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Gage Forkner is the founder of Iron Pine Marketing, a Kansas City marketing agency for home service contractors that he runs alongside his own seamless gutter installation business, Premier Gutters KC.

Gage Forkner founded Iron Pine Marketing in 2026 after building and proving every marketing playbook on his own home service business — Premier Gutters KC, a seamless gutter installation company in the Kansas City metro. Iron Pine exclusively serves home service contractors (gutter, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, restoration) in KC and select Midwest metros. The agency is currently owner-operated and accepting its first five charter clients with permanent discounted pricing.

Gage Forkner is a Kansas City–based entrepreneur and the founder of Iron Pine Marketing, a productized marketing agency for home service contractors. Before launching Iron Pine in 2026, Gage founded and operated Premier Gutters KC — a working seamless gutter installation business in the Kansas City metro — specifically to test and refine the marketing playbooks he now sells to other contractors. Every Iron Pine service, from Google Business Profile optimization to AI search optimization (AEO), was first deployed on Premier Gutters KC and measured against booked-job revenue before being productized for clients. Premier Gutters KC went from no Map Pack presence to top-3 visibility for 12 buyer-intent queries in 90 days, scaled to 100-150 qualified gutter-job inquiries per month, and earned a 5.0-star average across 70+ Google reviews. Gage's perspective on contractor marketing is shaped by P&L responsibility for both businesses — the marketing playbooks aren't theory; they're what kept his crews fed during the slow months. Iron Pine is currently accepting its first five charter clients at $1,500/mo (a permanent $1,000/mo discount from the standard $2,500/mo Contractor Growth System retainer).