Cents Acquires Insight Systems

(July, 2026) Cents of New York, NY, announced the acquisition of Insight Systems, the garment care industry's premier business intelligence, dashboarding, and reporting platform. The acquisition will bring Insight Systems' data and reporting tools directly into the Cents platform, giving all operators, laundromats and dry cleaners alike, a centralized, transparent view of their business. Alongside the product integration, the Insight Systems team will join Cents to continue the rapid development and growth of Cents' software and payment solutions for dry cleaners.

"From the day we started Cents, our mission has been to give independent operators the tools to run every part of their business with confidence," said Alex Jekowsky, Co-founder and CEO of Cents. "We've always believed better decisions start with better data, and Wash, Joe, and the Insight Systems team built the best reporting and intelligence technology our industry has ever seen."

Wash Respess, who joins Cents as General Manager of Dry Cleaning, building on the foundation he and Insight Systems co-founder Joe Patalano spent years developing together. Both are industry veterans: Patalano with more than 30 years building software for dry cleaners, and Respess with decades of experience as an operator, a product builder inside major industry software platforms, and a founder dedicated to helping business owners.

"I've seen dry cleaning from every angle: as an operator, as a product builder inside the software serving this industry, and as someone who set out to build what was missing. What we built at Insight Systems is the foundation, and now, as part of Cents, we get to take it further. The industry has been waiting for this," said Wash Respess, GM of Dry Cleaning, Cents.

Joe Patalano, who helped build Insight Systems from the ground up, added: "I've spent nearly 30 years building software for this industry. When I met Alex and saw what Cents had built, the decision was clear. They're not carrying legacy constraints, they have the team and capital to execute, and now we get to add the features advanced dry cleaning operations need, right into a platform that's already proven with laundromats."