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Reserve with Google, now available through Storagely
  Winston-Salem, United States - September 7, 2026 / Storagely / 
  
WINSTON-SALEM, NC, September 2, 2026  | Storagely, the website and online rental platform built specifically for self storage, today announced its approval for Reserve with Google, enabling Storagely to provide the integration to eligible customers.
Until now, Reserve with Google capabilities in self storage have primarily been seen among REITs and some of the industry's largest operators, companies with the scale and technical resources to build and maintain their own integrations.
Now the broader self-storage industry has another option.
Eligible Storagely customers will be able to connect their locations, storage inventory, pricing and rental experiences to Reserve with Google through the Storagely platform without independently developing and maintaining the underlying integration.
"Google is already where an enormous number of storage searches begin," said Austin Simmons, CEO of Storagely. "Reserve with Google gives operators a more visible way to turn that search into action. Our job is to make the distance between someone searching for storage and becoming a tenant as short as possible."


A More Visible Path to Rental
One of the biggest opportunities is visibility.
In a traditional Google Search or Maps experience, a potential tenant may find a facility, interact with its Business Profile, visit its website and then navigate through the site to locate available units.
Reserve with Google can introduce a distinct Book Online or Schedule action for eligible participating locations, giving consumers a prominent way to take the next step while they are actively searching on Google.
"The Book Online button may look simple, but where it appears in the customer journey is incredibly important," Simmons said. "The customer is already looking for storage. We don't want to make them hunt for what to do next."
Publish Storage Inventory and Pricing Directly to Google
The integration is designed to go beyond simply adding a booking button.
Storagely can publish a participating facility's available storage offerings, unit sizes and current pricing directly to Google through the Reserve with Google integration.
Instead of Google only knowing that a storage facility exists, the integration can provide structured information about what that facility currently offers.
That can include details such as:

Available storage unit types

Unit sizes

Climate-controlled and other storage options

Current starting prices

Links into the appropriate online rental or reservation experience

Storagely is also designed to keep this information synchronized with the operator's current inventory and pricing, helping ensure the information being provided to Google reflects what is actually available to rent.
This is especially important in self storage, where inventory and pricing can change frequently.
"Storage inventory and pricing are always changing," Simmons said. "The opportunity is to give Google a much better understanding of the storage options an operator offers, including sizes and pricing, rather than simply knowing where the facility is located."*


More Than a Book Online Button
Publishing inventory and pricing also creates the opportunity for a much more relevant customer journey.
Think about someone searching Google for men's basketball shoes.
If they click a relevant result and land on a page showing every type of shoe available, they have effectively been asked to start over.
They already told you what they wanted.
Self storage should work the same way.
Someone interested in a 10x10 climate-controlled unit shouldn't have to land on a generic homepage and search through every available storage option again.
The goal is to connect that customer as directly as possible to the relevant unit type, size, current price and rental experience.
Search → Relevant Storage Option → Rental
Instead of:
Search → Facility → Website → Search Again → Find a Unit → Rental
"If the customer has already expressed what they're looking for, we shouldn't make them start over," Simmons said. "That's where this becomes much bigger than a booking button. It's about creating a direct connection between customer intent, current inventory and the storage option they're interested in."
Bringing the Capability to More Operators
The significance also extends beyond the technology itself.
Historically, sophisticated connections between Google, real-time storage inventory and online rental platforms have been concentrated among operators with significant scale and internal development resources.
Most independent and regional operators rely on their technology providers to make capabilities like this possible.
Storagely's approval creates a new path for those operators.
"You shouldn't need to own hundreds or thousands of facilities or maintain a large development team to compete for a customer who is ready to rent," Simmons said. "This gives more operators an opportunity to participate in a customer journey that has historically been concentrated among the biggest companies in the industry."
For eligible participating locations, Storagely's Reserve with Google integration is designed to:

