Velocity Studio - Design, Engineering & Fast Permits for Developers

Duplex Infill Los Angeles, CA SB 9 Lot Split Fourplex · Middle Housing Seattle, WA By-Right Multifamily Custom Single-Family Austin, TX Building Permit Repeated High-End Plan Miami, FL Title 24 · Energy Two-on-a-Lot Oxnard, CA Zoning · CUP ADU Cluster Portland, OR Structural · Civil · MEP Duplex Infill Los Angeles, CA SB 9 Lot Split Fourplex · Middle Housing Seattle, WA By-Right Multifamily Custom Single-Family Austin, TX Building Permit Repeated High-End Plan Miami, FL Title 24 · Energy Two-on-a-Lot Oxnard, CA Zoning · CUP ADU Cluster Portland, OR Structural · Civil · MEP

The problem we solve

Other A&E teams are slow to design and engineer for permit.

Your current design team works slowly, expensively, and with too little technology and coordination, which adds carry and reduces ROI by months per project.

The painful permit process - miscommunication loops between design team, permit official, utility coordination and contractor

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Misaligned calendars, unclear boundaries

Architect, structural, civil, and MEP have their own workloads and priorities, so team cycles take weeks, and they often punt scope back to one another.

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Slow, and in no hurry

Each firm runs on expensive senior hours and little technology, so they are backlogged and slow, no matter how well you support them.

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Costs compound

These factors inflate design and engineering timelines by 3X - and every lost month is extra carry, and lost cashflow (if renting) or ROIC (if selling), for you.

Who we build for

We're built to accelerate exactly these projects.

Three different situations, one job: one senior team takes you to a permit-ready set fast, instead of four firms waiting on each other.

Multi-family infill

The zoning opened up. Now you just need a team fast enough to use it. A wave of new laws clears duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes by right - approved over the counter, no discretionary hearing. The entitlement used to be the bottleneck; now it's finding an A&E team that can move as fast as the law lets you.

Send us the parcel and we'll tell you how many units you can build by right, often before we get on the phone. Then one team takes it from upzoned lot to a permit-ready set - architecture, structural, civil, and MEP - so you reach submittal in weeks and start selling or renting that much sooner.

California SB 9 California SB 423 Washington HB 1110 Oregon HB 2001 Florida Live Local Massachusetts MBTA Communities Austin HOME

A single-family lot upzoned for a three-story multi-family building

Repeat home builders

You already know the plans that sell. You don't need a designer to reinvent them - you need an A&E team that adapts a proven plan to the next lot in the high-end neighborhoods you build in, and gets it permit-ready fast. We fit your validated design to the new site and its code, then carry it through structural, civil, and MEP to a stamped set.

You keep building your model. We keep the drawings and the plan-check comments from being what slows you down.

A proven home design being set onto a new high-end lot

Design partners

You own the design. We own everything after it. Hand us your settled layouts and we take them all the way to a permit-ready set for your jurisdiction - structural, civil, MEP, energy, and the full permit submittal - so your team keeps designing and selling instead of chasing engineers and answering plan-check comments.

Your name stays on the design. Ours goes on the stamps that get it approved.

A designer handing settled floor plans to an engineering team

The Velocity Studio Difference

Every discipline, in parallel. One cutting-edge team. One contract.

One team of licensed architects and engineers, backed by AI and a deep production bench, taking your project from feasibility through permit and into bid.

Everything, from feasibility to bid

Phase 1 · Design

Feasibility & site analysis
Space planning, look & feel
Architecture, SD through permit-ready CDs
Structural, civil & MEP engineering
Landscape & interior design

Phase 2 · Permitting

Building, zoning & use permits
Grading, earthwork & stormwater (NPDES)
Fire, life-safety & energy compliance
Historic, cultural & coastal / environmental review
Public works & agency approvals

Phase 3 · Pre-Construction

BIM quantity take-offs
Basis-of-design cost estimates
Bid packages & bid leveling
Contracting support & renderings

Velocity Studio's licensed architects and engineers reviewing a project together on screen

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BIM, Automation, & AI

Our team uses Revit with heavy automations to produce work faster. We use trees of AI agents to exhaustively walk all prevailing codes and collect all prescribed requirements into a Basis of Design. We can do in 1-2 days what takes other architects 1-2 weeks.

