Consultation & System Design

What is Consultation & System Design?

Consultation and system design is the thinking that happens before the spending — and Beatrox provides it from Portland, Oregon for events and installations nationwide. It's the process of translating a creative goal — an interactive wall, a flagship event, a permanent installation — into a concrete technical system: what equipment, in what configuration, at what cost, maintained by whom. You need this service whenever the technical path isn't obvious. Maybe you're weighing LED against projection, temporary rental against permanent install, or wondering whether a bold creative idea is even feasible in your venue. An experienced systems consultant answers those questions with numbers and drawings, not guesses. Good system design saves money twice: once by speccing only what you actually need, and again by preventing the expensive mistakes — undersized power, incompatible formats, unmaintainable installations — that plague under-planned projects.

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What BEATROX Provides

Our consultation deliverables include system architecture diagrams, equipment schedules, signal flow plans, power and infrastructure requirements, budget ranges with value-engineering options, and maintenance roadmaps. For permanent work, we design for reliability first — commercial-grade components, serviceable layouts, and documentation your facilities team can actually use. Because we also produce events and build installations, our advice comes from people who have operated the systems they spec. For FLIR, we designed and delivered a permanent interactive history wall at their Washington, DC headquarters — an ultra-wide display system with LIDAR sensors, a media server, and AI computer vision that assigns unique IDs to visitors so multiple people can interact simultaneously without interference. It was engineered from the start for daily reliability and low maintenance. We've brought the same consulting discipline to exhibition work for Netflix — including El Camino in New York — and to large-scale event systems like BuzzFeed's 2016 NewFronts at Moynihan Station, where a custom stage, individually mapped projection orbs, media server playback, and full lighting programming had to be planned as one integrated system.

How We Work

1. 01Discovery — We learn your goals, space, users, and budget reality
2. 02Feasibility & Options — Approaches compared with honest cost and risk tradeoffs
3. 03System Design — Architecture, equipment schedules, and signal flow documented
4. 04Budget & Roadmap — Phased plans that match your funding and timeline
5. 05Procurement & Build Support — Vendor selection, bid review, and installation oversight
6. 06Commissioning & Handover — Testing, training, documentation, and maintenance plan

Why BEATROX

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