Brilliant?s home control panel, a universal smart home control seeking to gain market share with a new builder program. | Brilliant

Brilliant, a smart home controller, is helping builders make high-tech a standard option for new homes For homebuilder Thomas Beadel, smart home technology isn?t a premium. It?s something buyers expect.
As president and CEO of Thomas James Homes, the largest urban infill developer in the country, which focuses on lot-by-lot projects instead of from-scratch new developments, Beadel and his firm focuses on acquiring properties, demoing, and building new multimillion-dollar single-family homes in West Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Last year, they made nearly $350 million in revenue selling 110 homes. And the question potential buyers ask more than anything else is whether or not it?s a smart home. For years, Beadel?s company been meeting the demand for high-tech homes by pre-wiring new homes with smart controls and speakers. But recently, the company found what Beadel believes is a better solution. Thomas James recently joined the recently launched Brilliant Builders program, a group of roughly two dozen large developers and homebuilders across the country installing smart home control systems from the San Mateo, California-based startup.
At a time when voice-control systems such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Home may dominate smart home discourse, the Brilliant control panel, a sort of universal remote for smart home devices that?s about ...