Ofivio AE, explained: what's in the box, what it costs, and how the product system works

Ofivio used to be one subscription. In 2026 it became a product system: six products on one spine, each shaped around an industry, each priced by team size, each able to buy the dashboards it does not already include. Ofivio AE is the flagship of that system — the product built for architecture and engineering practices — and this guide walks through all of it: the box, the packages, the add-ons, VO, and the ceiling.

The idea: buy a product, not a bundle of features

Most software prices by feature matrix — eighty rows of ticks and crosses that nobody reads. Ofivio prices on three axes that never overlap. The PRODUCT says which industry you are in. The PACKAGE says how many people you are — seats and storage, nothing else. The DASHBOARD is the add-on unit: a whole department's workspace, never a single function sold back to you piecemeal.

• Product — Ofivio AE for design practices, Ofivio Build for contractors, Ofivio Real Estate for property, Ofivio Finance for accounting firms, Ofivio HR for people management.
• Package — Solo (up to 5 seats), Business (up to 25), Enterprise (unlimited, quoted). Packages differ by seats and storage only.
• Dashboard add-ons — a whole dashboard at one flat price, identical in every product.
• VO — the AI officer, priced per seat, in three tiers.

What's in the Ofivio AE box

Ofivio AE ships five dashboards in the base price, plus the two every Ofivio product includes free. The base is $35/month for a solo practice and $250/month for a business band, before any add-ons.

The spine underneath is what makes it one product rather than five tools: a drawing produced in Studio belongs to a stage, the stage belongs to a project, the BOQ lines belong to the same project, the site report references the same drawings, and the fee milestones post into the same books. Nothing is exported from one module and re-imported into the next.

The design spine: eleven stages, sets by discipline

AE's core is the design spine — eleven design stages from concept to handover, with drawing sets organised by discipline, each set carrying its own revisions, transmittals and BOQ. If you have worked to the RIBA Plan of Work, the shape is familiar; the difference is that here the stages are live objects your drawings, approvals and fees actually attach to, not headings in a fee proposal.

Add-ons: whole dashboards, one price each

A practice that starts procurement work adds Ofivio Procurement ($15/mo solo, $60/mo business). A firm that runs its own store room adds Ofivio Warehouse. Double-entry books come with Ofivio Accounting. Every add-on is the entire dashboard — the same one a native product ships — never a cut-down version.

VO — the AI officer, per seat

Every seat gets VO Assist free — text chat over everything that seat is allowed to see, with a daily token allowance. VO Voice ($4/seat solo, $6/seat business) adds speech in and out, including Urdu, hands-free on mobile. VO Officer ($8/$12 per seat) executes work: drafts, tasks, approvals, watchers, a daily briefing and long-term memory. Read the full breakdown on the VO page.

One design decision worth knowing before you buy: when a seat's daily allowance runs out, VO pauses rather than bills. There is no surprise invoice at the end of the month — the meter is a daily token budget, and hitting it is an upgrade prompt, not a charge.

The ceiling: where the bill stops

Your bill is base + dashboards + VO — and it is hard-capped at $100/month on Solo and $500/month on Business. At the cap, everything unlocks: every dashboard, in every corner of the platform. Ofivio calls that Complete. In practice it means the worst case is known before you start, and a growing firm converts itself at a price it already accepted.

What AE costs in practice

Every Ofivio product also includes the Ofiverse — portfolio, blog, store, the consultant marketplace, training and Viordo — at no extra cost, on every package. Details on the Ofiverse page.