Our Story

What is HomeCareQuote?
The Fastest, Most Transparent, and Most Consistent Way to Handle Inquiries,
Assessments, Pricing, and Converting Home Care Leads.
Differentiate Your Agency in Your Market.

HomeCareQuote is NOT a scheduling software. It is designed to integrate WITH your software to provide you with a more streamlined, professional, and consistent process for your inquiries, intakes, and care needs based pricing.

Created for Home Care Agencies by a Veteran Home Care Agency Owner.

About Us

HomeCareQuote was born out of a real need: to bring clarity, fairness, and professionalism to the often chaotic, misunderstood, and underrated work of home care agencies, the pricing and care planning. This is a transformative solution grounded in personal experience.

There are three basic core, recurring challenges in the home care industry.

Undefined client care needs:

  • Families and agencies often struggle to define how much care someone truly needs.

Care Professional Compensation:

  • Care professionals are not always paid in alignment with the intensity or complexity of the care they provide.

Agency Performance Disparity:

  • Some agencies lack a consistent, repeatable way to handle inquiries, intakes, assessments, reassessments, and pricing. This hurts their professionalism, operations, consistency, compliance, care quality, and profitability.

Mission

HomeCareQuote exists to drive consistent and evolving Home Care capabilities that support clients, care professionals and agencies needs.

Vision

Our HomeCareQuote vision is to enable accurate, timely and professional Home Care that evolves with the care, skills and business requirements of every client, care professional and Home Care agency.

Our Team

Valerie Darling

Chief Operating Officer

Valerie Darling is the COO and Co-founder of HomeCareQuote. Valerie has a diverse business background in customer care. Valerie is currently the founder and owner of Home Care Matters in Georgia, an award-winning independent home care agency. In her current role, she draws on her extensive corporate experience in the financial, relocation, and manufacturing industries, with a solid background in developing a better customer experience. Valerie is an accomplished home care leader and a member of a variety of professional industry masterminds, national associations, networking, and lobbying groups. All with the intention of improving the home care industry and providing better solutions to our seniors and veterans.

Karl Ryder

Chief Executive Officer

Karl Ryder is the CEO and Co-founder of HomeCareQuote. Karl is also the CEO and founder of The Ryder Group. Karl has a background in sales, marketing, technology, supply chain, and logistics across a variety of industries, including healthcare. Karl has been actively involved in the home care industry for many years and is currently a senior advisor to Home Care Matters. He is a member of various home care and home health industry groups and associations.