Archas brought project and workforce operations into one internal OS.

Arenyx designed and built a role-separated operating environment for the 23-person architecture practice, connecting project records, contract stages, tasks, time, calendars and selected automations without turning the system into another isolated tool. Archas estimates that the new operating structure reclaims approximately 30 hours each week.

Discipline
Architecture & interiors
Firm size
23 people
Duration
14 weeks
Stages covered
Architecture → Automate
Client
UAB Archas
01 · The brief

One operational layer for the company, not a collection of disconnected features.

The brief covered both sides of the practice: the records behind project delivery and the daily work around people, tasks, time and availability. Managers needed company-wide control; employees needed clear, scoped views. Both had to work from the same underlying record.

The system had to hold
Separate manager and employee access over one operational data model
Project records connecting clients, teams, contract parts, acts and subcontractors
Tasks, time, workload and shared calendars inside the same environment
Leave and absence requests routed from intake to approval and notification
02 · What we built

A company-specific core, then the workflows that rely on it.

Core
A role-separated company OS

We built protected manager and employee environments over one shared data model. Each role sees the work it needs without creating a second version of the company record.

Project controls
Projects, contracts and acts

Project records bring together the client, team, contract parts, acts, subcontractors and the operational finance views used by management.

Team operations
Tasks, time and shared planning

Employees manage assigned and personal tasks, record time and work from a shared calendar. Managers receive the corresponding workload and team-time views.

Automate
Leave and absence workflows

Form submissions pass through mapped workflows into the OS, where requests are validated, recorded and routed to the people responsible for approving or acting on them.

03 · Refined during rollout

The system changed where real use exposed friction.

Release records show how specific behaviours were corrected during implementation. These are verified software changes, not estimated time savings.

01
Enter a historical date
Earlier behaviour

Navigate through the calendar one month at a time.

Shipped behaviour

Enter the exact date directly in YYYY-MM-DD format.

02
Act on a holiday request
Earlier behaviour

A management account without an employee record could not open the request.

Shipped behaviour

Management access no longer depends on a linked employee record.

03
Complete a task
Earlier behaviour

Completion removed the task and its working history.

Shipped behaviour

Completion retains a dated record that can be queried, restored or archived.

04
Receive a product update
Earlier behaviour

A missed release notice could disappear before it was read.

Shipped behaviour

A missed notice is presented again after a later login.

04 · Delivered result

One operating environment. Around 30 hours back each week.

Archas reports approximately 30 hours of operational time reclaimed each week. The figure is presented as a client-confirmed estimate, alongside the delivered system scope rather than as a time-study measurement.

Company environment
Internal OS

Project delivery and workforce operations share one operational foundation.

Delivered
Operational time
30 h/wk

Reclaimed across recurring coordination and operational work each week.

Client-confirmed estimate
Firm-wide scope
23 people

Manager and employee views work from the same underlying company record.

Delivered

Built as Archas infrastructure, not as a generic product wearing the firm's name.

The implementation is backed by a company roadmap, database design, workflow blueprints, deployment instructions and a technical handoff record. Each layer was shaped around the roles and records the practice actually uses.

Tools used
Next.js
TypeScript
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Docker
n8n
Tally
Google Workspace
OpenAI API
Chosen for Archas's operating environment, not as a standard stack.
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Start with the operation, then build the system.

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