About
An independent tool for the hour before you call an AV integrator — when you know you want a meeting room, and not much else yet.
AVRD was not designed as a product. It started on 3 June 2025, out of a meeting about business tools, when design engineer Dan Gibson suggested it: a way to lay a meeting room out and actually look at it before committing to anything. It was worked on until there was a first iteration that could put a room on screen — and then it stopped. Not abandoned so much as overtaken.
It sat in an archive of old AV design work for the best part of a year, until it came back up in conversation and turned out to have aged better than expected. The idea held up; the execution did not. So in July 2026 it was rebuilt from nothing as a browser app — same problem, modern tools, and interactive this time rather than a set of drawings.
What followed was a run of small, frequent releases rather than a launch. Display sizing and placement were reworked, the chair, table and screen models were rebuilt to accurate proportions, and scale figures arrived so a room could be checked from a seated person’s eye height rather than from nowhere in particular. Doors and windows opened up the walls, then the walls learned to fade as the camera passed behind them, so the fourth wall could finally be drawn at all. Most recently the editor itself was rebuilt around a single properties panel, which handed the space back to the model.
Specifying a meeting room is full of questions that sound simple and are not. How big does the screen need to be for someone on the back row to read a spreadsheet? Does the table still work with ten people around it, or only eight? Does the door swing into a chair? An integrator can answer all of these, but that conversation goes better when you arrive with a layout instead of a room size and a hope.
So AVRD is deliberately narrow. It is not CAD, it does not replace an integrator, and it will not produce drawings anyone can install from. It gets you to a defensible concept — a room you have actually looked at, with the sightlines checked — and then exports a brief you can hand over.
Designer, developer and everything else
AVRD is designed, built, supported and paid for by one person, trading as AVRD UK. That means no roadmap by committee and no feature that exists because a spreadsheet asked for it — but also that this is a tool with one pair of hands behind it, which is worth knowing before you build a workflow around it.
AVRD on LinkedInEvery message sent to AVRD is read by one person, not a support queue. Say hello.
The quickest way to understand it is to lay out a room.
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