System Specification

We work together to specify the capabilities of your future smart home with layouts and a feature specification.

Use these documents to send to local contractors, to DIY, or to proceed with our project management service.

Step 1: Consult

We start with a consultation phone call that takes about one hour. During this time we gather all of your input. We learn about your goals and priorities, and then make recommendations on how to best executue them. After our first batch of documents are delivered we have another consultation to go over what we’ve produced and make revisions as necessary. This is repeated until the specification is complete.

Step 2: Document

After each consultation we’ll deliver two documents. The first is a feature specification, which will list each room and it’s required functionality. It also details the automation charactaristics of your smart home. We’ll cover all the subsystems (climate, light, surveillance, etc) that are relevant to your project. The second document is a PDF layout that will serve as a guideline for wire pulling and device location.

Step 3: Execute

You can send the finished spec sheets to local installers to obtain bids that are identical. You could also use the sheets for a complete DIY. We recommend getting the best of both worlds by contracting the job yourself in an assisted DIY fashion by continuing on with our project management service. The best part us, the fee you paid for the spec will be applied right to your project, making this initial service free of charge.

The Financials

This service costs $750, but we insist that you will get a lot more back in savings. Clients purchasing this service are either using the documents to send out for local bid or to continue with our project management service, which is a form of assisted DIY. If continuing with us, the $500 fee is applied as a payment against your final invoice, making it an inclusive to the overall project.

If you’re looking to obtain bids from local contractors, you are at a great advantage with these documents. There is no need to have hours long conversations with each contractor, you’ve already had it and it’s already been well documented. To get bids, simply email the scope of work and layouts to as many companies as you wish and wait for them to get back to you. When they come back, they will all be identical since each contractor received the same specification. This service makes it easier to obtain multiple bids, and ensures they are identical when received. We argue that this could end up saving many thousands of dollars.