Growing Your Studio on MOA: Aveno, Team Profiles and Hiring

Three MOA Pro tools are about running a studio rather than finding clients: the Aveno project layout, the Team tab and Jobs. Aveno gives a project a video slot and seven image slots, Team puts up to 20 colleagues on your profile, and Jobs lets you post openings and review applicants without leaving MOA. This guide walks through each one, screen by screen, and says what happens to each if Pro lapses.

For the whole plan, see MOA Pro explained. This post goes deeper on these three.

1. Aveno: a video-led project page

Every MOA project uses a layout, or theme. The free one, Minimalistic, has a hero image, the details grid, two landscape and three portrait images. Aveno is the premium one. It opens with a video and gives you eight media slots in all: 1 video, 4 landscape images (4:3) and 3 portrait images (3:4), plus the hero image every project has.

When Aveno suits a project

This is our guidance, not a rule. Aveno earns its place when you have moving footage worth opening with:

• A walkthrough video. A slow walk through the main spaces explains a plan better than any still.
• A project you pitch with. If you send a project to new clients, Aveno opens with the film and follows with the stills, the way you would present it in a meeting.
• Enough strong photographs. Aveno needs seven images plus the hero. With only four good ones, Minimalistic will look better.

For a small project with no video, stay with Minimalistic. The project publishing guide covers the details grid and descriptions, which work the same in both layouts.

Steps: choosing Aveno on a new project

1. Open the upload page at /projects/upload. At the top is a bar that reads "Choose project upload theme/layout", with two buttons: Minimalistic and Aveno (marked MOA Pro).
2. Click Aveno. The page switches to the Aveno slots, with the video slot first.
3. Add the video. The slot takes a video file up to 32 MB, so export a short, compressed cut rather than the full render. Each slot has a caption box of up to 20 words.
4. Fill the seven image slots and the hero image. Landscape slots crop to 4:3 and portrait slots to 3:4, so pick frames that survive the crop. Every slot needs a file before the project can be published.
5. Fill in the details and description, then publish.

Steps: moving an existing project to Aveno

1. Open the project's edit page (/projects/<id>/edit) from the project.
2. Choose Aveno in the same theme bar. Your existing images move into Aveno slots of the same shape: landscapes into landscape slots, portraits into portrait slots, in order.
3. Add the video and fill any empty slots, then save.

Free vs Pro: on the free plan you can click Aveno on the upload page to preview the layout, but publishing in it, or switching a project to it, needs Pro.

If Pro lapses

A project already in Aveno keeps the Aveno layout and stays editable. You cannot move another project into Aveno until Pro is back. Separately, on the free plan only your first 5 projects by upload date stay visible, so an Aveno project beyond those 5 is hidden until you renew. Nothing is deleted.

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2. Team: put your studio on your profile

The Team tab lets you invite up to 20 people by email. Each one gets their own MOA profile with your studio filled in, and appears on your studio's Team tab.

Steps: inviting someone

1. Open your profile and click the Team tab.
2. In "Add people to your studio", type the person's full name and email address, then click Send invite.
3. They get an email with a link. The invite stays open for 14 days. Under "Invites" you can see when each was sent and when it closes, send it again (a fresh link with a new 14 days) or cancel it.

Two limits to know: the counter ("0 of 20 used, counting open invites") counts people who have joined and invites still open, and you can send at most 40 invites a day.

What your invitee sees

• The link opens a page titled "Join <your studio> on MOA".
• They sign in with the account for the email you invited. The page shows a masked hint of that address, so tell them which email you used.
• If they have signed in but have no MOA profile yet, the button reads "Create your profile and join", and your studio is already filled in when they create it.
• If they already have a profile that names another studio, MOA asks them to confirm the change before they join. A person can be on one studio's team at a time.

Once they join, their profile shows your studio and they appear on your Team tab. The profile is theirs: they add their own projects and services, and if you ever remove them, or they leave, they keep their profile and everything on it.

Who sees the Team tab

The public sees your Team tab once someone has joined. Until then it is only a form for you. The team shows only while your studio has Pro: if Pro lapses, your members and invites are hidden from everyone, you included, and invites cannot be accepted. Renew and they come back as they were.

Who to invite (our guidance): start with the people a client will meet, such as your project architects and site lead. Three people with a photo and a line about their role say more than a full team of empty profiles.

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3. Jobs: post an opening and review applicants

The MOA jobs board is public. Anyone can browse it and filter by city, role, type and workplace. Candidates apply with their MOA profile, so you see their work and not only a résumé. Only Pro architects and interior designers can post, and even saving a draft needs Pro.

