Engineer commercial pools in days, not months.
Aquatic turns weeks of manual hydraulic calculation, jurisdiction code research, and permit assembly into one defensible workflow, with every number traceable to a code citation.
Commercial pool design still runs on spreadsheets.
It's one of the last high-stakes engineering workflows without purpose-built software, and the cost of a single error is a rejected permit and weeks of delay.
Calculated by hand
TDH, pipe sizing, pump curves, and flow distribution are derived manually for every project. One arithmetic slip means a permit rejection.
Fractured code landscape
Every state interprets the code differently, counties override states, and local authorities add their own rules. Thousands of jurisdictions, zero shared standard.
Everything waits on hydraulics
Equipment, chemical sizing, ADA, and structural loading can't move until the hydraulic foundation is done. The bottleneck is calculation, not design.
One platform. Two ways to win.
Aquatic makes builders faster and more competitive, and makes the distributors they order from the obvious first call.
For builders
Design and permit commercial pools in a fraction of the time, and take on more work without adding headcount.
- Weeks of calculation compressed into minutes
- Win and complete more projects with the same team
- Documentation ready to help finalize your permit sets
For distributors
Every clean design is a clean order. When builders design in Aquatic, they order the right products the first time, from you.
- Correct equipment specified, fewer returns and reorders
- Your catalog integrated into every design
- Stickier builders, more volume through your channel
One set of inputs. The entire engineering package.
Enter the parameters a designer already has on day one. Aquatic returns the calculated intelligence behind every downstream decision.
Hydraulic analysis
Flow rate, total dynamic head, pump selection, and pipe sizing using code-mandated Hazen-Williams formulas, not rules of thumb.
Code compliance
Every project validated against jurisdiction-specific rules simultaneously, with each result flagged and traceable to a citation.
Equipment selection
Auto-selects pumps, filters, and heaters from manufacturer catalogs based on the system requirements Aquatic just calculated.
Fittings & schedules
Automatically generates equipment lists based on real project data, ready to drop into any drawing.
Permit documentation
MEP coordination letters, bather-capacity calculations, and ADA compliance matrices, ready to assist in finalizing your permit sets.
Jurisdiction intelligence
County-level rule sets encoded individually, not regional approximations, so the output matches the authority reviewing it.
Every pool, summarized and defensible.
Combined site data across every pool in the project, volumes, flow, skimmers, filters, pump specs, and backwash sizing in one view.
From parameters to permit package.
Project parameters
Pool geometry, bather load, site location, water features, and jurisdiction, the inputs you already have on day one.
The Aquatic engine
A deterministic constraint-satisfaction engine applies code-derived formulas to your geometry, with no approximations, every time.
Calculated intelligence
Skimmer counts, TDH, pump and pipe sizing, equipment schedules, ADA requirements, and compliance flags, all derived and defensible.
"Aquatic took our commercial pool design time from a month to a week, and let us win and deliver new business without expanding the team."
"Every number in Aquatic traces to a code citation. Not a rule of thumb, but a defensible calculation."
See your next project designed in a fraction of the time.
Bring a real project. We'll run it through Aquatic live and hand you the documentation it produces for your permit sets.
Deterministic engineering, encoded.
The Aquatic engine is not an AI model or a machine-learning approximation. It's a deterministic constraint-satisfaction engine, the same calculation method licensed engineers use, encoded into software. Given inputs, it derives outputs. Every time. The way code requires.
Engineered, not estimated.
The engine applies jurisdiction-specific code rules simultaneously against project-specific geometry. There are no shortcuts and no regional averages, just the formulas the code mandates, applied consistently.
- Reproducible. The same inputs always produce the same outputs, auditable and defensible under review.
- Traceable. Every value links back to the specific code citation that requires it.
- Complete. Hydraulics, fixtures, pipe sizing, pump selection, equipment, chemical systems, and ADA from a single input set.
Advanced TDH, suction trunk, static head, and filter cycle, calculated live.
Every role, one source of truth.
A commercial pool project passes through many hands. Aquatic gives each of them exactly the outputs they need from the same underlying calculation.
Commercial pool designer
Full system access and project ownership, from parameters to the finished permit package.
Owner / developer
A clear project summary and outputs, visibility into the design without the engineering weeds.
Architect
Bather capacity, ADA compliance, and door/entry dimensions ready for the drawing set.
MEP engineer
Hydraulic outputs, equipment specs, and a ready-to-issue coordination letter.
General contractor
Equipment schedule, pipe sizing, fittings, and bather capacity for the build.
Plan reviewer
Every output flagged for compliance and cited, so review is verification, not investigation.
Put your workflow on defensible footing.
See the Aquatic engine run a live project end to end.
Win more work. Deliver it faster. Add no headcount.
For commercial pool builders, design capacity is the ceiling on growth. Aquatic lifts it, compressing the engineering that used to take weeks into minutes, so you can bid, design, and permit more projects with the team you already have.
