AV Operations Partner

AV Operations
got complicated.
PepperDash got to work.

For more than two decades, PepperDash has taken on the AV control challenges other firms can't solve. We pair custom software, field engineering, and PepperDash Portal to help organizations standardize systems, simplify support, and innovate solutions for complex AV environments.

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Fleet Overview
All locations • All manufacturers
847
Total devices
812
Online
31
Warnings
4
Alerts
DM-MD8x8 • Conf Rm A Crestron Online
Q-SYS Core 110f QSC Warning
MXA920 • Board Rm Shure Online
Studio X50 • Exec Suite Poly Online
Standards compliance 96%
Trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, major universities, and financial institutions

Enterprise AV has two problems.
Most companies only solve one.

The fragmentation problem gets most of the attention. The accountability problem is what actually costs organizations the most.

Problem 1
Your AV environment is fragmented and invisible.
  • 10-15 separate vendor dashboards. No unified view of your environment.
  • Problems surface when users complain, not before.
  • No record of what changed, when, or why.
  • No single place to see compliance, status, and risk across every room.
How Portal solves this
One platform replacing 10-15 manufacturer dashboards. Real-time visibility, standards compliance, and full audit trail across every manufacturer.
Problem 2
Nobody owns what happens after the project ends.
  • Every AV deployment gets walked away from when the project closes.
  • Standards exist only in someone's head, or not at all.
  • AV needs to work the way your organization works, not the manufacturer's template.
  • The expertise to run AV at this scale isn't justified as a full-time hire.
How our services solve this
Standards management, control programming, monitoring, consulting, and escalation support. The ongoing operational capability most organizations can't build internally.

What we actually deliver.

Three capabilities that define what an AV Operations partner looks like in practice.

01 — Technical Depth
AV built for your organization, not the manufacturer's template.
"We need this to work the way our organization works, not the way it shipped."

When AV needs to work beyond what any manufacturer ships out of the box, that's a control programming and solution design problem. PepperDash has the deepest technical bench in enterprise AV for solving it. Custom workflows, complex integrations, organization-specific behavior. Twenty-five years of building exclusively for enterprises that have requirements beyond the standard deployment.

02 — Continuous Operations
Operations that don't end when the project does.
"Every project gets deployed and walked away from. Nobody owns what happens next."

AV is not a project. It is an ongoing operational responsibility. Most AV work is project-based: design, install, walk away. PepperDash provides the standards management, monitoring, consulting, and escalation support that turn AV from a series of one-time deployments into a managed, continuously improving capability.

03 — The Amplifying Layer
The expertise your team needs, without the headcount you can't justify.
"We don't have the internal expertise to run AV at this scale, and we can't justify hiring for it full-time."

PepperDash amplifies the capability of the organizations and partners it works with, not by replacing them, but by giving them access to expertise and tooling they cannot cost-effectively build alone. IT teams get operational depth. Integrators close more complete deals. End users get environments that keep working.

One company. Four ways to engage.

Portal is always the platform of record. Services are engaged based on complexity, organizational need, and how much you want to own internally. Most enterprise clients land in the blended model.

Portal Only
You run your AV operations. Portal gives you the platform to do it properly.
  • Unified device management
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Standards and compliance
  • Room readiness workflows
  • Usage analytics
Services Only
Complex environments that need expert hands, custom solutions, or standards work.
  • Custom AV programming
  • Standards development
  • Workflow design
  • End-user research (AVUX)
  • Technical consulting
Fully Managed
PepperDash owns the operation. Your team stays focused on everything else.
  • Portal + full services
  • Proactive monitoring and triage
  • Dedicated escalation team
  • Regular standards reviews
  • SLA-backed performance

Not sure which model fits? Talk to us and we'll tell you honestly.

PepperDash Portal
The platform behind everything we deliver.

Portal is how PepperDash delivers AV Operations at scale. One platform replacing 10-15 manufacturer dashboards, giving IT and AV teams the visibility, compliance tracking, and operational workflows to manage a multi-manufacturer environment the way it should be run.

  • Unified device management across all major AV manufacturers
  • Real-time monitoring, standards compliance, and room readiness
  • Password management, change tracking, and full audit trail
  • Usage analytics and ROI reporting for leadership visibility
  • SOC 2 Type 2 certified
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Standards Compliance
Std. Conf. Room v2.3 96%
214 rooms • 9 non-compliant
Board Room v1.8 89%
18 rooms • 2 non-compliant

What changes with an AV operating model in place.

Before PepperDash, every time we went into a room refresh cycle we were rediscovering what we had built three years earlier. Now we have the documentation and the data to actually plan ahead.

3 yrs
Of undocumented AV history, recovered
James T.
Director of AV Technology
Fortune 100 Financial Institution

When the CIO asks me what's happening with AV, I used to give estimates. Now I pull up a dashboard and show the data. That changed the conversation about AV investment entirely.

-68%
Reduction in AV-related helpdesk tickets
Sarah R.
IT Director, Collaboration
Top-10 Research University

Every other vendor deployed and moved on to the next project. PepperDash built the system and then built the framework for running it. That's not the same company as everyone else we've worked with.

25 yrs
PepperDash AV engineering experience
Michael K.
VP of IT
Big Four Professional Services Firm

AV Operations looks different
depending on where you sit.

Enterprise IT and AV Teams

You have the responsibility but not the headcount. PepperDash gives your team the platform and the expert backup to run AV at scale, without building an internal department that can't be justified on the org chart.

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Managed Service Providers

Manage every client's AV environment from one multi-tenant dashboard. Reduce per-client overhead, standardize your delivery, and give clients the proactive visibility that makes your service defensible at renewal time.

Portal for MSPs
AV Integrators

Your business is installation. Bring PepperDash in as the operations layer and offer a more complete managed service without building the platform or the expertise yourself. You keep the client. We make you better.

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SOC 2
Type 2 Certified
25 years
Enterprise AV expertise
7,500+
Room panels deployed
F100
Fortune 100 customers

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