From Buildertrend to a Streamlined, High-Volume Workflow

After three or four years of bouncing between platforms, including Buildertrend, Houston-based STAOC found a construction workflow simple enough to keep high-volume work orders moving across more than half the country.

“You all seem to have a philosophy about eliminating clicks... If you're eliminating clicks, you're cutting hours out of our workload.”

STAOC isn't a typical local contractor. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company services over half the country, with work across 24 states and the DC Metro area.

That kind of footprint means jobs don't arrive one at a time. They arrive in batches.

A National Property Services Company Built on Volume

Brandon Drummond describes STAOC's work simply: turnkey properties, rentals, vacant homes, and maintenance for property management companies rather than individual homeowners.

“Pretty much anything that has to do with putting a body inside the house and fixing something, bigger or small, whatever they send us.”

Internally, STAOC runs a team of about 30 to 40 people handling everything from client onboarding to receiving and scheduling jobs and hiring new techs. Including field techs, the team scales to around 50 to 60 as markets phase in and out with the seasons.

And the volume can be intense.

“One client sent us 147 winterization work orders in one day.”

When work comes in like that, every extra step in the software gets multiplied across every job.

Today, those batches run through Eano Pro. During this fall's winterization season, STAOC's team has entered large same-day batches of work orders directly in the platform, and since moving to Eano Pro, thousands of work orders across thousands of homes have flowed through it.

Three or Four Years of Searching for the Right Platform

Before Eano Pro, STAOC spent years trying to find a system that fit.

“We spent probably three or four years back and forth between different platforms, trying to find one that fit everything perfectly and didn't allow us to overcomplicate it.”

Buildertrend was one of those platforms. The problem wasn't a lack of options. It was too much of a blank slate.

“It's like writing your own book from scratch, where you just sit at a blank page and you don't know where to start. That was what Buildertrend was like.”

Every fix seemed to create a new problem.

“You can create so many fields and you can create so many functions, but if you're not really solving the heart of the problem, then you just overcomplicate everything and you never get anywhere.”

A Streamlined Process That Just Works

STAOC connected with Eano at a trade show in Florida while still looking for a better software stack.

What stood out was structure. Instead of building everything from scratch, STAOC adopted a process that was already set up, with Eano's team guiding them toward what they actually needed.

“There's kind of a streamlined process to it that just works, and that was what we came for.”

Brandon says the team gutted some of its old processes in favor of the way Eano Pro was already set up, and the result has been fewer cracks for work to fall through.

“It feels like things are getting done a lot faster.”

With thousands of projects yielding tens of thousands of daily logs, the Eano Pro platform efficiently supports a staff of 30-40 users, recording tens of thousands of tasks and thousands of man-hours in timesheets and subcontractor engagements.

Eliminating Clicks, Cutting Hours

For a company moving hundreds of jobs, small workflow improvements add up fast.

Brandon spends his day jumping between jobs while 20 to 25 internal team members work in the same system. Eano Pro's global search changed that.

“For me, I'm bouncing in and out of jobs all the time. So that took like hours out of my day, just being able to get into and out of jobs.”

For STAOC's estimators, the biggest win was going from scope to invoice in one click.

“The ability to go from the scope and then one click all the items to the invoice, that's huge. That makes invoice writing way faster.”

Before, the team had to take information from the scope, manually re-enter it into QuickBooks, generate an invoice there, and then submit it to their clients' portals.

“It is just much faster to do it this way.”

AI Summaries in Seconds

Brandon also uses Eano Pro's AI to get quick answers across jobs, like what share of expenses came from a certain type of job.

Without it, getting the full story behind the numbers could mean talking to five to seven different people.

Top Features STAOC Values Most

Global Search

Jump into and out of any job from anywhere in the platform, which is critical when you're managing high volumes of work orders.

One-Click Scope to Invoice

Move every scope item onto an invoice in one click instead of re-keying it into QuickBooks.

A Simple, Repeatable Workflow

A structured process that keeps 20+ internal users working the same way on every job.

AI Summaries

Get quick answers and insights across jobs without chasing down multiple people.

Support That Doesn't Disappear

Brandon has seen what happens when trying large software companies and finds that getting support ends up being a big challenge. Problems can get ignored for a long, which trickles down to the team with friction points that add up over time.

“Their clientele is so massive that they kind of step away from it, and then it's very difficult to get support. It's very difficult to find fixes.”

With Eano's smaller scale, the team talks often, which allows the product team to be responsive and continue to roll out new workflow solutions that other companies can adopt.

“It definitely helped that we have this constant support with Joseph, so that every time something goes wrong, there's a fix.”

“I see all the updates happening in real time because I talk through them with Joseph, so I know the impact that they're having.”

Would Brandon Recommend Eano Pro?

He rates Eano Pro a solid nine out of ten and recommends it often.

“I do, a lot. I do for sure.”

His pitch to other companies when referring Eano Pro as the one-stop-shop: you don't need a different subscription for photos, logs, notes, and scheduling.

“I think it's the fact that you don't need multiple platforms, is what I usually go to, because everybody's trying to save money and these platforms are not the cheapest thing in the world.”

And across STAOC's team:

“Everybody is very appreciative. They have nothing but good things to say.”

Built for High-Volume Work

Whether you're handling a few jobs a week or 147 work orders in a day, Eano Pro gives you a simple, repeatable workflow from scope to invoice, without the clicks that slow your team down.

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