Construction company
Long bids, phased jobs and a client who is told what happens next.
Home services
The House painting GoHighLevel snapshot kit
Colour consult to final walkthrough, with the deposit taken up front.
Painting is sold on a walkthrough and lost on a slow estimate. This kit books the colour consult, gets a written estimate out the same day, and holds the crew week with a deposit rather than a handshake.
- Service pages with a photo estimate form
- Interior, exterior and commercial bid boards
- Ask held until the punch list clears
What lands in the account for house painting contractors kit buyers
Every kit ships the same list, written for its own industry. There are no quantities on it, because a counted promise is a promise: the delivered account has to match it. What is stated instead is what each line is for in house painting contractors, what it changes, and how it pays back. Nine of the lines carry a system stamp, and those nine systems are the whole system. The rest are stamped ACCT: they are the frame the nine are bolted to.
- BS-01SYS-03
AI Studio website
Service pages with a photo estimate form
Professional Website. Interior, exterior and cabinet pages with the copy written, a photo-upload estimate form and the walkthrough calendar on each one.
- A page per service type
- Photo upload estimate form
- Walkthrough calendar embedded
- Without it
- Most painting sites are a logo, a phone number and eleven photographs, so a homeowner comparing three firms has nothing to read at midnight.
- With it
- The site arrives written. A page for interior, exterior, cabinets and commercial, a compliant estimate form that takes photographs, and the walkthrough calendar on every page.
- How it pays
- A painting site quoted on its own runs $3,000 to $6,000 and takes six weeks. If your quiet season is eight weeks long, that is the whole season gone.
- BS-02ACCT
Funnels
Free estimate booking and cabinet refinishing pages
- Without it
- Painting ads send a homeowner to a home page with a gallery on it, and a gallery does not ask anyone for a start date or a photo.
- With it
- Each offer gets its own page. Free estimate booking, interior, kerb appeal exterior, cabinet refinishing, commercial enquiry and a referral reward, all with photo upload wired in.
- How it pays
- Say you spend $1,200 a month on local ads. Moving the landing page from a gallery to a booking page at even double the conversion halves your cost per walkthrough.
- BS-03ACCT
Forms and surveys
Photo estimate intake and punch list sign-off
- Without it
- A painter cannot price a job from a phone call, and asking a homeowner to describe peeling render in a text message wastes both mornings.
- With it
- The estimate form takes photographs, storeys and rooms with SMS consent worded properly. The punch list form is signed on site and closes the job stage.
- How it pays
- If photos let you price one job in three without driving out, at forty minutes and $12 of fuel a visit, twelve enquiries a month gives back most of a day.
- BS-04SYS-01
1 AI Receptionist
Colour consult booked off a cold call
AI Receptionist. Answers while the crew is up a ladder, works out interior or exterior and roughly how many rooms, and books the colour consult on the estimator calendar.
- Interior or exterior at question one
- Books the walkthrough
- English and Spanish
- Without it
- A homeowner rings at four while both estimators are on site with rollers in hand, so the call goes to voicemail and the next painter answers.
- With it
- Every ring is picked up, interior or exterior is settled in the first minute, and the walkthrough goes straight onto the estimator's diary.
- How it pays
- Say a full interior repaint carries $4,200 and you lose one missed call a week to the competitor who picked up. Recovering a single job a month covers the kit.
- BS-05SYS-02
1 AI Chatbot
Ballpark questions on chat and Messenger
AI Chatbot. Handles the "roughly what does a three bedroom cost" traffic on the site and Facebook without committing you to a number you cannot hold.
- Site and Facebook chat
- Gives a range, not a quote
- Books the walkthrough
- Without it
- Most enquiries land after tea, asking what a two storey exterior runs to, and an unanswered chat box just sends them to the next painter.
- With it
- The bot holds a price band, asks about surface condition and storeys, then puts the walkthrough in the diary without an estimator typing.
- How it pays
- If your site takes forty chats a month and the bot books one walkthrough in eight, that is five extra walkthroughs on the estimator's week.
- BS-06ACCT
Custom fields
Storeys, surface condition, colour codes, access
- Without it
- The estimator knows the house has lead paint, cedar siding and a neighbour's driveway to work off, and all of it lives in his phone notes.
- With it
- Interior or exterior, storeys, rooms, square footage, substrate, surface condition, chosen colour codes, sheen and access notes are captured once and read by the crew message.
