★FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS · TRADE-FRIENDLY INTEGRATION
Technologythat disappearsinto the room.
IntegrateIT works hand-in-hand with Kansas City’s top interior designers — Tonya Frenella, Lauren Loftiss, Lisa Schmitz, Hilary Boyd, Christina Brittain, the rest of the network. We respect your finish palette. We respect your millwork drawings. We respect your client relationship. And we make the technology disappear into the design you spent months building.
Trade-only resources, finish-coordinated keypads, custom remote engraving, and a designer trade discount on all in-scope hardware.
Five commitments to designers
The non-negotiables for every designer project.
- 01
Your keypad finish, not ours
Lutron Palladiom keypads + Control4 Halo engravings + Crestron Horizon — every finish, every faceplate option, every engraving font. Match the cabinet hardware. Match the door lever. The keypad disappears into the millwork.
- 02
Sample boards for client meetings
We send physical sample boards — keypads in the actual finish, speaker grilles in the actual color, remote in the actual leather + metal. Your client touches the materials in your studio, not on a website. Add to your finish palette before the millwork drawings ship.
- 03
Custom engraving + button text
"GREAT ROOM" not "Scene 1." "WINE CELLAR" not "Lighting." We coordinate every keypad button label with you — typography, capitalization, abbreviation rules. Aligns with how your client thinks about their rooms, not how the integrator thinks about scenes.
- 04
Designer trade discount
Designers get a trade discount on all in-scope IntegrateIT hardware — Control4 panels, Lutron keypads, Sonance speakers, Sony displays. Margin is yours, billed direct or through the firm — your choice. Standard designer trade terms.
- 05
No designer-bypass at the client
Once a designer brings us into a project, the homeowner relationship runs through the design firm. We don’t cold-email the client, don’t cross-sell beyond the scope, don’t bypass you on changes. Your client stays your client — we’re the AV trade in your studio’s ecosystem.
Process
How a designer partnership runs.
PHASE 01
Finish palette intake
You send us the finish palette — cabinet hardware, door levers, plumbing finishes, millwork stains. We pull matching Lutron Palladiom + Control4 Halo + Crestron Horizon faceplates. Sample board ships within 5 business days.
PHASE 02
Engraving + button-text coordination
We write up the keypad engraving schedule — room-by-room button labels in YOUR voice + capitalization rules. You sign off; we engrave. Every keypad ships with the right finish, right text, right font.
PHASE 03
Site coordination with the GC
We attend the OAC meetings + walk the site with you and the GC at trim phase. Keypads land where you specified, level, in the right finish. Speaker grilles in the ceilings match the lighting pattern. Surface defects flagged before the client walks the house.
PHASE 04
Client walkthrough
On closing day, YOU run the design walkthrough; WE run the AV walkthrough — 35-minute training session, room-by-room, in the language of your design. The client leaves knowing how to use the system without bothering anyone for support.
Best fit
The designers we partner with best.
High-end residential designers
Firms specifying $1M+ residential interiors. KC, Leawood, Mission Hills, Brookside, weekend houses across the Midwest. Standard designer trade terms apply.
Hospitality + boutique commercial
Restaurants, hotels, private clubs, wellness studios. Concealed audio, lighting moods, projection-mapped art walls. We collaborate with your branding voice + finish program from day one.
Firms with strong CAD + spec discipline
Firms that work in Revit / Sketchup / detailed spec books. We slot into your existing documentation rhythm — AV gets added to the spec book, not appended as a separate deck.
When we get a designer’s finish palette before the millwork ships, the keypads disappear into the room. The client never says "where do I press the smart-home button" because the smart home looks like part of the wall.
— Daniel Alon · Founder · IntegrateIT
Standing in a Mission Hills kitchen with Lutron Palladiom keypads matched to the cabinet pulls.
Add IntegrateIT to your trade resource list.
Sample board on its way. Trade-discount terms attached. Designer references ready. Email Daniel to start the partnership — we’ll send the trade packet and book a 30-minute studio visit at your convenience.