Start a conversation Start
Start a conversation
hello@agentec.cloud
Making, building and fixing

Interior design and fit-out.

Where it usually hurts first

Clients want a 3D design before they pay, and half take it to a cheaper contractor.

Where we would start: Design and quote from a site video. The client films the room on a phone, and the system measures it, drafts the layout and a 3D view, and prices it from your rate card, for the designer to check before it goes.

Book the session What we would build
A room halfway through its fit-out
A room halfway through its fit-out. Photograph: Brett Jordan, Unsplash.
Design and quote from a site video, with it running

Rooms are measured from a phone video, and the draft layout is ready the next day.

An example, never a client's result

Safe to say yes, in writing.

  1. “I'll pay and nothing will work.”
    It has to pass on your old work before it touches today's.
  2. “The price will creep.”
    One fixed price, in writing, before any work.
  3. “I'll be locked in.”
    Stop any month and keep everything.
Send this page to a partner on WhatsApp

Your week, as it runs today.

Interior designers and fit-out contractors earn a design fee and a margin on the work and materials, for homes, offices, shops and restaurants, so profit depends on winning the client after the design, buying right and finishing on time without rework. India's top seven cities sold about 4.6 lakh new homes in 2024 (ANAROCK), and every one needs fitting out. The work is site visits, measurements, 3D designs, quotes, materials, purchase, site supervision, snag lists and payments in stages.

Source
  1. 01

    Monday's site visit means a day of measuring by tape and a week of drawings.

  2. 02

    A client approves the 3D design, then takes it to a cheaper contractor.

  3. 03

    The quote for a three bedroom flat is built line by line from four supplier price lists.

  4. 04

    Site photos arrive on WhatsApp, and the snag list is in the supervisor's head.

  5. 05

    The client's second payment waits because the stage isn't signed off.

What it costs.

Our own sum

Clients want a 3D design before they pay, and half take it to a cheaper contractor.

And the rest of the week

  1. Our own sum

    Measuring and drawing every site takes a week before we can quote.

    A designer who spends two days measuring and drawing for each of eight sites a month gives 16 days, most of the month, to work no client has paid for yet.

    Drawn in our report: Quotes sit in an inbox for days
  2. Our own sum

    Material prices change every month, and our quotes don't.

    A 5% rise on Rs 8 lakh of materials in a fit-out quoted last month is Rs 40,000 off the margin.

  3. Our own sum

    Sites run late, and the client hears it from the watchman.

    A two week delay on a Rs 20 lakh office fit-out that pays 30% on completion holds back Rs 6 lakh for two more weeks.

    Drawn in our report: Chasing people for updates
  4. Our own sum

    Snags found at handover turn into a month of return visits.

    Six return visits at Rs 3,000 each for a carpenter and a supervisor is Rs 18,000 off every project.

  5. Our own sum

    Stage payments wait for sign-offs nobody chases.

    Rs 15 lakh of stage payments a month that arrive three weeks late, funded at 12%, cost about Rs 1.2 lakh a year.

    Drawn in our report: Paid 90 days after the work
What we would build

Ten systems for interiors and fit-out, under the six offers.

We plan the whole company, then build the first three. The usual first build here is marked, and the window beside the cards shows the one you are reading.

Design and quote from a site video, the usual first build here. Shown with sample data.

Win customersLeads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

  1. The usual first buildIntelligence

    Design and quote from a site video

    The client films the room on a phone, and the system measures it, drafts the layout and a 3D view, and prices it from your rate card, for the designer to check before it goes.

  2. Apps

    See it in your room

    Clients see furniture, finishes and colours in their own room on the phone, and approve the design with the booking amount paid.

  3. Apps

    Client project room

    Clients see the design, the schedule, progress photos and payments due in one link, and hear about a delay before it happens.

  4. Conversations

    Enquiry to site visit

    Answers every enquiry from Instagram, portals and your site within minutes, asks the budget and the possession date, and books the site visit.

