Dealer Program | Colorado
Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Colorado
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Colorado is a shade paradox, and paradoxes are where dealers make money. The state is famously sunny - Denver’s blue-sky reputation is the reason half the transplants moved here - and all that sun lands directly on west-facing decks, mountain-view patios, and walls of western glass. Then May arrives with hail season, summer brings the daily 3 PM thunderstorm rolling off the Front Range, and winter buries everything. Fixed shade can’t survive that calendar gracefully. Retractable shade was invented for it.
That is the pitch no Colorado patio company is making right now. Pergola builders sell permanence in a climate that punishes permanence. A dealer carrying retractable awnings walks in with the honest answer: shade that deploys for the sunny hours, retracts itself when the storm cell hits thanks to wind sensors, and seals into a protective cassette for hail season and winter. Add motorized power screens for the glare hammering the great-room glass and the bugs that own July evenings, and you’re selling the only outdoor-living package engineered for the way Colorado weather actually behaves.
AJ Shades is a veteran-owned, American-made shade company opening dealer territory across Colorado. We want contractors, deck and patio builders, remodelers, and outdoor-living companies from Fort Collins to Pueblo - and we’ll back you with the Quality Improvement Products line, wholesale pricing, training from working installers, and a 15-year warranty on every awning and screen you sell. Apply through the dealer inquiry form and tell us which Front Range market you want to own.
Why partner with AJ Shades
The honest product for a hard climate
Colorado homeowners are skeptics with good reason. Give them the product that respects the weather.
Retractable is the hail-season answer. Every Colorado dealer needs a hail story, and ours is the best one in the category: when the storm comes, the awning isn’t there. Motorized units with wind sensors retract automatically as the front moves in, and full-cassette models seal the fabric inside a protective housing. You’re not asking customers to trust fabric against hail - you’re showing them a system designed to avoid the fight entirely.
Veteran-owned lands harder here. Between the military communities of Colorado Springs, the veteran population along the Front Range, and the state’s deep buy-American streak, “veteran-owned and American-made” is a genuine competitive edge on every quote. The Quality Improvement Products line gives you premium domestic product to put behind the story - and the 15-year warranty on awnings and screens gives the story a guarantee.
The HOA-friendly product. Colorado’s master-planned suburbs run some of the strictest architectural review in the West. A retractable awning or screen is the easiest approval in the book: it’s there when the family needs it and visually absent when retracted. We supply the spec sheets and documentation your customers need for submittals, and you get to be the contractor whose product actually passes review.
Training from installers, support for life. Our crew installs these systems every week, so dealer training is relentlessly practical: measuring on stucco, stone, and LP siding; mounting to engineered headers; spec’ing sensor packages for ridge-top and foothill exposures; selling against the pergola quote. After onboarding, the support line reaches installers - the people who’ve solved your exact problem before.
Your market stays yours. We install in Southern California - not Denver, not Colorado Springs, not anywhere in Colorado. You sell, install, and service your market; we supply the catalog, dealer pricing, order review, training, and warranty backing. The program is product-only on our side by design, so we never compete with you for the work.
What Colorado dealers sell
Three products for Front Range weather
Built to your customer's measurements. Backed for 15 years on awnings and screens.
Full-Cassette Retractable Awnings
The flagship: motorized with wind and sun sensors, sealing into a protective cassette against hail season and winter. The premium answer for custom homes, mountain-view decks, and buyers who want the best and never want to think about the weather.
Explore retractable awnings →Open-Roll Retractable Awnings
The accessible entry into real shade - right for first-time buyers, rental portfolios, and the production suburbs where families want relief from the western sun this summer, not a second mortgage.
Explore retractable awnings →Motorized Power Screens
Zip-track screens for patios, decks, and big western glass - glare control, bug control, and hail-season peace of mind in one product. The sleeper hit on every mountain-view lot where the sunset view comes with a blinding side effect.
Explore motorized screens →Territory opportunity
Where Colorado dealers win
The Denver metro is the volume center: Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Littleton, Thornton, Westminster, and Parker hold the state’s densest concentration of deck-owning homeowners with the incomes for premium outdoor living. The western suburbs - Genesee, Evergreen, Morrison - add foothill exposures where wind sensors aren’t optional, they’re the pitch. And the southern growth corridor through Castle Rock and Parker keeps adding new rooftops with bare patios and strict HOAs that love retractable products.
