Design & procurement firms
Project and procurement software built for commercial interior design and FF&E procurement firms.
Purlieu gives commercial interior design, project, and FF&E procurement teams one connected platform for project management, quotes and specifications, purchasing, purchase orders, vendor collaboration, delivery, and reporting across every active client project.
Standardize how your team works, protect project knowledge, and manage more projects without rebuilding the process every time.
When growth outruns the process
The tools may work. The gaps between them don't.
Design and FF&E procurement firms often grow by adding spreadsheets, shared files, project-management tools, inboxes, and purchasing trackers one problem at a time. Each tool may work on its own, but the gaps between them create duplicate entry, inconsistent workflows, lost project context, and more status chasing as project volume grows.
Estimating
Built in a spreadsheet that starts as a copy of the last project's spreadsheet.
Specifications
Assembled in documents and files, revised in versions not everyone is holding.
The project plan
Kept in a separate tool, or in a schedule only the project manager maintains.
Vendor communication
Spread across individual inboxes, so a confirmation is known to one person.
Purchasing and order tracking
Handled somewhere else again, with information re-entered to get it there.
Status
Held in people's heads and shared verbally when someone thinks to ask.
What that costs the operation
- The same information is entered more than once, in more than one place.
- Updates are chased instead of looked up.
- Handoffs depend on someone remembering to send a message.
- Two projects run two different ways because two people ran them.
- The week is shaped by whatever went wrong first.
- A departure or a leave takes part of the process with it.
- Leadership has no dependable read on project status or workload.
- Mistakes reach the client before anyone internally sees them coming.
One connected workflow from opportunity through delivery.
Project information moves forward through project planning, FF&E specifications, quoting, purchasing, purchase orders, vendor collaboration, shipments, and delivery instead of being recreated every time the work changes hands.
- 01
Opportunity
Capture the account, contacts, and early project information where the project will actually live.
- 02
Estimate & quote
Price the scope from reusable quote structures instead of rebuilding the sheet each time.
- 03
Specify
Turn approved pricing into specifications without re-creating the product information behind it.
- 04
Plan & assign
Load a template so tasks, stages, owners, and dates exist before work starts.
- 05
Purchase
Issue orders from information the team already approved rather than re-keying it.
- 06
Track & deliver
Follow order and shipment status through delivery while there is still time to react.
Project management
Make the process visible, not dependent on memory.
Projects start from reusable templates that load the tasks, stages, and stakeholders your firm expects, so a new project does not begin with a blank plan and a conversation. Dependencies, dates, and ownership sit on the schedule where the whole team can see them, and when a step is finished the next responsible person can be notified automatically rather than told in passing.
- Reusable project templates with predefined tasks, stages, and stakeholders.
- Owners, dependencies, dates, and progress visible across simultaneous projects.
- Automated handoff notifications when preceding work is complete.
- Fewer verbal status updates, because status lives on the project.
- A defined process that survives a handover, a leave, or a new hire.
Quotes & specifications
Stop rebuilding the same project information.
Estimating, costing, merchandising, and specification live on the same records. Master and template quote structures handle scopes the firm quotes again and again, vendor pricing can be compared while the estimate is still open, and location or room information stays with the items it belongs to. Quote and specification reports, including specification books, are generated from that data instead of assembled a second time in another document.
- Master and template quote structures for repeat scopes.
- Product, location, and specification data kept with the quote.
- Vendor pricing compared in place during estimating.
- Estimating, costing, and merchandising on one record.
- Configurable quote and specification reports, including specification books.
- Approved information stays connected to purchasing and orders.
Procurement & vendors
Procurement shouldn't be an email-tracking exercise.
Requesting pricing usually means packaging a scope by hand, digging up the right contact, sending the message, remembering to follow up, keeping a private list of who replied, reading the returned file, and typing the results back into the project. Purlieu structures that exchange: requests go out from the project record, responses and files come back against it, and the team can see what is outstanding without maintaining a side list.
- Vendor requests packaged and sent from the project record.
- Responses, files, and confirmations tracked against the request.
- Notifications and follow-ups that do not rely on a personal reminder.
- Pricing brought back into the quote instead of re-typed from an attachment.
- Vendor Portal collaboration available where a firm and its vendors want it.
Orders & delivery
Carry approved information into orders, then keep watching it.
