About – Mankin Media Systems

4D Process

Our 4D process incorporates your dreams into a comprehensive system design, deploy, and defend process that maximizes your ability to engage your audience.

01 Dream

The DREAM process informs and inspires where you want to go, what it’s going to take, and how we’re going to get there together.
- Research & ideation
- Discover audience needs
- Clarify goals & priorities
- Create a roadmap and budget
02 Design

The DESIGN process takes the emotional language of wants and needs and converts it to technical specifications on a printed document.
- Space evaluation
- Resource assessment
- Pre-visualization artwork
- System schematics
03 Deploy

The DEPLOY process makes sure the system lives in harmony with your building acoustically, electrically, and aesthetically.
- Pre-build major components
- Expert on-site installation
- System commissioning
- Educate & train client
04 Defend

The DEFEND process protects the performance standards of your system to maximize the longevity of your investment.
- Pre-flight checklists
- Active monitoring & reports
- Real-time support
- Preventive maintenance coordination

Core Values

While “feel-good" words are easy to come by, commitment is not. These eight values are the most essential elements of who we are and what we stand for. We invite you to hold us to them.

Be champions of character

We value honesty, loyalty, humility, respect, gratefulness, and trustworthiness above all else.

Exemplify passion

We believe in the work we’re doing and the people we’re doing it for, 100% of the time.

Collaborate

We respect the client, our team, and the process - and understand that active collaboration is foundational to delivering an exceptional, repeatable experience.

Be accountable

We will be dependable and reliable to ourselves, our teammates, and our clients.

Uphold sustainable excellence

We are relentless in - and committed to - our pursuit of excellence, while also maintaining sustainability as individuals, employees, and as a company.

Innovate and educate

We will embrace curiosity, take healthy risks, and consider education a critical component to the growth of our company and success of our clients.

Invest in relationships

We value long term relationships over cold transactions.

Deliver WOW

We are a team of A-players dedicated to finding and delivering the wow on each and every project.

Team

As individuals, we range from tech wizards to raconteurs and entrepreneurs to engineers. Together, we’ve completed hundreds of projects and won dozens of awards. While we’re proud of all that, our passion and purpose is what really excites us: we’re here to help you engage your audience.

Ben Mankin

Founder

While working in broadcast production, Ben saw a growing need for talented and creative people to lead organizations and churches through the media revolution. In 2001, he decided to start Mankin Media Systems in the spare bedroom of his condo. One day, after his neighbor signed for 14 speaker boxes that came truck freight, he realized it might be time to make things a bit more formal. Since that time he’s consulted, designed, and installed technical systems all over the world while building a team around him of smart and savvy people. Hundreds of projects and dozens of awards later, Ben’s passion to help leaders better engage their audience has never burned brighter.

Interested in joining the team?

Awards

Inc. 5000

2009 — 2017: Exclusive ranking in Inc. 5000’s America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

Solomon Awards

2018: Design and Installation of AVL System – New Building Sanctuary
2017: Design and Installation of Audio System or Sound Reinforcement; Design and Installation of Video Display or Lighting Design; Design and Installation of AVL System - New Building Sanctuary
2016: Best Special Project & Best Design and Installation of Audio System
2015: Best Church Special Project
2014: Best Innovative Production
2009, 2010, 2012: Best Tech Consultant and/or Contractor
2009, 2010: Best Overall Church Technology Project

Commercial Integrator

2018: Fastest Growing Firms
2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019: Best House of Worship Project
2013 — 2016: Top 5 Integrator

We are an audio, video, and lighting systems integration company.

We leverage technology to create compelling spaces for your growing audience.