RJ PRO Tech Blog

Ask a practice manager how the firm’s technology is performing and you’ll get an adjective. Fine. Slow. Better than it was. Frustrating lately. Ask for a number and the conversation usually stops. That’s not a criticism — nobody hands architects a set of IT benchmarks when they open a practice. But it creates a real […]

Two businesses on the same street. Same size, roughly the same technology, roughly the same budget. One pays an hourly rate whenever something goes wrong. The other pays a fixed monthly fee whether anything goes wrong or not. At the end of a quiet year, the first business has spent less. At the end of […]

Picture a Monday morning at a fifteen-person practice. Someone arrives early, makes coffee, opens their laptop. The project folder won’t load. They try another. Same thing. By the time the second person arrives, it’s clear this isn’t a workstation problem — every model, every drawing set, every consultant file across the entire server is inaccessible, […]

Nobody calls IT support because a file took eleven seconds to open instead of two. That’s the trouble with slow. It never crosses the threshold where someone picks up the phone. It just sits there, absorbed into the working day, until people stop registering it as a problem at all and start treating it as […]

A structural engineer wouldn’t sign off on a design without checking the assumptions underneath it. Yet most A&E firm owners run their entire practice on a technology setup nobody has examined since it was installed — accepting on faith that the backups work, the security holds, and the slowness everyone complains about is simply how […]

Nobody sets up an engineering firm’s technology twice. It gets set up once, usually early, usually by whoever was most capable at the time, and then it grows by accumulation. A workstation here. A larger drive there. A backup arrangement someone configured during a quiet week in 2019 and nobody has revisited since. This works […]