From New Software to a Daily Team Workflow

After five or six software demos, Good Guys Pools chose Eano Pro to bring estimating, project management, contracts, and QuickBooks job costs together in one place.

Dror Iakob, partner at Good Guys Pools, wasn't looking for another tool that did one thing well.

He already had QuickBooks. He had Dropbox. And before choosing Eano Pro, he sat through demos of five or six different construction platforms.

The problem was that every platform seemed to solve a different piece of the business.

“One was very good in estimation. One was very good in project management on the field. One was very good in the financial side, the QuickBooks integration.”

What Dror wanted was one system that could bring more of those pieces together.

“It’s not 100% perfect on everything, but it’s giving the best overall answer to all those subjects I was looking for – with a relatively affordable cost.”

Too Many Tools for One Construction Business

Good Guys Pools is a growing pool construction and service company in northern New Jersey.

The company has about 15 employees and can have as many as 40 people involved on larger projects once subcontractors are included.

Before Eano Pro, QuickBooks handled the financial side of projects while Dropbox folders held photos, estimates, signed documents, and other project information.

“We did everything in QuickBooks. All the projects went through QuickBooks, so it wasn’t as visually understandable. Everything was in folders in Dropbox — to make sure all the pictures are there, all the estimations, the signing.”

Dror knew the business needed a better system.

So he started looking.

Five or Six Demos Later, the Same Problem Kept Coming Up

Dror didn't choose the first construction platform he found.

He evaluated five or six different options.

“Some were very expensive, some did not answer what I needed.”

More importantly, each platform seemed to have its own specialty.

One might be great for estimating. Another was strong in field project management. Another had good financial tools.

That sounds useful until you realize what it means for the contractor: multiple systems, multiple workflows, and project information scattered between them.

“When you look at the company that is able to do all the things together, it was very, very difficult to find.”

For Dror, finding the absolute best standalone tool for each individual task wasn't the goal.

He wanted the pieces to work together.

“At the end of the day, you need to integrate everything together, or to find one system or two.”

That's what led Good Guys Pools to Eano Pro.

One Place to See What's Happening Across the Business

When Dror talks about what matters most, he doesn't start with a flashy individual feature.

He starts with visibility.

“The main thing is visuality: to see all the projects in one place, to know how much I was supposed to pay, how much I did pay, if my project was profitable or not profitable, where I'm standing in the project at the time.”

Instead of treating estimating, project management, contracts, and financial information as separate workflows, Eano Pro gives Good Guys Pools a central place to understand what's happening across its jobs.

QuickBooks still handles the accounting.

But QuickBooks expenses can sync into Eano Pro and be assigned to the projects they belong to, making it easier to connect what's happening financially with the actual job.

Today, Good Guys Pools has brought seven-figures worth of expenses into the Eano Pro QuickBooks integration, with hundreds of expenses already assigned to individual projects.

AI Gets the Estimate Started. Good Guys Pools Sets the Price.

Good Guys Pools also uses Eano Pro to make estimating faster.

Dror uses AI to help build the initial project scope, rather than starting every estimate line by line.

“I do use the AI estimation mainly to build the projects.”

But AI isn't deciding what Good Guys Pools charges its customers.

Dror and his team review the scope and adjust pricing based on the actual project.

“After that, I do need to adjust the prices in a lot of cases. Some are perfectly fine, correct.”

Over time, the team has also built its own library of reusable templates.

That creates a practical estimating workflow: use AI to help create the first draft, turn repeatable work into templates, then adjust scope and pricing for the job in front of you.

Across 162 projects, Good Guys Pools has built more than 12,500 estimate line items inside Eano Pro.

Top Features Good Guys Pools Values Most

All-in-One Project Visibility

See projects, estimates, contracts, expenses, and project status without piecing the story together across separate folders and software.

Estimating + AI

Use AI to help create the initial scope, then let experienced estimators review and adjust the details and pricing before anything goes to the customer.

Reusable Estimate Templates

Good Guys Pools now generates the majority of its estimate scope from its own template library, helping the team avoid rebuilding common pool construction work from scratch.

QuickBooks Integration

Keep QuickBooks as the accounting system while bringing expenses into Eano Pro and assigning them to individual jobs for better project-level visibility.

Contracts & E-Signatures

Move from estimate to agreement without leaving the workflow. Good Guys Pools has completed dozens of client e-signatures representing high six figures in contract value through Eano Pro.

Responsive Support

For Dror, choosing a smaller software company was intentional.

He wanted to work with a team that would actually listen when his company had feedback.

A Construction Platform the Whole Office Actually Uses

Choosing software is one thing. Getting the entire team to actually use it is another.

Good Guys Pools moved to an annual Eano Pro plan with eight seats just six weeks after signing up, and adoption quickly spread beyond Dror. Estimating, administration, project management, and field users all work in the platform, making Eano Pro part of how the broader team manages the business.

Across its first seven months, the Good Guys Pools team was active in Eano Pro on 197 out of 211 days. Rather than being a tool they open occasionally to create an estimate, it has become part of their day-to-day workflow.

“At the moment, the main thing I'm using is the project management tool and estimating, sending quotes, and managing all that part of it.”

From Estimate to Signed Contract

Good Guys Pools has created 162 projects in Eano Pro, with an estimate attached to nearly every one.

Those estimates don't simply sit in the system.

Good Guys Pools can move the project forward into proposals and contracts, with clients able to sign electronically.

So far, dozens of contracts have been client-signed directly through the platform, representing high six figures in contract value.

For a seasonal pool builder managing dozens of upcoming jobs, that creates a much clearer path from the initial estimate to the project that eventually needs to be delivered.

Why Being Heard Mattered

Product features weren't the only thing Dror evaluated.

He also thought about what would happen after Good Guys Pools became a customer.

One reason he chose Eano Pro was precisely because it wasn't the biggest software company he looked at.

“Mainly because you guys were smaller, and I thought that if I would say something, you guys are going to take it a little more seriously.”

That bet has been important to his experience with the platform.

“What I like about it, at the end of the day: the team is responsive — somebody that can hear you and knows what you're thinking.”

For Good Guys Pools, the ability to provide feedback and have an actual conversation with the people building the software is part of the value.

Who Does Dror Think Eano Pro Is For?

Dror makes an important distinction.

If a contractor has one very specific problem and doesn't mind stitching together five specialized programs, there may be a standalone tool designed specifically for each piece.

But that's not how he wanted to run Good Guys Pools.

He wanted estimating, project management, financial visibility, and the rest of the workflow to live closer together.

That's where he sees Eano Pro differently.

“If you're looking for something specific — you have a challenge in only one subject, and you don't mind to work with five different programs — go ahead, find somebody specialized in that subject.”

For everyone else, the question becomes how many separate tools you really want your team using to run one construction business.

After researching the market and sitting through multiple demos, Dror made his choice.

“This is the system that I chose after doing a lot of research around.”

And when asked whether he'd recommend it to other contractors:

“As an overall tool that is answering [the needs of] everybody? There are not a lot of competitors in your market – Yes, I would recommend other people use it.”

One Platform for More of Your Construction Business

You shouldn't need one platform for estimating, another for project management, another for contracts, and another just to understand how your jobs are performing.

Eano Pro brings estimating, AI, proposals, contracts, project management, scheduling, job financials, and QuickBooks-connected expenses into one construction workflow.

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