- How it pays
- The completion date field is what fires the year four repaint. If a hundred jobs a year go in with it set, in four years you have a standing pipeline.
- BS-07ACCT
Custom values
Rates, deposit percentage and service radius
- Without it
- Every painting business prices differently, so a build with your deposit percentage and your square foot rate hard-coded into automations is a build you have to unpick.
- With it
- You set deposit percentage, interior and exterior rate bands, service radius, warranty wording, paint brands you carry and booking links once. The run reads them everywhere.
- How it pays
- Raise your deposit from 25% to 30% and it is one value edit. Doing the same by hand across the account, say ten minutes a place, burns a working day.
- BS-08ACCT
Pipelines
Interior, exterior and commercial bid boards
- Without it
- Exterior work stalls on weather and interior work does not, so one shared board leaves a rained-off job sitting in the same column as a booked hallway.
- With it
- Stages run from walkthrough booked through estimate sent, deposit paid, scheduled and punch list, and a stalled exterior no longer hides behind interior volume.
- How it pays
- On a board holding twenty live estimates, if two a month drift past decision because nobody spotted them, at $3,500 a job that is the kit paid back inside a quarter.
- BS-09ACCT
Workflows
Estimate chase, deposit, crew week hold
- Without it
- A painter writes the estimate on Friday night, sends it, then remembers it three weeks later when the homeowner has already had two other prices.
- With it
- The run does the chasing. Estimate out same day, follow-up across the three weeks a colour decision actually takes, deposit request, then the crew week gets held.
- How it pays
- Assume you send twelve estimates a month and close four. Lifting that to five, on a $3,800 average, is roughly $45,000 more a year off the same enquiry flow.
- BS-10SYS-05SYS-04
Appointment reminders, confirmations and no-show recovery
Walkthrough held, start date reconfirmed
Smart Appointment System. Confirms the walkthrough, then confirms the start date again a week out, because a painting crew week booked in March starts in May.
- 24h, 1h and 15min reminders
- Start date reconfirmed a week out
- Target: 70% of no-shows rebooked
AI Outbound Caller. Calls the estimates that have sat unanswered for two weeks, which in painting is almost always a homeowner still choosing a colour rather than a lost job.
- Two week silent estimate
- Missed walkthrough callback
- Voicemail with a rebook link
- Without it
- A walkthrough booked in March for a May start gets forgotten by both sides, and the crew turns up to a house nobody has cleared furniture out of.
- With it
- Confirmation lands when the slot is taken, the ladder runs before the walkthrough, and the start date is put back in front of the homeowner a week out.
- How it pays
- The recovery leg is tuned for 70% no-show recovery. If a wasted estimator morning costs you a half day at $300, two saved a month is real money.
- BS-11SYS-09SYS-08
Nurture campaign
Twenty-one day colour decision follow-up
Lifetime Nurture Campaigns. Exterior repaint reminders at year four, a pre-season booking push before the calendar fills, and a neighbour offer after a street job.
- Four year repaint reminders
- Pre-season booking push
- Neighbour referral offers
Database Reactivation. Reopens the estimates that went cold six months ago as the painting season turns, and calls the interiors done two years back about the exterior.
- Six month cold estimates
- AI calling campaign
- Interior to exterior cross-sell
- Without it
- Homeowners genuinely take three weeks to pick a colour, and a painter who rings twice in that window reads as desperate while one who never rings is forgotten.
- With it
- The sequence carries useful things instead of nudges: a colour guide, a finish comparison, the prep you do that the cheap quote does not.
- How it pays
- If ten estimates a month go silent and the sequence recovers one in ten, on a $2,900 interior average that is a job a month you had already written.
- BS-12SYS-06SYS-07
Review automation
Ask held until the punch list clears
Review Harvesting. The ask fires post-job, after the final walkthrough and the punch list is signed off, which is the only moment a painting customer is fully satisfied.
- Trigger: punch list signed
- Held until snags are closed
- Google and Facebook links
Review Automation. The engine asks per job rather than per address, so a landlord with four properties leaves four reviews and a homeowner is asked once.
- Asked per job
- Two follow-ups, then stop
- Open punch lists suppressed
- Without it
- Ask for a review on the last day of the job and you get one from a homeowner still looking at a missed skirting board.
