Projects, people, money and files, all from a single computer in your own office.
Built for Architecture, Interior, Landscape & Urban Design firms.
Every project, every task, every deadline in one register.
Attendance, timesheets and leave, tracked without asking.
The ledger, project dues and GST invoices your firm actually needs.
Drawings and documents, organised per project, open in AutoCAD.
Everything your firm currently manages across a project register, a staff attendance register, an Excel cashbook, and a shared drive now lives in one app.
Right now, most architecture firms run on a mix of tools that do not talk to each other. A WhatsApp group for tasks. An Excel sheet for the cashbook. A shared folder for drawings. A register for attendance.
Trestle brings all of it into one place, built specifically around how an architecture firm actually works: by project type, by task, by drawing. It is installed on one computer in the office and used by everyone else from their own browser. Nothing to install, update, or manage on any other device, and nothing about your firm's data ever needs to leave your office.
Install Trestle once, on a single office computer. That machine quietly holds the entire firm's data. No server, no subscription to a cloud provider.
Everyone connects over the office LAN and opens Trestle in a normal browser. No internet connection is needed to use it day to day.
Staff do not install anything on their own laptop or phone. Your firm's data stays saved locally, in your own office, on your own machine.
One app for projects, staff, money and files, running privately from your own office. Every staff member can reach it the moment they connect to the office Wi-Fi.
Every staff member gets exactly the access they need. Nothing more.
One of the simplest but most important ideas in Trestle: money is private by default. Only the firm's owners can see fees, dues, and salaries. Everyone else just sees their own work.
Sees and runs everything
The firm owner or partner. Full visibility into every project, every task, and every rupee: fees, dues, and staff salaries included. Can see, at one glance, exactly which employee is working on which task right now, and can create, assign, lock, or prioritise any task.
Money visible
Sees only their own work
Architects and staff log into the same app and only see their assigned projects and tasks. They can update progress, log their hours, and mark tasks complete, but they never see fees, dues, salaries, or the firm's ledger. Money stays a management-only conversation.
Money hidden
An optional, focused role
For firms that want it, a separate accountant login can be given access to the money side only: the ledger and invoicing, without needing to be involved in day-to-day project management.
Money visible
The first screen you see. A live snapshot of the whole firm.
The dashboard is the home screen for everyone who opens Trestle. Instead of asking around to find out what is happening, it is simply visible the moment you log in.
Create a project, and its task list builds itself.
Every project in Trestle is created under one of four types: Architecture, Interior, Landscape, or Urban Design. The moment you pick a type, Trestle automatically fills in the standard checklist of tasks that kind of project always needs. Nobody has to sit down and write out a task list from scratch for every new project.
No punch-in button. No register. It just knows.
Attendance in Trestle is not something staff have to remember to do. There is no clock-in button to press and no register to sign. It is worked out quietly in the background, from the fact that someone is logged in and active in the app.
Hours logged against real tasks, and pay calculated straight from them.
Every employee logs their hours directly against the task or project they are working on. There is no separate spreadsheet to fill in at the end of the week. The timesheet lives right next to the work itself.
A proper GST invoice, on your own letterhead, in a click.
Instead of typing up an invoice by hand every time a client needs to be billed, Trestle generates it for you: correctly formatted, GST-compliant, and carrying your firm's own letterhead.
Replaces the manual Excel cashbook, properly, for an Indian firm.
This is the heart of Trestle's money side, and it is built for exactly how Indian architecture firms actually handle their finances, not a generic accounting tool that does not understand partner shares or the cash and GST split.
Every drawing, in its place, and open in AutoCAD with one click.
Every project gets its own organised folder inside Trestle, so drawings and documents do not end up scattered across laptops, USB drives, or a dozen WhatsApp chats.
The firm's project tracker, accountant, HR system, and file server, rolled into one private app that lives on their own office computer.
No cloud. No internet dependency.
Trestle runs the practice for nothing, for as long as you like. Paid tiers lift the caps and turn on the money side, and are priced by the number of employees you can add.
Up to 3 team accounts · 5 projects
Install it and start. No card, no trial clock, nothing expires. The free plan is a plan, not a countdown.
Everything you record on the free plan stays yours. Subscribe later and the caps lift and the money side switches on; nothing is hidden or deleted if you never do.
Up to 5 employees
Price on request
For a small practice or a partner-led studio getting organised.
5 to 20 employees
Price on request
For an established firm running several projects at once.
20 to 50 employees
Price on request
For a larger office with multiple teams and project leads.
50+ employees
Price on request
No cap on how many people you add. For firms at full scale.
Runs on one computer in your office. Talk to us to get set up.
