Industries · Painting
Book more repaints while your painting crews keep rolling
Painting is won on the fast quote and the second job. Sherpa builds and runs the systems that get both without you working nights.
How Painting actually works
Painting runs on volume: lots of estimates, quick decisions, thin loyalty. Homeowners collect two or three quotes and usually take the first professional one that arrives. Exteriors stack up in the warm months while interiors carry the winter, and the companies that stay busy are the ones that fill shoulder seasons from their own past-customer list, because every house you've painted needs painting again.
The Sherpa climb, mapped to painting companies
Four camps, in order. Each one solves the next-most-expensive problem painting companies face. Start where your business leaks most.
Repaint customers search, compare, and pick fast. Trailhead makes you the obvious pick: a site that ranks for “house painters near me,” a map-pack listing with photos of your actual work, and review requests that go out after every final walkthrough.
Trailhead for painting companies → Level 02 · Basecamp Win more jobsThe homeowner requesting a painting quote is requesting three. Basecamp answers first, books the estimate on the spot, and follows up on every open quote until it closes or says no, the part most painters skip.
Basecamp for painting companies → Level 03 · Peak Operate like a proEstimating eats your evenings, and color changes eat your margin. Peak puts AI on quoting, scheduling, and invoicing in priority order: same-day estimates, crews routed against real availability, and the invoice sent at the final walkthrough.
Peak for painting companies → Level 04 · Stratos Scale like an enterpriseMulti-crew painting operations bleed margin in ways a whiteboard can't show. Stratos builds production dashboards and estimating AI trained on your own job history, custom and owned by you, so you see gross margin per crew per week.
Stratos for painting companies →Get the Painting playbook for your company
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