Mantis Audiovisual

Field notes.

Lessons from designing, building, and proving the rooms organizations run on. Written for the people who have to choose, brief, and live with the result. No fluff, no sales.

How to choose an AV integrator The questions that predict whether a room still works in year three, not just on opening day.

How a room is proven The standards every room is commissioned to, and the signed record you keep: display sizing, intelligibility, coverage, end-to-end verification.

Why mission-critical rooms fail The predictable failure modes (brought in late, handed off, never commissioned) and what prevents each.

Designing a boardroom that just works Why the order of decisions matters more than the gear list: the room first, then audio, control, network, proof.

Control rooms that run around the clock Operators, the video wall, redundancy, and knowing a fault before the operators do.

All-hands AV, every seat covered Even coverage, measured intelligibility, and a hybrid feed that treats the remote audience as first-class.