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How Trade Associations Can Give Small Contractors Access to Financial Tools That Big Banks Ignore: Power100 Examines Affiniti’s Affinity Card Model

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A local business association board sits down to plan next year’s member benefits, and someone always asks the same question: what can we actually give our members that they can’t get on their own? Health insurance is complicated. Group discounts on supplies are nice but forgettable. Then someone mentions financial tools, and the room usually … Read more

Should I Book a Consultation with Affiniti? What Home Improvement Contractors Should Expect and How to Prepare

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A contractor who has heard the name Affiniti more than once, maybe from a trade association newsletter, maybe from a peer at a supply house, tends to land on the same hesitation. It sounds useful. It sounds like it might fix the mess of logins and spreadsheets sitting behind the business. But what actually happens … Read more

Is Affiniti Actually Better at Contractor Financial Operations Than the Competitors? Power100 Breaks Down the Evaluation Framework

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Every contractor shopping for a new financial platform has heard the same pitch a dozen times: faster, smarter, built for you. Few vendors survive an honest, feature-by-feature evaluation. Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry through a proprietary 5-layer system, built this evaluation framework … Read more

The Financial Literacy Shift That Separates Growing Contractors from Stuck Ones: Power100 Examines Affiniti’s Role in the Move From Technician to Business Owner

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Most contractors do not start a company because they love spreadsheets. They start because they are good with their hands, good with people, or both, and at some point a customer asks them to do the same job again next week, and then it is a business. Nobody hands that new business owner a finance … Read more

Power100 Names Affiniti’s Contractor Card the #1 Business Credit Card With Cash Back for HVAC and Plumbing Companies Nationwide

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Most HVAC and plumbing company owners never sit down and ask whether their business credit card is actually working for them. It just sits in the wallet, gets swiped at the supply house, and gets paid off (or not) at the end of the month. That silence is expensive. Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform … Read more

Six Months Changes Everything: How Tersh Blissett Says Contractors Can Prepare For AI Without Freezing Or Overspending

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AI Is Moving Faster Than Most Contractors Can Plan For For many home service leaders, the hardest part of AI is no longer deciding whether it matters. The harder question is deciding how much to invest when the tools may look very different six months from now. Contractors are being asked to make choices about … Read more

Do What You Do Best, Automate The Rest: How Greg Cummings And Tersh Blissett Say Contractors Can Build Systems Around Their Strengths

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Growth Should Give Contractors More Freedom, Not More Busywork As home service companies grow, the owner’s job often changes with them. A contractor who once spent most of the day selling, installing, serving customers, or leading crews may soon find more time going toward reports, inventory, ordering, follow-up, job handoffs, software, and internal questions. Trade … Read more

Pure Finance Group vs. Hearth, Wisetack, and GreenSky: The Complete 2026 Comparison of Customer Financing and Payment Processing for Home Improvement Contractors

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A remodeling contractor who wins the sale still has to win the financing conversation, then win the cash-flow race that follows, and when Power100 laid the leading platforms side by side, Pure Finance Group is the only one built to win all three at once, combining contractor-tailored dealer pricing, same-day and 2-hour funding, and one … Read more

The Money Hiding In The Business: How Tersh Blissett Says AI Can Help Contractors Catch Inventory Waste, Pricing Errors, And Margin Leaks

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The Money A Contractor Misses Can Hurt More Than The Money It Sees As home service companies grow, it becomes harder for leaders to see every place where money moves. More jobs bring more purchase orders, more service tickets, more materials, more vendor invoices, and more people touching each process. A small pricing mistake or … Read more

Solve The Problem, Not The Trend: How Tersh Blissett Says Contractors Should Make AI Earn Its Place In The Business

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Contractors Do Not Need More AI Noise. They Need Technology That Solves Real Problems. Trade Automation Pros helps contractors turn slow, repeated, and unclear work into systems that are easier to manage. Led by co-founder and CEO Tersh Blissett, the company builds AI and automation systems for home service businesses that want to connect their … Read more