Choose where you want your studio to go
Start with a Business Goal that defines the long-term direction of your studio.
Business Goal
Choose the studio you want to build
Business Simulator for Architects & Designers
Optimize Your Studio Strategy
Studio Dashboard
- ERS
- 643
- Cash
- $42,000$4,000
- Working Hours
- 54h6h
Project Margin22%2%
Active Projects2
Pipeline3
Studio Capacity78%
What the Game Does
Play your Studio Goals
Architect High Level is a studio business simulator where architects and designers make decisions, see their consequences, and develop a stronger, more profitable business over successive rounds.
Make realistic studio decisions
Deal with clients, pricing, workload, cash flow, team, systems and growth.
Situation
A new project would fill the diary, but the fee sits below your current rate.
See the consequences and develop your studio
Your decisions change the business over time — then you take actions, build systems and move toward your goal.
Game Flow
See immediate results of your decisions
Studio Dashboard
ROUND 12 OF 20
Goal Manage Less, Design More
Business Health Stable
Studio Capacity pressure this round ↓
- ERS
- 64↑ 3
- Cash
- $42,000↑ $4,000
- Working Hours
- 54h↓ 6h
Project Margin22%↑ 2%
Active Projects2
Pipeline3
Founder Sustainability27
Studio Capacity78%
River House
Residence·Schematic
Civic Garden Open Terrasse
Landscape·DD
01
Dashboard
See the current state of your studio: financial position, workload, business health and relevant warnings.
Situation
Goal Manage Less, Design More
- ERS
- 64
- Cash
- $42,000
- Hours
- 54h
- Margin
- 22%
- Studio Capacity
- 78%
A key consultant is leaving in six weeks, and two live projects still need their attention.
Choose one option
Start a structured handover
Offer a short overlap retainer
Absorb the work inside the studio
Refer the work to a trusted peer
02
Situations & Decisions
Face realistic studio situations and choose how you would respond. Your decisions influence the development of the business and your chosen Business Goal.
Studio Development
2 AP available
Action capacity 2 remaining
ACTIVE STUDIO SYSTEM:
Project Delivery System
- Cash
- $42,000
- Hours
- 54h
- Margin
- 22%
- Clarify fee structureLv 2
- Reduce rework loopsLv 1
- Build recurring revenueOpen
- Hire a project leadQueued
Studio systems +1
03
Actions, Upgrades & Studio Development
Improve the studio deliberately: implement immediate actions, build stronger systems and invest in long-term strategic development.
ROUND 12 OF 20
Business Goal
Build Cash Flow, Invest the Profits
Business Health Strengthening
ERS over last 4 rounds 64 → 69 → 74 → 78
- ERS
- 64→78
- Cash
- $42,000→$61,000
- Working Hours
- 54h→46h
- Project Margin
- 22%→26%
- Studio Capacity
- 78%→71%
- Founder Sustainability
- 22→27
Studio systems 3 active
04
Repeat & Progress
Each round builds on the previous one. Over time, you develop the studio toward the business you actually want to build.
Put Your Studio Strategy to the Test
01 · Decision→02 · Develop
Studio Status
- ERS
- 64
- Cash
- $42,000
- Working Hours
- 54h
Situation
A client asks for extra revisions, but the fee and deadline stay the same.
Choose one option
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A business simulator for architects, landscape architects and designers — built to help you explore decisions, improve studio performance and develop stronger business strategies through play.
Common Questions
Architect High Level is a business simulator for architects and designers. You run a studio over successive rounds, make business decisions, see their consequences, and develop systems that improve the studio over time.
Architect High Level is designed for architects, landscape architects, designers and small studio teams who want to improve profitability, workload, delivery and business strategy.
It is both. Architect High Level uses game logic to turn realistic studio business situations into decisions you can explore and learn from.
Architect High Level is currently in development. Sign up for Early Access to receive updates as the product progresses.
You’ll receive updates about Architect High Level and be among the first to get access to the game.
You run a studio over successive rounds. Each round starts from the current Dashboard, presents a Situation, and records the consequences of your decision. Actions and upgrades let you develop systems between rounds, so the studio you play in round five is not the studio you started with.
A Business Goal is the long-term direction of the studio you are building. Architect High Level currently uses five:
- Build a Business You Can Sell
- Prepare Your Studio for Succession
- Manage Less, Design More
- Build Cash Flow, Invest the Profits
- Build Revenue Beyond Client Work
Everyday decisions are read against the Goal you chose.
Yes. You start by choosing a Business Goal that defines the direction of your studio and influences how you evaluate decisions throughout the game.
Each round builds on the previous one. Metrics, workload, cash and studio systems carry forward. Over time you see whether the studio is moving toward the business you actually want to build.
The Situations are drawn from familiar studio patterns — fees, revisions, capacity, hiring, cash flow. You can explore strategies without real-world risk and take back the ideas that fit your own practice.