Studio Designer keeps the books.MONA runs the whole studio.
Studio Designer earned its place as the accounting and procurement backbone of many design firms. But it was built before AI: no visualization, no generation, and every workflow still runs on your team’s hours. MONA covers the project from first floorplan to final invoice, with agents doing the busywork in between.
Pick the tool that fits the job.
Choose Studio Designer for
Accounting-first operations
Your firm runs on a ledger, and a bookkeeper drives the software daily.
Deep, established workflows
Years of item records and processes already live there, and change costs more than it saves.
Back office only
You want software for the financial back office and nothing else, with design happening elsewhere.
Choose MONA for
The whole project in one system
Visualization, sourcing, procurement, presentations, and financials that share one source of truth.
AI doing the admin
Agents draft the proposals, chase the vendors, and build the decks instead of your evenings.
Selling with the design
Photoreal renders of the client’s actual space in the first meeting, not week four.
Studio Designer and MONA, capability by capability.
Where MONA wins.
01
Design and delivery, together
The approved render, the spec, and the purchase order are the same object in MONA. Nothing gets re-entered, nothing gets lost in translation.
02
The front of the project
Studio Designer starts after decisions are made. MONA starts at the floorplan and helps make them: concepts, renders, and client buy-in.
03
Agents instead of admin hours
Proposals, invoices, vendor follow-ups, and status updates are drafted from live project state, for your review instead of your weekend.
04
Data entry, retired
Products arrive with specs and pricing attached from sourcing, not typed into item records by hand.
05
Clients in the loop
Shared spaces where clients see concepts, approve selections, and track progress, without forwarding chains.
06
Modern, fast, and learnable
Plain-language chat in front of everything. New team members are productive in an afternoon, not a training course.
Frequently asked questions.
Is Studio Designer good software?+
For project accounting, it is a proven system many firms rely on. The question is scope: it manages the money around the project, while MONA runs the project itself, including the design work, and generates the financial documents from it.
What is the real difference between Studio Designer and MONA?+
Studio Designer is a back-office tool operated by hand. MONA is an AI-native operating system: the same procurement and financial outputs, produced by agents from the project’s live state, plus the entire visual front of the project.
Can MONA replace Studio Designer?+
For most studios, yes: proposals, purchase orders, budgets, invoices, and delivery tracking are all native to MONA. Firms with deep accounting integrations can run both while transitioning.
Can I use both?+
Yes. A common path is MONA for design, rendering, sourcing, and client workflow, with your existing accounting stack downstream, until consolidating makes sense.
How much does MONA cost?+
MONA plans start at $19 per month, with studio plans at $99, $199, and $399 per month. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
See MONA on your own projects.
Upload a floorplan and watch the room come back photoreal, with the products, the deck, and the budget behind it.