Quick view:
- The merger brings together two software platforms, offering a complete portfolio that covers every business stage. The company will maintain all three existing products—Portal.io for quick client-facing proposals, D-Tools Cloud for end-to-end operational management, and D-Tools System Integrator (SI) for large-scale enterprise deployments.
- Integrators will see no immediate changes to their everyday workflows, software access, pricing terms, or support teams.
- By merging their massive manufacturer and distributor data repositories, the combined company creates a comprehensive product catalog and shared AI innovation.
D-Tools and Portal.io have merged, a move that unites two widely used software platforms serving commercial, residential, and security AV professionals. Together, the companies give integrators a portfolio of purpose-built products that scale with their business, from proposal through enterprise deployment.
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For nearly three decades, D-Tools has been an anchor platform for the integration industry, building the breadth and scale integration businesses need to bring structure, accuracy, and control to their operations across sales, system design, engineering, project management, and procurement. Portal.io has spent 15 years understanding how dealers sell and turning that insight into an intuitive proposal and catalog experience.
The two companies have been partners for more than a decade, since Portal.io’s managed product catalog was first integrated into D-Tools SI. Bringing the organizations together reflects a recognition that integrators are better served by one team investing in the tools they depend on every day than by two teams solving the same problems twice. The acquisition was announced in August.
For customers, there is no forced migration and no plans to end-of-life any product currently offered. Rather than force every customer into a single system, D-Tools and Portal.io will continue to support each platform while working with integrators to match the right software to their needs.
G Paul Hess continues as CEO, while Kirk Chisholm, founder and CEO of Portal.io, joins as chief product officer, with responsibility for product vision and strategy across the portfolio. Josh Willits, Portal.io’s COO, will serve as head of Portal.io, continuing to lead the Portal business unit.
"Putting our two teams together is a real chance to shape where this industry goes and to build what dealers have always wanted," Chisholm said. "In a world of AI, an integrator should be able to run their entire business on software that is powerful, beautiful, and intuitive all at once. If you had to handpick two companies to deliver on that, it would be D-Tools and Portal.io. That is the company I want to build, and it is why I am excited to take on product for the combined organization.”
