BQE CORE is the engine.COREboards puts you in the driver's seat.
Your live CORE data becomes a clear, role-based board for every person in the firm, with an AI advisor that tells you what needs attention and what to do about it. One click files the follow-up back into CORE.
Free for 14 days. Connects to your BQE CORE account in about two minutes.
Accounts receivable
$351,274
76% over 90 days · 30 open
Staff utilization
58%
target 85% · 3 not logging
Collections
$169,814
84% of $201,893 billed
Project profitability
23%
18 projects · margin holding
Cash is the fire: $267k AR over 90 days plus $484k unbilled WIP
Needs attentionAccounts receivable · 3 pending
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Day one with COREboards
“I keep clicking on new things and thinking OMG, this is my favorite, this is going to make things so much easier, and then I click on something else and have the same thought again. :)”
Role-Based Dashboards
Each employee gets precisely the information they need to perform at their best and enjoy their work.
AI Advisor
AI interprets all the data to provide you with insights that help you make decisions and stay focused.
Staffing & Forecasting
A state-of-the-art tool for scheduling staff to meet project schedules and budgets. Easily balance workloads and project revenue.
Benchmarking
Effortlessly view real-time information on your firm's performance relative to thousands of other firms in your cohort.
One-Click Writeback
Timecard management, staffing, project creation and budgeting, task management, and more are updated in BQE CORE. No double entry.
Calendar Time Capture
Connect Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, or iCal and your meetings become CORE time entries, each with an AI-suggested project, phase, and activity to approve.
Everything we needed was already in BQE Core. We just couldn't see it.
Andre HerreroPrincipal · Charlap Hyman & HerreroData is just noise until it becomes insight.
CORE can schedule you a hundred reports, and you're still the one who has to read them, interpret them, and find the problem. COREboards is a navigator: it interprets your firm's numbers in real time, tells you what matters and what to do about it, and files the follow-up. You get your time back for the work you actually love, and it isn't reading reports.
Built by an architect with 35 years in practice, not by a software company.
The product
Practice-management software shouldn't feel like a second job.
The answers are already in CORE. COREboards hands them to you, tells you which one matters most today, and makes acting on it one click.
One CORE. A board for everyone.
A principal watches cash and backlog. A PM watches fee burn and conflicts. Staff see their own week. The same live CORE data, a different board for every seat, so nobody wades through screens built for someone else.
Click any board to open the full screen. Everyone in the firm is included.
Principal
Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
$351,274
76% over 90 days · 30 open
CFO
Dashboard
Accounts Receivable
$351,274
76% over 90 days · 30 open
Project Manager
Dashboard
Team To-Dos
31
36 open · aging
Studio Leader
Dashboard
Team To-Dos
31
36 open · aging
Architect / Engineer
Dashboard
My Hours This Week
28 / 40
75% billable
Steered by the firms who use it. A request box lives inside the product, and firms watch their ideas ship in days, not quarters.
New every weekBenchmark
See where you stand.
You've answered the BQE Benchmarking Survey for years and wondered why you couldn't see your own firm against it. Now you can. COREboards computes 16 KPIs from your live CORE data and lines each one up against the survey, split by discipline and firm size.
No spreadsheet, no consultant, no waiting for next year's PDF. It's simply on your board, current as of this morning, with zero effort on your part.
Revenue & profit per employee
Profit per FTE
Bottom 25%
$17k
Survey median
$43k
Top 25%
$69k
Opens in place. Click any KPI to see it against the survey.
Resource Allocation
Plan the team. Protect the schedule and budget.
COREboards brings each phase's schedule, milestones, remaining fee, planned hours, and team capacity into one view. Project managers can staff the work week by week and immediately see whether the plan supports an on-time, within-budget delivery.
Test different staffing scenarios without changing CORE. Adjust phase dates and milestones directly on the timeline, then publish the approved plan back to CORE when it is ready. Everyone works from the same information, without rebuilding the plan in a spreadsheet or separate scheduling tool.
