Black Warrior Preneed | Carriers. Technology. Territory.
A New Standard in Preneed

The agency that flows different.

Black Warrior Preneed pairs licensed preneed professionals with the best carriers, the strongest funeral home partnerships, and technology nobody else in the profession has. We don't just place agents — we build careers, protect families, and grow firms.

Named for the Black Warrior River that runs through our hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama — steady, powerful, and always moving forward.

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Carrier Partnerships
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Licensed Professionals
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Activity & Accountability
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Tuscaloosa & Northport Roots
Why Black Warrior

Anybody can write policies. We build engines.

Most agencies hand you a contract and a brochure. We hand you a complete system — carriers, technology, training, and territory — built by people who have actually sat at the kitchen table with families.

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The Best Carriers

We negotiate contracts with the profession's top preneed insurance carriers, so our agents get competitive products and our partner firms get policies that perform when families need them.

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Technology Nobody Else Has

A real CRM built for deathcare, automated lead routing from your case management systems, a guided memorial planning app families complete from their phone, and AI follow-up that never forgets a family.

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Relationships, Protected

Capture every lead. Nurture every family. Protect every relationship. Our methodology turns one-time contacts into lifetime advocates for your firm — and a referral engine for our agents.

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Aggressive Compensation

Strong commissions, fair overrides, and transparent contracting. We win when you write — and we've built the agency so the math favors the people doing the work.

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Daily Execution Culture

Income goals broken into daily activity. Live trackers, weekly coaching, and accountability that turns part-time effort into full-time income. We start every day with actions, not intentions.

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Real Funeral Home Placement

Agents aren't left to cold-call alone. We recruit funeral home partners, then place agents directly into those firms with warm at-need families, aftercare lists, and community programs.

For Families

The most loving thing you can do is decide before they have to.

When a death happens, families make dozens of decisions in 48 hours — grieving, exhausted, and often guessing what their loved one would have wanted. Advance funeral planning takes those decisions off the table while there's still time to make them with a clear head. It locks in today's prices, spares your family the financial weight, and turns the hardest week of their lives into one less thing to carry.

Why plan ahead?

  • Protect your family from the bill. A preneed policy locks in today's cost so your loved ones never get a surprise invoice during grief.
  • Your wishes, honored exactly. You decide the details — not someone guessing under pressure.
  • Your funeral home, your choice. Already have a funeral home you trust? Tell us. We work with them. We're the third-party guide that helps you plan, set up with the firm you choose.
  • Licensed counselors, no pressure. A real family service counselor walks you through it — education first, always.
Free Gift

The Memorial Planning Guide

Our complete planning guide covers 95% of everything that must be handled before death occurs — documents, decisions, wishes, and the questions most families never think to ask until it's too late. Yours free, delivered by email or mailed to your door.

Request it below and one of our family service counselors will make sure you get it.

Get Your Free Planning Guide

Takes one minute. No cost, no obligation.

By submitting, you agree to be contacted by a licensed counselor by phone, text, or email. No obligation to purchase.

Your guide is on the way.

Check your inbox shortly. A licensed family service counselor will reach out to make sure you got it and answer any questions — at your pace, no pressure.

For Agents

Stop settling for a contract. Join an agency that invests in you.

  • Top carrier appointments — get contracted with the profession's leading preneed carriers under one roof.
  • Funeral home placement — we match you with partner firms in your area so you work warm relationships, not cold lists.
  • The full tech stack — CRM, automated booking, AI assistant, branded memorial planning app with your name and link on it, and a performance calculator that turns your income goal into a daily plan.
  • Training that transfers — kitchen-table skills, aftercare presentations, community seminars, and veteran outreach — taught by people who've done it.
  • Fast contracting — apply below and we'll start your carrier contracting and onboarding right away.

Agent Application

Takes about two minutes. We respond within one business day.

By submitting, you agree to be contacted by phone, text, or email about agency opportunities.

Application received.

Welcome to the current. A member of our team will reach out within one business day to talk carriers, comp, and placement.

For Funeral Homes

Your preneed program, fully staffed and fully visible.

  • Recruiting done for you — we recruit, vet, license, and train counselors for your market, then place them under your brand.
  • Lead generation that fits your community — digital campaigns, direct mail, aftercare programs, seminars, and veteran outreach tailored to your families.
  • Total transparency — every lead, appointment, and policy tracked in a CRM you can see. Real reporting on cost per lead, conversion, and growth. No black box.
  • Families served, not sold — our counselors are trained in education-first preplanning that protects your reputation in the community.
  • At-need protection — preneed done right grows your at-need market share. We measure both.

Funeral Home Partner Intake

Tell us about your firm and we'll build a custom growth plan — free.

No obligation. We'll review your market and reach out within one business day.

Request received.

We're already looking at your market. Expect a call from our team within one business day.

Hometown Coverage

Tuscaloosa & Northport: covered, corner to corner.

This is home. The Black Warrior River gave this city its name and gave our company its name — and our goal is simple: a trusted preneed partnership with every funeral home in Tuscaloosa and Northport, so every family in this community has a licensed local professional helping them plan ahead.

  • Local counselors, local accountability. Our Tuscaloosa-area agents live here, serve here, and answer their phones here.
  • Community-first programs. Church partnerships, senior center seminars, veterans outreach, and aftercare visits for every family served.
  • Same-week starts. Local firms get priority onboarding — we can have a program running in your funeral home in days, not months.
  • One city, one standard. Whether your firm serves 60 families a year or 600, your families get the same care, technology, and follow-through.

Tuscaloosa-Area Funeral Homes

If your firm serves families in Tuscaloosa County, you're our first priority. Here's what local partnership includes:

  • A dedicated licensed preneed counselor for your firm
  • Local lead generation & community events under your brand
  • Aftercare follow-up with every at-need family
  • Full CRM visibility into every appointment and policy
  • Priority onboarding — we're minutes away, not states away
Claim Local Partnership
How It Works

From first conversation to a flowing program.

Step One

Connect

Agents apply, funeral homes request a growth plan. We learn your market, your goals, and your numbers.

Step Two

Contract

Agents get appointed with top carriers. Firms get a customized program agreement with clear expectations on both sides.

Step Three

Launch

Placement, training, technology setup, and the first community campaigns — typically live within two weeks.

Step Four

Grow

Daily activity tracking, weekly coaching, monthly reporting. We measure everything and improve every month.

Our Founders

Built by licensed professionals who've done the work.

Black Warrior Preneed was founded by licensed deathcare professionals — not marketers who found a niche. We've made the calls, sat at the kitchen table with families, run the programs, and built the technology behind them.

Our roots run through both sides of this profession: serving families with compassion in the field, and engineering the systems that make a modern preneed program run — top carrier partnerships, a CRM built for deathcare, AI-powered family follow-up, guided memorial planning tools, and daily performance frameworks that turn agents into top producers.

That combination — heart in the field, technology behind it — is why funeral homes and agents choose Black Warrior Preneed. We don't sell programs we wouldn't run ourselves.