Enter the project. Aquatic does the math.
Type an address and Aquatic detects the jurisdiction automatically, then pulls the code rules that apply. From there, geometry and bather load flow straight into the hydraulic calculations, equipment sizing, and permit package, with quick, defensible math you can stand behind.
- Automatic jurisdiction detection from the project address.
- No rework loops. Compliance is checked as you design, not after a rejection.
- The right equipment, specified once. Clean orders, fewer callbacks.
Project intake, jurisdiction, turnover, and suction split detected from the address.
How NVblu 4x'd its design throughput.
"Expanding the design team has always been difficult because of the years of training and specialization required. Aquatic now allows us to do more with less, which is what we've always needed."
The challenge
As a growing commercial builder, NVblu's design and permitting workload was capping how much new business it could take on. Every project meant weeks of manual hydraulic work.
The change
With Aquatic, the calculations, equipment selection, and permit documentation that took a month now come together in about a week, with every value traceable to code.
The result
NVblu wins and completes more projects without expanding the team, turning design capacity from a bottleneck into an advantage.
Take on the work you've been turning away.
See how much design time Aquatic gives back on a real project of yours.
Every clean design is a clean order.
When commercial builders design in Aquatic, the equipment is specified correctly the first time, from your catalog. That means fewer returns, more complete orders, and builders who keep coming back to the distributor Aquatic is integrated with.
Right products, first order
Aquatic sizes and specs equipment from the calculated system requirements. Builders order exactly what the design calls for, cutting returns, RMAs, and reorders that eat your margin.
Your catalog, in every design
Integrate your SKUs and Aquatic auto-specifies your products as builders design. Your catalog becomes the default selection at the exact moment the buying decision is made.
Stickier builders, more volume
Designers have every reason to keep ordering from the distributor already wired into their workflow, turning one-off transactions into a recurring channel.
The order is correct before it's placed.
Aquatic selects the pump, filter, and pad equipment straight from the hydraulic requirements, and even adjusts for real-world constraints like filter-room door width. What reaches your counter is a complete, buildable equipment list.
- Complete equipment schedules, nothing missing, nothing mismatched.
- Constraint-aware substitutions that still meet the design intent.
- Fewer support calls for you and fewer jobsite surprises for them.
Equipment selection, filters, pump spec, and pad, auto-selected and constraint-checked.
Your products, wired into the design workflow.
Integrate your catalog
We map your SKUs, specs, and availability into Aquatic's equipment engine.
Designs auto-spec your products
As builders design, Aquatic selects your equipment to meet the calculated requirements.
Builders order with confidence
Clean, complete equipment lists route to you, correct the first time.
Now integrating leading national and regional distributors.
We're building integrations with major distribution partners across the country. Want your catalog in front of designers at the point of specification?
Turn clean designs into your orders.
Let's talk about integrating your catalog into every commercial pool designed in Aquatic.
Built by the people who lived the problem.
Aquatic began inside a working commercial pool design practice, codifying 25 years of hard-won engineering judgment into software that any designer can rely on.
From 25 years of drawings to one engine.
Drew Crowder spent a quarter century designing commercial pools and founded the design practice NVblu. He watched every project bottleneck on the same manual calculations, and saw how a single overlooked jurisdiction rule could cost weeks. Aquatic is that expertise, encoded: the calculation methods, the code knowledge, and the equipment judgment, made repeatable.
25 years in the field
Designing and permitting commercial pools across the Mid-Atlantic; founding NVblu.
The calculation engine
The core hydraulics, compliance, and equipment logic built as an internal tool.
Aquatic, the platform
An enterprise rebuild opening the engine up to designers, firms, and their whole project team.
Principles behind the platform.
Defensible by default
If a number can't be traced to a citation, it doesn't belong in a permit package. Everything Aquatic produces is auditable.
Speed without shortcuts
Minutes instead of weeks, because the work is automated, not approximated. Determinism is the whole point.
For the whole team
Designers, architects, engineers, and contractors work from one source of truth instead of reconciling separate spreadsheets.
Want to see where Aquatic is headed?
We're expanding jurisdictions and capabilities every month. Come build with us.
Request a demo.
Bring a real project. We'll run it through Aquatic live and hand you the documentation it produces for your permit sets, so you can see the calculations, the citations, and the time saved for yourself.
Already designed for 70% of all jurisdictions.
Send us your project.
Email a quick note about what you are designing, building, or distributing, along with your primary jurisdiction, and we will set up a live walkthrough on your own project.
hello@aquatic.app →Where we build
Serving the Mid-Atlantic (VA, MD, DC, WV, PA, DE) and Colorado with continued expansion underway.
Response time
We typically reply within one business day.
What you will get
A live walkthrough on your own project and sample documentation for your permit sets.