We totally get that some of the companies we work with do not want the fact that they use sub-contractors to be public knowledge and we ensure that we are very careful on how we present ourselves.
Whilst there is of course no shame in using a sub-contractor, certain clients do find reassurance when companies are using completely in-house labour. Currently there is a shortage of high-level Crestron programmers with experience in the residential sector and some of the salary demands are getting very high these days; so it absolutely makes sense to sub-contract.
We work with three kinds of companies in general:
Smaller companies that do not have the turnover to take on a full-time programmer.
Most of these companies have a great team and can sell, deliver and support really quite large Crestron systems, but it is often not possible to have a full-time programmer as part of that setup.Larger companies that specialise in very large projects - we work with several companies that may only do 2 or 3 Crestron projects a year, but they are very large projects. It makes sense to sub-contract for them as, otherwise, they might have a highly paid programmer with nothing to do for several months between projects.
Larger companies with a large team and in-house programming staff.
We provide overflow labour for companies like this when they are having scheduling challenges and have 3 large projects all being finished at the same time, for example.
To reassure anyone that has concerns about using sub-contractors, we adhere to the following guidelines:
We are very unbranded* when we’re on site - no {ie} logos on any clothing etc.
We will always announce ourselves as being from ‘YourCompanyNameHere’
Without your permission, we would never give out our @integratedexperience.com email to anyone outside of your company**
It is really important to us that we appear totally integrated with you to your clients, so we are very flexible in how we are presented to your clients; but rest assured that we’ll be completely seamless in our presentation.
*We are more than happy to be branded in your company shirts etc. if you want a truly integrated presentation.
**if it is desirable and we are involved in project discussions with other contractors etc., we have a couple of clients that have given us email addresses on their domains.