How an architecture practice cut planning research from 4 hours to 20 minutes
An Australian architecture practice was spending three to four hours per property on feasibility research. Here is the kit they bought, and what changed once they used it.
5 May 2026
For an Australian architecture practice doing residential feasibility studies, every new property meant three to four hours of research before they could give a client a yes-or-no answer. Zoning. Overlays. Heritage. Bushfire-prone area. NCC compliance. All of it had to be checked, written up, and signed off by a senior architect.
They could realistically work through one or two properties per day. That was the ceiling on the business.
The bottleneck
The practice had tried the obvious things first.
Hiring a junior to handle the research — that helped at first, but the senior architect still had to verify every brief, which ate most of the time savings.
Building a checklist and a one-page template — useful, but it did not change how long the research itself took.
Outsourcing to a freelance research assistant — same problem. Verification was the bottleneck, not the lookup.
The real cost was not the lookup. It was the cognitive load of holding everything in one head — zoning, overlays, heritage, NCC, state variations — and writing it up coherently. Three to four hours of focused work per property, and the senior architect could not easily delegate it.
What changed
They came to us through scoper.pro and were matched to one of our kits.
The kit gave them four things they did not have on their own:
A set of prompts, tested across similar workflows, that turn raw planning notes into a clean one-page feasibility brief in a consistent format.
A simple project structure for working with Claude, so the team did not have to figure out how to organise this from scratch.
A checklist of what a correct brief should contain, so they could spot when the AI got something wrong before it went to the client.
A short roadmap of what to do next once the basics were working.
Total cost: US$99. Setup time: under two hours, done by someone with no prior AI experience.
The numbers
Research per property went from three to four hours down to about 20 minutes. Most of that 20 minutes is the senior architect reviewing the AI-drafted brief, not writing it from scratch.
What was one or two properties per day became 10 to 12.
That is the number that changes the business. The senior architect now spends their time on the work that actually requires judgement — the design, the client conversation, the architecture — instead of being the bottleneck on every feasibility check.
How this applies to your business
Most SMEs have one or two workflows that eat a disproportionate amount of senior time. Bookkeeping reconciliation. Customer support triage. Document drafting. Reporting. Scheduling.
If a workflow is repetitive, has a clear correct answer, and currently requires a senior person to do it well — that is the shape that benefits from a kit. You submit a form. We match your workflow to one of our archetypes. The kit arrives within 24 hours.
You build with Claude or ChatGPT yourself. We do not do it for you. We do the parts that are hard to figure out alone — the prompts that hold up, the project structure that scales, the evaluation that catches the failures before your client sees them.
US$99. 14-day refund if the kit is not right for you.
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