When owners think about growth, they reach for the big levers — sales, hiring, cost. The conference room rarely makes the list, which is strange, because it is where some of a New York business's highest-stakes meetings happen, and one of the simplest rooms to make work harder for you.
Start with the impression. A prospect reads competence in a room that is already set — lights down, screen lowered, shades drawn, nothing to crawl under a table to connect. We use Savant in our own offices because it delivers that kind of integrated control, and because it is simple enough that a guest can adjust the room without a manual.
Then there is the team. Most employees should not have to stage a room before a meeting or wrestle with a video call. Automation makes scheduling and connecting effortless, which returns their hours to the work you actually hired them for, and makes the office one they are glad to bring people into.
Finally, control that travels. Tie the boardroom into the rest of the office and to a phone, and you can run lighting, shades, A/V, security, and climate from anywhere — power down the room after hours, arm the space before the next shift, or call into a meeting from the road.