- With it
- The ask waits for the final walkthrough and a signed punch list, is raised against the job and not the address, then stops after two reminders.
- How it pays
- Assume a homeowner reads the top six Google reviews before ringing. If steady fresh reviews win you one extra estimate call a fortnight, at $3,000 a job the maths is obvious.
- BS-13ACCT
Seasonal automation
Exterior season booked before it opens
- Without it
- Exterior work is compressed into the dry months, so a painter with an empty April diary is already too late to fill it properly.
- With it
- Pre-season pushes go out in late winter, the wet-weather months get pointed at interiors and cabinets, and year four repaint reminders fire off the job completion date.
- How it pays
- If two hundred past exteriors sit in the account and one in fifty books a repaint at year four, that is four jobs a season from the ledger you already own.
The 70 percent no-show recovery and the 5 to 10 reviews a month are what these systems are tuned to produce. They are build targets, not measured results from a named customer.
Built for how house painting contractors actually sell
A painting contractor competes against two other quotes that arrive within a week, so the kit is built around estimate speed. The walkthrough is booked from the form, the estimate goes out with photos attached, and the follow-up runs for twenty-one days because homeowners genuinely do take that long to choose a colour.
- Building a twenty-one day estimate chase that does not read as nagging
- Wiring deposit collection into the crew calendar
- Writing the estimate, scheduling and punch list templates
Primary pipeline
- New enquiry
- Walkthrough booked
- Estimate sent
- Deposit paid
- Scheduled
- In progress
- Punch list
- Closed
The problem, and what actually changes
What it looks like today
- The whole crew is on a job, so the phone goes unanswered exactly when homeowners are collecting quotes.
- Estimates go out and then nothing happens for three weeks while the homeowner chooses a colour.
- Crew weeks are held on a verbal yes and collapse when the customer changes their mind.
- Reviews are asked for on the last day, when there are usually two snags still open.
What changes, and what changes it
- Calls are answered from the ladder, split into interior or exterior, and the walkthrough is booked.SYS-01 AI Receptionist
- Price-range questions get an honest answer on the site without committing you to a number.SYS-02 AI Chatbot
- The start date is reconfirmed a week out, which is where painting schedules actually fall apart.SYS-05 Smart Appointment System
- Estimates silent for two weeks are called back, because that is a colour decision rather than a no.SYS-04 AI Outbound Caller
- Interiors done two years ago are called about the exterior, and cold estimates reopen with the season.SYS-08 Database Reactivation
Built for
- Residential painting contractors running one to four crews on a booked-out schedule.
- Companies quoting more than ten jobs a week with no structured follow-up.
- Anyone taking deposits by handshake and losing crew weeks to cancellations.
Not built for
- Commercial and industrial coating contractors on tender cycles.
- Solo painters booked six months ahead by referral.
- Anyone who will not use the photo-upload estimate flow. Half the speed advantage comes from it.
If you recognise yourself in the second column, say so on the call. We would rather tell you that a kit is the wrong answer for house painting contractors at your size than sell you one and watch it sit unused.
The workflows inside, by name
These are the ones that do the heavy lifting, named as they are named in the account. The rest handle reminders, internal notifications, tag hygiene and the exit conditions that stop a booked contact being chased.
- Estimate request to booked walkthrough
- Interior or exterior routing
- Same day written estimate delivered
- Twenty-one day estimate follow-up
- Deposit collected, crew week held
- Colour selection reminder before start
- Crew arriving tomorrow notification
- Final walkthrough and punch list
- Post-job review request
- Repaint reminder at year four
The funnels, by name
- Free estimate booking funnel
- Interior painting landing page
- Exterior and kerb appeal page
- Cabinet refinishing offer
- Commercial painting enquiry
- Referral reward page
Every funnel is connected to a form, a pipeline stage and a follow-up before you touch it.
How the complete system works
End to end automation, from lead capture to lifetime client. The build sheet above is what you get. This is the order it runs in for house painting contractors, one stage at a time.
STG-1
Lead capture and first contact
Multi-channel lead entry with intelligent routing. Nothing rings out, nothing sits in an inbox.
A painting enquiry is a homeowner with three quotes to collect. Answering the call and booking the walkthrough the same day is most of the win.
