For painters · Get found + get answered
Three painters quoted. The first one got the house.
BuildStack builds websites for painting contractors and answers the leads they bring in. Four core pages, a page for every town you cover, an estimate form in the first screen, and one front desk replying by text, email and Facebook and Instagram DMs while you are on a ladder with a brush in your hand. We have not built a painting site yet — the live sites on this page are siding in metro Atlanta, fencing in North Carolina and garage doors in Massachusetts, built the same way.
- Looking to get the outside of the house painted before we list it in May. Two-story, some peeling on the trim.
- Thanks, May is doable. Could you send a photo of the front and one of the worst trim? We can walk it Tuesday 8am or Wednesday 5pm and get you a written quote.
- Photos sent. Wednesday at 5.
- Booked for Wednesday 5pm. You'll get a reminder that morning.
Where the jobs go
Not to the best painter. To the first one they reach.
Not found
Painting is shopped hardest of any trade. The homeowner asks the three names on the map for a quote, and the painter who is sixth never gets the chance to be cheaper or better.
Not answered · Sunday · 8:15pm
Web form: “Looking to get the outside of the house painted before we list it in May. Two-story, some peeling on the trim.”
Seen Monday afternoon. By then two painters have walkthroughs booked for Tuesday and one is sending a quote tonight.
Every job is three quotes.
Painting is the easiest trade for a homeowner to shop around, so they do. The first painter to reply books the walkthrough, and the walkthrough is where the job is won.
You can't answer with paint on your hands.
Cutting in a ceiling is not a job you put down to pick up the phone. By the time you have washed up, they have booked someone else's estimate.
Spring enquiries decide your summer.
Exterior work is booked months ahead. The enquiries that go unanswered in March are the gaps in your calendar in June.
Fix one and you have fixed half of it. We fix both.
What you get
Two things. One promise: the job stays yours.
01 · Get found
Built for how a painter gets booked.
Estimate form in the first screen
Interior or exterior, how many rooms, a rough timeframe. It reaches the front desk instantly, so they hear back before they ask the next painter.
A page for every town you cover
“House painters Roswell” and “interior painting Marietta” are different searches. Each town gets its own page.
Your finished rooms, not stock photos
Before and after from jobs you actually did, the paint lines you use, and your Google reviews on the page. In a trade where everyone claims to be tidy, proof is the difference.
Fast on a phone
Most estimate requests start on a phone, looking at a peeling wall. The site loads before they give up.
Your Google Business Profile, kept current
Categories, services, photos and review replies. This is where the map calls come from.
Your site and profile start converting searches from launch. Map rankings move over three to six months depending on your market. Anyone promising top-three in 30 days is selling you a stock template.
How we build02 · Get answered
It books the walkthrough. It doesn't guess the square footage.
A painting quote depends on prep, height and condition, which nobody can see from a text. The front desk gets the photos, the scope and the deadline, books the walkthrough, and only quotes the fixed-price work you have given it — a standard room, say.
| Interior room, walls and ceiling | Your range |
| Exterior, two-story | Your range |
| Trim and doors | Your range |
Change a price in the Hub and the front desk quotes the new one.
Text, email, Facebook and Instagram, on your existing number. Text first, usually inside a fortnight. Email once your sending domain is warm, then social. Voice opens last, when it has earned it and you say so.
How the front desk worksEvery lead the site brings in lands with the front desk.
Agencies get your phone ringing and let it ring out. Platforms hand you a generated site and a bot with your name on it. We build the one and train the other, and the two are wired together from day one.
Live now
Sites we built. Open one on your phone.
No painter site yet, and we would rather say so. These are the same homeowner and the same searches, built the same way. All our work
What you're probably thinking
“Everyone's a painter. I just win on price.”
Then you are one cheaper quote away from losing every job. Most homeowners do not hire the cheapest painter, they hire the one who turned up, looked professional and got a number back first. The site is where you look like the second one before you have met them, and the front desk is how you are first.
Pricing
On the page. Month to month.
One exterior repaint pays for the build. Built, not generated, and it's yours: cancel the front desk in a year and the site stays up, in your name, on your domain.
Everything in each planFound + Answered
$3,500 to start
$497 /month
You need a site that gets found and answered.
Answered
$500 setup
$297 /month
You already have a site that works. You just need it answered.
FAQ
What painters ask us first.
How much does a website for a painter cost?
$3,500 to start, which builds the site and sets up the front desk, then $497 a month for the front desk on every channel, tuning and the Hub. If you already have a site that works, it is $500 setup and $297 a month to get it answered. Month to month, no contract. The site is yours either way. Two or more locations gets scoped on a call.
Can it quote a paint job?
Only work you have given it a price for, like a standard bedroom. Exteriors, cabinets and anything with real prep get a walkthrough booked instead of a number invented.
Have you built a painting site?
Not yet, and we would rather say so. The live sites on this page are siding in metro Atlanta, fencing in North Carolina and garage doors in Massachusetts. Same homeowner, same searches, same build. Open one on your phone.
How long does the build take?
About four weeks. We write the copy from one call with you, you see real working pages by day 10, and we tune the site on real phones for the first week after it goes live.
Not ready for a call? Ten yes-or-no questions, sixty seconds: see whether you're losing jobs to not being found or to not answering.
Take the free Scorecard →First quote back
paints the house.
We build the site that gets you asked for the quote, and reply before the other two painters do.
Book a 20-minute call →Month to month · No contracts · Plans from $297/mo · Setup takes 2–4 weeks because we do it right.