We work with Orange County's interior designers, custom builders, architects, and electricians as a subcontractor and a technical resource — on your schedule, to your drawings, and never around you to your client.
Too often a project passes from sales to a coordinator to a service desk, and nobody owns the whole thing. We keep one accountable lead on your project: the team that reviews your drawings is the team that commissions the system and the team that picks up the phone in year four. For a designer or a builder, that's the difference between a partner and a vendor.
We also know where we sit. On a designer's project, the room is yours and the technology serves it. On a builder's project, we're a sub and we behave like one — on your schedule, in your trailer meetings, off your critical path. We don't need to own the client relationship to do good work.
And we'll be useful before there's a job in it. Send us a set of plans and we'll mark up the low-voltage implications for free. That costs us an afternoon and it's the single best way we know to start a working relationship.
The job looks different depending on who's asking. Find yours.
Technology that doesn't fight your room.
Flush and invisible speakers, art-panel and hidden displays, shades that match your fabric spec, keypads in finishes that belong on the wall. We work to your palette and your millwork drawings, and we never contradict you in front of your client.
We hit rough-in, every time.
The single expensive mistake in this trade is missing the pre-wire window. We work off your schedule, show up when low-voltage is called for, and leave a documented, labeled, tested infrastructure behind — whether or not the homeowner has bought the full system yet.
Get it right on the drawing.
The cheapest time to solve a technology problem is before the plan is stamped. We'll review drawings at no charge and flag the things that get expensive later — equipment room location and ventilation, conduit paths, ceiling structure for projection, sightlines in an open plan.
The lighting control work you're turning down.
You get asked about Lutron and Ketra constantly and most of it isn't work you want to take on. Hand it over. We do the control design, programming, and commissioning; you keep the line-voltage scope and the client relationship, and we pay a documented referral fee.
The orphaned system in your listing.
Half the high-end resales in Orange County come with a smart home nobody supports, and it becomes your problem at inspection. We'll assess a system before listing so you know what you're representing, and take it over for the buyer after close.
Audio and video that survives outside.
Every outdoor living project has an audio and television scope attached to it, and most of it gets done badly with indoor-rated equipment. We handle the outdoor AV, weather-rated infrastructure, and the control integration back to the main house.
We review drawings and mark up the low-voltage implications at no charge, whether or not it turns into a job.
A defensible budget figure you can carry before the client has chosen anything, built from published industry guidelines.
Locations coordinated against your elevations and finishes. You see it before the client does.
On your schedule, off your critical path — and we support the system afterwards so it never becomes your callback.
Typically 5–10% of project value, or a flat fee on smaller scopes, agreed in writing before you send anyone and paid when the client pays us — not months later at project completion.
Plenty of integrators pay referral fees quietly and make the partner raise it first. We'd rather put the number on a public page. If you send us good work, you should be paid for it promptly and without having to chase.
The things trade partners actually want to know before they put their own client relationship on the line.
Yes, and we'll put it in writing before you send anyone. It's typically 5–10% of project value, or a flat fee for smaller jobs, and we pay when the client pays us rather than making you wait for project completion. We'd rather state that publicly than make you ask for it.
No. On designer and architect projects we present to you, and you present to your client if that's how you work. On builder projects we're a subcontractor and behave like one. We've built this business on repeat trade relationships, and one end-run would end that permanently.
For new construction or a significant remodel, ideally at the schematic stage — before ceilings, equipment room location, and conduit paths are fixed. Realistically we can still do good work if we're brought in before rough-in. After drywall, everything gets more expensive and more compromised, and we'll tell you honestly what's still achievable.
Yes. If you need a number to carry in a budget before the client has made any decisions, tell us the home's size and level and we'll give you a defensible allowance figure. The Home Technology Association guideline — 4–8% of home value, lower end in markets like ours — is what we build those from, and it holds up in front of a client.
Regularly, and we'll bring the demo kit rather than a slide deck — a Ketra fixture, a motorized shade, and a live control system on the table. The most useful sessions we run are on low-voltage rough-in for architects and on hiding technology for design studios. Get in touch and we'll schedule one.
Most of our trade work runs from around $25,000 to well over $200,000. We'll also take small scopes for an established partner — if you need one room sorted for a client, that's not a problem. What we don't do is one-off television mounts for people we've never worked with.
Free consultation, no obligation, and a written proposal you can actually compare. We'll walk your space and tell you honestly what's worth doing.
