Established 2012
A firm for the quiet kind of luxury.
For clients who care about how a room feels, not how a system looks. Since 2012, we've designed and installed high-performance technology that stays beautifully out of the way.
Since 2012
Designing quiet homes
Platinum Elite
Savant · Ambassador · Advisory Council
4.7 ★
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What we mean by quiet
Quiet is not the same as hidden.
People read “quiet” as hidden equipment: concealed speakers, screens you can't see. That's not it. A quiet system can be enormously complex underneath. What makes it quiet is that the complexity disappears: the house stops being something you operate and becomes second nature. You're not thinking about it, and that's the point. The work we put in is the reason you don't have to.
The feeling
What a finished system feels like.
A project starts with the client telling us how the house should behave, a narrative, not a product list, and we build the system around it. When it's right, what you notice is what's missing: no pile of remotes, no sequence of buttons to make one thing happen.
Nick's own house is the example he knows best. He walks in, says “Hey Savant, I'm home,” and it sets itself by the time of day. Ask it for a status and it answers: temperature, battery charge, shades at 50%, lights at 50%, then takes everything to where he wants it, off a single question. That readout didn't come in the box. We built it. That's the point of the work.
Founder & CEO
It started by accident.
Elevated Integration started by accident. In 2012, the firm Nick DeClemente was working for went under and left its clients mid-project: systems half-finished, no one to call. He stepped in to get them across the finish line, and that turned into a business.
What made him keep going was seeing why it had happened. Most of the industry runs on cookie-cutter packages and a handoff the day the job ends. Nick built Elevated around the opposite: a system designed for the individual client and the individual house, and a firm that's still there long after the install. Service first, not as an afterthought.
His first two clients were both people that firm had stranded. One handed over a small job: finish this, and you get the rest. The other he tried to pass to another integrator, who told him flat out he was being a wimp for not just doing it himself. Both taught him the same thing: people were betting on how he worked before he'd proven anything, and the way you earn that is unglamorous, deliver what you said, on the day you said. Everything we do now sits on top of that.
Nick DeClemente
Founder
Who we work with
There is no typical client.
There's no typical client here, not by house size or budget. The pattern we notice is different: our clients can tell the difference between being sold to and being partnered with. They can hear it. So we lead with it: we say up front that this is collaborative, that we're here to build their experience in their home. Once that's clear, the rest gets easy. That trust is the real product; the technology follows from it.
We're a firm of eight. Since 2012 we've delivered hundreds of homes, of every size and scope. The largest is an estate in Bermuda: forty video sources feeding thirteen displays across five buildings, tied together by five miles of fiber, with a lighting system to match. But scale isn't the story. The work has gotten better every year, the products, and our sense of how all of it fits together.
Takeovers
Inheriting other people's systems.
A good part of our work is fixing systems other firms built. We take over ten to fifteen a year. What we find is almost always some mix of the same three things: the design was wrong, the work was wrong, or, most common and most damaging, no one ever understood what the family actually expected the house to do. A system can be built perfectly and still be wrong for the people living in it. Our process is the same every time: understand what they expected, look hard at what's there, and give them a straight path to fix it.
A save we're proud of
The shades that kept failing.
A house where the shades kept failing. Two firms had already been at it, both treating the symptom instead of the cause: one rebooting the processors every night, the other adding battery backups to the shade supplies. The shades still didn't work. We told the owner what we actually believed: the shades were old, we'd seen this failure before, and the fix was new motors and bringing the Lutron system up to the current platform. A six-figure estimate, approved. Then we got into it and found the motors were the whole problem. We changed the motors, the system worked, and the job came in at 60% of what we'd quoted. Nobody would have known if we'd done the full scope. We bill what the work costs, not what the estimate says.
The words that come back most from the architects and builders we work with: reasonable, accommodating, team player. We support the other trades instead of defending our own scope.
Accountable
We answer to more than our clients. As a Cinergy Certified firm, we're held to a standard the best firms in the country set and hold one another to, and you can verify our standing anytime, by ID.
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Design, engineer, install, care.
- 01
Design
We start with how you want the room to feel, then work backward to the technology, with your architect and designer, from the first drawing.
- 02
Engineer
Every system is documented, load-tested, and detailed to the inch, so what gets built is exactly what was drawn.
- 03
Install
Clean, coordinated, and considerate of the trades around us, concealed wherever possible, finished to the standard of the room.
- 04
Care
We stay on after the last panel goes up: monitoring, tuning, and improving the system as your home and the technology evolve.
One house, quietly
Health and wellness in the Hamptons.
A whole-house Savant system built around how the family actually lives: circadian lighting that follows the sun, climate and shading tuned by room, and a home that simply keeps pace with the day. It is the philosophy made real, and Savant told the story themselves.
The bench behind the work
Credentials few integrators hold.
Cinergy Certified
An invitation-only peer group of the world's most respected home-technology firms. Earned, verified, renewed each year.
- Savant Platinum Elite Dealer
- Lutron Platinum Dealer
- HTA Certified — Luxury
- CEDIA Awards Finalist
“Artisanal craftsmen working with modern technology. The result is technically mind-blowing but aesthetically beautiful at the same time.”
Where to find us
Armonk, by appointment.
Headquarters
Armonk, New York
5 N Greenwich Road, Armonk, NY 10504
We live and work with what we sell. Armonk is a working demonstration of it.
- Established 2012
- Armonk, New York
- Cinergy Certified
Work with the firm Nick built.
Tell us about the home and how you want it to feel. We'll take it from there.