Power100 Names Ingage the #8 Strategic Partner in the Nation for 2026: Revolutionizing In-Home Sales Presentations and Driving Double-Digit Close Rate Increases Across Home Improvement

Power100 announces Ingage as the #8 Preferred Partner in the nation for 2026.

Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best partners in the home improvement industry using a proprietary 5-layer ranking system, announces Ingage as the #8 Preferred Partner in the nation for 2026.

This recognition celebrates Ingage‘s transformative impact on the home improvement sales process through its interactive presentation platform that helps contractors create amazing content, share it seamlessly across teams and devices, and measure the results that drive business growth. Ingage has earned this prestigious ranking by delivering measurable outcomes for contractors nationwide, including double-digit increases in closing percentages and higher average deal sizes.

Power100’s Unbiased Ranking System

Power100 stands as the home improvement industry’s premier third-party ranking platform, having researched and analyzed over 3,600 partners serving the nation’s top home improvement companies. Through its comprehensive 5-layer proprietary ranking system, Power100 evaluates strategic partners based on performance metrics, customer satisfaction, innovation, industry impact, and overall value delivery to contractors and home improvement businesses.

“Power100 is focused on culture, and in sales you have to believe in your product, your company, and your process,” said Greg Cummings, CEO of Power100. “Tools and technology that create consistency in the home help companies protect customer experience, protect margin, and scale leadership.”

“Everybody on our TOP 15 Strategic Partners list adds tremendous value outside the service that they offer,” Greg Cummings emphasized, highlighting why Ingage earned its position among the nation’s most valuable partners.

The Kitchen Table Moment: Where Home Improvement Is Won or Lost

Home improvement is won or lost in a short window: the moment a homeowner is deciding whether they trust the company, the rep, and the investment. In that critical “kitchen table” moment, contractors need to educate, build trust, and show value clearly—especially when leads are scarce and competition is intense.

“We are the leading presentation platform in the home improvement industry,” said Dean Curtis, CEO of Ingage. “What we do is we help people create amazing content for their sales teams, share it with the people who need it—whether that’s the sales team or partner channel—and most importantly, measure the results they’re seeing with that content.”

For years, contractors were creating presentations or distributing flipbooks without ever knowing if sales teams actually used them. Ingage provides a platform that solves this problem through presentation content management and analytics on the back end, giving leadership unprecedented visibility into what drives results.

Measurable Results: Double-Digit Close Rate Increases

One of the most compelling reasons Ingage earned the #8 ranking is the measurable impact the platform delivers when deployed effectively. Dean Curtis shared specific performance outcomes contractors are achieving with Ingage.

“One of the value drivers that we promote when we’re signing a new customer to Ingage is that one of our goals is to help them raise their closing percentage and their average deal size,” Dean Curtis explained. “When the leads are scarce and when the leads are not as plentiful, that close percentage is even more important. If you’re running 10 leads and you’re only closing three, if you close that fourth one, it’s going to mean a massive impact to your business.”

Dean Curtis continued: “What we found when people deploy technology in a meaningful way and they’re really smart about how they help their sales reps adopt that technology and how they train on it, we see double-digit increase percentages within their closing rate. And I don’t mean going from 30 to 32 because that’s a percent—it’s literally from 30 to 40 increase, double-digit increase in percentage of close.”

This dramatic improvement stems from one fundamental truth: “The reason is the customer has had a great experience with you,” Dean Curtis said. “You’ve been able to build trust with the customer. You’ve been able to get them from zero to purchase in less time than maybe the other three people that came through their house. You’ve been able to educate them.”

Strategic Integration: Partnering with Industry Leaders

Ingage‘s value extends beyond standalone functionality. The platform’s ability to integrate with complementary technologies creates exponential value for contractors, as demonstrated through the partnership between Ingage and One Click Contractor.

During a PowerChat episode hosted by Greg Cummings, Dean Curtis joined Ryan Lococo, CEO of One Click Contractor, to discuss how strategic partnerships multiply contractor success.

“Having software that can integrate and leverage work already done elsewhere gives you economies of scale,” Dean Curtis explained. “When software exists in a silo, it’s less valuable. The partnership that we have with One Click Contractor—we’re always trying to push the limits on what we can do so that we can make that experience for the contractor even more seamless from when they’re presenting in the home to when they’re creating a quote.”