Phone calls: AI Receptionist
- Answered on the first ring, any hour
- Qualifies by asking, not by phone tree
- In a slot before the call ends
- Bilingual, English and Spanish
- Live ones put through to your team
- Answers on ring one
- Books mid-call
- EN and ES
Messages and web chat
- Instant replies on SMS, email, Facebook and Instagram
- Site chat with lead qualification logic
- Collects enquiry type and preferences
- Seamless handoff to a human agent
- Triggers the follow-up automation
- Five inboxes, one script
- Replies in seconds
- Hands off to a person
Forms and ads: Google, Facebook, TikTok
- Every submission starts the 10 day nurture
- Follow-up across email, SMS and AI calling
- Smart routing by enquiry type
- Lead source attribution on the record
- Automatic handoff to a colour consult
- Source stamped on the record
- Routed by enquiry type
- Straight into the ten-day run
STG-2
Intelligent lead nurture
A 10 day multi-touch sequence that turns an enquiry into a booked colour consult.
Ten days is a colour decision, not a price decision. The sequence spends it on prep standards, warranty and what the crew actually does each day.
Day 1 to 3: email
- Welcome email carrying the offer
- Service overview, copy pre-written
- Social proof in the third touch
- One call to action: book or call
Day 4 to 7: SMS
- Time-sensitive offer alert
- A short testimonial text
- One-click booking link
- Urgency written in, not shouted
Day 8 to 10: AI call
- Friendly re-engagement call
- Handles the common objections
- Books directly on the call
- Smart voicemail when unreachable
STG-3
Booking and no-show prevention
Confirmed bookings, intelligent reminders, and recovery inside the hour when one slips.
A missed walkthrough costs an estimator half a day. Confirmation, three reminders, and the start date reconfirmed a week before the crew arrives.
Instant booking confirmation
- SMS confirmation with the details
- Calendar invite for Google and Outlook
- Email confirmation on the record
- Pre-visit questionnaire attached
Smart reminder sequence
- 24 hours before: SMS and email
- 1 hour before: the on-the-way message
- 15 minutes before: final alert
- Reschedule in one tap, no phone call
AI no-show recovery
- Automatic call within 60 minutes
- Finds out what actually happened
- Reschedules on the same call
- Called back inside the hour
- Target 70% recovery
STG-4
Reviews and social proof
Turning a satisfied homeowner into the thing that wins the next one.
The ask waits for the punch list to close, because a painting review written with two snags open is a painting review you do not want.
Intelligent review request
- Satisfaction check 2 hours after the job
- Satisfied: straight to the Google and Facebook links
- Not satisfied: escalated internally, never published
- Target output: 5 to 10 reviews a month
AI comment reply bot
- Replies to positive reviews automatically
- Personalised thank-yous, not one template
- Handles a negative review with empathy
- Escalates anything serious to a human
Social proof engine
- Publishes review snippets to the site
- Builds the trust signals on the page
- Lifts conversion on the same traffic
- Feeds the signals Google reads locally
STG-5
Lifetime nurture and retention
The part almost nobody runs: keeping a homeowner for years rather than one transaction.
A repaint is a four year cycle. Reminders run on that clock, and the street the crew just finished gets a neighbour offer while the scaffolding is fresh.
Continuous engagement
- Seasonal reminders on your cycle
- Quarterly check-ins
- Birthday and anniversary offers
- Annual review prompts
AI client support bot
- Instant answers to FAQs, 24/7
- Reschedules an appointment without a call
- Answers status enquiries
- Looks up documents on request
Database reactivation and referrals
- Six month inactive trigger
- A we-miss-you sequence that reads like a person
- Monthly referral prompts
- A VIP tier for your best homeowners
Put your own numbers in
On the assumptions below one recovered repaint covers the kit, and the four year repaint reminders keep paying long after that. Every box below starts on an assumption for house painting contractors, and every one of them is yours to change. The arithmetic is printed next to the answer so you can check it.
Your numbers
What that works out to
$44,810
recovered a month from calls you currently miss
1 days
for the $1,255 kit to cover itself
43 hours
a month currently going into work this kit is built to do
This is an illustrative scenario built from the numbers in the boxes, not a measured result from a customer. Change any of them and the arithmetic changes with you. The hours figure is the time you told us you currently spend, not a promise of what is removed.