Provide a prominent Book Online action within the business's Google presence

Connect Google Search and Maps more directly to the rental experience

Publish available storage inventory to Google

Provide individual storage offerings, unit sizes and current pricing

Keep inventory and pricing information synchronized as availability changes

Send consumers toward storage options relevant to their search

Reduce unnecessary steps between discovery and rental

Allow customers to complete reservations or rentals online

Better identify rentals and reservations originating from Google

"Every extra click creates another opportunity to lose a customer," Simmons said. "Reserve with Google lets us begin removing that friction before the customer ever reaches the operator's website."
Availability of Reserve with Google functionality, booking actions, inventory, pricing and storage offerings is subject to Google eligibility requirements and Google's determination of how eligible actions and information are displayed across Google Search and Maps.
Storagely plans to begin making the capability available to eligible customers starting on September 14, 2026. 
*Google ultimately determines when and how eligible inventory, pricing and booking information is displayed across its products.
About Storagely
Storagely is a website and online rental platform, specifically for the self-storage industry, built around the way you operate. With an innovative and solution-first approach, Storagely helps operators create high-performing websites, giving them more control over edits, managing locations and content at scale, faster launches, and exclusive features…with the flexibility and control they need to move at their own pace. 

For more information, visit Storagely.io
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casey@storagely.io

     
  
       
Contact Information:
 Storagely
 
102 W 3rd Street, Suite 725 Liberty Plaza
 Winston-Salem, NC 27101
United States
 
 Austin Simmons
 (844) 908-2800
 https://storagely.io

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Recognises the product + pricing specialist's market-making impact across US private markets
WESTMINSTER, U.K. - Sept. 7, 2026 - PRLog -- 
 Double US Award shortlisting founded on 80% of Cruxy business originating from the US, highlighting the impetus for action built-in to US markets, combined with the foundational and unique offer from Cruxy's proprietary pricing intelligence engine, Cortex
Shortlisting comes at inflection point for Cruxy as it continues its rapid scale-up: identifying, extracting and driving value for enterprise software (SaaS) and private equity investor clients who are gravitating to Cruxy as the "SaaSpocalypse" still plays out
As Private Equity Wire® writes: The US Awards 2026 shortlisting is a significant achievement. It recognises firms making a meaningful impact across the private markets industry in the US
 
London, September 7th 2026: Cruxy, the B2B tech (SaaS) product + pricing specialist, announces it has been shortlisted for two Private Equity Wire® US Awards, in recognition of its frontier work across the enterprise software (SaaS, Software as a Service) and private equity sectors.
Cruxy has been working with leading SaaSCos and their global private equity investors for nearly 13 years, acting as product + pricing interrogator and provocateur to identify, extract and drive value directly onto the P&L. Enterprise software has traditionally been priced on a per-seat basis. That model evaporates the moment AI agents generate most of the usage and so can only be captured by outcome or value-based pricing models. Competitive moats – the non-AI replicable value that can be priced and sold – are collapsing as vibe coding and CoCreate allow customers to code their own bespoke software. Yet some SaaSCos and PE firms – predominantly in Europe – are still slow to act.
This threat – and the opportunity - that has been bluntly termed the "SaaSpocalypse" was highlighted in early February 2026, with nearly $285 billion in market value evaporating from software and related sectors in 48 hours. From 2015 to 2025, more than 1,900 software companies were acquired by private equity in deals worth over $440 billion: sticky + recurring revenue, high margin, predictable cash flows, high switch costs. Private equity sought debt from a $3 trillion private credit market, with 25% - 35% being dedicated to software (UBS). Total tech distressed debt already sits near $47 billion. Some PE firms already cut their exposure to software by half across 2025.  Private equity buyouts have fallen to their lowest levels since 2021.
The Private Equity Wire® awards are annual events that recognise outstanding performance in the private equity industry, honouring top managers and service providers in the private markets ecosystem - worldwide.  Cruxy is proud to have been nominated for two Private Equity Wire® US Awards 2026, for its contribution to US private markets:
Value Creation Consulting Firm of the Year
Value creation and capture lives or dies on the P&L, and pricing is one of the fastest levers to move it. Cruxy is built for exactly that, through a lens the traditional consulting firms ignore: the product itself.
Cruxy doesn't advise on pricing from the market level. They interrogate product first, by feature and customer cohort, with each intervention informed by Cortex, its proprietary pricing intelligence engine covering over 2 billion tech data points. That gives portfolio companies their entire data telemetry – a unique and testimonial evidence-base to drive pricing decisions, not falling back on a judgement call.  Unlike traditional consulting firms which rely on powerpoint decks, Cruxy partners with a company for 6-12 months after the deep-dive analysis to drive strategy into execution – so identifying, extracting and driving value.
The Cortex has quietly become the engine behind some of the most complex pricing transformations for the largest names in the enterprise software market. Delivering actionable pricing and product solutions grounded in real data and real-world deals - surfacing the truth across product, model, and market, and in seconds - the Cortex gives clients their first comprehensive understanding of how value is maintained and expanded inside their products and how product sits within a transforming market. Simply: once you understand product, you know how to price it. Cruxy announced in July it was building-out the functionality of the Cortex with yet further AI integration, enhancing benchmarking with market data so its specialists can drill both deeper and wider into client data. Cruxy also appointed a Head of Cortex and AI. This is the unique market-making value of the Cortex, and why Cruxy has been crafted to meet the Great Pricing Crisis full-on.
Client examples of Value Creation:
 Pre-deal product diligence strategy and pricing opportunity assessment for Hg's $6.4 billion acquisition of OneStream.
For one $200m B2B platform, declining net revenue retention and an unpriced AI suite had put growth targets at risk. Cruxy mapped over 25 value drivers, separated genuine AI differentiation from table stakes, and replaced seat-based pricing with a value-based metric. Within 90 days, the client signed $3.5m on the new model, doubled average contract value, and lifted NRR above 120%. That's not incremental. That's a portfolio company hitting numbers it wasn't going to hit, on a timeline that matters to a hold period.
 
