Total Synergy and Monograph are joining forces to create a global technology company focused exclusively on practice management for architecture and engineering firms, with AI expected to play a growing role in the combined company’s products.
The transaction brings together Total Synergy’s international presence and more than 25 years of A&E software experience with Monograph’s U.S.-focused practice management platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The combination also includes Factor A/E, which Total Synergy acquired in 2025, giving the organization products serving firms across different sizes, geographic markets and operating models.
Targeting Fragmented A&E Workflows
The companies are targeting a problem that remains common across architecture and engineering firms: critical business processes are often spread across spreadsheets, disconnected applications and manual workflows.
Project management, staffing, billing and financial performance can consequently require information to move between multiple systems, creating additional administrative work and limiting visibility for practice leaders.
Total Synergy and Monograph see an opportunity to replace more of that fragmentation with connected software designed specifically around the operational requirements of A&E businesses.
AI is expected to become an important part of that effort, particularly for automating routine work and extracting useful information from operational data.
Three Platforms Bring Different Strengths
The combined organization will draw on three existing A&E software businesses.
Total Synergy brings its presence in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, along with experience serving larger and more complex firms. Monograph contributes a modern platform and established position in the U.S. market, while Factor A/E focuses on smaller and growing firms.
Monograph, founded in 2019, provides a connected platform spanning business development, project planning, staffing, time tracking, billing, payments and financial performance. The company says its software is used by more than 2,000 firms.
Total Synergy’s platform similarly focuses on industry-specific business operations, including resource planning, project tracking, invoicing and reporting.
AI Moves Into Industry-Specific Business Software
The combination is also another example of AI moving deeper into specialized enterprise applications rather than remaining a standalone productivity tool.
A&E practice management presents a potentially valuable environment for that transition because firms generate substantial operational information through projects, timesheets, invoices, staffing decisions and resource plans.
Total Synergy has already been incorporating AI into its software. Its Global Search capability, for example, uses semantic search to let users query projects, invoices, contacts, documents, emails and staff using natural language.
Bringing the companies together gives the organization a larger customer and data environment from which to develop additional automation and intelligence capabilities.
Scale Could Accelerate Product Development
The companies are also receiving additional investment capital as part of the combination.
Total Synergy CEO Kane Hochster said the increased scale and investment would allow the organization to develop more intelligent tools that automate routine work and provide clearer insights for firms.
The strategy isn’t simply to add AI features to existing software. The larger opportunity is using AI to reduce the administrative burden surrounding the business side of architecture and engineering.
That could include helping firms better understand project performance, allocate resources, automate repetitive processes and identify financial issues earlier.
The Bottom Line
The combination of Total Synergy and Monograph shows how vertical enterprise software is becoming another important battleground for AI.
Rather than building generalized AI tools, the combined company is focusing on workflows unique to architecture and engineering firms, where understanding projects, utilization, staffing, billing and profitability requires significant industry context.
The companies now have a broader international footprint and a portfolio serving firms of different sizes. The bigger test will be whether that scale translates into AI capabilities that meaningfully reduce administrative work rather than simply adding another AI layer to existing practice management software.