Installation
We install it free, and you get 10 hours with it
Installation costs nothing. What comes with it is an allowance: 10 hours of dedicated installation support, to be used within 12 days of purchase. It is an allowance of hours rather than 12 days of open-ended help, so book the time in and use it. When the 10 hours are spent, or the 12 days are up, anything further is quoted first and billed as work. Nothing is charged by surprise.
- Open the share link from your agency login. The snapshot appears in your own library.
- Load it into the sub-account. Around 12 minutes for a kit this size.
- Work the change list: your business values, your domain, your calendars, your numbers.
- Send a test contact through each of the three main paths, then publish.
Want to see it before you buy, or ask one question first? Book a call and we will walk the account with you.
What the 10 hours cover
- Installing the snapshot
- Rebranding the website
- A2P 10DLC registration and setup
- Email service setup
- A few more automations
Never in the hours, on any kit
- Third-party integrations
- Third-party API work
- Custom software development
Those three are quoted before anything starts, or handed to a dedicated VA on a retainer. See integration work.
What support covers
Clear lines rather than fine print. The kit and everything it automates are covered. Work that reaches outside HighLevel is a separate engagement, quoted before it starts.
In the box
- Installing the snapshot
- We load the kit into the sub-account you name, work the change list with you, and send a test contact down every path before you go live.
- Rebranding the website
- Your name, your colours, your logo, your domain and your booking links across the site and the funnels, so nothing on the page says anyone else.
- A2P 10DLC registration and setup
- Brand and campaign filed, the opt-in wording checked against what the carriers actually ask for, and the numbers attached once it clears.
- Email service setup
- Your domain email connected inside HighLevel, sending domain authenticated, and a test send checked before the first campaign runs.
- A few more automations
- Adding automations the kit does not already carry, retiming a wait step, splitting a pipeline stage, rewording a template. Normal tuning against how you sell.
Separate engagement
- Third-party integrations
- Connecting a tool that lives outside HighLevel, such as an EMR, a field service platform, a POS or a job costing system.
- Third-party API work
- Anything that needs a key, an endpoint and error handling: a two-way sync, a webhook relay, a data migration on a schedule.
- Custom software development
- A portal, an internal tool, a calculator, an app. Real software, scoped and quoted as software.
Anything in the second column is quoted before it starts, or handed to a dedicated VA on a monthly retainer if you would rather have hands than a project. You will never be billed for it by surprise.
- DeliveryDelivered within 24 business hours of purchase confirmation. Business hours are 9am to 5pm Central, Monday to Friday, so an order placed on Friday afternoon arrives on Monday and nothing is delivered at a weekend.
- InstallationFree with every kit. 10 hours of dedicated installation support, to be used within 12 days of purchase.
- After the hoursWhen the 10 hours are spent, or the 12 days are up, anything further is quoted first and billed as work. Nothing is charged by surprise.
House painting snapshot questions
A GoHighLevel snapshot is a copy of a fully configured sub-account, its website and funnels, workflows, pipelines, calendars, forms and written copy, that can be loaded into another sub-account in minutes. The house painting kit is that copy built for house painting contractors: the same structure a builder would produce from scratch, already wired and already worded for the trade, so importing it replaces the build rather than starting it.
Yes. The intake form splits them at the first question and they run on separate pipelines, because an exterior job is weather dependent and an interior job is not. The crew calendars are separate too.
The deposit request, the reminder and the stage automation are built. You connect your own Stripe or payment processor and the amount is a custom value, so you can change it without editing a workflow.
There is a commercial enquiry funnel and a separate pipeline with longer stages for bid, contract and phased invoicing. It is deliberately lighter than the residential side, which is where most painting volume sits.
You get a share link on purchase. Open it from your agency login and the snapshot lands in your own library, then load it into any sub-account. The load takes about twelve minutes and the configuration checklist takes one to three hours.
Delivered within 24 business hours of purchase confirmation. Business hours are 9am to 5pm Central, Monday to Friday, so an order placed on Friday afternoon arrives on Monday and nothing is delivered at a weekend. 10 hours of dedicated installation support, to be used within 12 days of purchase. Support covers the kit and its automations, including adding a few more automations and adjusting the workflows inside it. Third-party integrations, third-party API work and custom software development are quoted separately or handled by a dedicated VA.
Take the house painting kit, or take the whole catalogue
One kit covers one industry. The all-access bundle covers all nineteen and every kit we ship afterwards, for less than four bought separately.