Habitec

What Habitec does

Habitec Architecture & Interior Design is a privately held, full-service architectural, planning, and interior design firm headquartered at 2290 North 1st Street, Suite 304, San Jose, California, with Bay Area roots dating to the 1970s. The firm delivers end-to-end design services spanning building design, exterior improvements, tenant improvements, programming, space planning, schematic and preliminary design, design development, construction documentation, construction administration, post-construction evaluation, entitlement/permitting, building repositioning, contractor selection, and LEED design certification assistance, supplemented by interior design (finish materials, furniture/fixture specification, lighting design, corporate design standards) and planning (site selection, master planning, campus planning, site improvement phasing). Visualization is offered as a distinct service line with three tiers of still renders from basic to photo-realistic, plus time-lapse renders, drone fly-throughs, and VR experiences.

The underlying technology stack is conventional for an architecture and interior design practice: AutoCAD and Revit for BIM-driven design and drafting, SketchUp for 3D modeling, the Adobe creative suite for presentation materials, VR and drone capture for immersive visualization, and Intuit Quickbooks Enterprise for back-office operations. The firm reports cumulative production of approximately 30 million sq ft of buildings and over 10 million sq ft of interior space across hundreds of projects, with work executed in 30 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and 3 continents, and is recognized on the Silicon Valley Business Journal Book of Lists as a top regional design firm. Its named enterprise client base includes PayPal (Oasis and Executive Offices), Tesla (Fremont manufacturing and Palo Alto test center), Stamps.com, Wave Computing, DCM, Office Evolution, Northeastern University, Grifols, and Supermicro, balanced by a long tail of mid-market and local SMB engagements.

The business model is project-based professional services delivered through a direct, relationship-driven sales motion. Pricing is quote-driven and not publicly disclosed; clients initiate engagements through the firm's "Let's work together!" contact page and the [email protected] inbox, with the firm scoping and delivering engagements from its single San Jose headquarters. Revenue is generated entirely from professional services fees across architecture, interior design, planning, and rendering, with no subscription, marketplace, or reseller channels. The firm is privately held with no disclosed parent, investor, or external shareholder base, and currently maintains 11-50 employees with active hiring across project management, BIM, design/drafting, and accounting roles.

Name

Habitec

Legal name

Habitec Architecture & Interior Design

Website

https://habitec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Habitec is a privately held, full-service architectural, planning, and interior design firm in San Jose, California, founded in the 1970s, serving Fortune 500 and Top Ten technology companies alongside mid-market and SMB clients across 30 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and 3 continents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Jose

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture, Planning, Interior Design and Rendering Professional Services: Project-based fees earned through full-scale architecture, interior design, planning, and rendering services delivered to commercial, retail, hospitality, industrial, data center, R&D, manufacturing, tenant improvement, repositioning, and ground-up construction clients across 30 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and 3 continents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Habitec provides full-scale architecture, interior design, planning, and rendering services for commercial, corporate, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, R&D, data center, and institutional clients. Service offerings span Building Design, Tenant Improvements, Space Planning, Schematic Design, Construction Documentation, Construction Administration, Finish Materials Selection, Furniture and Lighting Specification, Master/Campus Planning, and visualization including VR, Drone Fly-Throughs, and tiered still renders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Full-scale architectural services covering Building Design, Exterior Improvements, Tenant Improvements, Programming, Space Planning, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documentation, Construction Administration, Post-Construction Evaluation, Exterior 3D Rendering, Entitlement/Permitting, Building Repositioning, Contractor Selection, LEED Certification Assistance, and VR/Drone Flyovers for enterprise, commercial, and institutional clients.
• Interior Design Interior design services including Finish Materials Selection, Furniture and Fixture Selection and Specification, Lighting Design and Specification, Corporate Design Standards, and Building Standards for commercial offices, hospitality, retail, and tenant improvement projects.
• Planning Planning services covering Site Selection, Master Planning, Campus Planning, and Design and Phasing of Site Improvements for commercial, mixed-use, and institutional developments.
• Renderings Visualization services offering three levels of still renders (basic, photo-realistic), time-lapse renders, drone fly-through, and VR experiences for architectural and interior design projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• ~30 million square feet of buildings designed across the firm's history
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers67 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• HOK: HOK is a global architecture, design, and engineering firm with practices across corporate, healthcare, aviation, and higher education. It is comparable as a large incumbent pursuing many of the same Fortune 500 corporate campus and ground-up project types that Habitec serves.
• NBBJ: NBBJ is a major architecture and design firm with deep relationships in healthcare, sports, and corporate work, including large tech-sector clients on the West Coast. It is comparable as a large incumbent competing for the same enterprise tech and ground-up projects Habitec targets.
• Gensler: Gensler is one of the largest global architecture, design, and planning firms, serving Fortune 500 enterprises across multiple verticals. It competes for the same large enterprise and tech tenant-improvement and ground-up mandates that Habitec serves, but at vastly greater scale and with international delivery capability.
• Perkins&Will: Perkins&Will is a globally networked architecture and interior design firm with strong healthcare, corporate, and education practices. It overlaps with Habitec on multi-discipline enterprise design, repositioning, and campus-planning engagements, but operates at a much larger scale.

Direct peers

• LPA Design Studios: LPA is a California-based integrated design firm specializing in architecture, interior design, and planning for K-12, higher education, corporate, healthcare, and civic clients. It is directly comparable to Habitec in scale, multi-discipline delivery model, and California enterprise focus.
• DES Architects + Engineers: DES is a Bay Area architecture, interior design, and engineering firm serving K-12, higher education, civic, and commercial clients. It is a direct peer to Habitec, competing for many of the same Silicon Valley ground-up, tenant improvement, and repositioning engagements.
• ELS Architecture and Urban Design: ELS is a Bay Area architecture and urban design firm focused on housing, mixed-use, and campus planning for public and private clients. It is comparable to Habitec on ground-up and campus-planning work in Northern California, particularly in repositioning and master planning.
• WRNS Studio: WRNS Studio is a California-based architecture and planning firm with practices in workplace, education, civic, and mixed-use development. It is directly comparable to Habitec as a West Coast multi-discipline firm pursuing enterprise and ground-up projects at a similar scale.
• SmithGroup: SmithGroup is an integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm with strong higher education, workplace, and science & tech practices. It is a direct peer to Habitec in offering multi-discipline architecture, interior design, and planning services to enterprise and institutional clients across the U.S.
• HGA Architects and Engineers: HGA is a national architecture, engineering, and interior design firm serving corporate, healthcare, arts, and education clients. It is a close peer to Habitec in providing integrated architecture and interior design under one roof to enterprise and mid-market clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/habitecdesign

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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