Who we work with
Three ways into OKTO, depending on what you are protecting.
Main contractors
The final three months
The final three months of a complex project are where margins go to die. When building technology is treated as a subcontract package rather than a digital integration responsibility, the problems do not show up until the end. The BMS, the AV, the IT, the access control — specified separately, installed separately, expected to talk to each other at practical completion. They almost never do first time.
The result is what every main contractor knows: too many bodies on site during commissioning, scope gaps nobody owns, interoperability failures that delay PC, and defects that drag through the 12-month period eating a margin that was already thin.
Commission offsite. Optimise onsite.
One accountable owner
This is not a contractor problem. It is a structure problem. The digital integration environment on a complex project needs one accountable owner from day one. OKTO owns that environment — every system, every interface, every integration point — resolved at OKTOLabs before it reaches site.
By the time our systems arrive on a project they are not being commissioned. They are being installed, already proven, and optimised in place. Site attendance drops. Commissioning durations shorten. You hand over with confidence, not hope.
- Every system integrated, connected and commissioned offsite before delivery
- 8-phase offsite test programme ending in a two-week soak test
- 5-year warranty
- Stakeholders invited to witness their exact system running at OKTOLabs
“Excellent again Phil. Okto are impressing everyone with your documentation and presentations.”
M&E contractors
The integration gap
On paper the packages fit together. On site, the interfaces between them are where the risk lives — the TBCs, the scope gaps, the points where one subcontractor's responsibility ends and nobody else's quite begins. When something does not work, the chain of subcontractors points at each other while the programme burns.
One number to call
OKTO takes single-point responsibility for the building technology scope: design development through technical workshops with the design team, R&D and proof-of-concept with manufacturers, bespoke control panels built in-house, and full integration proven across third-party systems at OKTOLabs before delivery.
One partner who knows the whole system, picks up the phone, and already knows the answer. We work to your programme, and we arrive with systems that already work.
- Complete Status A drawing sets
- Factory acceptance tests witnessed by the client team
- In-house bespoke panel production
- NICEIC · BCIA · ISO 9001
“In all honesty OKTO are the best in the business and make contracting that little bit easier.”
Estates directors
The fog
Hospital estates run on hundreds of critical systems. Chillers, boilers, generators, medical gas and fire systems operate in separate rooms, on separate software, watched by separate people. Raw alerts do not explain the operational consequence, so the senior person still has to ask an engineer to translate before making the call.
The alerts are already visible. The decision is happening somewhere else.
Decision-grade outcomes
CIDE-OS translates live operational data into the language of consequence — decision-grade outcomes, not raw alerts. Gateways connect to the systems you already own — BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA, KNX — without disruption to live operations.
From that foundation, CIDE-OS produces decision-grade outcomes: plain-English statements written for the role and the moment, with the underlying evidence one click below. “Boiler two: alarm” is what a dashboard says. “Boiler two alarm threatens steam supply to sterile services; afternoon theatre list affected; no immediate action required; review at 15:30” is what the person responsible actually needs.
In active partnership with Belfast Trust on the digitisation of its estate.
“I've seen and been around 100's of projects worldwide. Your crew is at the top of the list for AV integrators internationally.”
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Tell us what has to work, and the person accountable for the right discipline will respond.