch, your dedicated team continuously tunes the platform as your operations evolve — new project types, team changes, and integration needs are handled for you.
Founded by two licensed Professional Engineers — Jonathan Sharp, PE and Rafael Figueroa, PE, PMP — with 12 years of AEC operating experience running their own firm.
From the trenches
We didn't study AEC firms. We ran them.
Founders Jonathan Sharp, PE and Rafael Figueroa, PE, PMP have chased the unbilled WIP, reconciled the timesheets, and stitched together spreadsheets at month-end trying to answer how the firm was actually doing. excede exists because they needed it — and it didn't exist. That's why every workflow starts from how AEC firms actually operate, not how software vendors think they should.
Meet the foundersThree pillars. Real depth in each.
Not three feature bullets — three full operating suites, configured to how your firm actually delivers work.
Growth: Pipeline that runs itself between deals
CRM, outreach, and proposals in one motion — so business development survives a busy delivery season instead of stalling out.
Mobile
The field doesn't run on a desktop.
A native iOS app for the people who aren't at a desk — deliverable and reminder push, voice-driven task logging, and CRM lookups the moment a call comes in.
- A client calls and you know who it is before you answer. CRM lookup on incoming calls — name, firm, project, last conversation.
- Log time without a laptop. Voice-driven timesheets, time-off, and task entry.
- Deliverables and approvals find you. Push notifications for what's due and what's waiting on your sign-off.
- Walk in knowing the numbers. Daily briefing, project analytics, and invoice follow-up from the field.
Keep your books. Keep your timesheets.
excede reads from the systems you already run — accounting, time tracking, HR — and gives you one place to see what they add up to. Nothing to migrate.
Accounting
- QuickBooks
- Zoho Books
Time tracking
- Clockify
- Toggl Track
Directory & email
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
HR & payroll
- BambooHR
- ADP
Trust
Built to handle a firm's real data.
Client financials, proposals, and staffing data stay isolated, auditable, and under your control. That includes our founders' own firm, Collectif Engineering — it runs on excede under the same tenant isolation as every customer, with no special access to your data.
Tenant-isolated data
Every firm’s data is logically partitioned — no cross-tenant access, by design.
Self-service data requests
Built-in tooling for GDPR-style access, export, and deletion requests.
Production monitoring
Error and anomaly tracking runs across every service, all day.
Independent security audits
Regular adversarial security reviews with findings tracked to closure.
SOC 2 Type II pathway
Compliance pathway begun August 2026; expect report Q2/Q3 2027. Not yet certified — annual independent assessments continue in the meantime.
Pricing
No tiers. No self-serve. Sized to your firm.
There's no plan to pick off a shelf — we scope your firm's complexity, implement it hands-on, then charge a single monthly fee sized to what you actually run.
Built for firms of roughly 5 to 500 people — practices doing serious work without a full-time operations team, or looking to streamline their current ops workflow.
Scope the Complexity
We map your team structure, project delivery model, and existing tools on a discovery call — that scope is what pricing is based on, not a seat count.
Forward-Deployed Implementation
Our engineers configure, integrate, and train your team before go-live. No templates, no DIY setup.
One Monthly Fee
A single fee sized to your firm’s complexity and the modules you actually use — quoted on the call, not published as a rate card.
Ready for a platform built around your firm?
Our team handles everything — from mapping your workflows and configuring the platform to training your people and tuning the system post-launch. Start with a conversation and we'll design a rollout plan tailored to your operations.
Built for firms of roughly 5 to 500 people — practices doing serious work without a full-time operations team, or looking to streamline their current ops workflow.