Purchase orders are created from the quote and specification records the team already approved, so purchasing does not begin with a rebuild in another system. Order and shipment status stays attached to the project through delivery, which is what turns a delay into something the team sees early rather than discovers at the dock.
- Purchase orders created from approved project information.
- Order and shipment status tracked against the project through delivery.
- At-risk items surfaced while there is still time to respond.
- One record the project team and the client contact can both be answered from.
What changes operationally
Build a company that knows how it works.
The point is not another place to record work. It is that the firm depends less on individual people holding everything together, skilled staff spend their time managing projects and serving clients, and the way a project runs stays with the company.
Consistency
Templates, defined stages, and automated handoffs institutionalize how your best people run a project, so a client gets the same standard of delivery regardless of who is managing the work.
See Project Management →Scalability
A new designer, project manager, or buyer inherits a defined operating system, how work moves, what they own, what happens next, instead of absorbing years of tribal knowledge from a colleague.
See Quotes & Specifications →Capacity
Reporting shows remaining task hours and assignments across the team, so managers can understand what people are already carrying before the next project is assigned. It informs the decision; it does not make it.
See Reporting →Customer protection
Schedules, ownership, and order status stay on the project, so a slipping date is something the team addresses early rather than something the client discovers first.
See Orders →Scale
Standardize the operation without making every project identical.
Standardizing how work moves is not the same as flattening the work itself. Projects still carry their own scopes, products, locations, and clients, what stays consistent is the path a project takes and the point at which each person picks it up.
- Templates define the tasks, stages, and stakeholders a project starts with.
- Stages and statuses mean the same thing across every project and every team.
- Handoffs are defined once and repeat the same way, project after project.
- Project data stays configurable, so scope and detail still differ where they should.
- Adding projects or people does not require inventing the process again.
Built for firms that manage the work between design and delivery.
Purlieu fits firms that combine design and specification, project management, and procurement, and it also fits teams doing two of the three. They deliver hospitality, education, healthcare, workplace, and other commercial interiors, and the common thread is many client projects moving at once rather than the specific vertical.
Strongest fit
- Multiple active client projects rather than one internal build
- Commercial interior design, specification, procurement, or a combination of those services
- Project management and FF&E delivery coordinated by the same firm
- Multiple designers, project managers, or procurement staff
- Work currently split across spreadsheets, email, shared files, or separate systems
- Roughly five or more active projects at any time
- A need for repeatable project processes as project volume grows
Probably not the fit yet
- A single one-off internal project
- Very low, occasional project volume
- No recurring project-delivery operation to standardize
If that describes you today, it is worth saying so early, we would rather tell you Purlieu is not the right tool yet than sell you a process you do not need.
Built for firms delivering commercial interiors across multiple markets.
FAQ
Design & procurement firm questions
Many firms combine spreadsheets, shared files, email, separate project-management tools, and purchasing trackers. Purlieu brings project management, quotes and specifications, purchasing, purchase orders, vendor collaboration, delivery tracking, and reporting into one connected platform built for commercial interior teams.
Yes. Purlieu fits firms that combine design and specification, project management, and procurement, and it also fits teams doing two of the three. Specification, quoting, and project information created by one team moves forward into purchasing and orders for the next.
Yes. Purlieu is built for firms managing many client projects at once. Teams can see tasks, schedules, responsibilities, and workload across active projects, and manage purchase orders across multiple projects.
Yes. Approved quote and specification information, including product, pricing, and vendor details, carries forward into purchasing and purchase orders so the team does not rebuild it in another system.
Yes. Reusable project templates define the tasks, stages, responsibilities, and workflow a project starts with, and connected tasks can notify the next responsible person when preceding work is complete. Project data stays configurable, so scope and detail can still differ where they should.
Yes. Through the Vendor Portal, vendors can respond to designated requests for pricing, specification details, shipment information, and tracking. Vendors only see the information intentionally shared with them, and your team reviews their responses before accepted changes are applied.
Purlieu is generally strongest for firms with recurring project volume, typically around five or more active projects, multiple team members, and a need for the same process to hold as volume grows. A single one-off project or very low, occasional project volume is usually not the right fit yet.
Show us how your team runs a project today.
We'll walk through the handoffs, systems, and recurring work with you and show where Purlieu can simplify the operation.