- Plan by project, phase, person, and week, down to the activity
- See staffing alongside phase dates, milestones, and remaining fee
- Flag overbooking and work planned beyond scheduled end dates
- View the plan in hours or labor dollars at each person's rate
- Mark tentative work without affecting firm-wide commitments
- Rebalance workloads with suggested moves you approve
- Use placeholders for future hires and outside consultants
- Give every team member a clear weekly schedule in My Schedule
“Our project managers now have direct access to the staffing, scheduling, budget, billing, and project-progress information they need to manage their own projects.”
Sarah HardinSenior Director of Project OperationsCharlap Hyman & HerreroExplore the four views: click a tab below, or use ←/→
| 2026 | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects · 12 | This wk | Aug 3 | Aug 10 | Aug 17 | Aug 24 | Aug 31 | Sep 7 | Sep 14 | Sep 21 | Sep 28 | Oct 5 | Oct 12 | Oct 19 | Oct 26 |
| ▾24-018 · Riverside Civic CenterEAC 96%$2.4M fee | 18.5 | 18.5 | 19 | 18 | 17.5 | 25.5 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 16 | 16 | 13.5 | 12.5 |
| Design Development | 18.5 | 18.5 | 19 | 18 | 17.5 | 16.5 | 15.5 | 14.5 | 13.5 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | · | · |
| ▾DD · Architecture Jul 1 – Sep 30 | ||||||||||||||
| 14.5 | 14.5 | 14.5 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 12.5 | 12 | 11 | 10.5 | 9.5 | · | · | · | · | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 8.5 | 8 | 8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7 | 6.5 | 6 | 5.5 | 5 | ||||
| Julia Morgan | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5 | 5 | 4.5 | ||||
| ▾DD · Structural Jul 15 – Oct 15 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | · | · | |
| Zaha Hadid | 4 | 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| Construction Documents | · | · | · | · | · | 9 | 10.5 | 11.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 12.5 |
| ▾CD · Architecture Sep 1 – Feb 28 | ||||||||||||||
| · | · | · | · | · | 9 | 10.5 | 11.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 12.5 | |
| Denise Scott Brown | 5 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7 | |||||
| Renzo Piano | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5.5 | |||||
| ▾25-003 · Warner Residence RemodelEAC 108%$1.3M fee | 13 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 11 | 5.5 | 3.5 | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ▾Construction Documents Jun 1 – Aug 31 · staffed outside dates | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 11 | 5.5 | 3.5 | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Louis Sullivan | 7 | 7.5 | 8 | 9 | 9.5OVER +1.5h | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Gustave Eiffel | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 7 | 5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | ||||||
| ▸24-042 · Oak Plaza Mixed-UseEAC 88%$1.6M fee | 22 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 16 |
| ▸24-070 · Facilities Master Plan internalEAC 71%non-billable | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals · 12 | 57.5 | 59 | 61.5 | 61.5 | 61 | 62.5 | 56.5 | 54.5 | 50 | 48 | 38 | 38 | 34.5 | 32.5 |
14-week horizon from Jul 27 · click a cell in an expanded row to plan
Every project's plan — phase by phase, person by person — with fee burn and EAC on the same row. Warner is already 108% of fee and staffed past its end date; you see it here, not in a month-end surprise. Milestone weeks — a client review, an approval gate — are flagged right in the header, so you load them up before they sneak up.
Revenue Forecasting
See the revenue before it lands.
COREboards turns your live CORE data into a forward view of the money: the revenue curve, the phase timeline, and the what-if. Every number comes from CORE, and every change you make goes back to it.
Know which projects are running over fee and which month runs short while you can still do something about it, not at year-end when the numbers are already set.
