Renderings · Documentation · BIM, drawn in India
A design studio in Bangalore, working with architects worldwide.
Founder-reviewed drawings, considered renderings, and the rare habit of asking why before what. We produce the work studios in the US, UK and Europe don't have the hours for, without losing the design intent.
Indian design intelligence, drawn for the world
Certified across the tools your project runs on
3ds Max
Navisworks
Enscape
Lumion
V-Ray
01 The problem
Your studio is winning work faster than it can draw it.
Capacity is the quiet tax on a good architecture practice. Deadlines compress, renderings get handed to a stranger, drawings come back needing a redraw, and the design intent quietly leaks out somewhere over the ocean.
- AOverloaded teams. Competition entries and CDs land in the same week and there aren't enough hands.
- BOffshore quality roulette. Cheap drafting that ignores intent costs more in revisions than it saved.
- CNo one senior is looking. Production gets sent out; judgement doesn't come back with it.
02 What we draw
Six ways to put a founder-reviewed studio behind your deadlines.
Architectural Visualization
Photoreal interior, exterior and real-estate renderings and walkthroughs that sell the idea, not just the geometry.
Fixed, per view 02Construction Documentation
Permit sets, full CD sets (LOD 300–400) and shop drawings, drawn to your standards and template.
Fixed, per set 03BIM Production
Revit modeling, scan-to-BIM and clash coordination by Autodesk-certified modelers.
Monthly or hourly 04Interior Documentation & FF&E
Interior construction drawings, FF&E specification books and interior 3D, our deepest portfolio.
Fixed, per set 05Design Director's Review
Ar. Pooja Kothari personally reviews your set, marked-up file, a Loom walkthrough and a memo in three days.
Per review, flat 06Embedded Studio Partner
A dedicated draftsperson or BIM modeler inside your process, founder-QC'd, monthly.
Monthly03 How it works
A studio process, not a ticket queue.
Brief
A 30-minute call with the Principal Architect. We scope the work, the standard and a fixed price.
Produce
Certified modelers and drafters build to your template in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, 3ds Max.
Founder review
Pooja reviews every set before it leaves the studio. Judgement travels with the file.
Deliver
On the date agreed, in your format, with one revision round built in.
04 Selected work
Twenty-four projects, founder-led.
The argument
India coded the world's software. We're ready to design its spaces.
Aalekh isn't a back-office that drafts what it's told. It's a studio, with a point of view, a Principal who reviews the work, and a vocabulary rooted in Indian climate, craft and geometry. The production work funds the real ambition: putting Indian design intelligence on the world's map.
Ar. Pooja Kothari, Principal Architect · Selected for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women (NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore)
Why India, done right
India, drawn for the world.
The talent that engineered the world's systems can draw its buildings too. Here is what a studio in India actually buys you, beyond capacity.
- ADeep design bench. India trains more architects and engineers than almost anywhere, and we hire from the top of that pool.
- BYour night shift. While your office sleeps, ours works, so redlines go out at end of day and come back done by morning.
- CFounder on every set. The Principal Architect reviews every drawing and render before it reaches you, so nothing ships unchecked.
The proof
Reasons to hand us the first one.
05 How we price
Fixed fees, agreed before we start.
No hourly black box, no "request a quote" runaround, a clear, fixed number for the work, scoped on a 30-minute call. See all services
06 What you can expect
A studio standard, every time, not a lottery.
Your standards
We work inside your template, title block and layer convention, the deliverable looks like your studio drew it, because it was drawn to your standard.
Your IP, your NDA
You own the files, fully. We work under your NDA and hand over native files. Aalekh's name appears nowhere on your deliverable unless you want it to.
Founder review
Every set is seen by the Principal Architect before it leaves the studio. Judgement travels with the file, that's the part offshore usually loses.
On the date agreed
A fixed scope, a fixed date, one revision round built in. India's offset works for you: brief in your evening, review the next morning.
07 The studio
Founder-led from Bangalore. Built to be reviewed.
Aalekh is led by Ar. Pooja Kothari, Principal Architect, with a production team certified across the tools your project runs on. Four years, twenty-four delivered projects, every set seen by a Principal before it ships.
08 Before you ask
The questions every studio asks first.
How does the time difference work? +
India's day overlaps your afternoon, and the offset works for you, brief in your evening, review progress the next morning. We hold fixed overlap hours for every active client.
Who owns the files and the IP? +
You do, fully. We work under your NDA, in your templates and standards, and hand over native files. Aalekh's name appears nowhere on your deliverable unless you want it to.
Is the work actually reviewed, or just produced? +
Every set is reviewed by the Principal Architect before delivery. That review is the product, it's also available on its own as the Design Director's Review.
What does a first engagement look like? +
A free 30-minute consult, then a single scoped deliverable at a fixed price. Most studios start with one rendering set or one drawing package before scaling up.
Start here
A free 30-minute consult with the Principal Architect.
No sales call. Bring a set, a brief or a problem, Pooja will tell you what she'd do, what it costs, and whether Aalekh is the right studio for it. Founder access is the whole point.
- A scoped, fixed price within 48 hours
- Work to your standards, under your NDA
- One deliverable to start, no retainers to sign