aec360: Empowering the Connected AEC Firm

Bring the familiar look and feel of Excel into your project estimation workflows — directly within Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform. Build up work plans, resource requirements, and profitability projections, leveraging customer and contract-specific rate schedules. Eliminate rework, reduce errors, and accelerate proposal turnaround with a flexible, spreadsheet-style tool your team already knows — embedded where you actually manage projects.

Streamline the billing process with online collaborative pre-bill review and mark-up tools. Easily make billing adjustments, auto-generate invoice backup details, and automate the creation and sending of invoices — all designed to accelerate the billing cycle, while eliminating manual billing review steps and errors.

Create a centralized repository of your firm’s experience and qualifications to gain a complete view of project history, employee experience and qualifications, and project performance. Enable your marketing team to best highlight your expertise, differentiate your firm, and support pursuits with precision – putting your firm’s best foot forward so you can win more work. Save time by using embedded Microsoft AI technology to automate the creation of project briefs and other narratives, generate resumes and project cut sheets, and simplify the creation of standard forms (SF330, SF254/255) within your proposal processes.

Gain a complete, real-time view of your firmwide relationships so that your team can find and win more work.  Leverage modern relationship intelligence tools to automatically capture contact and activity data, uncover hidden relationship connections across the firm, and measure relationship strength to drive more strategic engagement. Put your relationships to work so you can create optimal pursuit teams, execute cross-practice business development initiatives, and grow your firm’s revenue.

Stay connected from any location with cross-platform mobility. Deploy standard mobile apps for time and expense management, business development, and analytics, while leveraging Microsoft Power Platform to easily build and deploy client-specific mobile solutions. Whether updating pursuits, capturing time and expenses, or accessing key reports and data, aec360 helps ensure your team stays connected, even on the move.

The Time Entry Copilot Agent streamlines time and expense tracking in Microsoft Teams. Using natural language, it auto-populates entries, pulls real-time project data from Dynamics 365 F&O, and sends smart reminders—making submissions faster, easier, and more accurate.

The PayFlow Agent streamlines vendor payment inquiries by analyzing emails, pulling real-time data from Dynamics 365 Finance, and sending instant, accurate replies. It clears inbox backlogs, reduces manual effort, and strengthens vendor relationships with faster, more consistent communication.

The Expense Entry Agent by HSO transforms how employees capture and submit expenses directly within Microsoft Teams. Using AI and natural language, it extracts receipt data, auto-fills expense lines, and ensures compliance cutting submission time in half while improving accuracy and user satisfaction.