Pre-Design

Capture site constraints and client goals before design begins.

Layer helps teams collect pre-design inputs, site constraints, and stakeholder requirements in structured forms — organized and ready to reference throughout the project.

Without Layer

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Site notes and zoning research saved in unstructured files

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No shared place to view client goals and technical requirements

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Early decisions hard to trace later in the design

With Layer

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Discovery data collected and organized with custom forms

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Zoning, surveys, and program notes tied to site or plan views

✅

Everything structured, tagged, and visible across disciplines

Without Layer

❌

Site notes and zoning research saved in unstructured files

❌

No shared place to view client goals and technical requirements

❌

Early decisions hard to trace later in the design

With Layer

✅

Discovery data collected and organized with custom forms

✅

Zoning, surveys, and program notes tied to site or plan views

✅

Everything structured, tagged, and visible across disciplines

Without Layer

❌

Site notes and zoning research saved in unstructured files

❌

No shared place to view client goals and technical requirements

❌

Early decisions hard to trace later in the design

With Layer

✅

Discovery data collected and organized with custom forms

✅

Zoning, surveys, and program notes tied to site or plan views

✅

Everything structured, tagged, and visible across disciplines

Pre-design data structured and accessible from day one.

Layer applications for Pre-Design

Property Assessment

Conduct thorough property assessments directly from your mobile device or tablet. Capture photos, record conditions, and note key details on-site, even offline. Instantly sync your data with your team and generate customized reports with Layer's drag and drop report builder.

Architect

Owner

Building Survey

Organize surveys by model or drawings with Layer's Building Condition Survey Template. It covers Rooms, Windows, Doors, Equipment, and more for client reports.

Architect

Engineer

Don't just take our word for it, here's what our users say:

Workflows created for Architects

Pádraic Daynes

Amica Senior Lifestyles

Layer has allowed my company to deliver many of our projects faster and with greater ease. For my industry, Layer's ability to attach pictures, descriptions, and other information to specific points in a building while simultaneously adding them into a searchable, robust database greatly improves our workflow to become more organized and faster.

Jason Maple

Bryan Health Systems

Layer ensures we have the right data at the right time. The direct integration into Revit is also a major bonus.

Olga Kerkhanidi

DMA Architects

From heritage buildings to new construction, Layer works as a kit of parts to manage our data. It’s a highly flexible tool that adapts to your workflows and not the other way around.Their staff are available and truly care about the success of our projects.

Mark LePage

Architect & Entrepeneur

Layer is very impressive and intuitive. When you see that a conversation about the flooring material in a specific room in a specific building can be found in seconds and that can happen over and over all day long, it’s amazing how much time and money using Layer would save.

Drew Zeiba

Tech Editor

The goal of Layer App is to increase project transparency and ease of use by allowing all of the information on a building to exist together and to allow team communication to happen within the same space.

Roy Carroll

Kasian Architecture

Layer’s support team has helped us speed up the time it takes us to accomplish our goals. Once you have a Layer template set up, the rest is easy peasy. The fields are already there because I copied it from the original template. All I need to do is input the data.

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Get Started Today

Want to see how Layer can transform the way your team works?

Schedule a Demo

Get Started Today

Want to see how Layer can transform the way your team works?

Schedule a Demo