For painters & decorators
Every repaint enquiry answered. Your brush stays on the wall.
Painting is a quoting game, and quotes go to whoever picks up. An AI receptionist for painters and decorators answers 24/7 in a natural Kiwi voice, takes the details, and texts you a job sheet while your cut-in line is still wet.
Free to set up · keep your number · live in 10 minutes
Callers ring three painters. First reply wins.
Most repaint enquiries go out to two or three painters the same afternoon. Voicemail puts you last in that race; an answered call and a same-day callback puts you first.
Wet brush, full hands, ladder work
You're not answering mid-cut with a loaded brush, and you're not answering off the top of a ladder either. The AI catches the call and you ring back at smoko.
Exterior season is short
Weatherboards need dry, settled weather, and the good months book out early. A spring enquiry you miss isn't one job lost — it's a slot in your best season gone.
A weatherboard repaint enquiry, start to finish
A typical quote call: exterior repaint before winter. The AI gets enough for you to quote properly and never makes up a price.
Within a minute of hangup: name, number, address, the job and urgency — texted and emailed to you. See how it works →
Quote calls go to whoever answers first
Repaint enquiries are shopping calls. The homeowner has a list, usually two or three painters off Google or a Facebook recommendation, and they work down it until someone picks up. There’s rarely a second round: the painter who answers, sounds organised and lines up the visit tends to have the job before the others have checked voicemail.
The awkward part is when those calls come. Homeowners ring painters in the evening after work, on Saturday mornings, and in the middle of your day when you’re up a ladder cutting in. TradieCall answers all of them, any hour, in your business name, and texts you the details so you ring back at smoko instead of finding a hang-up in the missed-call list. If you’ve been weighing up paying someone to answer instead, the maths is short — see hiring a receptionist vs an AI receptionist.
The exterior window is shorter than the year
Exterior repaints need dry, settled weather. In most of the country that means roughly October to April, less in Wellington, less again anywhere the southerly gets a run at the paint. Painters who are flat out in February booked those jobs back in September and October, which is what makes a missed spring call so expensive: the caller books someone else into the slot your best season needed.
Winter flips to interiors, and those enquiries skew toward evenings and weekends too. Either way the job sheet gives you what you need before you quote: interior or exterior, storeys, rough condition, the address and their timing, with the transcript and recording in your dashboard. The same weather window squeezes roofers, which is why exterior trades get the most out of round-the-clock answering. Plans and what’s in each are on the pricing page, all NZD including GST.
What painters ask us
The next quote goes to the painter who answered.
Free self-setup in about ten minutes. Ring it yourself before you put it live — 7-day free trial, no lock-in.
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