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Fast-tracked design process

Our team solves space layouts and look-and-feel selections in one marathon day each. We leanly work through design options and lock in the winner. We don't want revision rounds, and neither do you.

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Every discipline in parallel

Architecture, structural, civil, and MEP are all in-house, backed by a deep production bench. Once the design is set, every licensed professional develops it to permit at the same time, on one fixed fee.

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We own the outcome

If we underperform, we eat the risk. If moving your project forward takes a red-eye to your jurisdiction, we book it. Fixed fee means our incentives are always yours.

What speed is worth

The bigger the project, the more value our speed creates.

Bigger projects have higher opportunity costs, and slower A&E delivery... which is why Velocity Studio creates massive value for developers of larger homes and 2-to-6-unit multifamily infill (but we're overkill for an ADU).

Construction cost

Speed to submit permit

Typical A&E

Velocity Studio

Months saved

A month of delay costs

Carry

Rent forgone

or exit deferred

Value we create through speed

New ADU ~450 sq ft

~$250K

2-3 mo

~1 mo

1-2 mo saved

~$0/mo

~$2.2K/mo

n/a

+$2-4K We're overkill - hire a smaller shop.

New home ~2,000 sq ft

~$950K

4-6 mo

~2 mo

2-4 mo saved

~$7K/mo

~$5K/mo

~$9K/mo

+$25-65K We start to create real value for larger homes.

New duplex ~3,500 sq ft · 2 units

~$1.2M

5-7 mo

~2.5 mo

2.5-4.5 mo saved

~$8K/mo

~$7K/mo

~$13K/mo

+$40-95K Our bread and butter.

New fourplex ~5,000 sq ft · 4 units

~$1.55M

6-8 mo

~3 mo

3-5 mo saved

~$10K/mo

~$12K/mo

~$18K/mo

+$65-140K This is where we really shine.

Right fit if you're levered, speed-motivated, and design-decisive. If it's a small, unlevered project - or you'd rather take months to sit with every decision - we're the wrong team, and that's fine.

Illustrative, blended for a mid-range Los Angeles / Seattle infill market. Carry scales with land basis, not unit count - a premium-lot home can carry as much as a fourplex. Our timelines assume a clean site, a decisive owner, and standardized details. Actual figures vary widely by market, leverage, and exit.

Recent work

Design, engineering, and permitting across the U.S.

California, Hawaii, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and everywhere else slow A&E can drag down ROI by tens of thousands of dollars.

New house rendering in Maui, Hawaii — Maui, HI - renovation / addition - 3,800 sq ft

Duplex rendering in Cambridge, Massachusetts — Cambridge, MA - duplex - 5,600 sq ft

New house rendering in Palisades, California — Palisades, CA - fire rebuild - 1,800 sq ft

Large new house rendering in Tenafly, New Jersey — Tenafly, NJ - new build - 10,200 sq ft

New build exterior rendering in Nashville, Tennessee — Nashville, TN - new build - 7,000 sq ft

New build interior rendering in Nashville, Tennessee — Nashville, TN - new build - 7,000 sq ft

New house rendering in Gulfport, Florida — Gulfport, FL - new build - 3,200 sq ft

Gut-renovation rendering in Caldwell, New Jersey — Caldwell, NJ - gut renovation - 3,600 sq ft

Licensed professionals on every permit set.

Richman Neumann

Founder & Principal

AIA · LEED AP BD+C
Licensed Architect

Himanshu Patel

Structural & Civil

PE - California
Licensed Engineer

Bryan Scott

Architect & Ops

Licensed Architect

These licensed professionals lead a team of architects, engineers, and technicians spanning every discipline and jurisdiction - and no permit set leaves without one of their stamps.

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your project.

15 minutes with Richman. We'll research your parcel before we meet and come back prepared with a rough scope, fee, and timeline.

We research your parcel before the call Rough scope, fee, and timeline ready to discuss Most engagements run $35K and up - a full licensed stack, priced for projects that need one No obligation

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We'll ask a few quick questions about your project when you book.

Your A&E team for lightning-fast permits.