Architects
The global architecture market is large, but its structure is remarkably consistent: small firms dominate. Across the markets we examined, firms with fewer than 10 people account for roughly three-quarters or more of architecture practices, and in several markets, closer to 90%. These firms are not a niche segment of the profession. They are the overwhelming majority.
Yet much of today’s professional design software has evolved in the opposite direction. Established CAD and BIM platforms increasingly serve the needs of larger organizations, with multidisciplinary coordination, complex standards, enterprise administration, and deeply specialized workflows. Those capabilities are valuable, but they also bring cost and complexity that a small studio may neither need nor want.
Corvus is being built for this underserved majority.
We are starting with small architecture and interior design practices, along with the adjacent professionals who share their drawing, modeling, and documentation needs: design-build firms, fabricators, visualization artists, and other independent design professionals. For these teams, the opportunity is not to reproduce enterprise software at a lower price. It is to rethink professional design software around the way small practices actually work.
And this is a global opportunity from day one. Our initial English-language product can address not only the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, but also professionals working in English across Europe, Africa, Asia, and other international markets. Localization can then expand that reach as demand develops. The same structural opportunity repeats market after market: a large population of small, professional design businesses that has largely been asked to use software built for someone else.
Small often means solo.
Solo practitioners make up a substantial share of the small-firm market. In the countries we examined, they represent between 22% and 52% of all architecture firms, and in France and Nigeria, they account for nearly half or more of the profession. These are not hobbyists or occasional users. They are independent professionals running real practices, managing projects, producing drawings, coordinating with collaborators, and delivering work to clients. For Corvus, designing for small firms means designing for the individual practitioner, too. A professional design platform should be powerful enough to support serious work, without requiring the infrastructure, complexity, or overhead of a larger organization.
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