Built by an architect who needed it too.

Why Incus Software exists

Incus Software was started by John Stennis, an architect in Wyoming who runs a one-person practice, Forge. Running it meant paying for software built for much bigger firms: per-seat subscriptions, weeks of setup, and screens full of features a small practice never uses.

The tools that did fit were missing the parts an architect needs, like fees by phase, drawing scales in feet and inches, or a client page that shows progress without showing the numbers behind it.

So the tools got built inside the practice that needed them. Each one is used on real projects every day before anyone else is asked to pay for it.

What we make

Software for solopreneurs and small teams of up to about ten: people who are the expert, the project manager and the office manager at once. Each product does a few jobs properly and leaves the rest out.

• Incus: practice management, with time keeping, billing, agreements and a client portal.
• Markset: PDF markup for drawing sets.
• Foreman: an assistant kit for architects and design offices, built on Claude and Notion.

How we price

Prices are published. Where a product is used by a team, the price is for the practice, not for every seat in it. Where a product can be a one-time purchase, it is. Early customers keep the price they started on.

The name

Incus is Latin for anvil: the fixed, true surface everything else in the shop is shaped against. It doesn't do the work. It holds still so the work can be done on it. That is the job we want our software to do.