Henry
The lead on every brief. Henry reads the room description or the RFP, asks the missing questions, sizes the system, and calls the AVIXA clause behind every decision.
- Reads natural-language briefs or RFPs (commercial, federal, or otherwise), classifies the room, asks the missing-requirement questions in plain English.
- Covers the full range of AV engineering: audio, video, lighting, control, acoustics, and the network layer.
- Sizes microphone coverage from manufacturer pickup-pattern data; selects the right ceiling-array or boundary mic for the room geometry.
- Selects displays against the viewing-task tier per AVIXA V202.01 (DISCAS); sightline and front-row math worked.
- Runs the math: BTU heat load, power consumption in watts, PoE budget, projector throw distance, camera framing, speaker zoning + wiring, required power at amplifier, Ohm's law.
- Verifies mount capacity against manufacturer spec; flags load violations before they hit the floor.
- Knows the physics of analog and digital video and sound, plus lighting, and how networking actually works in AV/IT.
- Calls out plenum compliance, AVoIP topology, network bandwidth, thermal load on every BoM.
- One-click SOW generation from the BoM. Refuses to write SOW lines for hardware that isn't actually on the BoM.
- Reviews any customer modification to a BoM and flags removals of crucial items. Engineering Review can be toggled off if the customer prefers.
Not the exhaustive list — Henry handles many more cases. Ask him directly once early access opens.
Elena
The proposal owner. Elena turns the engineered system into a bill of materials with citations on every row, then exports the proposal in the format the customer needs.
- Accepts input in any format: BoM (Excel, CSV, PDF, image), bid spec (PDF, Word), or SOW. Produces a structured BoM with pricing and labor.
- Discerns the AV scope from a multi-trade bid spec (electrical + AV + low-voltage) and pulls only the AV portion.
- Holds brand-locks under FAR §52.211-6; substitution requests reference the clause.
- Detects Davis-Bacon, prevailing-wage, and MWBE/DBE flags from federal-RFP language and propagates them through the bid.
- Cites the standard authoring each spec row: AVIXA, NEC, ADA, ANSI/TIA.
- Per-project preference for whether the BoM includes price, labor, both, or neither. Separate hide-pricing toggle at export.
- Spec sheet database with customer-contributed entries (Henry curates additions) so submittals generate quickly from the catalog.
- Exports the proposal as PDF or Excel. Customer-branded cover page on hand-off.
- When building racks, takes device depth into account (not just rack-unit height) so the spec'd rack actually fits the gear.
- Surfaces conflicts (mount-load fails, capacity mismatches, missing capabilities) before the bid leaves the engine.
Not the exhaustive list — Elena handles many more bid-context cases. Ask her directly once early access opens.
Sophia
Sketches first; construction drawings later. Sophia generates AVSK-numbered sketches at design-review speed, then promotes to construction drawings on project hand-off.
- Generates AVSK-XX numbered sketches from the engineered system at design-review speed (starting at AVSK-01).
- Promotes sketches to full AV construction drawings on project hand-off: floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, mounting details, signal flows, rack elevations, custom plate / panel details, riser diagrams.
- Extracts BoMs from any PDF drawing the customer provides (working with Elena), no manual re-typing.
- Cable take-offs from floor plans and RCPs for accurate bulk-cable ordering, plus a misc-materials list from connector + premade-cable extraction.
- Cable labels assigned methodically, using your company's labeling scheme and standards. Cable sheet generated automatically when flows are drawn.
- Rack elevations with device depth: every rack is laid out using real device-depth data, so the spec'd enclosure actually fits the gear and the install crew gets a real reference.
- Submittal packets for install + GC review: floor plan, RCP, signal flow, rack elevation, plate detail, BoM cross-reference, all combined into one issued set.
- Mounting + plate detail drawings per device (display, projector, ceiling array, in-wall amp/touch panel) sized against your real wall section and pathway.
- Reuses prior-project templates so the second boardroom, classroom, or conference suite generates in minutes instead of from scratch.
- Customer chooses their own cable colors and white-labels output with their company logo. Interactive CAD surface stays editable after auto-generation.
Not the exhaustive list — Sophia handles many more drafting cases. Ask her directly once early access opens.
Anthony
Owns the hand-off between estimation, drafting, and installation. Anthony sequences the work, tracks dependencies, and coordinates the team that actually ships the room.
- Tracks deliverables and deadlines across the full project lifecycle.
- Acts as the project's calendar and reminder layer. After an IKO (internal kick-off meeting), tell Anthony the BoM completion date and equipment release date, and he auto-adds them to your calendar.
- Schedule planning from project award through commissioning: milestones, critical path, float.
- Scope tracking: changes against baseline, change-order language, impact analysis.
- Sequencing: which trades, which week, what's blocking what.
- Follows up with clients, vendors, and manufacturers so nothing falls through.
- Hand-off coordination between Elena (estimate), Sophia (drawings), Teresa (procurement), David (commissioning).
- Stakeholder communication: status updates, risk surfacing, decision-required prompts.
- Punch list and close-out tracking through substantial completion, final acceptance, and warranty handover.
- Resource forecasting against your team's capacity so you can see overallocation before the bid is committed.
Not the exhaustive list — Anthony handles many more PM cases. Ask him directly once early access opens.
Teresa
Pricing, lead times, distributor relationships. Teresa catches obsolescence before the install date and keeps the BoM sourced through the right channel for each SKU.
- Tracks equipment orders end-to-end: PO out, ack received, in transit, delivered.
- Pricing across preferred-brand and global-partner distributor channels.
- Lead-time tracking and forecasting against project install date.
- Obsolescence detection: flags discontinued or EOL SKUs before they hit the truck.
- Substitution sourcing when a primary SKU goes out of stock: same family, equivalent spec, citation preserved.
- Takes new device requests from your team, researches them online, and adds them to your database with the right metadata. Henry reviews and promotes into the global catalog.
- Dealer-pricing CSV imports for shops that maintain their own pricing.
- Distributor preference rules: which brands route through which rep firm.
- Integrates with your ERP, CRM, and accounting software so procurement reflects reality, not a parallel spreadsheet.
- Watches manufacturer announcements for EOL notices, price changes, and new releases affecting your active projects — flags before they bite the bid.
Not the exhaustive list — Teresa handles many more procurement cases. Ask her directly once early access opens.
David
Stands up the room. David runs test signal, sets levels, generates DSP files, and produces the close-out documentation and as-builts the GC needs for sign-off.
- The agent the technician talks to in the field. Generates IT-approved network configs from a provided IT config file, populating Dante, AES67, NVX, Q-LAN, and other AVoIP protocols correctly.
- Generates the network documentation IT departments need before they'll approve an AV system on their network (config files, VLAN plans, multicast topology).
- Troubleshoots field issues in plain language: "My audio sounds underwater", "I'm getting a hiss", "Why am I getting an echo?". Walks you through likely causes.
- DSP file generation and deployment to Q-SYS, Biamp Tesira, Crestron, Extron, Symetrix, and equivalent platforms.
- Commissioning verification per ANSI/AVIXA 10:2013 (Audiovisual Systems Performance Verification).
- Checks DSP files and routes when something doesn't sound right.
- Debugs Crestron code: walks the user through the Toolbox debugger, traces control strings, asks "What are you trying to control? A display? What make and model?".
- Test signal generation: pink noise, sweep tones, video patterns per AVIXA verification standards.
- Level set, EQ tuning, room correction against the design target.
- Close-out documentation: as-builts, signal-flow updates, programming files, credentials handover.
Not the exhaustive list — David handles many more commissioning cases. Ask him directly once early access opens.
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