Zona Vibes

Zona Vibes, LLC · Arizona

It just makes sense.

That's the standard for everything Zona Vibes makes. We're an Arizona company that designs, builds, and runs its own technology brands: products for hardworking, practical people, wherever they are, that feel natural from the first tap and carry a level of care and polish they won't find anywhere else. Our first brands help pool, lawn, and field service companies schedule their work, keep customer records, send invoices, and take payments online.

Pool service technician skimming a backyard pool

Pool Service

Routes, chemistry, invoicing & payments — live today as PoolSpartan.

Who stands behind your app

A real company, and a real person you can reach.

Ken Smart, founder of Zona Vibes

Ken Smart
Founder · Zona Vibes

The company
Zona Vibes, LLC
Where
An Arizona company
Founded by
Ken Smart
Funding
Self-funded. No outside investors.

We're a small company based in Arizona, and we design, build, and support our products ourselves. If you use one of our apps, we're the company behind it, and you can write to us directly.

Write to hello@zonavibes.com — a person answers.

What we believe

Built with care, for everyday people.

A service tech explaining the repair to a homeowner in her kitchen

We believe a company's job is to take care of its customers, and the people its customers serve.

We believe hardworking people deserve well-made things. The kind of people who start early, fix what's broken themselves, and have no patience for anything that wastes their time.

That used to be normal.

Somewhere along the way, a lot of companies forgot who they were supposed to serve. So we built this differently.

01

Everyday people come first

When we decide what to make next, or how something should work, we start with how a hardworking person's day actually goes.

02

Good tools should feel good to use

Technology should fit into real life. Our first apps get used outdoors, in the heat, between jobs, so they have to be fast, easy to read in direct sun, workable with gloves on, and reliable on one bar of signal.

If something is frustrating to use, we keep working on it until it isn't.

03

Independence matters

We're self-funded, so we answer to the people who use our products. That gives us room to take our time, keep things simple, and build products we'd want to use ourselves.

Why we exist

How the pool plan became Zona Vibes.

After twenty years in internet infrastructure, Ken set out to start a pool service business in Mesa.

Getting ready meant licensing, lining up suppliers, and trying the software sold to the trades. That last part showed him the software was built for someone else — someone at a desk, not someone on a truck.

That's what Zona Vibes is for. We start and run our own brands, beginning with the trades we know, and we hold every one of them to the same standard of care.

The name comes from our roots in the West, built in Arizona.

Our brands

Every one of them is a Zona Vibes brand.

If you run your business on one of these, Zona Vibes is the company behind it — and the one you can write to.

What's next

We're building extraordinary products for ordinary people. When the next one is ready, you'll see it here.

Questions about a brand you use?

Write to us. A real person reads it and writes back.

Get in touch

We're hiring

We're hiring a PoolSpartan brand executive.

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