For designers and architects

Free discovery calls are how projects die

For interior designers, architects and independent design studios. A paid consultation slot filters the serious from the curious, the brief arrives on an intake form before the meeting, and the enquiry-to-project trail lives on one client record instead of a chat scroll.

Free plan, no card and no call. One flat monthly price when you upgrade, zero commission on payments, cancel yourself in the app.

Who this is for

Written for the way design and architecture actually run

Interior designers fielding endless free site visit requests
Architects selling initial consultations before a project quote
Brand and graphic designers taking strategy or review calls
Studios where enquiries vanish between chat, email and calls

What operate1 replaces

A booking tool, a payment link, a client spreadsheet and a reminders routine, folded into one account at one flat monthly price.

Zero commission on every plan. You connect your own payment account and the money settles to you; we charge the subscription and nothing else.

Three things that go wrong every week

Free consultations and site visits are pitched as marketing, but half the takers are collecting free ideas with no budget and no timeline.

Price the first consultation, even modestly, and take payment at booking. The fee filters for intent, and many designers credit it against the project when the client signs. Serious clients do not blink.

The first meeting is spent extracting basics: the space, the budget range, the timeline, the style references. Expensive discovery, done live.

The intake form asks for property type, budget range, timeline and what they want before the slot. You walk in with the brief read and the meeting starts at ideas.

Enquiries arrive everywhere and evaporate. Six weeks later a hot lead is a cold name you cannot place, and nobody knows which consults became projects.

Every consultation booked is a client record with the brief, your notes and the payment attached. The consult-to-project funnel becomes a list you review, not a feeling you have.

How it works

How a booking runs here

Consultations become products
A one hour design consultation, a site visit at its own fee, a plan review call. Each listed with duration and price on your own page.
The brief arrives at booking
Property type, budget range, timeline and references collected by intake form, filed on the client's record before you meet.
Payment holds the slot
UPI, card or net banking through your own Razorpay account, Stripe for overseas clients. Zero operate1 commission on every plan.
The consult feeds the funnel
Notes and payments accumulate on the record, and analytics show bookings and revenue per service, so you can see which consultations turn into projects.

What you get on day one

Paid discovery, serious clients

The consultation fee is collected at booking into your own account. Idea collectors filter themselves out before your calendar fills.

The brief before the meeting

Budget range, property, timeline and style references collected by form and filed on the record. Discovery happens before the paid hour.

Enquiry to project on one record

The first consult, the site visit, your notes and every payment against one client. The funnel is visible, not remembered.

Studio hours, site visit buffers

Consultations fit your working hours, and travel buffers around site visits keep two ends of town off the same afternoon.

Know your consult-to-project rate

Bookings, revenue per service and repeat clients from real data, so you know whether paid consults are feeding the pipeline.

The studio on one plan

Every designer and architect with their own services and hours, unlimited seats at one flat monthly price.

Not built yet, named plainly

What design studios ask for that is not built yet.

Proposals, quotes and project management. operate1 runs the consultation stage: bookings, payments and client records. The project itself lives in your project tools.
File and image uploads on intake forms or records. Today forms collect written answers and notes are text, so mood boards and drawings travel by email.
Video call links per booking. Paste your own Meet or Zoom link into the service description for remote consultations.
Google Calendar sync. Your operate1 calendar is the source of truth today; sync is on the roadmap.

Questions design and architecture ask us

Should the first consultation really be paid?

It is the single best filter for intent that designers have. Price it at whatever respects your time, and if you like, credit it against the project fee when the client signs. The booking page makes the ask impersonal, which is what makes it easy.

Can I charge differently for a site visit versus a studio call?

Yes. List each as its own service with its own duration and fee, and add travel buffers around site visits so the calendar stays honest about the drive.

Can clients send me their floor plan before the call?

Not through the form yet. Intake forms collect written answers, so ask for the plan by email and note it on the record. File uploads on forms are not built.

Does this manage the project after the consultation?

No. operate1 owns the front of the funnel: the paid consult, the brief, the client record and the payments. Once the project starts, your project management tools take over, with the client's history ready for reference.

How it works

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Take the next booking properly

Built for designers and architects. The free plan needs no card and no call. Put your services on a page tonight and decide in the morning.

One flat price for the whole team. Cancel yourself in the app and take your data with you.