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Joe Ford, Co-Owner & Operations
Operations · 15+ years experience

Joe Ford

Co-Owner & Operations

Joe Ford is one of the owners of Florida's Best Pool Service, a family-owned pool service company founded by Matt Balog in Boca Raton, Florida. Joe partners with Matt on the business side — building the operating systems, customer infrastructure, and training programs that keep service quality consistent across every route in South Florida.

Background

Outside of Florida's Best Pool Service, Joe is a licensed Public Adjuster and the owner of Dolphin Claims, a Florida insurance-claims firm. That background — operations, claims, regulatory work, and the technology stack that makes a service company actually scale — is what he brings to the pool side.

His day-to-day at Florida's Best Pool Service is the unglamorous infrastructure: route planning tools, photo-documented service reporting, the in-house 150-lesson technician training program, the AI and automation layer that helps the field team move faster, and the customer-facing systems that turn every visit into a flat-rate, contract-free, on-the-record interaction.

He also founded the Florida Pool Training Academy at floridapooltraining.com — a free, public CPO-grade curriculum and reference library used by pool pros and homeowners across Florida. The same curriculum every Florida's Best Pool Service technician completes before working a route independently.

Areas of expertise

  • Pool service operations and route systems
  • Customer infrastructure, scheduling, and reporting tools
  • AI and automation applied to field service workflows
  • Insurance, claims, and risk management (via Dolphin Claims)
  • Training program design — both internal tech onboarding and the public Florida Pool Training Academy
  • Business operations and growth strategy for service companies

Notable work

  • Founded the Florida Pool Training Academy at floridapooltraining.com — 150 lessons, 206+ free reference guides covering water chemistry, equipment, troubleshooting, and Florida-specific pool care.
  • Owner of Dolphin Claims, a Florida-licensed Public Adjusting firm — applying claims, operations, and risk-management experience to the pool service side of the business.
  • Built the internal operations stack for Florida's Best Pool Service — route planning, photo-documented service reporting, technician onboarding, and the AI/automation layer that keeps multi-route quality consistent.

Published writing

Industry research

First-party research authored by Joe for the Florida's Best Pool Service Industry Reports library. All reports are CC BY 4.0 — free to cite, quote, and embed with attribution.

Articles by Joe

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