AI

Events

Dallas Market Center to Host Free RETAIL READY Webinar on Using AI to Run a Smarter Store

One-hour session on Wednesday, December 2, shares practical AI tools for inventory, operations, marketing, and more.

Features

A Fool With a Tool

AI can amplify your skills — or expose your weaknesses.

Blogs

The Risks of AI in the Smart Home

Why we need to be careful while managing the transition from static, rule-based systems to truly autonomous AI agents.

Features

Would AI Recommend Your Integration Firm?

Your company needs to be understood, trusted, and recommendable by both people and the systems that help them decide who to call.

UGREEN, a global consumer technology company, has unveiled HomeAgent and the new MagFlow Series.

Security

UGREEN Debuts New Smart Home Ecosystem

UGREEN moves AI processing, storage, and device control into the home with its local-first HomeAgent ecosystem.

News

Dallas Market Center Launches Practical AI Training for Independent Retailers

RETAIL READY program will take place via social media, email, videos, webinars, and the company’s website.

News

New Whitepaper Explores the Infrastructure Challenge Facing AI-Enabled Audio

Bragi and Futuresource analysis explores how fragmentation, advancing chipset capabilities, and new service models are reshaping the global headphones market.

News

Josh.ai Publishes Code of Conduct for AI in the Home

As artificial intelligence grows more capable, Josh.ai is defining the principles it believes every company should follow to keep homeowners safe, private, and always...

Features

The AI-Enhanced Services Roadmap for CIs

AI has the potential to transform custom integration from a project-based business to a continuous-service business.

Automation

ProStudio by Josh.ai Debuts at CEDIA Expo 2026

ProStudio equips installers with the tools to integrate more of the home and deliver increasingly sophisticated experiences while reducing programming complexity.

Blogs

John Sciacca’s Top 10 Things to See at CEDIA Expo 2026

The anticipation has been building for months, and we are primed and ready to hit the show floor and conference sessions.

News

madVR Labs Launches madAssist AI Product Expert

New patent-pending solution gives AV manufacturers a branded, manufacturer-controlled product expert that answers, guides, and acts — 24/7.

News

D-Tools and Portal.io Merge

D-Tools and Portal.io will continue to support each platform while working with integrators to match the right software to their needs.

Automation

Savant to Show SavantOS 12, Savant AI, and More at CEDIA Expo

SavantOS 12 will standardize the company's software offering into a single, unified platform.

ProjX360 will showcase its latest platform advancements at CEDIA Expo 2026in booth #C908, highlighting a unified operational model centered on a single principle: the project is the location.

News

ProjX360 Brings ‘Project as Location’ Platform to CEDIA Expo 2026

Rather than centering operations on proposals, the platform organizes everything around a persistent project tied to a physical home that evolves over time.

Back to Business

The Practitioner vs. the Explorer

If you’re feeling confused about how to apply AI to your business, you might be approaching the problem backward.

Back to Business

The 2029 Org Chart: A Field Guide for CI Owners

The future of this industry belongs to the player-coaches — and AI will help us get there.

Kevin Kieller and David Maldow, known as the AI Chefs

CEDIA Show

IMCCA to Host AI Lab for Integrators at CEDIA Expo

The “AI Chefs” explain how AI presents integrators with opportunities for productivity and efficiency.

Blogs

Build Your Shadow Warrior Army

As more of your team takes to building AI agents, efficiencies increase.

News

Screen Innovations Releases ATEN AI-Powered Support Agent

ATEN delivers instant, expert support to dealers and installers 24/7/365 on any device, from any jobsite, whenever help is needed.

IntegrateU Workshops Session 01: The Intel Engine

IntegrateU has officially launched Workshops, a live build-along series that teaches custom integration professionals to build and ship their own AI tools in real time....

Events

IntegrateU Launches a Free Series for Integrators Who Want to Build AI Tools

Session 01, The Intel Engine, takes place on July 22 and requires no code.

Josh.ai has announced the launch of AI X OS.

Automation

Josh.ai Launches AI X OS

The release expands Josh.ai’s integration of AI across its control ecosystem.

Events

Amplifiy People to Host Free Webinar on How the AI Infrastructure Boom Could Intensify Skilled Labor Shortages for Custom Integrators

Called "The AI Gold Rush Is Coming for Your Workforce: What CI & Security Businesses Need to Know," the webinar takes place on June...

Blogs

AI Hack #541: The Gap Between Reading and Doing Just Collapsed

AI removes the barriers to activating the business advice you’ve been reading about.

Strips of newspaper with the words Artificial Intelligence typed on them. Close up.

Back to Business

Are You Still Relevant?

Moving beyond the headlines about AI and the end of knowledge work.

Automation

URC Automation Engine’s URC Agents Provide Self-Learning Solutions

New AI Agents include Temperature Sense and Humidity Sense plugins.

Blogs

AI Hack #683: Learn The Tools

Thanks to AI, ideas that have been on the back burner for years can now see the light of day.

Back to Business

Trust Is the New SEO

How integrators can gain visibility in an AI-first world.

Resideo Technologies introduced AI Smart Search available for First Alert CX4 video cameras

Security

Resideo Introduces AI Smart Search and Access Control Integration at ISC West 2026

AI Smart Search on First Alert CX4 cameras offers generative AI to detect and classify data quickly.

Joah.ai 2026 keynote -- Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai

Automation

Josh.ai Keynote 2026 Reveals New OS, Expanded Josh Edge Capabilities, and More

Presentation highlighted AI X OS launch and the redesigned Josh App, showed the adaptive Josh Edge remote configuration, and debuted native pool and spa...

HTA – AI That Pays: How Your Peers Are Winning with AI (Members Only)

Everyone is talking about AI, but the real question is: what are integrators actually using day-to-day that produces results? This session is a peer-driven...