For over 25 years, SAV states that it has been known not only for its expertise in integrated home technology, but for how it approaches every challenge with a distinctly human lens. Where others might lean into business acronyms like B2B, B2C or ROI, SAV prefers to lead with “P2P”—people to people, relationships, the company boasts, are the real return on investment, and with that mindset on full display during its most recent event—“Quality Cuts”—it provided attendees with an immersive experience that merged high-performance design and technology with art, architecture, and regenerative agriculture.
Held on April 4 inside Medium Gallery, the experiential art and event space located within SAV’s Bozeman headquarters, “Quality Cuts” was anything but your standard industry mixer,” the smart home company suggests.
SAV Quality Cuts Highlights Local Businesses and Smart Home Technologies
The concept of “Quality Cuts,” SAV says was to celebrate the intentional intersection of sustainability, innovation, and design. During the event the company notes that guests were welcomed into a fully curated environment that felt part gallery opening, part culinary showcase, part design salon to create what integrator says was an unforgettable evening.
SAV Digital Environments emphasizes that the event was also born from a desire to tell stories—about what quality means, how we define it, and where it originates. Collaborating with a range of partners including Forward Farms (a Montana-based, regenerative beef producer), Minarik Architecture, and the luxury lighting brand Ketra, the SAV team crafted an experience that was thoughtful and dynamic.
Throughout the evening, guests explored a Ketra lighting installation that was tuned to enhance the textures, colors, and mood of the space. The environment was supported with an interactive vinyl DJ set and curated record displays, reinforcing the analog-digital balance that underpins many of SAV’s designs. Showcased alongside the music was a selection of modern turntables from McIntosh and Pro-Ject.
A high-contrast art exhibition showcased local and regional creatives, and a farm-to-fork menu by Provecho highlighted carbon-neutral, 100% grass-fed beef from Forward Farms—showcased sustainability and flavor.
Event Attendance Represents Complete Design-Build Ecosystem
In another highlight of the event, SAV partnered with artist Noah Kaplan of Leon Speakers to unveil a commissioned piece of art inspired by the mission of Big Sky Youth Empowerment (BYEP). According to SAV, the piece not only embodied the spirit of the event, it also gave back: 100% of the proceeds from its sale donated directly to BYEP to demonstrate SAV’s commitment to nurturing their community and investing in the next generation.
SAV also points out that its team was on hand to guide guests through the installations, demonstrating how intelligent lighting can be harnessed as a powerful design tool. Originally developed for museums, Ketra’s fully dynamic, individually addressable fixtures were custom tuned throughout the event to create distinct moments within the space to help shift the mood, while drawing focus to art and texture, and elevating the sensory experience.
Supporting its leadership style, which SAV Digital Environments says is a combination of collaborative, community-oriented, and future-focused, it invited architects, designers, builders, ranchers, artists, technology enthusiasts, and the general community to the event.
Summing up the Quality Cuts events, SAV adds that attendees built new connections, they discussed ideas, and they focused the conversation around quality. Elements within those discussions, the integrator continues, included quality of materials, quality of partnerships, and quality of life. And in doing so, SAV brags that it demonstrated its approach to return on investment (ROI) is about people, not a dollar sign.
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