CEO + Founder
Erin Fantozz is a single mom and recovering corporate burnout who accidentally built a business that's changing how architecture firm's scale.
She spent years doing the "right things"—going to classes at Kent State while working full-time, grinding through corporate roles, commuting two hours a day—until she hit a wall. She was stuck in production when she should've been leading. Missing bedtime with her daughter. Working weekends. And watching firms around her struggle with the same impossible math: too much work, not enough people or the alternative, too many people and not enough work. (ebbs and flows of business), and a hiring timeline that takes six damn months.
So, she built the solution she needed.
EFDesigns is a strategic BIM execution firm that gives growing architecture practices what they're actually asking for—senior-level production capacity, US-based, no hiring risk, no turnover drama, one flat monthly fee. Her clients scale from 6 projects to 50 without adding internal staff. They get their lives back. They stop turning down work because they "don't have capacity."
Erin's business model is simple: architecture firms don't have a talent shortage—they have a business model problem. And she's the fix.
She's WBE-certified, runs an all-women team, and has zero patience for the "passion for architecture" narrative that's used to justify underpaying people and working them into the ground.
If you've ever wondered if there's a better way to do architecture—one that doesn't require destroying your personal life—Erin's proof that there is.
