D-Tools and Portal.io have merged, uniting the two most widely used software platforms serving residential and commercial integration, audio/video, and security professionals. Together the companies give integrators a portfolio of purpose-built products that scale with their business, from their first proposal through enterprise deployment. They come together with a single purpose: to build the next generation of software integrators use to run their businesses.
G Paul Hess continues as chief executive officer. 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 chief operating officer, will serve as head of Portal.io, continuing to lead the Portal business unit.
The merger brings together the largest network of integrators in the industry, running from single-operator shops to enterprise teams with hundreds of users. That scale gives the combined company a broader and more representative view of how integrators work, where they struggle and what they need from software, creating a stronger foundation for what it builds next.
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. In a market this focused, they have long stood as the two leaders without building their businesses at each other’s expense; neither has grown by targeting the other’s customers. 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 combined company brings together three purpose-built products; each designed around different ways integrators run their businesses. 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.
- Portal.io: Speed, simplicity, and a client-facing proposal experience that wins the job. It continues as Portal.io, developed and supported by the team that built it.
- D-Tools Cloud: Depth across the whole operation, including sales, system design, proposals, project management, scheduling, service, and integration with the other tools integrators use every day.
- D-Tools System Integrator (SI): The enterprise-grade deployment for the industry’s largest and most complex operations, with nearly three decades of proven performance.
For customers of every platform, nothing changes overnight. Every customer continues on their current product, at their current terms, with the same support team they know. There is no forced migration, and no plans to end-of-life any product currently offered. Both teams share a deliberate, customer-led approach to how the products evolve from here, guided by what integrators tell them they want rather than by how quickly anything can be brought together.
The combined organization will be product-led and integrator-first, earning every dealer’s business through the quality of the experience rather than the length of a feature list. Both companies also share a conviction that AI will reshape how integrators sell, design, manage, and execute their work. Portal.io was the first in the industry to introduce an AI proposal builder, and D-Tools has been investing in AI capability across its platforms. Together, the teams intend to apply AI throughout the integrator workflow as a foundation that makes complex business processes faster, easier, and more intelligent, while using AI internally to build and ship for customers at a pace neither company could reach alone.
Existing customers do not need to take any action, and all subscriptions continue on current terms. D-Tools and Portal.io will each exhibit at CEDIA Expo 2026 in Denver this September, where attendees can see live product demonstrations and meet the joint leadership team.
More about the combined company is available at d-tools.com/together.
