H Design Group

What H Design Group does

H Design Group is a private architecture and design firm headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, providing professional architectural services to enterprise, government, and institutional clients. Founded in 2000 by Rob Haik, the firm operates across four primary service categories: Live (residential and hospitality), Learn (educational facilities), Work (commercial and corporate), and Play (recreational venues). The portfolio spans healthcare (CoxHealth Advantage Care clinic, Elevate Dental Studio), education (Drury University O'Reilly Family Event Center, Republic R-III School District), hospitality (Element by Westin Marriott, Tru by Hilton), entertainment (four Silver Dollar City attractions), financial services (Multipli Credit Union, Springfield First Community Bank), telecom/retail (Russell Cellular corporate HQ), and public sector (City Utilities of Springfield transit center).

The firm's core offering is full-service architecture delivered from concept through construction completion, organized around a four-person core team structure of principal, project manager, visual designer, and architectural technician. A consulting sub-brand called Perspectives extends the offering into process auditing, trend research, permitting, construction cost management, third-party risk assessment, branding, and vendor coordination. The technology stack consists of industry-standard architectural design tools and processes, with no proprietary technology or AI/ML capabilities disclosed. LEED certification expertise, held by multiple team members including nationally recognized principal Todd Bolin, has produced LEED Gold-certified projects such as the O'Reilly Family Event Center (2011 American Buildings Building of the Year).

Revenue is generated through project-based design fees and Perspectives consulting services, with pricing structured around project complexity, square footage, and scope. The firm employs a direct enterprise sales model with principal-level involvement throughout the project lifecycle, operating as a closely held LLC with three senior principals, four principals, associates, designers, and support staff totaling approximately 18-20 people. Geographic focus is the Missouri Ozarks region (Springfield, Branson, Nixa, Republic, Battlefield, Reeds Spring, Cape Girardeau), with select projects extending to Arkansas (Bentonville) and Arizona (Glendale). No external funding or parent company is indicated.

Name

H Design Group

Legal name

hdesigngroup, llc

Website

https://hdesigngroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

H Design Group is a private architecture firm in Springfield, Missouri, providing design services across residential, educational, commercial, and recreational sectors. It serves enterprise and government clients in the Missouri Ozarks region, with select projects in Arkansas and Arizona.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141), Interior Design Services (541410)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Residential Bldgs (1520), General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs (1540)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Space Planning & Workplace Design (BPAHAKAI), Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Commercial building design
• Educational facility design
• Healthcare architecture
• Construction project consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Springfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Professional architectural services for commercial, educational, healthcare, hospitality, recreational, and residential projects. Revenue generated through design fees, consulting services, and project management for new construction and renovation projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

H Design Group provides full-service architectural and design services for new construction and renovation projects, organized into four practice areas — Live (residential and hospitality), Learn (educational and community learning), Work (commercial, healthcare, civic, and corporate), and Play (sports, recreation, and themed entertainment). The firm delivers projects from concept and trend research through construction administration, including site selection, permitting, construction cost management, branding, and vendor coordination, supplemented by a Perspectives consulting practice for process auditing and project support.

Product overview

H Design Group is an architecture and design firm offering comprehensive building and space design services across four primary categories: Live (residential and hospitality), Learn (educational facilities), Work (commercial workspaces), and Play (recreational venues). The firm also provides consulting services through its Perspectives program, which offers trend research, conceptual design, site selection, permitting, construction cost management, third-party risk assessment, branding, and vendor coordination. The company serves diverse sectors including healthcare, education, corporate, government, hospitality, sports, and religious facilities throughout Missouri and surrounding states.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Perspectives: Consulting, process auditing, and project support services including trend research, conceptual design, site selection, permitting services, construction cost management, and vendor coordination.

Products and services

• Live — Residential & Hospitality Architecture
• Learn — Educational Architecture
• Work — Commercial Architecture
• Play — Recreational Architecture
• Perspectives — Consulting Services

Quantifiable outcome

• First building in southwest Missouri to achieve LEED Gold certification (The Discovery Center addition)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• HKS Architects: Large national architecture firm with healthcare, education, sports, and hospitality practices — overlaps with H Design Group's four verticals (especially Play/healthcare/Learn) and represents the kind of incumbent that can compete on larger out-of-region RFPs.
• CannonDesign: National architecture practice with strong healthcare, education, and workplace design practices — directly overlaps H Design Group's Work and Learn segments and competes for enterprise healthcare and university clients such as CoxHealth and Drury University.
• Perkins&Will: International architecture firm with deep healthcare and education portfolios and recognized leadership in LEED-certified design — competes for the same high-performance institutional clients H Design Group targets.
• Populous: Global sports and entertainment architecture firm that designed venues analogous to H Design Group's Play segment (Silver Dollar City attractions, Allison Sports Town, O'Reilly Family Event Center), representing the natural incumbent competitor for larger recreation-themed projects.

Direct peers

• Legat Architects: Mid-sized Midwest architecture firm of comparable scale, serving K-12, higher education, healthcare, and workplace clients — a structural analog to H Design Group in terms of size, regional anchoring, and vertical mix.
• Wight & Company: Midwest-based integrated architecture and engineering firm serving education, healthcare, recreation, and commercial clients — comparable to H Design Group in firm size, vertical diversification, and reliance on regional relationships.
• Dake Wells Architecture: Springfield, Missouri-based architecture firm of comparable size and regional focus, directly competing with H Design Group for the same Ozarks commercial, healthcare, education, and recreation clients (e.g., MSU, Springfield public schools, CoxHealth).
• PGAL: Mid-sized architecture practice with strong civic, education, and healthcare portfolios — directly comparable to H Design Group's vertical mix and likely competitor on institutional and commercial RFPs in regional markets.
• Sapp Design Associates Architects: Springfield, Missouri architecture practice comparable in scale, offering commercial, healthcare, education, and recreation design to the same Missouri-based enterprise clients H Design Group serves.
• Butler, Rosenbury & Partners: Long-established Springfield, Missouri architecture firm with similar headcount and portfolio spanning education, healthcare, commercial, and civic projects — a head-to-head regional competitor for H Design Group's Ozarks clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hdesigngroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/hdesigngroup.architecture
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/h-design-group-llc
• Instagraminstagram.com/hdesigngroup

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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