When Reporting Software Still Leaves You Guessing: How A&E Firms Regain Confidence in Their Numbers

An open and practical conversation for architecture, engineering and built environment firms who want to trust their reporting again.

This webinar explored a challenge many established firms recognise. Most already have reporting systems in place. Yet leadership teams still find themselves questioning whether the numbers in front of them reflect what is actually happening across their projects.

Hosted by Fresh Projects CEO Simon Berry, the session brought together practice leaders from architecture, engineering and consulting firms to discuss how reporting breaks down as businesses grow, and how real-time visibility is helping restore confidence in project and financial performance.

“Instead of sitting in that meeting making decisions, the debate turns to whether the data can be trusted or not.” - Simon Berry, Founder of Fresh Projects.

What this webinar reveals:

Inside this session you will hear directly from firms that have experienced the reporting challenges many growing practices face.

From project directors and finance leaders to practice management teams, the discussion explores how reporting habits evolve as firms add projects, offices and complexity and what changes help restore clarity.

It is grounded in the day-to-day reality of running architecture, engineering and consulting practices, and built around honest discussion rather than theory.

In just under 60 minutes, you will discover:

• Why many architecture and engineering firms still struggle to trust their reporting even with systems in place
• How spreadsheet habits continue to shape the way project and financial data is interpreted
• What changes when teams can see project performance and resourcing information in real time
• How finance teams reduce reconciliation work when reporting becomes live rather than retrospective
• How practice leaders are using live reporting to shift conversations away from defending numbers and towards making decisions
• You will also see a practical walkthrough of LiveSheets, a Fresh Projects feature that connects familiar spreadsheet workflows directly to live project data.

🎥 Watch the Recording On-Demand

The full recording is now available. Watch at your own pace, revisit key insights, and share with your team.

Meet Your Speakers:

• Simon Berry, Founder, Fresh Projects
• Kim Murray, Finance Manager, SOLID Engineering
• Ryan Harborth, Director, Bloc
• J-D Voigt, Director, Plantech

Together they share practical experiences from inside architecture, engineering and consulting firms, including how reporting challenges show up in real projects and how teams are beginning to restore confidence in the numbers they rely on.

This is for you if...

• You are a Partner, Director, Operations Lead, or Finance Lead in an architecture, engineering, or built environment consultancy
• Your firm already has reporting systems, but leadership still spends time questioning whether the numbers reflect reality
• Different teams or offices interpret project data in slightly different ways
• Reporting often arrives too late to influence decisions on live projects
• You want clearer visibility across projects, people, and financial performance

Want to explore this further?

If the challenges discussed in the session feel familiar, our team would be happy to continue the conversation.

Fresh Projects helps architecture, engineering, and consulting firms bring their reporting, resourcing, and project performance data into one clear view so leadership teams can focus on decisions rather than reconciling numbers.

You can arrange a short conversation with our team to see how LiveSheets and Fresh Projects work in practice.

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