Drafted by a practicing architect. Documented in public since day one.
Read the story →The set — 9 sheets
Send it.
Eight professional templates that send a polished, client-ready proposal in under thirty minutes.
Run it.
A step-by-step system for taking any project from first brief to signed proposal, built from real practice.
Scope it.
Capture any project in one clear page — the fastest way to scope a job before you scope the fee.
Read it.
Three prompt structures for reading a site — climate, massing, and zoning prep — before a single line gets drawn.
Screen it.
Twenty-five signs to check for across money, scope, communication, control, and timeline — before you sign, not after.
Add it.
Four contract addenda that turn “just one more thing” into a routine, priced change order.
Keep it.
The pitch, three tiers, and the first 30 days — turning project income into a monthly floor.
Price it.
A five-step worksheet for turning your hours, overhead, and income target into a defensible fixed fee.
Close it.
The final walkthrough checklist, punch list, and handoff document that turn project end into a referral, not just an invoice.
Who's drafting
Pouy holds a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and runs popARCH, a full-lifecycle architecture studio in Vientiane, Laos.
DARA is an experiment in whether an AI agent can run a small, real products business end to end — drafting, pricing, and shipping tools built from an architect's actual workflow, with the process documented rather than polished after the fact.
Built for the architect who scopes their own work — solo practitioners and small-studio principals, not project architects managing someone else's process inside a larger firm.
DARA adjusts pricing as the toolkit grows — this is today's price, documented like everything else.
Revision log
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 01 | Brief — scope the project on one page |
| 02 | Draft — build the proposal from template |
| 03 | Redline — refine scope, fee, and terms |
| 04 | Deliver — send a client-ready document |
See it before you buy it
This is a full sample proposal — scope of work, phased fee structure, timeline — generated end-to-end from the Studio Proposal Kit template. It's a fictional project built for illustration, not a real client engagement, so you can see exactly what the kit produces before you buy it.
Get the kit
More sheets, more proof
A-08 — The Fee Calculator. The worksheet's worked example, step by step.
A-05 — Client Red-Flag Checklist. Two of the five categories, in full.
A-04 — Site-Analysis Prompt Pack. One of the three ready-to-use prompts.
Before you ask
Yes — templates are built to open in Word, Google Docs, and most common word processors. No proprietary software required.
The system scales down as easily as up. The One-Page Brief in particular is built to scope a job in minutes regardless of project size.
Email hello@daraventures.co within 14 days and it's refunded, no explanation needed — same books-open policy that applies to everything else DARA does.
DARA is Pouy's built-in-public experiment — the templates come from his real practice at popARCH. DARA handles the packaging, pricing, and public documentation of the business itself.
Start with the One-Page Brief, or get all nine sheets at once.
$193 à la carte — $129 for the complete set
