Enquiries that arrive complete
An intake form on your own site asks about the property, the rooms, the timeline and the budget — so the first call starts from facts, not fishing.
Chalmsy for interior designers
Interior design proposals
drafted with an eye for it.
A commission lives or dies on the proposal: the vision, the options, the numbers, the nerve to present all three beautifully. Chalmsy drafts the fee proposal in your voice, prices it from your own materials and markups, and dresses every page in your studio's identity — then runs the paperwork behind the project until the final balance clears.
Design fee proposals, quoted properly
Three ways to take the room — in one document.
Essential, considered, full. Presenting options is how design work gets won — and how scope creep gets prevented, because everyone can see what each level includes.
- Tiered proposals — good, better and best in a single document, each fully costed, for the client to choose the shape that suits them.
- Spec builds as recipes — a standard fit-out, a kitchen scheme, a styling package saved once and dropped into any proposal, then adjusted for the room in front of you.
- Materials & markups, yours — trade prices in, your markup rules applied, so the quote reflects how your practice actually buys and charges.
- Mood boards beside the job — connect Google and the Drive folder, the imagery and the email thread sit one click from the project.
- Numbers that hold still — AI can polish the prose, but a price you set is a price it cannot touch.
Kitchen & garden room
Prepared for Delaney Rowe · three fully costed options
Essential
$18,400
Considered
$26,900
Full
$41,200
Voice · learned from 14 sent
Illustrative data
Enquiry to final reveal
The project, minus the paperwork.
The site visit, written up
Record a voice note on the drive back and Chalmsy writes it up against the client — the light in the garden room, the budget hesitation, the thing they said twice.
Worked through on the document
Clients comment on the exact line they mean — with photos when a picture says it faster — suggest what's missing, and sign off with a code to their own inbox. The agreed version locks.
Change orders that behave
When the scheme grows a scullery, save a revision — every link follows forward with the notes intact, and the new version is signed as itself, never confused with the old.
Staged payments, tracked
Design fee on signing, procurement on order, balance on install — each stage its own invoice with its own due date, raised from the agreed proposal without retyping a number.
The practice's books, live
Trade receipts photograph in and file themselves against the commission; the live P&L shows what the practice actually made — while the lesson is still useful.
Some of these follow the plan: intake forms join at Studio, bookkeeping at Practice — the pricing grid has every line.
Why it's fluent
Made by people who sell rooms with words and pictures.
Chalmsy grew up inside a working design studio — floral and events, cousin trades to yours — because the software its founders needed didn't exist: something that understood visual, quoted, taste-led work, and wore the studio's own brand on every page a client touches. That's the software you're looking at.
Designers ask
Asked by designers, answered straight.
Do I need a Google account?
Yes — Chalmsy runs on one. It's how your proposals and invoices go out from your own address rather than a no-reply robot, how your enquiry threads sit beside the booking they belong to, and why there's no Chalmsy password for anyone to steal. A Gmail or Google Workspace address is all it takes. If your business email lives on Microsoft or elsewhere, Chalmsy isn't for you yet — we'd rather say so now than after you've moved.
Will proposals actually carry my studio's identity?
Completely. Your logo, palette, typefaces and voice dress the workspace and every document that leaves it — clients see your practice, never our brand. It's the difference between a tailored suit and a uniform.
We charge a design fee plus procurement markup. Can it handle both?
Yes — fee lines and marked-up materials sit side by side in the same proposal, each priced the way you set it. Hard-input lines hold negotiated figures exactly as agreed.
Clients always want "one small change". How does that stay sane?
Versioned change orders. Save the revision; every client link moves forward with the comment thread intact; the signed version locks with a name and date on it. The eleventh small change is as orderly as the first.
What does the AI do for a design practice, specifically?
Drafts the commission proposal from the brief in your voice, writes up site-visit voice notes, reads trade receipts, keeps the client record current from your inbox — and never sends anything you haven't read.
What should an interior design fee proposal include?
The scope by room, the fee structure — flat, staged or design fee plus procurement markup — what's excluded, the payment schedule, and the terms the client signs. Chalmsy builds all of it from your own rates and spec builds, presents the options in tiers, and takes the signature on the document itself.
Stay calmsy
Bring one commission across.
Start free, paste one enquiry, and present three beautifully costed options before the client has finished their coffee.