See what your HVAC equipment is doing before deciding what to upgrade.
Clark & Soma assesses, documents, and visualizes building controls so owners can see equipment status, alarms, schedules, and system behavior without being trapped by one vendor.
Start with a fixed-scope controls assessment. Monitoring and service plans are scoped separately after the site is documented.
- Site visit
- 2–6 hrsOn-site assessment and walkthrough
- Written report
- ~5 business daysFindings, control observations, and scoped next steps
- Protocols
- BACnet/IP · Modbus TCP · LonWorksVendor-neutral review and documentation
- Service area
- Central IndianaIndianapolis metro and surrounding areas
Readable equipment views, built around your system.
Representative BMS-style graphics show how equipment status, alarms, and operating points can be organized into a front end that owners and operators can actually use.
Representative sample graphics. Live points, floor plans, and equipment views are scoped per project.
Explore the interactive demoControls visibility owners can actually use.
Most buildings already have useful data buried inside controllers, schedules, alarms, and vendor tools. Clark & Soma organizes that information into a clearer operational picture.
Visibility into your controls
See equipment status, alarms, schedules, zone conditions, and system behavior in one readable view.
Documentation owners can use
Point lists, sequences, controller notes, credentials, and findings organized for future service or upgrades.
Open-protocol clarity
BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP, and LonWorks visibility that reduces black-box dependence and avoids unnecessary replacement.
- Custom floor plans with zone status
- Equipment point lists and field notes
- Sequences of operation, documented
- Energy and runtime reporting
- Open-protocol context and credentials in the owner’s name
- Multi-site portfolio rollup
- Graphics and dashboard documentation
- Scoped recommendations for future phases
What the dashboard and report actually look like.
Both are populated with simulated building data so you can review the format before scoping work at your own property.
- Sample dashboard
Owner-direct BMS dashboard
Walk through the dashboard format you receive, floor plans, schedules, alarms, equipment status. Populated with simulated building data.
Open the sample dashboard - Sample report
Controls Health Check report
A full sample of the written report you receive after an assessment, findings, priorities, and scoped proposals. Building details are fictional.
Read the sample report
Not ready for an assessment? Ask a controls question by email for a plain-language answer, no scope, no commitment.
See the system before changing it.
Document what exists, improve what can be reused, and upgrade only what actually needs replacing. Every engagement follows the same basic path, whether it is one rooftop unit or a portfolio of buildings.
- 01Discovery
Intake call
A short call to confirm building type, equipment, and the comfort or runtime issue driving the request.
~30 min · No cost - 02Assessment
Controls Health Check
We walk the property, point-map the controls, and document what is programmed versus what is actually running.
Site visit · Defined scope - 03Findings
Written report
Findings, priorities, and scoped proposals. You decide what to act on. No obligation to proceed.
Inside 5 business days - 04Scope Alignment
Phased proposal
Open-protocol retrofit, integration, and dashboard work, costed per phase before approval. Confirmed in writing before each phase.
Per phase · Approved before work starts - 05Handoff
Documentation handoff
Complete equipment lists (what is connected), control narratives (how each device responds), credentials, and as-builts. Open standards — so any qualified technician can pick it up.
Owner-held credentials
Do not replace what you have not documented.
Controls problems are often visibility problems first. Before spending money on major upgrades, owners need to know what is connected, what is working, what is alarming, and what is being overridden.
Catch problems earlier
See abnormal temperatures, failed equipment, schedule drift, and active alarms before they become tenant complaints.
Reduce unnecessary replacement
Separate programming, sensor, schedule, and visibility problems from equipment that actually needs replacement.
Coordinate vendors better
Give owners, operators, and service contractors the same documented view of the system.
Keep control of your data
Open-protocol documentation and owner-held credentials reduce long-term dependence on one vendor.
Built for these buildings.
Most engagements are problem-driven. Each audience below is an actual recurring request and the response we typically scope.
- 01
Retail Centers
When tenant comfort complaints arrive without a clear root cause, we identify the source, fix the programming, and deliver a written report.
- 02
Restaurants & Food Service
When kitchen and dining temps drift during peak hours, we tune schedules and setpoints so they hold through lunch and dinner.
- 03
Strip Malls & Small Retail
When you have no visibility into how units are running across tenants, we connect them to one dashboard so drift is caught before tenants notice.
- 04
Office & Light Commercial
When your system runs at 2 AM when it shouldn’t, we enforce schedules and log every override, so wasted runtime stops.
We don’t rip out what’s working. We make it visible.
Most buildings we walk into already have a controls system. It’s just buried. Disconnected controllers, orphaned sensors, a login nobody remembers. The equipment works. The visibility doesn’t. We fix that without starting over.
We integrate into your existing infrastructure and build a front-end that makes sense to the person running the building. No black-box middleware. No annual fee to read your own data.
We document what we build. When the project ends, you own the system, not a service contract.
Start with a clear picture of the system.
A fixed-scope controls review documents what exists, identifies what is missing, and frames the next practical step. No obligation past the report.
Discuss a system review