Ryan Lococo reinforced this perspective from the One Click Contractor side: “At the end of the day, we want to be the hub, the nexus of your sales process and your selling team, and partnering with really best-in-class tools. Working with Dean Curtis and getting to know him and his business and frankly talking with customers, we were hearing that this was the platform to go to if you were wanting to really wow customers and take your sales experience to the next level.”

Consistency at Scale: Training New Reps and Reducing Attrition Impact

“Having effective tools that establish consistent sales processes is essential for training new salespeople,” Ryan Lococo emphasized, addressing one of the home improvement industry’s biggest challenges: sales rep turnover.

Ryan Lococo elaborated on this critical issue during the PowerChat: “When you’re using technology to standardize and templatize a process, one of the hardest things to do in this industry—everyone who runs one of these businesses knows—when you’re growing, you’re teaching and training new sales reps, and they leave. They go other places. Attrition and churn is a meaningful thing in this space, especially if the economy takes a little dip and it’s harder for them to sell.”

“Having tools in place that creates consistent sales processes, that puts the typical line items in place so that when you have a new sales guy there, it’s easier to train them, it’s faster to get them up the curve,” Ryan Lococo explained. “And then when they have a lead and they have a hot lead and they’re talking about it, they don’t forget things. That increases ticket size, increases margin, and increases consistency.”

Greg Cummings reinforced the credibility factor: “You’ve got to really impress that customer when you’re in front of them—not just with the education, but with the tools that you have. When a sales rep’s in a house, that’s all that customer knows of that company. Everything from how they present themselves all the way to how they present the company. When you have these added tools and technologies, it’s almost like an advanced credit check on the company. The customer is looking at it going, ‘Wow, if they have tools like this and they’re able to be efficient, they must be a little bit better than the next company because they don’t have that.’”

Innovation That Matters: PriceKit and Dynamic Content

Ingage continues to innovate based on direct customer feedback and real-world contractor needs. Dean Curtis shared details about recent platform innovations during the PowerChat.

“One of the big customer asks for us was, ‘Can I present price in the middle of the presentation?’” Dean Curtis explained. “Because they’ve done the hard work in a tool like One Click Contractor and they’ve gone and they’ve done the quote and they want to present that in the context of their sales pitch. They went through the company story and they talked about the products they support and the process they go through, and then it’s time to say, ‘This is what your quote would be.’”

Ingage created PriceKit to solve this challenge. “We’ve created technology that we call PriceKit that you can embed within the presentation where you can statically put in that price—$25,000 quote for a job—and then everyone has a unique way that they’ve trained their sales team on how to go to the good, better, best or the discounts to get to the price they’re actually going to charge,” Dean Curtis said. “The tool that we’ve built allows you to build that process into the core of your presentation.”

Looking ahead, Dean Curtis described the future of dynamic, personalized presentations: “Where the future of what we’re doing goes is when I walk into your house and I know you live in this type of neighborhood, I can make sure that the things that I’m presenting match your demographic. I’m a national company and I just want to create one presentation that my sales reps go in with—we’ll have the ability to dynamically update that presentation based on where it was launched from, what city you’re in, who you’re presenting to.”

Greg Cummings illustrated this with a regional example: “Where Ryan Lococo is in Florida, if you bought windows, you’re going to buy aluminum windows 80% of the time. But if you’re over here on the west coast of Florida where I live, it’s the opposite—vinyl is 80% to 20% aluminum. So a company that’s covering the whole state, that would be very beneficial.”

Technology Requires Process: Not a Silver Bullet

One of the most important messages from the PowerChat was Dean Curtis‘ candid assessment of technology’s role: “Technology is not going to solve a faulty process. A lot of times people expect technology to be the holy grail. If you have a terrible sales process and you try and just add technology on top of it, you’re going to have a slightly better bad sales process now with technology.”