- Planned, earned, invoiced, and paid on one revenue curve
- Earned value per project: CPI and margin at completion
- A drag-to-reschedule phase Gantt, anchored to the fee
- Toggle tentative pursuits to test what winning them does
Explore the four views: click a tab below, or use ←/→
| Project | Progress | Contract | Remaining | CPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-018 · Riverside Civic Center | $2.4M | $1.1M | 1.06 | |
| 25-003 · Warner Residence Remodel | $1.3M | $104k over | 0.86 | |
| 24-042 · Oak Plaza Mixed-Use | $1.6M | $900k | 1.12 | |
| 25-011 · Hartwell Public Library | $980k | $686k | 0.94 |
25-003 · Warner Residence Remodel
| Phase | Fee | Planned | Logged | Δ fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Services | $980,000 | $1,040,000 | $1,010,000 | −$60,000 |
| Design Development | $360,000 | $372,000 | $358,000 | −$12,000 |
| Construction Docs | $420,000 | $468,000 | $452,000 | −$48,000 |
| Construction Admin | $200,000 | $200,000 | $200,000 | n/a |
| Reimbursables | $320,000 | $308,000 | $300,000 | +$12,000 |
| All phases | $1,300,000 | $1,348,000 | $1,310,000 | −$48,000 |
Your firm's revenue curve — planned, earned, invoiced, paid — on one chart, then drill into any project for its earned-value story: CPI, margin at completion, phase-by-phase fee deltas.
Time tracking
The timecard nobody dreads.
Logging time in CORE is a chore, so it gets done late, or guessed. COREboards turns it into something you finish in seconds. Log the classic way in a grid, or drop blocks straight onto a week calendar, and every block becomes a real CORE time entry, start and stop included.
Better still, link your calendars. Connect Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, and Apple Calendar (iCal), one or all three, and your meetings arrive on the timecard already there. COREboards suggests the project, phase, and activity for each, tells you why, and learns from every confirmation, until whole weeks show up mapped and ready. You just review and log.
“COREboards has also allowed us to move beyond the traditional billable versus non-billable definition of utilization. It recognizes productive time spent on firm initiatives, training, standards, and operational improvements that we previously had to track manually in a separate spreadsheet.”
| Project · phase · activity | Mon13 | Tue14 | Wed15 | Thu16 | Fri17 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-003 · WARNER RESIDENCE REMODEL | ||||||
| Design Development | ||||||
| Design : Concept | 3 | + | 1.5 | + | 2 | 6.5 |
| Drawing : Redlines | 0.5 | + | + | + | + | 0.5 |
| Meeting : Coordination | 1.5 | + | 1 | + | + | 2.5 |
| Construction Admin | ||||||
| Admin : Submittals | + | + | + | 2.5 | + | 2.5 |
| Meeting : OAC | + | + | + | 1 | + | 1 |
| 24-011 · SCALA RESIDENCE | ||||||
| Construction Docs | ||||||
| Drawing : Production | 2.5 | + | 2.5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 19-08 · PALOS VERDES CIVIC CENTER | ||||||
| Schematic Design | ||||||
| Design : Concept | + | 2.5 | + | 2 | + | 4.5 |
| Site : Observation | + | + | + | + | 3 | 3 |
| 22-140 · REDONDO BEACH MIXED-USE | ||||||
| Bid & Negotiation | ||||||
| Site : Observation | + | 4.5 | + | + | + | 4.5 |
| Admin : Bid review | + | + | 2 | + | + | 2 |
| 00-00 · STUDIO | ||||||
| Professional Development | ||||||
| Internal : Studio time | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 4 |
| Daily total | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 |
Warner Residence Remodel
Design Development · Wed 15
Log time
Activity
Hours
Memo
Prefer the classic grid? Click any day cell and log project, phase, activity, and hours in one small editor.
Link your calendars
Connect Google, Microsoft 365, and iCal, one or all three. Events flow onto the timecard, read-only.
Log in a grid or on the week
Enter time the classic way or drop blocks on the calendar. Both write real CORE entries, start and stop included.
AI maps it, you approve
Each event gets a proposed project, phase, and activity with a plain-English reason. Nothing logs until you confirm.
It learns your firm
Every confirmation becomes a rule, so next week's matching events show up already mapped and Ready.
Integrations
Bring in the tools your team already uses.
Some of your hours and deals live outside CORE. COREboards connects those sources and folds them into the same boards, one-way and read-only. Harvest and HubSpot are live today, with more on the way.
Available now
Harvest
Pulls time, projects, and people into your boards.
HubSpot
Feeds your pipeline into the staffing “what if we win” forecast.
Coming soon
Use something else? Tell us. We prioritize new integrations by what our firms actually ask for, so the tool you rely on can be next.
From a firm using COREboards
What changed at Charlap Hyman & Herrero.
