How a 60-Year Architecture Firm Built the Pipeline Visibility Needed to Pursue
and Win the Right Work

At a Glance

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Company Overview

Arrowstreet is an award-winning architecture, interiors, and experience design firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with more than 60 years of practice. Built on a vision of thoughtful, design-forward environments that bring people together and positively impact communities, Arrowstreet has grown into a multidisciplinary practice of approximately 65 professionals spanning architecture, interiors, experience design, planning, visualization, and operations.

The firm pursues projects across a wide range of sectors including mixed-use, multifamily, hospitality, workplace, science and technology, academic, adaptive reuse, and fitness and recreation.

As a full-service design firm, Arrowstreet collaborates closely with developers, owners, and construction partners at every stage of the project lifecycle, with work spanning both national and select international markets.

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The Challenge: Clear Visibility on Revenue

For a firm with 60 years of design excellence behind it, Arrowstreet had a business development problem that was becoming impossible to ignore.

Pursuit tracking lived across a mix of Excel spreadsheets and ClickUp, a tool not everyone could access. Reporting required manual assembly through Deltek, and no one had a reliable, real-time view of what the pipeline was actually worth.

Without the ability to forecast pipeline performance or analyze which pursuits were worth chasing, the firm was making strategic decisions based on instinct rather than data. Leadership could not confidently answer the question every CRO cares about most: what work is coming, and when?

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"We lacked the analytics needed to understand performance trends and
forecast revenue.”

— Arrowstreet Marketing Team
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Compounding the problem, the tools in use created misalignment across departments. Business development, marketing, and leadership were each working from different versions of the truth, slowing pursuit decisions and making it harder to concentrate resources on the highest-value opportunities.

The firm needed more than a cleaner spreadsheet. It needed a system that could turn pursuit data into revenue intelligence.

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The Solution: A CRM Built for the AEC Industry

Arrowstreet discovered ProjectMark through industry research within the AEC community, where the platform was gaining recognition as purpose-built for construction and design firms.

What set ProjectMark apart from the start was not just the product, but the partnership. ProjectMark was one of the first CRM platforms to work directly with an architectural firm to shape its workflows, and that collaborative spirit resonated immediately with the Arrowstreet team.

‍Key factors in the decision included:
• Visual clarity and ease of use
• Competitive pricing
• Flexibility to customize fields, reporting structures, and workflows
• Industry-specific language and logic
• Willingness to collaborate and iterate alongside the Arrowstreet team

Unlike generic CRM tools that required extensive workarounds or forced firms to adapt to software logic disconnected from how AEC pursuits actually work, ProjectMark aligned closely with the language, structure, and cadence of how Arrowstreet manages opportunities.

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Onboarding and Implementation: A Structured, Personal Process

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From the beginning, the onboarding experience reflected what Arrowstreet had been looking for: a true partnership.

ProjectMark worked closely with the team to understand existing workflows and helped migrate historical spreadsheet data into the platform cleanly and accurately.

The firm also benefited from having a single dedicated point of contact throughout the onboarding process, with weekly check-ins that kept the transition on track. Those touchpoints later evolved into monthly sessions, keeping Arrowstreet informed about new features while providing a regular forum to refine how the platform is used.

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“Having one contact person as we went through the onboarding process and our weekly check-ins was extremely helpful. Our monthly check-ins are appreciated as we are always looking to improve our CRM experience.”

— Arrowstreet Marketing Team

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The Results: From Reactive Pursuits to Strategic Revenue Planning

The impact was immediate:

• Pipeline Visibility That Drives Revenue Decisions
  The most immediate shift was replacing gut feel with data. Arrowstreet's leadership can nowassess pipeline health in real time, with a clear view of opportunity value, pursuit stage, andprojected workload across the firm. That visibility has transformed how the team makes go andno-go decisions, allowing them to concentrate resources on the pursuits with the highestprobability and strategic fit.

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“Leadership can quickly assess pipeline health, forecast workload, and make strategic pursuit decisions based on reliable data.”

— Arrowstreet Marketing Team
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• A Foundation for Revenue Forecasting
  For the first time, Arrowstreet has the data infrastructure needed to forecast revenue based on live pipeline activity rather than backward-looking reports.
  Projected fees tied to active pursuits can now inform staffing decisions, workload planning, and growth strategy, giving leadership the forward visibility that had previously been out of reach.
  
  

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The Arrowstreet team is actively refining how it uses pipeline data to understand win and loss patterns over time, enabling the firm to make sharper decisions about which pursuits to pursue and how to strengthen proposal strategy.

The firm is also exploring expanded automation, broader dashboard controls, and new ways to use the platform to track firmwide marketing activities beyond pursuits.

• Pursuit Discipline Across the Full Lifecycle
  ProjectMark enables the team to track every opportunity from initial contact through proposal submission and award. That end-to-end visibility has brought greater discipline to the pursuit process, reducing the risk of missed opportunities and improving how the firm allocates its most valuable resource: its people’s time.
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• Administrative Costs Redirected to Revenue-Generating Work
  Time previously consumed by spreadsheet maintenance and manual report preparation has been reclaimed. The marketing team now spends less time assembling data and more time on the strategic work that directly supports winning clients, including proposal quality, client engagement, and pursuit positioning.
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• Alignment That Accelerates Decision-Making
  ProjectMark eliminated the version-control problem that had been quietly slowing the firm down.
  Business development, marketing, and leadership now operate from a single shared pipeline, allowing pursuit decisions to happen faster, with less back-and-forth and fewer gaps between what teams believe is in the pipeline and what is actually there.
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Final Word

Revenue growth in architecture is won before a project breaks ground. It is won in the pursuit, the proposal, and the relationship. For Arrowstreet, ProjectMark has become the system that makes those moments more intentional and more informed. The firm now has the pipeline visibility, the forecasting foundation, and the cross-team alignment to pursue growth strategically rather than reactively. Here’s to the next sixty years of excellence!
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Each of these initiatives points in the same direction: turning operational data into strategic revenue insight.
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