Dean Curtis emphasized the importance of assessment before implementation: “I think the assessment of really where you are as a company and understanding, ‘This technology could accelerate our ability to close sales because it does this thing really well for us—if we just had more efficiency in that process, speed to quote, a consistent sales presentation’—great. But a lot of people come to us with no previous presentation, and the first question that we go through with them in the onboarding process is, ‘Tell us what happens when you meet with someone in the home,’ because we want to craft a story with you that can help you accelerate that conversation.”

“A big part of success with technology is having a really good plan,” Dean Curtis concluded.

Ryan Lococo added practical advice: “If you accelerate a bad process, you just accelerate yourself into the ground. Leverage technology partners like ourselves to help improve your business not only from that perspective, but for process as well.”

The Warning for Contractors: Don’t Wait

Both Greg Cummings and Ryan Lococo delivered a clear message to contractors about the cost of delaying technology adoption.

“Right now I’m seeing a mixed bag,” Greg Cummings observed. “A lot of companies are growing like this, but a lot of companies are going like this and there’s a wave kind of falling on them. What I’ve noticed is the people that have adopted technologies and partners like both of you are growing. They’re focused on the future. Where everyone else is maybe going into a little bit of a prevent defense and they’re cutting back saying, ‘I’m going to drop this guy, I’m going to drop this partner to save money.’”

“Don’t wait until you have a problem,” Ryan Lococo warned. “When times get tough, the wave crashes you. I don’t think you should wait till you have a problem because if you have a problem and don’t put in the technology and the systems and the processes before you get bigger or before times get tough, that wave crushes you. It’s not being penny-wise and pound-foolish—putting things like this in place gets you to that next level.”

Greg Cummings concluded the PowerChat with this call to action: “If you’re not innovating when times are slow, then you’re going to get run over when times are fast.”

Leadership Philosophy: Building People Who Build the Business

On the Ingaged Podcast, Pam Torrey, Director of Marketing at Ingage, sat down with Dean Curtis to discuss leadership, AI, and the future of work. The conversation revealed the culture and values that drive Ingage‘s success.

“We know tech is changing the way people market and sell now more than ever,” Pam Torrey said in opening the podcast. “On this show, I sit down with sales and marketing thought leaders and experts to learn how you can create, share, and measure your way to success.”

Dean Curtis shared Ingage‘s evolution since the last podcast recording two years prior: “What’s interesting is I was looking at our headcount. We’ve actually only added a few people, but what we’re doing in that same amount of time is absolutely incredible. Our product team has been innovating at an incredibly rapid pace, and what I love most about the innovations that we’re coming out with—they are all customer-driven.”

Dean Curtis emphasized Ingage‘s “customer first” philosophy: “One of our key characteristics of our team is that we’re customer first. We really want to think through everything we do from the customer perspective. I think there was a point in time in our company history where we tried to just build cool stuff, but it’s much more meaningful when the customer is at the heart of everything you do.”

Regarding company culture and employee development, Dean Curtis articulated a powerful leadership principle: “I always look at the people side of our business. I want to make sure when people leave Ingage—because guess what, everyone at some point will probably have a job after this one—I always want them to say that this is the new standard for them. You can grow your business, your bottom line, all of that, but if you’re not growing your people at the same time, I don’t think that’s really worth it.”

Dean Curtis shared his biggest leadership evolution: “My biggest shift and I think the biggest shift for any leader to take is building the people and let the people build the business. The more I have to be involved in the day-to-day of operating our company, the slower we’re going to grow, the shorter distance we’re going to go. I think we will go much further in our growth by me building people so that the people can then build the business. That is a very, very sustaining business.”

About Ingage

Ingage is the leading interactive presentation platform in the home improvement industry. The company helps contractors and home improvement businesses create amazing content for their sales teams, share it seamlessly with the people who need it (including direct sales teams and partner channels), and measure the results to continuously improve performance. Through innovations like PriceKit and upcoming dynamic content capabilities, Ingage continues to revolutionize how contractors present, educate, and close sales in the home.

For more information, visit Ingage or watch the PowerChat with Dean Curtis and Ryan Lococo.

About Power100

Power100 is the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best partners in the home improvement industry using a proprietary 5-layer ranking system. Power100 has researched and analyzed over 3,600 partners serving the nation’s top home improvement companies, providing contractors with trusted guidance for selecting strategic partners that drive business success.