Services

Project management

Scope, schedule, budget, and consultant coordination on complex projects, including wayfinding programs across healthcare and multifamily work. Decisions tracked, deadlines held, drawings and consultants moving in the same direction.

Practice operations

The systems a firm runs on: contracts and fee structures, project accounting, staffing and utilization, workflow standards, and the documentation that keeps a practice running when the principal is unavailable.

Fractional operations leadership

For firms that need a second-in-command without a full-time hire. Ongoing ownership of the business side of the practice, so the founder stays on design and clients.

Process and tooling

Diagnosing where work stalls and rebuilding the process around it, including practical integration of AI tools into daily firm operations.

Principal

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. 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.

• Registered Architect, Washington State — AIA
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• Google AI Professional Certificate
• Safety Assessment Program evaluator, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
• Vistage Advancing Leaders Program, 2022–2026