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IT support & cyber security for architects and engineersYour drawings are the business. Keep them safe.

Managed IT, cyber security and fixed-price practice automation for Australian architecture and engineering practices. Hosted in Australia. Sensitive data stays onshore.

  • Every project set up the same way
  • CPD evidence ready for an audit at any time
  • Your drawings never leave your own tenant
See the five products → Book a 30-minute practice review
Illustrative · how the products handle a typical morning
Where the risk gets in

Your designs are your IP. Your inbox is where the risk gets in.

Project correspondence, consultant invoices and client details move through email every day. Registration boards expect CPD evidence on demand, and fraudsters target construction payments.

01

Fake bank details on fee and consultant invoices

Business email compromise targets the construction sector because the payments are large and frequent. One changed account number is all it takes.

Bank-Change Guard Available now
02

Project correspondence lost in personal inboxes

When a dispute or variation comes up, the record you need is in someone’s mailbox, or with someone who has left.

Project Email Filing In validation
03

CPD records that cannot survive an audit

Points logged in a spreadsheet, certificates in an inbox, five years of history nobody can produce on the day.

CPD & Registration Tracker Available now
04

Drawings walking out the door

A departing staff member shares a project folder externally, or downloads it in bulk. Most practices find out months later, if at all.

Design IP Watch Coming soon
What’s changed

The obligations your practice already carries.

Registration rules for architects and engineers, and the fraud risk the sector is already being warned about.

Every year

Architects: audit-ready CPD

In Victoria, 20 CPD points a year (10 formal), records kept for at least 5 years, and audits at any time.

Architects registration
Every 3 years

Engineers: registration renewals

Victorian registered engineers need 150 CPD hours to renew. NSW engineers on regulated buildings need 50 hours a year.

Engineer registration
Ongoing

Payment fraud targets construction

The AFP has warned that criminals target the sector with business email compromise and fake bank details.

Australian Federal Police
10 Dec 2026

Privacy Act transparency

Privacy policies must describe decisions that software makes, or substantially helps make, using personal information.

OAIC
One team, three layers

Automation only works on a foundation that is already secure.

Most automation agencies bolt workflows onto whatever IT they find. We run the IT and the security first, so every product we install sits on a tenant we already know is locked down.

  • Managed IT. Helpdesk, Microsoft 365, devices, backup and quarterly reviews. $185 per user per month, published.
  • Cyber security. Essential Eight baseline, Microsoft Defender, Intune and Purview set up properly, monitored around the clock.
  • Practice Automation. Five products built for architects and engineers, each with a published price, installed in your own tenant.
See Managed IT → See cyber security
Practice Automation for architects and engineers

Five products. Published prices.

Built for Microsoft 365 Business Premium with SharePoint as your project file store. Egnyte, Dropbox and file servers on request. Each one installs into your own Microsoft 365 tenant, and each one stands alone.

01

Project Setup

ProductivityAvailable now

Every job set up the same way. One form creates the job number, a SharePoint site from your template, a Teams channel and permissions.

setup from$2,950 02

Project Email Filing

RecordsIn validation

Correspondence in the project, not the inbox. Emails with a job number file themselves, with a weekly unfiled report; a prompt before send to follow.

setup from$3,450 03

CPD & Registration Tracker

ComplianceAvailable now

Audit-ready CPD, every year. Two-minute logging, tracked against architect and engineer rules, five-plus years of evidence.

setup from$950 04

Bank-Change Guard

SecurityAvailable now

Stop payment-redirection fraud. Bank detail changes on fee or consultant invoices flagged, with a call-back to a number on file assigned and logged.

setup from$1,950 05

Design IP Watch

SecurityComing soon

Know when project files walk out the door. Alerts on mass downloads and external sharing in Microsoft 365, a departing-staff checklist and monthly reports.

setup from$2,450
Project Foundations bundle · products 01 + 02 for $5,450 setup. A consistent project structure, and correspondence that files itself into it. Project Setup can start now; Project Email Filing joins when it is released.See pricing & build a quote →

Prices ex GST for practices of up to 10 staff. Evisent managed clients receive 10% off setup.

Custom builds · Any industry

Not on the list? We’ll build it.

The products cover the jobs most practices share. Your business has its own. Tell us the job that eats your team’s week and we’ll scope a custom automation inside your Microsoft 365, quoted at a fixed price before we start.

Send us your brief → How custom builds work
  • Any industry. If the work runs through email, files, spreadsheets or forms, it can usually be automated.
  • Review first, fixed quote second. Thirty minutes with an engineer, then a written scope and price. No payment until you approve it.
  • Built and managed by us. In your own tenant, secured by the team that already looks after your IT.
Evisent Insights · Sold separately

What directors see across every project.

Fees against budget, resourcing weeks ahead, contract deadlines and the liquidated damages at stake, drawn from the systems you already use. It runs in your own Microsoft tenant, so the data stays with you.

Sold separately: not part of Managed IT plans, and you don't need to be a managed client. Builds start from $4,950 ex GST, depending on the modules, the data sources we connect and the customisation involved. Every build is quoted at a fixed fee first.

See Evisent Insights → Ask about Insights
Demo companyEvisent Insights for a demo engineering firm: project delivery, tender security requirements, licence use and IT cost per staff member.
A demo engineering firm. Every name and number is made up.
Real client work

What this looks like when it is running.

Automation · construction project reporting3 hours → 30 minutes

Monthly Project Control Group reports for a construction project manager, rebuilt inside the client’s own tenant. Live and rolling out across the portfolio.

Read the case study → Incident response · email compromiseContained by 6 AM.

A compromised Microsoft 365 account sent 607 phishing emails in 48 minutes, starting at 4:20 AM. Traced, contained and shut down the same morning.

Read the case study → What an audit finds$4,070 saved

A 35-staff business asked for a cost review. It also got seven high-severity security findings it did not know it had.

Read the case study →

★★★★★ 5.0 across 50 Google reviews from Australian businesses we look after.

↳ Next step

Thirty minutes on your practice.
A straight answer on what it needs.

A 30-minute call to map your systems and pick what fits: managed IT, a single product, or nothing at all. If nothing needs doing, we will tell you.

Book a 30-minute practice review → Ask a question 1300 384 736