A I D E

By designers, for designers

An Extension of Your Design Team Design, drawings and presentations, for around half the cost of a full time hire

We work the way a member of your studio would. Developing the scheme with you, drawing it up, keeping the schedules straight and building the pack your client sees. You keep the design direction and the relationship. We carry the work behind them.

From $15 an hour  ·  No salary, no retainer, no minimum commitment

Experience
4+ years
Delivered
22+ projects
Clients
North America, intl.
We work with
Interior designers, architects

Trusted by design studios

01 · An extension of your team

The work a full time hire would do, without the full time hire

Most studios do not need another drafter. They need another pair of hands that understands design, picks up a scheme without a briefing document, and carries it through to the drawings, the schedules and the client pack. That is the role we fill.

Design

Design development

Work the scheme up with you. Layout options, resolving the awkward corner, carrying a concept through to something buildable rather than waiting to be told what to draw.

Documentation

Drawings and sets

Furniture and finish plans, reflected ceiling plans, interior elevations, millwork and details. Drawn in your template, your layer standard and your title block.

Schedules

FF&E and finish schedules

Built, maintained and kept matched to the drawings as the scheme changes, so the schedule and the set never quietly disagree with each other.

Presentation

Client presentation prep

Boards, sheet layouts and renders assembled into the pack your client actually sees, so you walk into the meeting with it finished.

Use us for the whole role or one piece of it. Take on the next project without a hire, add hands for a deadline and scale back the week after, or send a single set of elevations and keep the rest in house.

02 · In their words

What designers say

From interior design studios who have used us on live projects.

Smit is a thoughtful, punctual, and incredibly precise CAD designer. He is attentive to detail, responsive, and consistently delivers excellent work. A pleasure to work with, I highly recommend him!
AlexandraAlexandra Studio, Oakland, CA
We’ve been working with AIDE Solutions for about a year and have had a great experience. They are quick, responsive, communicate well and do a great job translating our design direction into professional drawings and visualizations. Their support saves our studio valuable time and helps elevate our client presentations. I would absolutely recommend AIDE Solutions to other designers.
AmandaAmanda Shields Interiors, Newmarket, ON

03 · Selected work

Drawings and visuals

Real sheets and views from recent projects: furniture and ceiling plans, interior elevations, millwork sections and photoreal visuals. Pick a category, then step through the set.

04 · How you work with us

One contact, no hand off chain

The worry about bringing in an outside team is being handed to an account manager who passes your job down a chain. You would not accept that from someone on your payroll, and it is not how this works either.

Direct

The same contact, start to finish

You brief us, you review with us, you send redlines to us. Nothing is relayed through a coordinator who has never opened your drawing.

Supported

A studio behind that contact

When a deadline needs more hands, the team scales behind them. The quality standard and the person you talk to stay the same.

Flexible

No fixed monthly cost

A team member you can rely on, without the salary, the payroll or the software seat. You pay for the work you actually commission.

05 · Rates

Published, so you can budget before you call

Starting rates in USD, so you can budget before you spend a call finding out. Send the scope and a fixed price comes back before anything begins.

Drawings, schedules & documentation Construction drawings, furniture and finish plans, reflected ceiling plans, interior elevations, millwork details, and FF&E and finish schedules kept matched to the set. $15 From, per hour
Design development & modelling Working a scheme up with you, layout options, coordinated modelling, concept sheets, furniture layouts and material boards. $15 From, per hour
3D visualisation Photoreal interior and exterior views for client presentations and sign off, rendered from your scheme. $35 From, per view
Virtual staging Empty rooms furnished digitally for a listing or to show a client how a space reads once it is lived in. Ask Priced per listing

Around half the cost of a full time hire

Put our starting rate next to what an in house designer costs you per hour once salary, payroll, software seats and the quiet months between projects are counted. Then scale it up and down with your pipeline, which a salary does not do.

Lower overhead, not a lower standard. The rate reflects how we are set up to work, not a compromise on what comes back to you.

