Your team designs buildings. Your IT shouldn't feel like scaffolding.
Purplo supports architecture and engineering practices across Greater Vancouver — fast workstations for CAD and BIM, file systems that handle 2GB models without drama, and project archives you can still open in ten years.
Design firms have IT problems most providers never see.
- Revit and AutoCAD punish underpowered machines — and generic MSPs spec office laptops for design work.
- Central models corrupt, sync conflicts eat afternoons, and consultants outside your walls need controlled access to live project files.
- A project file server that's slow at 4pm costs every designer in the office at once.
- Liability tails run for years — when a claim surfaces, you need the drawing set, the emails, and the RFI history from 2019, intact.
- Deadlines cluster: submission day and IT failure day cannot be the same day.
Infrastructure that keeps up with the studio.
CAD/BIM performance
Workstations specified for Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, and Adobe workloads — plus network storage tuned for large-model workflows instead of office documents.
Collaboration beyond your walls
Secure, controlled file sharing with consultants, contractors, and clients — BIM 360/ACC, SharePoint, or hybrid — without resorting to personal Dropbox accounts.
Project archives that hold up
Structured archiving at project close-out with verified, restorable copies — so a claim, a renovation, or a returning client never sends you digging through dead drives.
Deadline-proof continuity
Datto-backed backup and recovery with documented restore times. Submission week gets a change freeze, same as our accounting clients get at tax time.
"We treat a design firm's file server the way a partner treats a deadline: it is not allowed to slip."— How we think about studio infrastructure
Fifteen minutes to a faster studio.
Tell us your worst sync-conflict story. We've heard worse, and we've fixed worse.