Colorado Springs is the character market. A deeply military community, fast-growing suburbs like Falcon and Fountain, intense sun, and wide-open exposures that make afternoon shade a daily need. The veteran-owned story resonates here like nowhere else, and the buyer profile - disciplined, research-driven, warranty-focused - is exactly who the 15-year backing was built to close.
North means Fort Collins, Loveland, and Greeley: university-town energy, hail alley running right through it, and homeowners who watched the last storm shred the neighbor’s fixed canopy. The retractable hail story sells itself in hail alley - you barely have to finish the sentence. South means Pueblo, with genuine high-desert heat and a longer shade season than the Front Range gives it credit for.
And west of the Divide, Grand Junction and the Western Slope offer a desert market most shade companies forget exists: hot summers, intense sun, and orchards-and-vineyard country where tasting rooms and restaurants buy commercial shade as seating capacity. A Colorado dealer with a commercial eye gets two businesses for one application.
How the program works
From application to first install
Apply
Start at the dealer inquiry form - your company, your Colorado service area, and what you install today. We personally review every application and talk markets with you directly.
Train on the line
Wholesale catalog, dealer pricing, sample kits, and hands-on training from our install team - including the hail-season pitch, sensor spec’ing for exposed sites, and winning against pergola quotes. Most dealers are quoting within weeks.
Sell your market
Your brand, your crews, your customer relationships - with American-made product and a 15-year warranty on every awning and screen behind each quote. Lead with the story your market needs: hail-smart shade on the Front Range, heat management on the Western Slope.
Order, install, and service
Every unit is built to your measurements and reviewed by our team before production. It ships to you, your crew installs it, and your customer gets premium American-made shade with a 15-year warranty - while you keep the margin and earn the referral.
Prefer the full trade-partner rundown first? See the contractor dealer program overview - then apply and let’s map your Colorado territory.
Hail season ends. Sun season doesn’t. Be ready for both.
Colorado homeowners need shade that respects their weather. Apply to the dealer network and be the contractor who finally shows up with the honest answer.
Colorado dealer FAQ
Questions Colorado contractors ask us
Colorado gets serious hail. How do I sell a fabric awning in hail country?
Denver-area HOAs are notoriously strict. Do retractable products pass architectural review?
I'm near Colorado Springs / Fort Carson. Does the veteran-owned angle actually move the needle?
What products will my Colorado customers actually buy?
How much support do I really get after onboarding?
Will AJ Shades ever sell direct or install in my Colorado market?
Colorado dealer territories by county
County-level market intelligence for dealers picking a territory, population, growth, buyer profile, and the corridors to own.
El Paso County
757,040 people, +3.7%, Colorado Springs, hail alley, and the military corridor.
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Denver County
740,613 people, Denver rooftops, urban infill, and Mile High UV.
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Arapahoe County
673,820 people, Littleton, the DTC corridor, and the schools corridor.
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Jefferson County
580,451 people, Golden, the foothills, and west-facing glass.
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Douglas County
399,396 people, +11.6%, Castle Rock and Colorado’s fastest-growing large county.
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Adams County
560,079 people, +7.62%, Thornton subdivisions, Commerce City rooftops, hail-alley urgency.
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Weld County
385,572 people, +16.33%, Greeley, the fastest-growing large county, young-family boom.
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Larimer County
380,384 people, Fort Collins and Loveland, the CSU rental lane, outdoor-culture buyers.
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Boulder County
327,635 people, Boulder to Longmont, design-driven buyers, foothill sun, review-board moats.
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Pueblo County
168,392 people, southern Colorado’s sun belt, high UV, value buyers, an open premium tier.
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Mesa County
164,290 people, the Grand Valley, western-slope desert heat, a moat from Front Range rivals.
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Broomfield County
79,945 people, +7.33%, the planned city-county, Interlocken corridor, referral-street math.
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Garfield County
63,128 people, the Glenwood Springs valley, I-70 corridor, tourism visibility.
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La Plata County
56,866 people, Durango, San Juan mountain weather, second-home buyers.
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Eagle County
53,947 people, the Vail Valley, resort-luxury second homes, the largest tickets.
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Fremont County
50,039 people, Canon City, the Royal Gorge corridor, and foothill-to-plains hail exposure.
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Montrose County
44,591 people, the Uncompahgre Valley, Olathe farm country, and the Black Canyon gateway.
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Delta County
32,178 people, the North Fork Valley, orchards and vineyards, and durability-minded ag buyers.
