ShiftCTRL is a New York–headquartered network engineering firm. We design, install, troubleshoot, document, and support UniFi networks — WiFi, switching, cabling, cameras, access control — for clients on-site across the tri-state area and remotely worldwide. The engineer who scopes your network understands the design, the risks, the install, and the final documentation.
A few of the organizations we’ve built and maintained networks for
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Most engagements live here: UniFi networks, WiFi planning, structured cabling, IDF/MDF builds, security cameras, access control, diagnostics, and ongoing operations. We design and install the network, then hand it back so your team knows what was installed, how it’s connected, and who can safely touch it next.
When the tool we need to do the network job right doesn’t exist, we build it. Over the years that has meant parametric design pipelines for global manufacturers, financial platforms and compliance systems for asset managers, and now Foresight — the network-planning tool we built to plan our UniFi work in.
If one of these sounds familiar, you’re in the right place.
The WiFi is unstable and nobody can explain why.
The UniFi controller is a mess. Adopted devices, half-named SSIDs, no labels.
There’s no clean design for the building, and someone needs to own it before cable goes in.
A local installer can run cable. Nobody owns the design.
The system works. Nobody has the map.
We want senior engineers on the job, not a ticket queue.
Five rules for how we scope, change, document, and hand off work — written down so you can hold us to them.
Authorization goes in before work starts; a completion record comes out when the work is done. The heavier set — floor plan, runbook, as-built, cable schedule — comes with the larger scopes, not a one-hour AP swap. Either way, nobody has to guess what we touched or who can safely touch it next.
Reboots, factory resets, firmware swaps, IPS changes, schema migrations — nothing that can disrupt a live system moves forward without your written authorization first. The scope of what we'll touch is defined and agreed before we touch it. No surprises, no actions taken on assumptions.
If the only way the system stays alive is the engineer who built it, the system is broken. Documentation, runbooks, and as-built drawings are part of the build, not an afterthought.
For network work, the floor plan, BoM, topology, VLAN map, and cable schedule live in one place that travels with the project. When a question comes up on-site, the answer is in the design, not in someone’s inbox.
Foresight is the latest example. The Inventor pipelines for Innovant were the older one. Software is one of the services this firm offers because it’s how we engineer past the limits of off-the-shelf tools.
ShiftCTRL was founded in New York in 2021 — with a quarter-century of network and software practice already underneath it. We’re a small team of senior engineers: network engineers, software engineers, field installers. No account managers between the client and the people doing the work.
The mix matters. We think in systems, not just devices. We’ve designed and installed UniFi networks across schools, non-profits, manufacturing floors, finance offices, and homes. We’ve built design-automation pipelines for global manufacturers. We’ve built financial platforms, regulatory reporting systems, and distributed risk-evaluation tools for asset managers — work that doesn’t go live until the team running it can operate it without us.
That discipline travels into the racks, floor plans, and VLAN maps we deliver. We hold a seat on Ubiquiti’s nationwide UniFi Deployment Advisory Board, and we do the work ourselves — no layer between you and the engineer who built it. When we finish, your team has the map: what’s installed, how it’s wired, and what changed.
The floor plan you’re building from. The system that works but nobody can explain. The one nobody else has been able to fix. We’ll tell you what we can solve, what should stay local, and what isn’t a fit.
