Case Study: Workbench cuts unbilled fees by 75% with Monograph

How Workbench Cut Monthly Unbilled Fees by 75% After Switching from BQE Core to Monograph

Workbench, an architecture, development, and construction firm with 30 staff across Santa Cruz and Oakland, CA, was struggling with budget transparency and staffing inefficiencies. Before switching tools, the team relied on BQE Core, Excel, and Smartsheets, which made it hard to track project budgets in real time, manage workloads, and proactively communicate with clients about overruns.

Monograph helped Workbench replace its patchwork of systems with a single, intuitive platform for time tracking, project management, staffing, and budgeting. With Monograph, Workbench cut unbilled fees by 75%, reduced billing time from 20–25 hours a month to 5, shortened staffing adjustments from days to 1–2 hours, and made monthly billing 4–5x faster.

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Jamileh Cannon

Founding Principal Architect