From Chaos to Control in CA

Written By Tim Douglas

Most architecture firms live the same story: endless RFIs, submittals, and change orders buried in email threads, spreadsheets, and Procore exports. This short podcast dives into how that fragmented process quietly erodes time, confidence, and margin — and how Roundhouse flips the script.

We look at the daily reality inside firms:

  • Email overload turning project communication into a black hole.

  • Manual CA logs that lag behind the pace of work.

  • No single source of truth for tracking accountability or deadlines.

Then, we unpack how Roundhouse was built to bring calm to that storm. By connecting project communication, design documentation, and field coordination into one architect-first layer, Roundhouse helps teams move faster — without losing control.

The episode closes with a simple question that’s hard to ignore:

If every firm knows CA is broken, why hasn’t anyone fixed it — until now?

Listen now:
🎧 From Chaos to Control in Construction Administration

Tim Douglas

About the Author:

Tim Douglas is the Founding CEO of Roundhouse Labs. He trained as an architect at Cornell and began his career at Richard Meier & Partners and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, managing projects across North America, Asia, and Europe from concept through construction. After two decades leading construction technology businesses at Autodesk and Procore — including scaling Autodesk's construction business to $125M+ ARR — he co-founded Roundhouse with Craig James, AIA and Stuart Romm, AIA, principals of Praxis3, an award-winning architecture practice based in Atlanta. Roundhouse is built on a decade of their CA data across 3,000+ projects — and designed, from the start, to be the architect's system of record. He is currently working with leading architecture firms across the country as Roundhouse scales.

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