You can be fully booked and still feel like the numbers don't add up. The 2026 A&E Benchmark Report from Monograph shows exactly why, and which firms have figured it out.

Ashish Desai, CEO of Monograph, joins Mark LePage to walk through the data on what separates high-performing architecture firms from the rest. The gap isn't in design quality or demand. It's in how efficiently firms convert time into revenue, and revenue into cash.

What you'll learn:
→ Why AI-enabled firms earn $20K more per employee on $5K more in cost
→ The three levers every firm leaks value through: utilization, realization, and cash flow
→ How top firms hit 100% realization while the average firm loses 4 cents on every billable dollar
→ Why billing monthly is the single highest-impact change most firms can make
→ How enabling e-payments cuts time to get paid from 6 weeks to 8 days

Ashish Desai is CEO of Monograph, the firm management platform used by 2,200+ architecture and engineering firms to win more work, deliver projects profitably, and get paid faster. He previously served as CPO at Monograph and CPO at 99designs.

Download the 2026 A&E Benchmark Report at monograph.com/benchmark. Learn more at monograph.com.