What the rate covers

  • Direct contact with the people designing and drawing your work
  • Your template, layer standard and title block
  • Revisions worked from your redlines
  • Scope and price agreed before anything starts
  • Native files and PDFs, sheeted to your convention
  • Work sized to the project, with no monthly minimum

Final price depends on scope, complexity and the deliverables you need back. Send the drawings, the model or the brief and you get a project specific estimate before anything begins.

06 · Services

Seven stages, one studio

Where we can pick up a project, listed in the order one moves: from the first client presentation through to what the fabricator builds from. Come in at any stage, or stay across all of them. Everything comes back in your templates, your layer standards and your title block.

A-01Concept
A-02Approval
A-03Development
A-04Documentation
A-05Procurement
A-06Execution
A-07Marketing
Project startHandover
A-01Concept

Presentation Drawings

Concept sheets, furniture layouts, mood and material boards: the pack that gets a scheme signed off in one meeting instead of three.

Furniture layouts · Material boards · Presentation sheets

A-02Approval

3D Rendering & Visualisation

Photoreal interior views a client can actually read, so they approve the scheme instead of asking you to explain it again.

Interior views · Elevation renders · Stills

A-03Development

BIM Modelling

A coordinated model at your level of development, so schedules, sections and sheets all come from one source and stop disagreeing with each other.

Revit · Model setup · Families & schedules

A-04Documentation

CAD Drafting & Construction Documentation

Furniture and finish plans, reflected ceiling plans, interior elevations, sections, details and schedules: the full set, sheeted and ready to issue.

Permit sets · IFC drawings · Redline pickups

A-05Procurement

Quantity Takeoff & Cost Estimation

Measured quantities pulled from the drawings or the model, structured so your estimator prices rather than counts.

Material takeoff · Structured schedules

A-06Execution

Shop Drawings & Fabrication Support

Millwork and joinery drawings dimensioned for the people actually building it, so what arrives on site matches what you specified.

Millwork · Joinery · Assembly details

A-07Marketing

Virtual Staging

Empty rooms furnished digitally, for a listing or to show a client how a space reads once it is lived in.

Listing images · Concept staging

07 · How it works

How a project runs with us

Bringing in an outside team sounds like admin. It is five steps, one point of contact, and a fixed scope agreed before anything starts.

STEP 01

Send the files

Sketches, a marked up PDF, a partial model: whatever you have. Along with your template, layer standard and title block if you have one.

STEP 02

Scope and quote

We come back with what we understand the deliverable to be, the sheet count, and a fixed price and date. Nothing starts until you confirm it.

STEP 03

We get to work

We design and draft in your standards, on your time zone: overlap hours for live coordination, and the rest of our day for production while your studio is closed.

YouEnd of your day

Hand over the brief, the model or the marked up set before you log off.

UsWhile you are closed

The work runs through our day against your standards while you are off the clock.

YouStart of your day

Progress is waiting when you open the file. Review and redline it.

UsOverlap hours

We speak live in the window our days share, then the cycle repeats.

One full working shift gained per working day

STEP 04

Review and redlines

You mark it up as you would in house. We pick up the redlines and return the corrected set.

STEP 05

Delivery

Native files and PDFs, sheeted and named to your convention. Your design, your standards, our hours.

Have a project that needs another pair of hands?

Send the scheme, the files and the deadline. You get scope, a fixed price and a date back, usually the same working day.

08 · Why studios work with us

Built around how a studio actually works

By designers, for designers

Interior designers and architects who have worked on international projects. You are briefing someone who has designed, not a drafter waiting for instructions.

Seamless collaboration

We work inside your existing file structure and naming. You should not have to change how you work in order to use us.

No ramp up cost

No job posting, no interviews, no three months of training before you get output. Send the first project and you are working.

Your software, not ours

We work in whatever the project is already drawn in, and to your template, layer standard and title block. If a job needs a package we have not used, we will tell you rather than force the file into something else.

09 · Contact

Send us a project

Tell us where the project is, what you need and by when. We reply with scope, a fixed price and a date, usually the same working day. No call required to get a number.

Studio
Surat, Gujarat, India
Workdays
Monday to Saturday