Todd Church doesn’t install TVs.
He gets called when a church’s sound system cuts out mid-sermon. When a retail store’s security cameras haven’t worked since the “IT guy” left two years ago. When a brand-new office building is already half-obsolete because nobody thought about the technology until after the walls went up.
He fixes the things most Central Ohio businesses don’t even know are broken, until they are.
“I kept seeing the same problem everywhere I went,” Todd says. “Someone would bring in a vendor, pay a lot of money, and six months later they’d have no idea how to use what they bought. Or they’d be locked into a subscription forever for something they should own outright.”
That pattern of buy, install, abandon is the commercial technology industry’s worst-kept secret. It’s also what Clearpoint Technology + Design, Todd’s Westerville-based commercial AV and systems integration company, was built to end.
What Clearpoint Technology + Design Actually Does
Clearpoint is a commercial AV installation company serving businesses, churches, schools, and organizations throughout Central Ohio. But “AV company” undersells the scope.
Todd and his team design and install three interconnected systems that most businesses treat as separate problems handled by separate vendors: audiovisual systems, security and access control, and commercial networking and Wi-Fi. Clearpoint installs all three as a single integrated system — designed together, installed together, and supported by one person who knows how everything works.
Commercial AV installation covers everything from conference room displays and video conferencing infrastructure to full commercial sound systems, digital signage, projection, and the structured cabling that holds it all together. Clearpoint is authorized by 70-plus commercial-grade brands. Clearpoint manually verifies every single piece of equipment in a design to ensure that it meets the systems needs.
Business security systems — commercial security cameras, access control systems, and intrusion detection — without a monthly subscription fee. This is one of the clearest differentiators Clearpoint has in the Central Ohio market. Most security vendors build their margin on recurring monitoring contracts. Clearpoint sells you the system, installs it correctly, trains you on it completely, and leaves you owning it outright. The footage is yours. The equipment is yours. The monthly bill is zero.
Commercial networking and Wi-Fi — enterprise-grade infrastructure for offices, retail spaces, schools, and any commercial environment where consumer-grade equipment has been asked to do a job it was never built for. Dead zones, dropped connections, bandwidth problems that mysteriously appear when foot traffic increases — these are almost always infrastructure problems, not equipment problems. Clearpoint fixes the infrastructure.
The reason it matters that all three come from the same company: when your AV, your security, and your network are designed as one system, they actually work as one system. When something goes wrong — and eventually, something always changes — there’s one call to make.
The 4-Step Model Most Vendors Skip Half Of
Clearpoint runs every project through four steps. They’re not complicated. The industry just doesn’t follow them.
Listen. Before Todd recommends anything, he walks the space. He asks questions about how the business operates, who uses the technology, what’s already installed, and what the actual problems are — not the perceived ones. This takes time. Most vendors skip it and go straight to quoting.
Design. A complete system design — equipment placement, cable routing, power requirements, user workflow — gets built before anything is purchased or installed. This is where expensive mistakes get caught. A problem found in the design phase costs a conversation to fix. A problem found after the drywall is up costs real money.
Install. Clean. On schedule. No visible cables that shouldn’t be visible. No “we’ll come back for that part.” The install is finished when it’s finished, not when the clock runs out.
Equip. This is the step that defines Clearpoint. Every client gets a full training walkthrough before Todd leaves the building. Not a PDF. Not a QR code linking to a manufacturer’s video from 2019. Todd, in person, walking through everything — what it does, how to run it, what to do if something looks wrong, and how to reach him when something changes.
“If they can’t run it themselves, I failed,” he says. “That’s not a bonus service. That’s the job.”
It sounds obvious. It isn’t standard. Ask anyone who’s ever been handed keys to a system they don’t understand and told good luck.
The Subscription Question And Why It Matters More Than You Think
Let’s be direct about the subscription issue, because it’s the thing Todd’s clients most consistently say they wish they’d understood before signing with their last vendor.
Subscription security agreements — monthly monitoring fees, managed service contracts, cloud-based access control with recurring licensing — are industry standard. They’re not always predatory. But they’ve become so normalized that most business owners never question whether they’re necessary. They sign. They pay. Every month. Forever.
Todd questions them on your behalf before you ever have to.