A principal and the director of project operations talk about the impact COREboards has had on their firm.
Everything we needed was already in BQE Core. We just couldn't see it. Getting a read on staffing, or where a project stood against its contract, meant building the picture by hand — and it was stale by the time we had it. COREboards ended that. Same billing system, nothing changed about how we bill. We just stopped flying blind.
Andre HerreroPrincipal, Charlap Hyman & HerreroCOREboards has changed how our project managers engage with the operational side of their work. Information that was difficult and slow to access in BQE CORE is now presented in a way that architects and designers can quickly understand and use, giving them greater ownership of staffing, schedules, and project decisions.
Sarah HardinSenior Director of Project Operations, Charlap Hyman & HerreroPricing
Priced by your firm, not your license count
$12 per person per month, or $120 per year with two months free. One firm subscription; everyone gets a board. No one gets bored.
$1,800per yearYou save $360 a year
15 people × $120 per person per year. Locked for 12 months; hire mid-year at no extra charge.
- Every board, every feature, unlimited sign-ins
- Staffing and resource planning with publish-back to CORE
- AI advisor guidance on every board
- Action Center and CORE to-do writeback
- The live CORE connection, kept fresh automatically
We count people, never CORE licenses. Shared licenses don't change your price; contract staff count only if you give them access.
Hires and departures adjust automatically. Annual plans lock for the year and re-set at renewal.
You see the number before you buy. Connect CORE and checkout shows your exact count and exact price.
Questions firms actually ask
Who counts as a person?
Every employee who can track time in your CORE account. Archived and deactivated people never count, no matter how many are in your system. Contract staff and consultants are different: they count only when you give one of them access to COREboards, so the subconsultants sitting in your vendor list cost you nothing.
We share CORE licenses. Does that change our price?
No. We count people, not CORE licenses. If 17 people log time under their own names on 9 shared licenses, you're a 17-person firm to us either way. We never look at, or care about, how many CORE licenses you bought.
What happens when we hire, or when people leave?
On monthly billing, your next invoice reflects your current headcount automatically: grow and it goes up, shrink and it goes down, without you telling us anything. On annual billing, your price is locked for the full year (hire mid-year at no extra charge) and simply re-sets at renewal. You never have to “unassign” anything or call us.
Do people need their own CORE login to use COREboards?
To sign in personally, yes, since COREboards uses your CORE credentials. But your boards cover the whole firm regardless: utilization, staffing, and project data include every person whether or not they ever log in. You're paying for the picture of your firm, not for logins.
Is there a minimum?
Yes, billing starts at 8 people, so a smaller firm is billed as 8. Every plan, at every size, includes everything.
How does this compare to what we pay BQE?
Deliberately. A COREboards person costs less per month than CORE's least expensive Time & Expense seat, and unlike a seat, it covers everyone in the firm.
How did you land on the price per person?
We priced it to be an easy yes and a fast payback. COREboards isn't just dashboards: a real AI advisor reads your firm's data every day and turns it into ranked, plain-English guidance. That intelligence genuinely costs us to run, but it's where the value lives, because raw data is noise until something turns it into a decision you can act on. Priced per person, that works out to a few dollars a week each. Most firms make it back in the first few days: the time your team stops losing to CORE's own clicking, saving, and report-hunting pays for COREboards in about a day, before you count a single dollar of better collections, utilization, or staffing.
Everyone gets a board. The firm pays one bill.
Built on your live CORE data
Connect your firm securely through BQE CORE itself; we never see your CORE password. Your data stays yours: it powers your boards and nothing else, and deep-links right back into CORE.
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Connect your firm
A firm admin connects COREboards through BQE CORE's own secure sign-in.
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Everyone gets their board
Each person signs in and lands on the role-specific view that fits their job.
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Act on the advice
The advisor flags what matters and turns it into CORE to-dos in one click.
Built with real firms. Ready for yours.
Connect your BQE CORE account and your boards build themselves: every KPI live from your own data, a dashboard for every person, an advisor tuned to your firm. See your real numbers before you pay a dollar.
“I would encourage any firm using BQE CORE to see what it can make possible for their team.”