Aron Griboski

Founded in 2005 by Josh Ferguson, Mile High Automation has been an outlier in this industry since our inception. For 7 years, MHA grew by selling DIY kits of premium automation systems to ambitious homeowners across the world. These systems were previously only been available through local third party integrators, nobody would sell todo-it-yourselfers.By 2011 MHA had grown into a very successful business, but an ominous new threat arose: boredom. In the seven years we sold automation systems, there were huge technological changes that seemed to hit every industry except ours. The advent of the iPhone, iPad, and HDTV changed the way we consumed media, but the home automation systems we sold had hardly changed at all. We still needed to login remotely any time a customer wanted to adjust a lighting scene or rename a music zone. Software updates were nearly impossible, clients were furious when they found out that $60,000 home automation system was not compatible with the next cool thing that came out a year later unless they dropped 5 grand on a new controller for the system. The UI’s were stale and difficult to navigate, and the systems were such a hassle to program and take advantage of that half the clients never touched them.Josh’s solution? He looked at these $100 million giants like Control4 and Crestron, and decided he could do better with a boatload of coffee and some clever programming. In 2012 he had a working prototype, but he completely scrapped it because he did not like the direction it was headed. Nimbus has been through more revisions since 2012 than I care to mention, but it’s reached a point now where our clients are very happy. We took the strengths of our competitors, added a beautiful and intuitive UI and some very unique features, and sell our Nimbus Home automation system across the country (and the globe) right out of our headquarters here in Denver.