“You can own your system outright,” he says. “The equipment belongs to you. The footage belongs to you. You’re not dependent on anyone’s cloud platform or billing cycle. When something changes — you add a door, expand a space, bring on new staff — you call me, we make the change, and that’s the end of it.”
He makes this model work through smarter purchasing. AI-powered sourcing identifies the best available commercial-grade equipment at the lowest current price before every job. Cost savings go directly to the client. Better equipment, lower cost, zero ongoing financial obligation to the vendor.
The trade-off is that Clearpoint has to be excellent at training. If the client owns the system, the client needs to know how to run it. So Todd trains every client before he walks out the door, every time, no exceptions.
That’s not a trade-off most clients mind.
Who Calls Clearpoint And Why
Clearpoint serves six verticals across Central Ohio. The industries are different. The underlying problem is identical: technology that was installed by someone who didn’t stick around long enough to matter.
Retail. Point-of-sale-integrated security, in-store audio, digital signage, and the networking infrastructure that keeps everything talking across one location or ten. Retail tech failure is visible. It happens in front of customers. It costs sales. Clearpoint builds systems that work quietly in the background the way they’re supposed to.
Worship spaces. Church AV installation is one of the most technically demanding commercial environments there is. Variable acoustics, volunteer operators, tight budgets, full room visibility when anything goes wrong. Clearpoint has worked with churches and worship spaces throughout Central Ohio to build systems that sound right, look right, and can be operated by a volunteer with an afternoon of training. Todd once got a 67-year-old church tech volunteer running a full digital soundboard in 45 minutes. The system was designed to make that possible.
Education. Schools and universities upgrading classroom technology, campus networking, and access control. Clearpoint installs during breaks and summers when possible, and designs systems that don’t require a dedicated IT department to keep running.
Corporate offices. Conference room AV, full-office networking, and security systems designed for how modern offices actually work — hybrid schedules, multi-floor layouts, spaces that need to flex as the company grows. No subscription. No managed service agreement. Just infrastructure that works.
Construction. Integrating technology during the construction phase — before the walls close — costs a fraction of what retrofitting costs after the fact. Clearpoint works directly with builders and general contractors to rough in cable routes, position access points, and design systems built to serve the building for years, not become obsolete before the ribbon is cut. “If you’re building, call the tech person early,” Todd says. “I am easy to reach.”
Residential. For homeowners who want smart home systems designed and installed correctly, once, without the back-and-forth that comes with consumer installers who learned everything from YouTube.
What Central Ohio Clients Actually Say About Clearpoint
The reviews Todd has collected don’t read like most contractor reviews. They don’t describe a vendor. They describe a relationship.
Sean O’Rourke at Zion Christian Fellowship didn’t just describe a clean install. He described a company that stayed engaged, answered questions, and left his team genuinely confident running the system themselves. Matt Moore in Indianapolis described the kind of care and specificity that makes you feel like your job was the only job on the schedule — because in Todd’s world, it basically is.
“We are not after the next sale,” Todd has said more than once. “We are after the next relationship.”
That philosophy shows up in a specific, practical way: the free systems assessment. It’s not a sales call dressed up as a diagnostic. It’s Todd walking your space, looking at what you have, listening to how you use it, and telling you exactly what you need — including, sometimes, that you need considerably less than another vendor quoted you.
“I’d rather lose the sale than oversell someone,” he says. “The referrals I get from doing the right thing are worth more than any one job.”
He has the long-term client relationships to back that up.
How to Get Started: The Free Systems Assessment
If you manage a business, run a facility, lead a church, oversee a school, or are currently building a commercial space anywhere in Central Ohio, the smartest first move you can make is a 30-minute conversation with Todd Church.
The free systems assessment costs nothing. There’s no commitment, no pressure, and no pitch dressed up as advice. Todd walks your space, asks the right questions, looks at what’s already there, and tells you exactly what you need and what it would cost to get it done right.
If you’ve been putting off the AV upgrade, living with security cameras that may or may not be recording, or dealing with Wi-Fi dead zones that have existed so long they feel permanent — this is how you start fixing it.
Book your free systems assessment: 🌐 clearpointtechdesign.com 📞 (740)-936-7767
Clearpoint Technology + Design serves residential and commercial locations all across the U.S. with AV installation, security systems, access control, and networking, designed right, installed clean, and supported by someone who answers the phone.
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