We’re creating smarter, better design guidelines.
We move beyond static documents and create living systems—guidelines and standards that are clear, usable, scalable, and aligned with long term goals.
Design guidelines and standards are powerful tools. When thoughtfully conceived and properly maintained, they enable better coordination across teams, consistency across portfolios, and smarter capital investment decisions—while creating environments that support performance, health, and culture.
Integrated expertise. One unified approach.
Our core team brings deep experience across workplace, higher education, healthcare, and civic environments, supported by specialists in planning, interiors, sustainability, operations, technology, and experience design.
Rather than working in silos, we contribute to shared themes and goals—ensuring guidelines reflect how spaces are planned, built, operated, and experienced over time.
Client
Where you feel friction, we see potential.
We believe guidelines should be strategic, practical, and adaptable. That’s why our process begins by understanding how guidelines are used today—and where they need to evolve. From there, we establish a plan for enduring success: clear revision and governance frameworks; version control and approval workflows; feedback loops that support continuous improvement; and longterm maintenance strategies.
The end product genuinely supports decision making in practice—not just in theory.
Fragmentation ⇒
Many organizations inherit a patchwork of guidelines—developed at different times, by different teams, in different formats, with varying levels of relevance.
Clarity
We help you create a clear, coherent framework that organizes standards meaningfully and allows content to evolve over time.
Disparate Audiences ⇒
Guidelines must serve many users: internal teams, consultants, contractors, and external partners—each with different needs and levels of expertise.
Tailored Engagement
We design multiple points of entry and engagement so guidelines are intuitive, accessible, and actionable for every audience, every time.
Complexity and Choice ⇒
Codes, rules, standards, recommendations, alternates, and exceptions can overwhelm teams and slow execution and decision making.
Implementation Pathways
By knowing when guidance is required or flexible, and how to tailor solutions to context—without losing consistency—we create clear roadmaps for success.
Guidebook is our AI-powered platform that makes guidelines easier to use, manage, and scale. Guidebook
We meet you where you are and help you get where you want to go.
Digital Document
Interactive PDFs that are designed to evolve with your organizational needs.
Web-ready Content
Content that works seamlessly within your existing digital tool or web platform.
Your easy button for content control, consistency, and coordination.
Guidebook
The digital project space for teams with custom integrations, workflow tools, and more.
Guidebook is data-driven and AI-first, built to flex across architectural, design, and experience guidelines as client needs grow and evolve.
Content Management
✓ Robust information architecture and templates
✓ Role-based access, approvals, and version control
✓ Advanced search, sort, filtering, and favorites
✓ Portfolio view
Integrations
✓ SharePoint
✓ Google Drive
✓ BIM
✓ Matterport
✓ Mapping
Workflows
✓ Approvals
✓ Program calculator
✓ Project space
✓ Compliance checklists
Change Management
✓ Editor onboarding
✓ Training library
✓ Newsletter templates
✓ New team testing
✓ Regional team onboarding
Features made with you in mind
Show me all examples of decorative lighting, plus all related specs and drawing files.
I found decorative lighting specifications in Design Guidelines and Technical Guidelines. Do you want to view them in CAD or 3D?
Ask anything
Find exactly what you need. Our AIpowered platform enables any user to find answers to even the most complex questions.
Streamline feedback
In comment mode, you can click anywhere on screen to drop a comment, request a revision, or raise a flag. All feedback is logged and managed in a centralized administrator interface.
Ensure all specifications reflect latest sustainability targets outlined in annual operations plan.
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Ensure all specifications reflect latest sustainability targets outlined in annual operations plan.
Alice Weber, Project Manager
Alice Weber, Project Manager
Manage teams with ease
Create user profiles with assigned roles and permissions so that the right content is vetted and approved before going live.
Uncover portfolio insights
Visualize your assets in our GIS-enabled 3D mapping software. Full integration with your databases enables you to unlock insights, support decisionmaking, and accelerate implementation.
Portfolio
We’re trusted by leading organizations
Select clients
American Express
Arup
BlackRock
Bluebird Bio
Brown-Forman
Brown University
CHS
Chubb Insurance
Citigroup
CMHC
Coca-Cola
Confidential Children’s Hospital
Confidential Contact Center
Confidential Gene Therapy Client
Confidential Global Fortune 500
Tech Company
Confidential Pharmaceutical Company
Confidential Technology
Engineering Company
Cushman & Wakefield
Discovery
Equity Office
Fidelity
Harvard University Health Services
Indeed
Kimberly-Clark
Land O’Lakes
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Microsoft
NAV Canada
Newell Brands
NFP Insurance & Investment
Prologis Branch Offices
Red Hat
Robert Half
Rubius Therapeutics
Software AG
Syracuse University
Thompson Reuters
University of California, San Francisco
U.S. Bank
Wells Fargo
Western Digital
Yale University
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