Super Archi vs OOTI (2026): Firm Operations or AI Workspace?

Reading time: 10 min — May 2026

OOTI and Super Archi both target architecture firms. But they solve very different problems.

OOTI is a business management platform for architecture firms: project planning, time tracking, invoicing, budgets, KPIs, and CRM — the operational backbone of how a firm runs. Super Archi is an AI workspace that automates the actual project work: tender analysis, meeting reports, cost estimation, image generation, and document search.

The question is not which tool is better. It is which problem you most need to solve right now — keeping the firm's operations under control, or automating the administrative project work that eats your design time.

Table of Contents

1. What OOTI does well
2. Where OOTI falls short
3. Operations or project automation?
4. How Super Archi approaches it differently
5. Feature comparison
6. Pricing comparison
7. What Super Archi cannot do (yet)
8. The call: operations, automation, or both?

What OOTI does well

Credit where it's due — OOTI has built a mature business platform tailored to the operational reality of architecture firms.

Project planning and resource allocation

OOTI gives firms a structured way to plan projects across phases, allocate team members, and track progress. Gantt views, milestones, and capacity planning are built in. For firms that juggle 10-30 simultaneous projects, this structure is genuinely valuable.

Time tracking and billing

Architects log hours against project phases. OOTI turns that into invoices, tracks budget consumption against fee proposals, and surfaces over-runs early. Multi-currency and multi-country billing make it usable for firms with international clients.

Financial visibility

Budgets, profitability per project, cash flow, KPIs — OOTI gives partners and office managers the dashboards they need to run the business. This is the layer most architecture-specific tools either skip or do badly.

CRM and pipeline

OOTI tracks leads, opportunities, and proposals through to signed projects, giving firms visibility on commercial pipeline alongside delivery.

Where OOTI falls short

No AI for the project work itself

OOTI tracks what happened on a project. It does not do the project work. Writing meeting reports, analyzing tender documents, drafting proposals, generating visuals, searching past project documents for references — none of these are OOTI's job. The administrative hours those tasks consume remain unautomated.

Implementation overhead

OOTI is a structured operations platform. To get value from it, the firm needs to set up its phases, codes, billing structure, and team allocations cleanly. Firms without an existing operations culture often struggle to keep the data clean enough for the dashboards to be useful.

Pricing opacity

OOTI publishes some tier information but the actual cost typically depends on user counts, modules, and contract terms — most firms end up in a sales conversation. Comparing it against alternatives upfront is harder than it should be.

Limited day-to-day deliverable help

Architects spend most billable hours on deliverables, not on entering time. OOTI helps the firm understand whether deliverables are profitable; it does not help architects produce them faster.

Operations or project automation?

Most architecture firms feel two distinct pains:

• The operational pain — "we don't know which projects are profitable, our invoicing is late, we lose track of capacity, our pipeline is in a spreadsheet." This is OOTI's territory.
• The deliverable pain — "we spend half our week writing meeting reports, analyzing tenders, producing visuals, and searching for references in old files." This is Super Archi's territory.

A firm with healthy operations but choking on administrative project work gets little from OOTI. A firm with chaotic billing and good project workflows gets little from Super Archi. Most growing firms eventually feel both — but rarely with the same intensity at the same time.

From conversations with firms, the most common pattern is: established 10-50 person firms tend to have OOTI (or similar) in place and are now looking for AI automation on the deliverable side. Smaller, younger firms often start with the AI layer and add operations tooling later.

How Super Archi approaches it differently

Super Archi is an AI workspace where each module automates a category of project deliverable:

Tender analysis — Upload a tender brief, get a structured extraction of procedure, budget, references, deadlines, and scoring criteria, with a go/no-go recommendation in minutes.

Proposal writing — Draft technical and methodology sections from your firm's content library, matching past references to evaluation criteria.

Meeting reports — Feed in notes or audio. Get structured minutes with decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines in about 5 minutes.

Cost estimation — Input project specs and get a first estimate calibrated to current market rates and your firm's past data.

Image generation (Super Archi Studio) — Sketch-to-render, 3D-to-render, plan-to-perspective, style variations — with outputs saved into the project workspace.

Knowledge base — Centralize project documents and search them in natural language with source citations.

Super Archi does not replace OOTI's role of running the firm. It replaces the hours architects spend producing the deliverables that OOTI then tracks.

Feature comparison

Pricing comparison

OOTI's pricing typically scales with user count and module selection, with implementation effort to set up phases and codes. Super Archi publishes flat tier pricing with all AI modules included; the tier difference is usage volume across the workspace.

What Super Archi cannot do (yet)

Honesty matters. Here is where OOTI has a clear edge:

• Time tracking and invoicing — Super Archi does not track billable hours, generate invoices, or manage payment workflows. For firms that need to bill clients accurately and track WIP, OOTI (or an equivalent) is required.
• Project budgets and profitability — Super Archi does not provide financial dashboards on budget vs actual, profitability per project, or firm-wide P&L.
• CRM and commercial pipeline — OOTI tracks leads, opportunities, and conversions. Super Archi does not.
• Capacity planning — OOTI lets you allocate team members across projects and forecast utilization. Super Archi is project-centric, not capacity-centric.

These are not features Super Archi is racing to add. They belong to a different category of tool — and OOTI is a credible answer for them.

The call: operations, automation, or both?

Choose OOTI if:

• Your biggest pain is operational — billing, time tracking, project planning, profitability visibility
• You have 10+ people and need structured business management
• Pipeline tracking and CRM matter to your growth
• You need multi-currency or multi-country billing
• Your deliverable workflows already work — you just need to manage them better

Choose Super Archi if:

• Your biggest pain is administrative project work — reports, tenders, visuals, document search
• You want AI to automate the hours that currently eat your design time
• Operations are already under control (spreadsheets, an existing tool, or you are small enough not to need a full platform yet)
• Transparent flat pricing and a free tier matter to your decision
• You want to start small and grow into the workspace

Run both if:

This is the most common pattern. OOTI runs the firm; Super Archi automates the project work. There is no native integration today, but the categories do not overlap, so running both is a clean setup. Most firms above 15 people that already have OOTI will get more value from adding Super Archi than from any internal OOTI feature.

Ready to add AI automation to your firm's project work? Start with the free tier — generate your first meeting report, tender analysis, or rendering in minutes, alongside whatever business platform you already run. Try Super Archi free →