He Built an Architecture Studio After 3 Redundancies

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Dominic McAndrewRuumi StudioPractice Growth & Fees

After being made redundant three times, Dominic McAndrew went on to co-found Ruumi Studio and build a new architecture practice from scratch.

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In this episode, we talk about the reality of starting an architecture studio, what redundancy actually teaches you, why running a young practice is not as glamorous as it looks, and what small studios really look for when hiring.

Dominic also shares how Ruumi Studio was built with AI in mind, how the team started trading quickly after a chaotic Christmas setup, and why personality, attitude and communication can matter just as much as technical ability when you’re applying to smaller architecture practices.

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I know you're post-grad. Yeah, I've been made it three times. Yeah. Me too, by the way. So we're we're we're we're in the redundant class. So yeah, very different approach to redundancy, I guess. And yeah, redundancy can be a positive thing. We just sort of shrugged and said solve it, but we just did it. We started the business in a map.
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Panic over Christmas. And anyone who wants to do this. It's not easy. I enjoy it. But you have to be a bit insane to run a business. You have to be even more insane to have started. What kind of things resonate with you? What grabs your attention? Probably more interesting than the person that I think we built the practice from the ground up to be amplified by AI.

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