AI in Architecture and Engineering — 2026 Business Benchmarks w/ Ashish Desai | EntreArchitect

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 daysAshish 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.