Gladius Pool does everything Skimmer does, flat-priced instead of per pool. Then it does the part nobody else in pool software does: it scores every pump, heater and salt cell on your book, watches every quote going cold, and hands your office a drafted follow-up before the revenue walks.
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Per-pool pricing means your software gets more expensive the better you do. At 400 pools that is $400 to $800 a month, and it climbs the day you sign pool 401.
They stand next to a ten-year-old single-speed pump every week. Nothing scores it, nothing quotes it, and the homeowner replaces it through somebody else.
A $1,850 pump job goes quiet on day three and nobody notices until day nineteen. Pool software tracks stops. It does not track people who have not answered yet.
This is dealership CRM machinery, ported to pool pads. It is the reason Gladius exists and the reason a scheduler cannot catch up by adding a feature.
Every asset your techs inventoried, scored on install date, service life, logged symptoms, warranty status and the 2021 DOE variable-speed rule. A standing quote list that refills itself.
Nobody else has thisOne tab: the calendar, the drafted agenda, the pipeline. Onyx finds sellable gaps in your techs' day and slots the waitlist into them with one tap.
Nobody else has thisEvery stage has a freshness window. New 30 minutes, Quoted 3 days, Verbal 2 days. Past the window the card flags and a re-touch is drafted with a specific next action.
Nobody else has thisFull Langelier index with carbonate-alkalinity correction and sequenced dosing, computed identically on the server and on your tech's phone. Six taps, under a minute, offline.
Clock-in, clock-out, and a location trail while the shift is open. Consent-gated and built so an off-clock location is impossible to record, not merely disallowed.
Skimmer has noneRecurring runs, autopay, per-stop chemical itemization, QuickBooks two-way. Reconciled to the cent, with the payment margin that funds the flat price.
No signup, no sales call, no sandbox that is really a video. This is the real console with a real book of eight Tampa pools. Fill a gap on the calendar, draft an estimate, work the mining board. Everything you click does what it does in production.
Changes live in your browser only and reset on refresh. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Eight pool-native competitors and three generalist field-service platforms, priced and scored as published in 2026. Rows where a competitor beats us are marked in gold on their side, not hidden.
| Gladius Pool | Skimmer | QuoteIQ | Pool Brain | Pool Office Mgr | Pooltrackr | Paythepoolman | ProValet | Pool Founder | Jobber | Housecall Pro | ServiceTitan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ||||||||||||
| Cost at 400 poolsthe number that actually decides it | $129–349 | $400–800 | $299 | $220–385 | $89–199 | $79–179 | low, opaque | quote | $49 | $39–599 | $59–189 | $5–10k |
| Pricing model | Flat, unlimited | Per pool | Flat tiers | Per user | Flat | Flat | Flat-ish | Custom | Flat | Tiered | Tiered | Per tech |
| Price rises as you grow | Never | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | — | — | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The revenue engine | ||||||||||||
| Equipment miningage-scored assets turned into quotes | Yes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Speed-to-lead SLA clock | Yes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Sales pipeline with rot detection | Yes | — | Pipeline, no rot | — | — | — | — | — | — | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| AI drafts the day's work | Onyx, in-workflow | $99/mo add-on | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Add-on |
| Service-to-sales attribution | Yes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Partial |
| Running the route | ||||||||||||
| Pool chemistry + LSI | Full | Full | Light | Deepest | Best calculator | Good | Basic | Basic | Basic | None | None | None |
| Route optimization | Good | Best in class | Strong | Strong | Basic | 300+ stops | Basic | Strong | Basic | Generic | Generic | Strong |
| Offline tech app | Offline-first | iOS good, Android crashes | Yes | Battery drain | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| On-clock GPSconsent-gated workforce tracking | Included | None | Elite tier | Partial | — | Partial | — | Partial | — | Add-on | Add-on | Yes |
| Customer portal | Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Uber-style app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Getting paid & compliance | ||||||||||||
| Recurring billing + autopay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Billing-first | Yes | Yes | Yes | Excellent | Yes |
| QuickBooks two-way | Included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Charged extra | Partial | Partial | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMS compliance enforcedA2P, TCPA, quiet hours in recipient timezone | Structural | Partial | Partial | — | — | — | — | — | — | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Nothing sends without a humana database constraint, not a setting | Enforced | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Trust | ||||||||||||
| Track recordthe row we lose, plainly | New | 700k+ pools | Established | Established | Established | Growing | Established | Growing | New | Very large | Very large | Enterprise |
| Built for pools specifically | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Where they beat us, plainly. Skimmer's route optimizer is more mature than ours and they have 700,000 pools of track record we do not. Pool Brain and Pool Office Manager go deeper on chemistry. Pooltrackr is stronger past 300 stops a day. ProValet's homeowner app is slicker than our web portal. Housecall Pro's billing is excellent. If any one of those alone decides your purchase, buy that one. We built Gladius for the operator who wants the route handled competently and the revenue found automatically, because no platform above does the second part at all.
No per-pool fee, no per-user tax, no charge for the QuickBooks sync. Grow the book and the price does not move.
The route, done properly. For operators up to about 200 pools.
Everything in Route, plus the revenue engine. Where the software pays for itself.
Multi-crew operations that need attribution across locations.
Send us an export and we will load your real pools, score your real equipment, and show you what your current software has not been telling you. Twenty minutes, no deck.
30-day trial, card required. Free import. Live in under 72 hours or we keep working for free.