About
The person who scopes the work should be the person who commissions it.
An Ontario integration practice built around that one idea, and around the belief that documentation is part of the job rather than an afterthought.
The practice
Rooms, networks, and the software between them.
Bello Integrated Systems works across AV systems integration, venue automation, networking, low-voltage infrastructure and custom software. Those areas sit together because real installations do not respect the boundaries between them. A lighting system depends on a network, a box office depends on data getting somewhere useful, and both depend on someone having written down how it works.
The practice is deliberately small. Projects are taken on where that scale is an advantage: retrofits, integrations, systems that need judgement rather than headcount, and work that a larger firm would route through three departments and a project manager.
It is also an AI-native practice. Drawings, calculations, documentation and code are produced with frontier AI models and reviewed by the engineer who commissions the system. The result is the output of a larger shop with the accountability of a single name.
Principal
John Bello
Engineer, systems integrationJohn works in systems integration with a background in technical theatre and networked infrastructure. The through-line is making equipment behave predictably, on cue, in front of people who will notice immediately if it does not.
Alongside the integration work he serves as Technical Director at a community theatre in Dundas, Ontario, where the technical infrastructure (networking, show automation and the software the organisation runs on) has been designed and built in-house.
Where we work
Based in Hamilton, Ontario. Regular work throughout the Hamilton, Halton and Niagara regions and the western Greater Toronto Area. Remote support and software work further afield.
How engagements start
Usually a site visit and a conversation, then a written scope with a fixed price or a rate and an estimate. No obligation attaches to the first conversation.
The legal entity
Bello Integrated Systems is a registered business name of 1001562478 Ontario Inc., an Ontario corporation (BIN 1001704601). Contracts, invoices and insurance are issued as 1001562478 Ontario Inc. o/a Bello Integrated Systems.