Tint Wiz’s Erik Devash Enters the Window Film Hall of Fame — Why Software Just Became Ceremony

The headline operators will remember

On Thursday, August 27, at the Window Film Hall of Fame Luncheon during WFCT 2026 in San Antonio, Erik Devash—founder and CEO of Tint Wiz—gets inducted alongside competition legend Chris Brooks.

That pairing is not accidental. One built medals and mentoring culture. The other built the scheduling / CRM / workflow layer more shops now treat as table stakes.

Why this matters more than a plaque

Hall of Fame inductions used to celebrate film chemistry and install craft. Putting a software founder on the same stage tells the room:

• Operations software is no longer “admin overhead”
• The companies that standardize how shops quote, book, and follow up will shape brand defaults
• Platform legitimacy now travels through trade ceremony, not only SaaS marketing

The hallway gossip (said quietly, believed widely)

• “If Devash is Hall of Fame, Tint Wiz is the default OS”—expect competitors to show harder at WFCT demos
• Fullsteam / platform consolidation chatter from earlier in the year still colors every roadmap question: who prioritizes film shops vs multi-service bays?
• Shops dual-running Tint Wiz beside Shopmonkey-style stacks will keep asking which system becomes the system of record

Treat gossip as signal, not gospel—verify with your own churn and support tickets.

Operator playbook before San Antonio

1. Audit which workflows live in Tint Wiz vs spreadsheets vs a second tool
2. Ask your vendor (any vendor) on-record: integrations, export rights, and what happens if ownership changes
3. Send a lead tech + an owner—ceremony networking is where distributor politics surface
4. Photograph three competitor booths’ software pitches; compare them Monday against your stack

Bottom line

WFCT is crowning installer operating software as industry infrastructure. If your shop still treats CRM as optional, San Antonio will feel like a different decade.