Welcome!

We’re Site-Arch Inc.. Well actually, we’re Ali and Steven and we invite you to come along with us as we try to shake things up a little - to do something different.

I’m sure you’re wondering what we mean by “different”. So were we for quite some time. Years in fact. To us, the different we’re trying to do is threefold. A different business model. A different client (owner) experience. A different philosophy (way of thinking) about technology. We’ll do our best to explain.

Business

Architects charge a fees for the services they provide to their clients. It essentially comes down to:

time = money

There is nothing wrong with this business model, but we also think there is another way. We think there is a different business model that while unconventional, would create more of a partnership between owner and architect, incentivizing each entity to produce the best project possible.

Shared risk - shared reward. We’re still happy to serve our clients under traditional service models, but give us a shout if you’re interest in something different.

Experience

Architects are hardwired from birth to showcase their work. It’s in our DNA. We love to show off the polished renderings, professional photography, and expressive hand sketches that imbue the conceptual underpinnings of a project. We love to project a certain image of “put-together-ness” as if we knew the solution all along and just made it happen. Like a rabbit out of a hat. In reality, our process is messy, iterative, imperfect, and sometimes out of control, and shielding the client from this experience is misleading. This will certainly go against the grain, but we’re tired of hiding this and believe openness and transparency at all stages of the project experience goes a long way in building and maintaining deep trust in any partnership. We could go on and on with this theme, but we’ll spare you the novella. Let us know if you’d like to chat more on how we can make the experience different.

Technology

Architects love technology. Design technology and building technology. Architects also love to tell you how they are using the most advanced, quantum-computing, AI-powered, design technology NASA’s best can engineer. The truth is most aren’t and that’s OK in most cases. To us, it’s not OK to embellish your tech aptitude to your clients and then completely hide your process behind an impenetrable veil of secrecy, revealing only the finished product. We like to think we’re tech-forward and bring a balanced approach to tech implementation on projects. To us, the test is whether or not a piece of technology or process will bring value to the project and our partnership. It’s often less about the What and much more about the How. Let’s figure out how we can make the technology we use on you project different.

Thanks for making it this far. We appreciate how the text above may come across as a bit abstract, ambiguous, or half-baked and that’s because it is. The definition of our “different” is not without its flaws (which I’m sure the kind folks of the internet will quickly point out for us), but it’s always being refined for purpose and clarity, for us and prospective partners. Certainly not without its risks, this constant refinement is a process that we think would typically live behind-the-scenes, never to be revealed to the client/owner for fear of being perceived as unprofessional or incapable. To us though, process is personality and behind every project are real people.

The decision to do something different will almost always be an uncomfortable one. We’re stepping out of the safe zone and venturing into uncharted territory where the risk of failure is real. But pursuing something outside of our comfort zone also has very real rewards, which our collective lived experience has shown us time and time again to be worth the risk. We’re ready for something different.

Let’s do something different.