Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and home systems services
Growing home improvement companies are adding more technology than ever. Marketing may use one platform. Sales may use another. The call center may have its own system. AI tools may sit somewhere else. Each tool can collect useful information, but more technology does not always create more clarity. During a PowerChat with Greg Cummings, CEO … Read more
Staying Far Away from Insurance Can Leave a Growing Contractor Network Harder to Control Large home improvement companies often face the same problem as they grow. They may depend on dozens or even hundreds of subcontractors and 1099 workers, but every contractor can arrive with a different insurance agent, a different policy, and a different … Read more
A used car dealer in San Antonio named Luis found out the hard way what a two-day bank delay actually costs. He had his eye on a lot of inventory at auction, the kind of lot that turns fast and moves margin, and by the time his bank released the funds he needed, someone else … Read more
Ask most home improvement business owners where financing sits on their org chart, and the honest answer is usually somewhere near bookkeeping. It gets handed to whoever processes paperwork fastest, reviewed once a quarter, and rarely discussed in the same meeting as marketing spend or sales training. Edward Meister, CEO and Co-Founder of Pure Finance … Read more
More Technology Does Not Help When Nobody Owns The Result Home improvement companies are adding technology faster than ever, but many leaders are running into the same problem. They have a CRM, an AI tool, review software, referral software, messaging tools, and other platforms, yet the business still struggles to create a single clear process … Read more
A local business association spends years building something a fintech company cannot buy: trust. Members show up to the same meetings, refer work to each other, and vouch for vendors by name. That density of relationship is exactly why Affiniti built its affinity card program around trade associations instead of trying to out-market them. Power100, … Read more
A sales rep sits at a kitchen table with an approved customer, a signed proposal, and a financing application that was submitted twenty minutes ago through a completely different piece of software than the one that generated the estimate. The customer’s name, address, phone number, and project total all have to be typed in again. … Read more
A contractor sitting at a laptop after a long day in the field types a blunt question into a search bar: should I hire Affiniti for Accounts Payable and Expense Automation? It is not a rhetorical question. It is a business owner trying to decide whether to trust a fintech company with the plumbing of … Read more
Fuel is one of the few line items on a contractor’s P&L that everybody pays and almost nobody audits. It shows up on the statement, it gets paid, and the business moves on. That habit is expensive. Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry … Read more
A contractor sitting across from a homeowner at the kitchen table does not have time to explain dealer fee tiers or waterfall approval logic. They need one number that works and one lender that says yes. That single moment, repeated thousands of times a day across roofing, HVAC, window, and remodeling businesses nationwide, is why … Read more