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Elbert County
30,534 people, Kiowa, exurban ranchettes, and Denver-spillover growth on the plains.
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Summit County
31,517 people, Breckenridge, resort second homes, and extreme high-altitude UV.
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Morgan County
30,306 people, Fort Morgan, irrigated plains ag, and South Platte valley sun and wind.
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Montezuma County
26,678 people, Cortez, the Mesa Verde gateway, and high-desert monsoon weather.
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Routt County
25,329 people, Steamboat Springs, resort luxury, and down-valley workforce housing.
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Teller County
24,756 people, Cripple Creek, the gaming corridor, and Pikes Peak mountain homes.
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Chaffee County
20,831 people, Salida, whitewater country, and fast amenity migration.
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Logan County
20,654 people, Sterling, plains ag, and the northeastern service hub.
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Park County
18,314 people, Fairplay, South Park cabins, and the US-285 commuter corridor.
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Otero County
17,683 people, La Junta, Arkansas Valley ag, and hot southern-plains summers.
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Gunnison County
17,439 people, Crested Butte, the university town, and famously cold winters.
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Grand County
16,496 people, Winter Park, ranching valleys, and big summer patio season at 8,000 ft.
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Alamosa County
16,688 people, the San Luis Valley hub, Adams State, and high-desert sun.
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Pitkin County
16,625 people, Aspen, ultra-luxury resort homes, and design-review boards.
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Archuleta County
14,306 people, Pagosa Springs, hot-springs tourism, and second-home cabins.
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Las Animas County
14,391 people, Trinidad, the largest county by area, and mesa-country sun.
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Moffat County
13,122 people, Craig, energy country, and the Dinosaur gateway.
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Rio Grande County
11,087 people, Del Norte, San Luis Valley ag, and Rio Grande headwaters.
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Prowers County
11,884 people, Lamar, Arkansas River ag, and the southeastern plains hub.
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Clear Creek County
8,994 people, Georgetown, the I-70 corridor, and historic mining towns.
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Lake County
7,552 people, Leadville, the highest city in North America, and extreme altitude UV.
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Kit Carson County
7,069 people, Burlington, eastern-plains wheat, and the I-70 corridor.
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Huerfano County
7,011 people, Walsenburg, the Spanish Peaks, and coal-country heritage.
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Saguache County
6,732 people, the vast San Luis Valley, Crestone, and high-desert wind.
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Rio Blanco County
6,683 people, Meeker, ranching country, and the natural-gas economy.
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Gilpin County
6,073 people, Central City, the gaming towns, and mountain commuter spillover.
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Lincoln County
5,645 people, Limon, the plains crossroads, and wind-energy country.
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Bent County
5,716 people, Las Animas, the Arkansas River valley, and reservoir recreation.
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Crowley County
5,677 people, Ordway, Arkansas Valley ag, and Lake Meredith country.
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Custer County
5,590 people, Westcliffe, dark-sky ranch country, and Sangre de Cristo views.
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Ouray County
5,265 people, the Switzerland of America, hot springs, and luxury mountain homes.
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Phillips County
4,420 people, Holyoke, northeastern plains ag, and farm-family buyers.
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Washington County
4,732 people, Akron, eastern-plains wheat, and sparse farm country.
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Yuma County
9,896 people, Wray, eastern-plains ag, and Colorado’s lowest point.
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Baca County
3,347 people, Springfield, Dust Bowl history, and dryland ag.
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Costilla County
3,679 people, San Luis, Colorado’s oldest town, and valley heritage.
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Conejos County
7,529 people, Antonito, the narrow-gauge terminus, and valley ag.
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Dolores County
2,466 people, Dove Creek, pinto-bean country, and high-desert sun.
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Sedgwick County
2,247 people, Julesburg, Pony Express history, and the I-76 corridor.
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Cheyenne County
1,713 people, Cheyenne Wells, wind-energy plains, and ranching.
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Kiowa County
1,412 people, Eads, plains ag, and wide-open ranch country.
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Jackson County
1,211 people, Walden, North Park moose country, and high-valley ranching.
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Mineral County
910 people, Creede, San Juan mining heritage, and Wolf Creek snow.
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San Juan County
813 people, Silverton, the narrow-gauge railroad, and extreme altitude.
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San Miguel County
7,753 people, Telluride, box-canyon luxury, and the ski-resort market.
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Hinsdale County
753 people, Lake City, Colorado’s least populous county, and San Juan wilderness.
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Colorado's sun isn't waiting. Neither should you.
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