Courtney H.
Contracts we know and trust
This review speaks to our ongoing firm experience with ACD. We actively use the AIA online platform to generate new project contracts on almost a daily basis. Our firm uses AIA contracts for a majority of our projects. Even when our clients come to us with a non-AIA owner-architect agreement, we still fall back on AIA documents for that project's consultant agreements! We appreciate that the AIA consultant contracts are structured to allow that kind of flexibility. We also appreciate that we can trust standard contract language, without having to hire third-party legal for contract review on every project. Contract negotiations with our clients are smoother and easier when we can fall back on "unmodified AIA standard" language as a reflection of industry standard practices. We also appreciate the coordination between documents -- drawing up a consultant contract is drastically more straightforward if we use AIA documents for both the Prime Agreement and consultant agreements.
Response from AIA Contract Documents (ACD)May 29, 2026
Thank you, Courtney! It's wonderful to hear how your firm uses ACD day to day, including leaning on AIA consultant agreements even when the prime agreement is non-AIA. That kind of flexibility and coordination across the document family is exactly what we design for. We appreciate your firm's continued trust in the platform.