Architecture & Engineering: Empowering the Connected AEC Firm

Unlock the full potential of your firm with Microsoft-powered solutions that connect data, streamline work, and support firm-wide transformation.

Success Story: KCI Modernizes Project Delivery and Business Planning

aec360 and Microsoft Dynamics 365 bring visibility, efficiency, and collaboration to one of the nation's fastest-growing engineering firms

AI for AEC: Microsoft’s AI Copilot in aec360

aec360 users can now harness the power of this new AI Copilot to drive productivity, visibility, and more.

Run a Better A&C Business.

Build What Comes Next.

HSO brings together A&E expertise, Microsoft technology, and AI-native delivery to improve how your business runs today and what it can achieve next.

BUILT AROUND THE WAY ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING WORKS

Bring Intelligence Across the Business

Every pursuit, project, resource decision, and client relationship contributes to firm performance. Connecting those decisions creates new opportunities to improve visibility, strengthen execution, and protect margin. And with AI, there’s even more potential to put your firm’s data, knowledge, and expertise to work.
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    Win the Right Work

    Turn client and relationship intelligence into action. Focus teams on the right opportunities, strengthen relationships, improve pursuit decisions, and create more paths to profitable growth.

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    Put the Right People on the Right Work

    Connect skills, capacity, backlog, and project demand to make smarter staffing decisions, improve utilization, and prepare for what’s coming next.

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    Deliver Projects with Greater Control

    Connect planning, contracts, resources, time, cost, and forecasting to give project teams earlier visibility and greater control from kickoff through completion.

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    See What Needs Attention Sooner

    Bring client, project, resource, and financial data together to surface risk, spot opportunities, and give leaders the intelligence to act before outcomes are decided.

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    Protect Margin and Improve Predictability

    Connect project and financial performance to strengthen forecasting, billing, cash flow, and project accounting, with greater visibility into the decisions that affect margin.

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    Put AI to Work Across the Firm

    Create the connected data, processes, security, and governance needed to move beyond isolated AI experiments and put Copilot and agents to work across real A&E business processes.

A NEW STANDARD FOR TRANSFORMATION

Get to Value Faster

Build for What Comes Next

A&E firms need to modernize faster, protect margin, improve predictability, and prepare for AI. HSO changes how they get there. Our AI-native delivery model combines digital and human consultants with deep AEC expertise to accelerate time-to-value, reduce delivery risk, and build an AI-ready business from day one. Powered by Nexus, HSO’s AI operating system, every engagement begins with the industry knowledge, delivery intelligence, proven methods, IP, and agents HSO has already built and refined.
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    FASTER TIME-TO-VALUE

    Reduce repetitive delivery effort and accelerate the path from Microsoft investment to business value.

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    HUMAN EXPERTISE AMPLIFIED

    Put AI to work during implementation so HSO experts can focus on the decisions and outcomes that matter most.

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    AI-READY FROM DAY ONE

    Design platforms, data, processes, integrations, agents, and governance together from the outset.

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    INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE BUILT IN

    Start with HSO’s AEC project-to-profit expertise, proven processes, industry IP, and delivery knowledge already built into the approach.

WHAT HSO DELIVERS FOR A&E FIRMS

One Partner for What You Need Now and What Comes Next.

Modernizing an A&E firm takes more than one application or technology. It means bringing business applications, data, AI, cloud, security, and the way people work together around the needs of the business.

HSO combines deep A&E expertise with the Microsoft Cloud to help firms strengthen core operations, put intelligence to work, and build for what comes next.

Business Applications

Many A&E firms still run on disconnected systems that can’t keep up with the pace of growth or the complexity of the business. aec360 brings CRM, ERP, and firm management tools together on a single Microsoft-based platform, purpose-built for architecture and engineering firms. We help you unify marketing and business development, finance, project delivery, and HR to gain visibility, eliminate silos, and operate with confidence, today and as your firm grows.

ERP & CRM
Built for A&E. Powered by Microsoft.

Purpose-Built for the Business of A&E.

Every firm has different priorities, but the connections between clients, pursuits, projects, people, and financials shape performance across the business.

HSO extends Microsoft with purpose-built A&E solutions that help firms strengthen those connections, improve visibility, and put data and AI to work where they matter most.

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