The Financial and Operational Partner Your Firm Has Been Missing
Specialized support for interior design firms that are ready to run with clarity, structure, and confidence.
Join Us >Ways AVID Supports Your Firm
Each service stands alone. Engage one, two, or all based on exactly where your firm needs support.
01.
Bookkeeping Services
The financial backbone of your firm, handled by a team that understands the interior design business.
- Weekly Posting: Your transactions are recorded consistently so your books are never behind
- Monthly Reconciliations: Every account is balanced and verified so your numbers are always accurate and trustworthy
- Monthly Income Statement: A clear picture of your revenue, expenses, and profitability delivered every month
- Monthly Cash Analysis: A regular pulse check on your firm's cash position so you are never caught off guard
- Quarterly Check In Meetings: Dedicated time with your AVID team to review performance, ask questions, and stay aligned
- Dedicated Team Access: Direct access to your AVID team between meetings so support is always within reach
- Also Available:
- Accounts Receivable (Tracking and managing what your clients owe you)
- Accounts Payable (Management and processing of payments to Vendors)
- Time Billing, Purchase Billing, Multi-State Sales Tax Filings, Payroll & Benefits Management, Annual 1099 Filing
All engagements are custom scoped to your firm. Schedule a discovery call to get started.
02.
Fractional CFO
Strategic financial leadership for the firm that is ready to grow with intention.
- Cash Flow Projections: Forward looking visibility into your firm's cash position so you can plan and make decisions with confidence
- Company Budgets: A financial roadmap for the year ahead built around your firm's goals and capacity
- Profit and Pricing Analysis: A deep look at where your firm is profitable and where it is not, with clear guidance on how to price your services to protect your margins
- Billing Rate and Model Analysis: A thorough review of how you are currently billing for your services, whether your rates reflect the true value and cost of your work, and where adjustments could meaningfully improve your firm's profitability
- Billable Target Framework and Utilization Tracking: Clarity on what your team needs to bill and how efficiently they are doing it
Studio Designer Setup and Conversion: Expert configuration of your Studio Designer platform to support accurate financial reporting from day one
Financial Coaching: One on one guidance to help you understand your numbers, build financial confidence, and make better business decisions
All engagements are custom scoped to your firm. Schedule a discovery call to get started.
03.
Operational Infrastructure
The systems, structure, and training your team needs to execute consistently and professionally.
- Custom Procurement Workflow: A tailored purchasing process built specifically for your firm that reduces errors, protects margins, and gives your team a clear path to follow on every project
- Purchasing Checkpoint Custom Reporting: Status reporting that gives you visibility into where every purchase stands so nothing slips through the cracks
- Studio Designer Training and Optimization: Hands on training that elevates how your team uses Studio Designer so you get everything the platform has to offer
- Project Management Software Implementation + Training: How to manage and track tasks throughout your team and projects
- Digital Systems Implementation: Setting up and integrating the digital tools that keep your team connected, organized, and executing at a high level
- Staffing and Role Development Consulting: Guidance on how to structure your team, define roles clearly, and build toward the firm you are growing into
This is a sampling of the many ways we can support your firm. At its core, AVID is a strategic partner for the business of interior design. If it touches the operations or financial health of your firm, chances are we have a solution, a system, or a recommendation to help you move forward with confidence.
All engagements are custom scoped to your firm. Schedule a discovery call to get started.
Your Financial Clarity Session
1:1 Session with Christina Chappin
You are sitting on more financial insight than you realize. This session will show you exactly where to look, what it means, and what to do next.
In 90 minutes together, we will audit your current financial picture, walk through the reports every interior design firm should be reviewing, and leave you with the proprietary tools and clarity to lead your firm with confidence.
Book Your Session >Purchasing Specification Templates
Accelerate growth and implement AVID Operations tried and tested processes into your design firm today!
The Purchasing Specification Templates are everything a designer needs to know when proposing and ordering products. When projects are moving quickly, the many details can be overlooked and lead to costly mistakes. The templates act as a checklist, guiding both the experienced and novice designer through the many considerations when specifying the nuances of a particular type of product.
The template is great for all design firms, however, if you are a Studio Designer user, you can optimize the “Products” module by transferring the content directly from the PDF.
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Coming Soon: AVID Digital Courses & Trainings
A video library built specifically for the business of interior design — coming soon.
We are actively developing a comprehensive digital course library designed to give interior design professionals the knowledge and tools to run their firms with confidence. Courses are tailored separately for Principals and Design Teams, so the right people are getting the right training at the right level.
Join the waitlist to be the first to know when courses go live.
Join the Waitlist >The A.V.I.D. Method
A proven framework developed specifically for interior design firms and the foundation of everything we do at AVID.
Accounting Infrastructure
A successful design firm is built on a financial foundation that is accurate, current, and fully in control. Because you cannot grow what you cannot measure.
Validated Systems
Consistent, repeatable systems are what separate a firm that scales from one that stays stuck. Operational clarity is not a luxury. It is a requirement.
Implementation Integration
Strategy means nothing without execution. The firms that win are the ones that translate good intentions into daily habits their entire team can follow.
Designer Empowerment
When your finances are in order and your operations run with precision, you are free to lead your firm with confidence, grow with intention, and spend your time doing what you built this business to do. Design.
Words From Our Partners
Kristi Will Interior Design | Half Moon Bay, CA
Christina Chappin completely transformed my business. She brought structure, overhauled our operations, and trained my team in a way that actually stuck.
Since working with AVID, my financials are in order and my reporting is clear. The depth of industry knowledge this team brings is unlike anything I've experienced, and that's what makes them a partner I truly trust.
I only wish I had found them sooner.
Jay Jeffers | San Francisco, CA
What sets AVID apart is the team. They are responsive, professional, and genuinely invested in our success. I never feel like a number or an account. They know our business, they anticipate our needs, and they handle everything with the same attention to detail we bring to our clients.
That level of care is rare.
Unscripted Interiors | Colorado + California
I met Christina while integrating Studio Designer into our practice. With the scale of our projects and a team spread across three divisions, we needed a true expert to train our staff and build systems around the new software.
Working with AVID was seamless from start to finish, even as we worked through incredibly complex financials. What set them apart was the rare combination of deep accounting knowledge and operational expertise.
Jeff Andrews Design | Los Angeles, CA
Christina was my first employee in 2003 and helped to grow my company at its earliest stages.
Now, years later, she is a confidant and trusted resource with a wealth of industry knowledge for me as well as my team. Working with AVID Operations offers reassurance when navigating operational changes in my company.
Roux MacNeill Studio | Raleigh, NC
At a pivotal point for our firm, when we took on one of the largest projects we’ve ever had, it quickly became clear we needed to level up our internal processes, especially around expediting and using Studio Designer to its full capacity.
Christina Chappin and the team at AVID Operations guided us through several incredibly helpful sessions that clarified our systems and gave us the confidence to move forward with greater efficiency.
Their expertise made a real difference in the professionalism of our operations. I highly recommend them to any firm navigating growth or operational growing pains.
Studio Munroe | San Francisco, CA
What an incredible feeling to transition the company from an oral tradition to the power and stability of the written word. We have officially entered the era of modern civilization here at Studio Munroe!
Christina’s content creation is beautiful, detailed and glorious.