Talus Works provides project management and business operations support to architecture and design practices — the part of the practice built to hold what rises above it.
Alyssa Davis is a licensed architect and certified Project Management Professional with well over a decade inside architecture practice operations.
She spent several years as Director of Projects at a woman-owned practice with studios in Seattle and Tucson, second to the principal and responsible for the business end of the firm across commercial, public, industrial, and multifamily work, including HUD-approval projects. That included attorney-in-fact signing authority, weekly review of the firm’s cash flow, and management of 20 to 40 active contracts at a time, from $10,000 to $1.2 million each.
Earlier roles at architecture firms included office management, bookkeeping, and project coordination — first at an established Seattle practice, later joining a new firm at its launch to help build its financial systems and operational processes from formation onward.
Along the way she has spent roughly a decade mentoring project managers, coordinators, and interns on how a practice actually runs. Talus Works is where that work continues, independently.
Based in the Greater Seattle Area, working with firms locally and across California.
The name TALUS draws together three points on one path: a degree in biology, a license in architecture, and a decade spent running the business side of a practice so everything above it could keep moving. Talus is the word for all three loads — the bone that carries the body’s weight, the wall that carries a building’s, and now the practice that carries a firm’s.