Meet Doug & Laurie Ann

Founders

The people who will train you

Husband-and-wife founders. Doug builds the networks. Laurie Ann, a U.S. Navy veteran, runs the back of the house: orders, paperwork, administration. The support system behind every sale.

Doug Dutton, co-founder of Perfect Filter
Doug DuttonCo-founder
Laurie Ann Dutton, co-founder of Perfect Filter
Laurie Ann DuttonCo-founder

Enters dealer networks with Line-X spray-on bed liners.

Sells his medical-grade disinfectant company, about 300 hospitals across 20 countries, to New York private equity.

Enters water filtration. Holds an exclusive license to put Brita on whole-home systems, then decides there is a better way to bring whole-home filtration into people’s homes, and sets out to develop his own product.

Founds Motion Franchising, today the affiliate that owns the Perfect Filter marks. Offers water-filtration franchises as Motion Water Pros, 2019–2021; none sell, and the lessons become Perfect Filter (Item 1).

Goalkaline alkaline-water vending placed on U.S. military bases; the system that becomes Perfect Filter ships through 12–15 independent dealers.

The Oceanside outlet opens and Perfect Filter begins offering franchises. The first territories open.

40+
Years combined
Managing dealer & franchise networks
800+
Dealers & franchises
Worked with directly
50+
Countries
Of international market experience
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Doug Dutton · Co-founder
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Laurie Ann Dutton · Co-founder
Training

Trained and supported by founders with direct experience

55 hours of initial training, 31 classroom and 24 on-the-job, about one week (FDD Item 11). Then launch support comes to you: your first show booked together, leads generated side by side, and in-home visits you shadow before you lead.

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