Fig. 01
A project opens with its stages already on it.
Inception to close-out, with the dates, the fee shares and the people responsible in place from the start. You open a project; you do not configure one.
Your whole practice, under one roof.
All six SACAP stages, from inception to close-out.
A-050, the film
Less chaos. More architecture.
What the investment changes in a practice, in under a minute and a half.
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A-100, the record
Practice management for South African architects
Every project, every person, every rand, under one roof.
Syntekta is the office system for an architecture practice. It keeps the projects, the stages, the fees, the deadlines, the team's hours and every conversation with a client in one record, so that a principal can see where each job stands without having to ask anyone.
It is built in South Africa for the way work is appointed, documented and claimed here: the six SACAP work stages, the guideline fee scale, and clients who expect to know where their building stands.
- 6SACAP work stages, already on every project
- 1record for the practice, its team and its clients
- Asign-in page at your own address, under your own name
- 1current revision of every drawing, by rule
A-200, the night
What costs a practice sleep
Every principal knows the questions that arrive at 02:00.
- 23:40
A client phones to ask where their project stands, and the only honest answer is that you will find out and call them back.
- 00:25
A date you promised a client three months ago falls due this week, and you learn about it when the client reminds you.
- 01:10
Two revisions of the same drawing are both marked current, and nobody is certain which one the contractor has built from.
- 02:14
A stage was finished weeks ago, and the fee claim for it has still not gone out.
- 03:05
You discover that someone was carrying too much work on the day they hand in their resignation.
None of this happens because anyone is careless. It happens because the record lives in people's heads and inboxes, and nobody can see all of it at once. Syntekta puts the whole record in one place.
A-300, the stages
SACAP work stages
Six stages. One roof.
Practice management built on the six SACAP work stages.
Every South African appointment runs through the same six stages, and the fee is apportioned across them from the guideline scale. In Syntekta a new project opens with all six already on it. Each stage carries its dates, its share of the fee and the person it is waiting on, and when a stage closes it becomes a fact on the record, ready for the fee claim.
1Inception1
2026-044Alterations and additions, Waterkloof RidgeResidential
2Concept and viability2
2026-039Dental rooms fit-out, MenlynInterior
2026-041Private residence, Silver LakesResidential
3Design development2
2026-027Boutique hotel conversion, HatfieldHospitality
2026-031Veterinary clinic, GarsfonteinHealthcare
4Documentation and procurement2
2025-118Office block, Highveld Techno ParkCommercial
2026-012Townhouses, Faerie GlenResidential
5Construction1
2025-072Private residence, WaterkloofResidential
6Close-out1
2024-088Distribution centre and offices, SamrandIndustrial
Documentation closed on 2025-118 today. Its fee claim is ready to send.
A-400, the practice
How it fits
Syntekta is built for the way your practice works.
You do not have to design a workflow before you can start. Syntekta already follows the way a South African practice runs a job, from the first enquiry to the final certificate, and it carries your own name, address and letterhead the whole way.
Fig. 02
An enquiry becomes a fee proposal, and the proposal becomes the project.
An enquiry from your website turns into a proposal built on the guideline fee scale and apportioned by stage. When the client accepts it, the appointment and the project are set up from it.
Fig. 03
Every date you give a client is kept and tracked.
Each deadline is recorded with the day it was made and the day it is due. You see what is coming before the client has to remind you, and afterwards the record shows whether it was met.
Fig. 04
There is one current revision of every drawing.
The register records which revision is current, what was issued to whom and for what purpose, and what the client approved. Your drawings stay where they already live.
Fig. 05
Your clients see their own project, under your name.
Each client signs in at your practice's own address on Syntekta, under your name and your mark, and sees their project's stage, its dates and what is waiting on them, and nothing that belongs to anyone else.
Fig. 06
The conversation stays with the project.
Messages about a job are kept on the job, beside its drawings and decisions, and every approval is recorded with its date. When a question comes up months later, the answer is already written down.
A-500, the gains
What it is worth
The gains show up where a practice feels them most.
In the fee account, in the diary, on site and in the next referral. Point at each one, or tap it, to read how.
01 / 05
More money
A stage end is recorded on the day it happens, so the fee claim goes out the week the stage closes, not the month someone remembers. You also see how much work your people are carrying before you accept the next project.
02 / 05
Less time chasing
"Where are we?" is answered by the client's own view before the phone rings. "Which revision is current?" is answered by the register, not by opening folders. Deadlines arrive in each person's own list before they fall due.
03 / 05
Fewer mistakes
There is one current revision of each drawing, by rule, and every issue is logged: to whom, when and for what purpose. People work from the right information because there is only one place to find it.
04 / 05
Fewer comebacks
Every approval is dated and every decision is on the record, and snags are raised, pinned to the plan and closed in one list. When a dispute comes, the record has already been written.
05 / 05
The practice clients recommend
Your client sees a project in command: its stage, what they approved and what is waiting on them, at your address and under your name. When a delay is theirs, the record says so, politely and with dates.
Your data is yours: isolated at the database, and nobody at Syntekta looks in without your approval, timed and logged.
A-600, the meeting
See it at work, on a fictional practice.
We show you Syntekta running a working week in a practice that does not exist, answer your questions, and then quote for the modules you want.