  5. Brand

    Portfolio and walkthrough films

    Walkthrough films and before and after reels from finished projects, with the client's consent, for your pages and ads.

Get the work doneEverything comes to you. Most of it shouldn't.

  1. Apps

    Site progress from photos

    Supervisors send photos and voice notes from site, and progress, delays and the materials needed update against the plan.

  2. Documents

    Snag list from photos

    Snags logged with photos at every stage, assigned to the right trade and closed with a photo before handover.

Get paidYou did the work. The money shouldn't take 90 days.

  1. Operations

    Material price watch

    Tracks prices of plywood, laminates, tiles and fittings across your suppliers, updates the rate card and drafts purchase orders for your yes.

  2. Operations

    Stage sign-off and payment

    Each stage signed off on the client's phone with photos, the payment request raised the same day, and polite reminders until it's paid.

Know your companyOnly one person knows how pricing works.

  1. Knowledge

    Design and rate brain

    Past designs, details, rates and supplier specs searchable, so a junior designer quotes like your best one.

A sample chat on a phone: a customer asks for a quote and gets it, sent after a salesperson said yes. Shown with sample data.

The same week, with them running.

The five moments from the top of this page, once the first systems do their part. Flip back to see how it runs today.

An example week. It shows how the work changes, never a measured result from a client.

  1. 01

    Rooms are measured from a phone video, and the draft layout is ready the next day.

  2. 02

    The client walks through the design in 3D and pays the booking amount before the files go out.

  3. 03

    Quotes are built from your rate card and current material prices, for the designer's check.

  4. 04

    Each site's progress and snags are logged from photos and voice notes, and the client hears what's done.

  5. 05

    Each stage is signed off on the client's phone, and the payment request goes the same day.

  1. 01

    Monday's site visit means a day of measuring by tape and a week of drawings.

  2. 02

    A client approves the 3D design, then takes it to a cheaper contractor.

  3. 03

    The quote for a three bedroom flat is built line by line from four supplier price lists.

  4. 04

    Site photos arrive on WhatsApp, and the snag list is in the supervisor's head.

  5. 05

    The client's second payment waits because the stage isn't signed off.

The nearest work we have built.

Each piece names the kind of company it was built for. None of them is in your trade yet, and we say so. Ask to see it running.

Signs it is time.

  • Designs are given away before the client pays a booking amount.
  • Site measurements take a visit and a week of drawings.
  • Progress and snags are tracked on WhatsApp.
  • Stage payments come in late.
  • They're moving from homes into offices, shops or restaurants.

Who decides.

The founder or principal designer of the studio, or the managing director of the fit-out contractor, with the head of projects.

Why this time is different.

AI that was bought and changed nothing.

A tool was bought and nobody owned the job. We take the whole job, test it on your past work, and stay to run it.

What designers ask first.

Who says yes before anything goes out?

The person who owns that job at your company today. You name them when we write the rules with you. Inside those rules the agent acts at once. Anything outside them waits for one tap from the person named, on their phone, ready to approve or to change.

Do we have to change the software we use?

No. We build around the systems you already run, in accounts in your company's name, and we confirm each one before we start.

What does it cost?

There is no price on this page, because it depends on the work. After the session you get a written proposal with the scope, the test it has to pass, who works on it and one fixed price, before any work.

Where we would start for interiors and fit-out: Win customers

Leads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

Every enquiry gets an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, on the channel they wrote in.

What changes. Enquiries get an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, and you hear a customer is leaving while you can still act.

What we measure, before and after. Time to a first reply and to a priced quote, quotes that got an answer and customers who came back.

See Win customersAll six

The old way keeps running until the new one has passed on your own work.

The eight problems it answers

What costs your studio most? Bring us that.

45 minutes on a video call with our founder and the people who live with the problem. Nothing to sign. You leave knowing what we would build first, and why.

Book the sessionSee Win customers

Or write to us.hello@agentec.cloudAgentec on LinkedIn

A capability
Esc