Principal engineer or architect
Usually someone full timeThis one is done by a person.
Engineering, architecture and surveying practice
Map the work, assign responsibilities and assess where digital support could help. Adapt this starting structure to your team.
A typical Engineering, architecture and surveying practice with 5 people covers 14 functions.
Up to 9 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโs supervision.
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- dedicated
- 4
Functions someone does full time.
- hats
- 6
Functions carried by someone who already carries others.
- uncovered
- 3
Functions nobody does today.
- Outsourced
- 1
Functions entrusted to an external specialist.
How does it look at your place?
Set your team size and say who covers each function today. The four numbers update as you go. Nothing leaves this page until you sign up.
5 people
4
dedicated
6
hats
3
uncovered
1
Outsourced
Who does it at your place?
- Principal engineer or architectTypical: Usually someone full time
- Design, calculations and permit filesTypical: Usually someone full time
- Site supervision and safety coordinationTypical: Usually a shared hat
- Surveys, cadastral and land registry filingsTypical: Usually someone full time
- Front office, phone and the principal's agendaTypical: Usually someone full time DE
- Permits, filings and certifications registerTypical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
- Project tracking, milestones and status reportsTypical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
- Tenders, public procurement and bid filesTypical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
- Milestone billing and collectionsTypical: Usually a shared hat DE
- Subcontractor and supplier invoices and payment packsTypical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
- Client engagement, fee letter and project openingTypical: Usually nobody DE
- Portfolio, website and project storiesTypical: Usually nobody DE
- Hiring of designers and engineers and candidate screeningTypical: Usually nobody DE
- External accountant of the studioTypical: Usually outsourced
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The functions
What a typical Engineering, architecture and surveying practice has to cover
Function by function: how it is usually covered, what hurts, and where a Digital Employee can take the hat under the supervision of whoever wears it today.
Studio direction
(2)
Portfolio, website and project stories
Usually nobodyThe website shows projects from five years ago, and the studio's best work is in a folder nobody opens.
Digital Employee ยท Marketing Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesDesign and permits
(1)
Design, calculations and permit files
Usually someone full timeThis one is done by a person.
Site and surveys
(2)
Site supervision and safety coordination
Usually a shared hatSite supervision and safety coordination are the principal's afternoons and the surveyor's mornings, and the site reports are written on Sunday.
This one is done by a person.
Surveys, cadastral and land registry filings
Usually someone full timeThis one is done by a person.
Front office and clients
(2)
Front office, phone and the principal's agenda
Usually someone full timeOne assistant answers the phone, keeps the principal's agenda, files the permits and issues the invoices, so the client who calls twice gets the voicemail.
Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesClient engagement, fee letter and project opening
Usually nobodyA project starts on a phone call and a fee letter copied from the last one, and the documents the permit needs are asked for one at a time.
Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ490 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesAdministration
(7)
Permits, filings and certifications register
Usually the owner, after hoursEvery project is a chain of permits and filings with dates the municipality sets, tracked in the designers' heads and paid for by the studio when missed.
Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ490 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesProject tracking, milestones and status reports
Usually the owner, after hoursMilestones live in the principal's head and the client discovers the slip when asking for the certificate.
Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesTenders, public procurement and bid files
Usually the owner, after hoursTenders are read at night and answered at the last minute, and a missing document is the usual way to lose.
Digital Employee ยท Sales Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesMilestone billing and collections
Usually a shared hatFees are billed at milestones nobody tracks until the client asks for the certificate, and the reminders go out when the bank balance says so.
Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesSubcontractor and supplier invoices and payment packs
Usually the owner, after hoursInvoices for calculations, geology and energy reports arrive by mail and are paid when the client pays, and a double payment is found by the accountant.
Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesHiring of designers and engineers and candidate screening
Usually nobodyA designer's notice starts a search through colleagues and the universities, and the projects slip while the seat is empty.
Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band
A Digital Employee can cover this function
โฌ990 /mo
Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.
See the Digital EmployeesExternal accountant of the studio
Usually outsourcedReceipts and invoices reach the accountant in batches and the corrections come back at the quarter.
This one is done by a person.
The first week
What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.
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A task from the role brief
Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.
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A useful daily summary
At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.
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Phone updates by choice
The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.
How it works
From a reference model to your structure
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Start from the model
Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.
Found your company 2
Assign the hats
Say who does what today. The mirror shows the load per person and the functions still uncovered, and marks where a Digital Employee is honestly proposable.
See how Digital Employees work 3
Hire from the marketplace
Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.
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Straight answers
Who supervises the digital employees?
Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the studio, usually the principal or the project lead. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.
What does a digital employee never decide?
Anything a registered professional signs: a design, a calculation, a permit application, a site report, a safety plan, a certification, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: fees and estimates, dates promised to a client, anything sent to a municipality, an authority or a public client. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.
Where does it take its data from?
From the project management software, the municipal and authority portals, the procurement portals, the mailbox and the folders you connect to its seat, and from what the designers and the site managers tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.
What does it cost?
Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.
