A specialist design, project management, and software studio for ultra-luxury residences. We design the technology programme of the house, manage the trades who build it, and write the software — including Intuitiv AI, our intelligence layer — that runs above it all for the life of the property.
Intuitiv engages on technology system design from design development through commissioning. Two engagement models, scoped per project. Most clients are introduced through their architect or design firm.
We are the principal's technology architect — partner to the integrator, the architect, and the trades.
Most homes of consequence end up with a dozen specialist contractors, each responsible for one system — and nobody responsible for how all of it behaves together, or for how it behaves in twenty years.
We are. We design the entire technology programme of a residence end-to-end, manage the trades who build it on site, write the software that connects everything, and look after it for the life of the property.
We work alongside your integrator, your architect, your interior designer, your builder, and your estate manager. Our manufacturer partnerships are chosen by what we know will deliver the right solution for the residence — and engagements come from whichever party is leading the project: principal, architect, designer, builder, or general contractor.
The result is a home where the technology disappears, the experience is consistent across every room, and a senior engineer can answer any question about any system, in plain English, at any hour.
We are organised as four connected practices. Most projects engage all of them. A residence designed by Intuitiv is specified, project-managed, programmed, and intelligently operated by the same hands — across automation, networks, audio-visual, lighting, advanced HVAC and climate, security, and the energy systems that sit beneath them.
A senior team that sits with your architect, interior designer and builder from sketch through commissioning. We specify every cable, every panel, every speaker grille, every thermostat — written into the architectural drawings, not retrofitted.
We manage the trades who build the technology of the house — integrators, low-voltage, AV, mechanical, network. Site supervision, tendering, commissioning, and a single point of accountability through to handover.
We write the software that runs the house — Crestron and Lutron, plus advanced HVAC controls and custom layers above them. Every interaction is composed by hand: scenes, climate logic, AV routing, and the on-panel UI itself.
After move-in, the residence is in the care of our team — with full access to its design, configuration, and code records. Site visits as required — in consulting capacity, not on a fixed cadence. The practice that designed the systems is the practice that knows them.
Most consultancies disappear at handover. We don't. After move-in, the residence is in the care of our team — with full access to its full design, code, and engineering records — for the life of the house. Site visits and refinements are arranged as the household needs them, in consulting capacity.
Each residence is paired with a senior engineer who knows it in particular — the wiring, the scenes, the household, the principal’s preferences — and stays paired with it across years.
The practice that designed and programmed the systems is the practice that operates them. The records, the context, and the accountability stay with the firm — questions about the house are answered by people who already know it.
When a system question, a refinement, or a change in the household calls the engineer back to the residence, we travel. Not on a fixed quarterly cadence — on the residence’s own schedule.
Most of the industry is fragmented: an integrator installs, a programmer writes the scenes, a service company answers calls. Three vendors, three handovers, three places to lose information.
Intuitiv is the same firm at every stage — design, programming, commissioning and continuous operation. There is no handover. There is one practice, one record of the residence, and one engineer whose name the household knows.
Tahoe is our touch interface for the home — the surface everyone in the family actually uses. Calm, soft, glass-warm. Designed to be at home in a hallway worth more than the rest of the rack combined.
A small selection from a small portfolio. We work on a limited number of projects each year, and we name very few of them. The briefs below are sketched with the cooperation of the principal.
A waterfront residence on Canada's Pacific coast. Full custom software development and continuous management — automation, audio-visual, networks, climate, lighting, security — under a bespoke Crestron VT Pro interface composed for the architecture. We remain engaged with the household under a continuous-engagement relationship.
A current Pacific Northwest engagement. Custom software development, custom Tahoe interface, deployment management consulting, and advanced DDC supply and deployment — the full breadth of the practice on a single residence.
A coastal ultra-luxury residence in New Zealand. Intuitiv provided UI/UX design, custom software development, and on-site deployment — proof that the practice can author a residence end-to-end at a distance, and hand it over to the household working as intended on the first day.
A residence designed by Intuitiv is a multi-year engagement. We are typically engaged before the architect has finished schematic design, and we are still in the house ten years later.
Two days on site, with the principal and the architect. We listen. We walk the property. We come away with a written brief — what the house should feel like, what should never need explaining, what a Tuesday morning should be like in it.
A complete technology specification — every cable, every panel, every speaker grille, every light fixture, every server — written into the architectural drawings. Twelve to twenty weeks. Reviewed line-by-line with the architect and the construction team.
Site supervision through construction, alongside the integrator and trades. We tender the work, sit on the project meetings, and write the software in parallel — so the house arrives at handover finished, not waiting for its commissioning phase.
Two weeks of orientation with the principal and the household staff. The senior engineer who programmed the residence is on site through commissioning, walking every panel and every scene against the brief.
A continuous-engagement relationship, renewed annually. The senior engineer assigned to the residence remains the point of contact for as long as the house is in service — site visits, refinements, and system questions arranged as the household requires them.
We work alongside architects, interior designers, and the luxury home builders who lead these residences — as a fellow consultant, not as a contractor. Our drawings sit alongside yours. Our specifications are written in your language. We attend your design meetings.
Engagements come through several channels — most often through the general contractor leading the residence, or through a fellow AV consultant who has brought us in. We have worked on residences led by Pritzker Prize and AIA Gold Medal architects, and the architect-led referral is the relationship we are deliberately building toward. We do not pay referral fees. We do not advertise. The work is the introduction.
Founded in British Columbia and retained on residences across North America, Europe, and the Pacific. We accept a small number of new commissions each year.
A short, written brief — even a paragraph — is enough to begin. We respond personally, within two business days. There is no obligation; we accept a small number of commissions each year, and the first conversation is simply to understand whether the work suits us both.
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