The Busywork Disappears, Not the People: Unanet on AI in AEC
Lucas Hayden of Unanet explores how AI can reduce busywork, connect AEC business systems, and help firms make faster, better-informed decisions.
Unanet CRM AEC
VerifiedUnanet AEC CRM is a customer relationship management platform built specifically for architecture, engineering, and consulting firms. It enables business development and marketing teams to manage client relationships, track pursuits, coordinate proposals, monitor opportunity pipelines, and collaborate across the firm.
By connecting client intelligence with project history and business development workflows, Unanet AEC CRM helps firms strengthen relationships, improve pursuit strategies, and win more of the right projects.
Unanet CRM AEC Overview
Unanet AEC CRM
Unanet AEC CRM is a customer relationship management platform purpose-built for architecture, engineering, and consulting firms. It helps business development, marketing, and leadership teams manage client relationships, track opportunities, coordinate pursuits, and improve visibility into the firm's pipeline.
Built for how AEC firms win work
Unlike traditional sales-focused CRM platforms, Unanet AEC CRM is designed around the relationship-driven nature of AEC business development. It connects client contacts, project history, pursuits, proposals, opportunities, and marketing activities so teams can better understand where relationships stand and where future work may come from.
Key capabilities
- Client and contact management
- Opportunity and pursuit tracking
- Business development pipeline management
- Proposal and marketing coordination
- Relationship intelligence
- Project and client history
- Activity and interaction tracking
- Reporting and dashboards
- Collaboration across marketing, BD, and leadership teams
Why it matters
AEC business development information is often spread across emails, spreadsheets, individual team members, and disconnected systems. Unanet AEC CRM centralizes that information, helping firms improve collaboration and make more strategic decisions about where to focus their time.
The platform can help firms strengthen client relationships, improve pursuit planning, coordinate proposals more efficiently, and increase visibility into future revenue opportunities.
Unanet AEC CRM
Unanet AEC CRM is a customer relationship management platform purpose-built for architecture, engineering, and consulting firms. It helps business development, marketing, and leadership teams manage client relationships, track opportunities, coordinate pursuits, and improve visibility into the firm's pipeline.
Built for how AEC firms win work
Unlike traditional sales-focused CRM platforms, Unanet AEC CRM is designed around the relationship-driven nature of AEC business development. It connects client contacts, project history, pursuits, proposals, opportunities, and marketing activities so teams can better understand where relationships stand and where future work may come from.
Key capabilities
- Client and contact management
- Opportunity and pursuit tracking
- Business development pipeline management
- Proposal and marketing coordination
- Relationship intelligence
- Project and client history
- Activity and interaction tracking
- Reporting and dashboards
- Collaboration across marketing, BD, and leadership teams
Why it matters
AEC business development information is often spread across emails, spreadsheets, individual team members, and disconnected systems. Unanet AEC CRM centralizes that information, helping firms improve collaboration and make more strategic decisions about where to focus their time.
The platform can help firms strengthen client relationships, improve pursuit planning, coordinate proposals more efficiently, and increase visibility into future revenue opportunities.
Specs
Platforms
WindowsMacLinuxCloud, SaaS, WebIOSAndroid
Supported project type
Supported lifecycle phase
Target industry
Ideal for company size
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AI for the Business of AEC
In this aec+tech Talk, Mark Bertsch, Lucas Hayden, and Matt Pantana joined Niknaz Aftahi to explore how AI is moving beyond design and production into the business side of AEC. The conversation covered how agentic AI is being used across ERP, operations, finance, and business management, with a focus on real-world impact, including profitability, utilization, efficiency, and how firms can determine whether AI is actually delivering value.
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