Steps: posting a job

1. Go to /jobs/new, or click Post a job on your profile's Jobs tab.
2. Fill in the form:
   • Job title (3 to 80 characters), Role, Employment type (full-time, part-time, contract, internship or freelance) and Workplace (on-site, hybrid or remote).
   • City and Studio name (your studio is filled in).
   • Experience from and to, in years ("0 to 0 means freshers"), and Openings.
   • An optional salary range per month or year, which you can choose to show or hide on the listing.
   • About the role (at least 50 characters): what the studio does, what this person will work on and why join.
   • Responsibilities and Qualifications, one per line (up to 15 each), and up to 10 Skills.
   • Apply by: set to 30 days from today by default, and at most 90 days out.
3. Click Preview to see the listing exactly as candidates will, then Publish job or Save as draft. MOA tells you when the job is live.

The fair-hiring note on the form reads: "Don't ask for age, gender, religion, caste or marital status, and never ask candidates to pay. Applications come through MOA, so there's no need for an email address in the text." Write your listing with that in mind.

Parts of it are also law and government advice. The Code on Wages, 2019 bars employers from discriminating on the ground of sex while recruiting for the same or similar work (section 3, Gazette of India), and the government's National Career Service tells jobseekers they "should not pay fees to employers". For a role titled Architect, you can check a candidate's registration in the Council of Architecture's Online Directory of Architects.

Other rules worth knowing:

• You can have up to 10 live jobs at a time.
• Once someone applies, the title, role and city are locked, because people applied to what they read. Everything else stays editable.
• You can close a job early from its page. If the apply-by date passes, edit the date to reopen it.
• If you are unsure what to offer, our guide to architecture salaries in India and the internship stipends guide are a starting point.

What a candidate sends

Each application carries the candidate's MOA profile, a headline, years of experience, a phone number, a résumé and, optionally, a portfolio link and a short note. A candidate can send up to 20 applications a day. Their phone and email stay hidden from you until you accept them.

Steps: reviewing applicants

1. Open your profile's Jobs tab (only you can see it) and choose the job, or go straight to /jobs/<job>/applications. You also get a notification as each application arrives.
2. Filter the list by All, New, Accepted or Not selected.
3. Open an application to see the headline, experience, cities, résumé, portfolio and note, with a link to their full MOA profile.
4. Choose Accept or Not selected.

What applicants are told

When	What the candidate hears from MOA
They apply	Their application is with your studio, you will see their profile and résumé, and their phone and email are shared only if you accept them.
You accept	Your studio wants to connect, can now see their phone and email, and will reach out on MOA chat, by phone or by email. From the application you can start a chat, call or email them. Accepting cannot be undone.
You choose Not selected	A kind note that the studio has moved ahead with other candidates this time. You can still reconsider and accept them later.
The job closes or its deadline passes	Anyone still waiting is told the studio is no longer taking applications for that job.

If Pro lapses

Your live jobs pause. They come off the board, close to applications, and your applicants are locked until you renew. Renew Pro and the jobs are live again, with your applicants, if their apply-by dates have not passed.

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Two more things Pro includes

• AI credits: Pro includes up to 1,000 free credits and first access when MOA's AI tools launch.
• A monthly studio article (bonus): for each month you are on Pro, MOA's team writes and publishes one article about your profile and work on the MOA blog. The team writes these by hand, so there is no fixed publication date.

FAQ

How many photos and videos does the Aveno layout take on MOA?

One video (up to 32 MB), four 4:3 landscape images and three 3:4 portrait images, plus the hero image.

What happens to my Aveno projects, team and jobs if I cancel MOA Pro?

Aveno projects keep their layout, your team is hidden and live jobs pause. Nothing is deleted, and all of it returns when you renew.

How many people can I add to my studio on MOA?

Up to 20, counting open invites. Each invite is open for 14 days.

Do team members need MOA Pro?

No. Only the studio owner needs Pro. Each member gets their own MOA profile with your studio filled in, and keeps that profile if they leave.

Ready to run your studio on MOA? See MOA Pro.

Sources

• MOA: MOA Pro (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
• MOA: Jobs board (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
• Gazette of India: The Code on Wages, 2019 (No. 29 of 2019), section 3 (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
• Ministry of Labour and Employment: National Career Service portal, notice on fees (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
• Council of Architecture: Online Directory of Architects (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
• MOA: Team, Jobs and project upload screens on the profile of MOA's founder, and MOA's own product rules (checked 21 Oct 2026)