Advisory Firm of the Year: Overall
Most traditional "consulting" firms are broad in their focus: market sizing, due diligence, pricing, or product strategy. Cruxy is a specialist in a world of generalists. Their spike is value capture in B2B tech, for investors who want depth and data over generic strategy decks. Cruxy works pre-deal and post-acquisition. Product diligence that actually interrogates product-market fit. Pricing and packaging built on evidence, not instinct. All of it backed by Cortex, its proprietary value intelligence engine.
Client examples of Advisory Firm of the Year (Overall)
 Cruxy's pre-deal product strategy and pricing opportunity assessment for OneStream Software, on behalf of Hg Capital, on one of the largest deals in the space.
For one $200m B2B platform, Cruxy mapped over 25 value drivers, separated genuine AI differentiation from table stakes, and replaced seat-based pricing with a value-based metric. The client signed $3.5m on the new model within 90 days, doubled average contract value, and lifted NRR above 120%.
Cruxy has built a reach that's rare for a UK boutique its size: 80% of its work now originates in the US. As NCino CEO Pierre Naude puts it: "I would recommend Cruxy in a heartbeat."
 
That's the kind of endorsement you earn by bringing depth, specialism and real value capture, not another deck of slides.
 Voting on shortlisted firms closes September 16th – voting page: https://PEAwards2026.evalato.com/public-evaluation/23504
Private Equity Wire® US Awards Reception: 12 November 2026, 17:00–20:30
 
Carrie Osman, Founder and CEO of Cruxy: "Shortlisting for the Private Equity Wire® US Awards 2026 highlights the forensic and relentless work Cruxy has delivered since its inception – as well as our focus upon US private markets – where 80% of our business originates – and where the attitude to take action, take a risk and face reality founded in fact not judgement calls mirrors Cruxy's entire way of working".
"Nominated for Value Creation Consulting Firm of the Year and Advisory Firm of the Year (Overall) reflects our ethos – deploying our specialist human talent armed with our market-making pricing intelligence engine, the Cortex, which allows us to deliver actionable pricing and product solutions grounded in real data and real-world deals, and in seconds, only Cruxy can steer SaaSCos and PE firms through this SaaSpocalypse – locating value, creating product that captures value, and pricing value-directly surfacing it to the P&L".
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