The NiagaraMods team together in the studio
NiagaraMods

About Us.

We are a small team with an outsized opinion about how building automation should look and feel. We publish what we learn, give away the tools we can, and build the rest for integrators who want their work to stand out.

Our Story

How we got here.

Three founders, one problem, and a decade of trying to fix it.

The NiagaraMods office on East Winter Street
Made in Ohio38½ E Winter St. Delaware, Ohio 43015

It started the way most useful things do — with a problem.

Three of us spent our early careers designing and building cutting edge user experiences for systems. Then, after more than a decade of working in other spaces, we came back and realized nothing had changed since we left. We saw Niagara jobs that worked well but looked like they were created before the smart phone was invented (they weren't). Graphics and UI were the part of the system the customer actually touched every day, and they were the part nobody had time to get right.

The UI is not just the last part of a project — it is the only part the customer ever sees.
Zach Overholser · Founder, Creative

So we built the tools we wished existed, and gave them away. A tool here, an article there. It turned out a lot of integrators had the same complaint, and the free stuff kept pulling in people who wanted the paid stuff too.

Today we are fifteen people — engineers, designers, project managers, and the client experience desk that answers when something breaks. We still publish everything we learn, we still ship free tools, and we still think the interface is the product. The goal hasn't changed: insanely productive integrators, delighted customers.

  1. 2016

    The first free tool

    A single utility, posted with no landing page and no plan. It got downloaded anyway.

  2. 2018

    Writing it all down

    NiagaraMods is born. A one-stop shop to download our free tools, a blog that turns into the reference we wished existed — from Niagara basics to interface theory.

  3. 2020

    Reflow officially launches

    Separate components and cobbling them together in PX files were not enough. Everyone from building owners to integrators demanded a more modern solution.

  4. 2023

    Training and certification

    Teams wanted the thinking, not just the modules. So we started teaching it.

  5. 2026

    Reflow 2 is here

    A full rethink of the interface layer, and the reason this site looks different than it used to.

The Stage

Fifteen Rock Stars

Zero backup singers.

Founders

  • Adam Bergman
    Adam BergmanFounder, Technology
  • Jerry Gray
    Jerry GrayFounder, Business Development
  • Zach Overholser
    Zach OverholserFounder, Creative

Client Experience

  • Jon Bray
    Jon BrayDirector of Product & CX
  • Nishant Khairnar
    Nishant KhairnarClient Experience Coordinator
  • Andrew Jester
    Andrew JesterClient Experience Coordinator

Delivery & Operations

  • Kim Martinez
    Kim MartinezPartner Channel Manager
  • Audrey McAfee
    Audrey McAfeeProject Manager
  • Bryant Bergman
    Bryant BergmanDirector of Finance

Design & Engineering

  • Andrew Fisher
    Andrew FisherPrincipal UX Designer
  • Chris Flohr
    Chris FlohrDevOps Engineer
  • Sam Bergman
    Sam BergmanPrincipal Engineer
  • Patrick Poole
    Patrick PoolePrincipal Engineer
  • Jeremy McDonald
    Jeremy McDonaldPrincipal Engineer
  • Branden Webb
    Branden WebbAssociate Engineer
How We Work

Things we will not trade away.

Not a poster in the break room. These are the arguments we have already had, written down so we do not have them again.

  1. 01

    The interface is the product.

    A system is judged by the screens people experience it on. We treat that screen as the deliverable, not the wrapper around one.

  2. 02

    Ship small, ship often.

    We would rather put a narrow thing in your hands this month than a complete thing next year. Release notes are a habit, not an event.

  3. 03

    The integrator is the customer.

    Not the spec, not the owner, not the sales cycle. If a decision makes your job harder so that ours gets easier, it is the wrong decision.

Small Shop, On Purpose

Fifteen people, a lot of published words, and a habit of giving away the useful parts.

  • 15

    People on the Team

    Founders still in the codebase.

  • 100K+

    Free Tools Downloaded

    From logic to login screens.

  • 10,000+

    Buildings

    Powered by tools we built.

  • 25+

    Countries

    Running our work every day.

Care about the details? So do we.

Tell us what you've built and what you would rather be building instead.

  • Average experience

    16 yrs

  • Disciplines on staff

    7

  • Time zones covered

    4

Day in the Life

Inside the Studio. Doors Open.

New photography from a day we did not tidy up for. The clean desks and the messy ones.