An AI back office for painting contractors
You can't answer the phone with a brush in your hand or a sprayer running. Ironclad is an AI back office for painting contractors that answers every call around the clock, books the estimate onto your calendar, and keeps a polite nudge on every quote sitting out there while the customer picks a color and weighs other bids. It chases the cold quote before a competitor lands it and follows up on the invoice when the job's done. Going live is a flat monthly for the office plus 15% of the receivables it recovers: money you already earned that was sitting uncollected.
- Answers every call while you're up the ladder or running a sprayer
- Books estimates onto your calendar so new work doesn't go to the next bid
- Keeps a steady, polite nudge on every quote until it closes
- A flat monthly plus 15% of recovered receivables
How it works for painters
You're on a ladder cutting in a ceiling or out back running the sprayer, and the phone rings with somebody who wants their living room quoted. You can't stop and answer, so that call goes to voicemail or to the next painter on their list. An AI receptionist picks it up instead, gets the address and what they want painted, and books the estimate onto your calendar. The job lands where you already work, with the customer, the address, and the notes attached, so nobody re-keys a thing.
Then it does the part painting lives or dies on. A quote goes out and sits for a week while they pick between three grays and compare bids. The AI keeps a steady, polite follow-up on that quote, checking back before the customer drifts off to whoever called them last. When the job wraps, it follows up on the invoice too. It works on top of the software you already run, whether that's Housecall Pro, Jobber, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Service Fusion, Workiz, Kickserv, Google Calendar, or a spreadsheet. For Housecall Pro and Jobber it writes the booking straight in; for the rest it books on your calendar and your crew confirms it in your software.
Why painting shops use it
A painting business runs on estimates, and estimates run on follow-up. You can write the best quote in town, but if it sits for a week with no nudge while the customer waits on a color and three other bids, it goes cold. The painter who follows up is the one who books the job. When you're on a ladder all day, you're not the one making that call, and the work quietly walks across the street.
The same thing happens at the phone. The calls you miss while you're cutting in trim or loading the trailer are the new jobs you never hear about. Ironclad covers the calls you can't take and keeps the nudge alive on every quote that's out there, so the work you already earned doesn't slip to the next bid. It serves every home-service trade that runs trucks, from HVAC and plumbing to electrical, roofing, landscaping, pest control, and painting.
What does it cost?
When you go live, it is a flat monthly for the office plus 15% of recovered receivables, each new job, quote, and recovered invoice traced to the call that earned it. We go over the exact numbers on the demo call.
Book a demo and we'll show you exactly how it would handle your calls and chase your quotes, a walkthrough built around your shop.
Common questions
- What does it cost?
- Going live is a flat monthly for the office plus 15% of recovered receivables, each job, quote, and recovered invoice traced to the call that earned it. We go over the exact numbers on the demo call.
- Is it AI or a real person?
- It's an AI receptionist, and it says so on every call. It handles the everyday stuff, answering, booking your estimates, and nudging quotes. When something genuinely complicated comes up, it hands the call to a person on the team.
- Does it work with my software?
- Yes. It runs on top of what you already use, whether that's Housecall Pro, Jobber, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Service Fusion, Workiz, Kickserv, Google Calendar, or a spreadsheet. For Housecall Pro and Jobber it writes the booking straight in. For the rest it books on your calendar and your crew confirms it in your software.
- Will it actually chase my estimates, or just answer the phone?
- It does both. Answering calls is the front door, but the real work for a painter is follow-up. It keeps a steady, polite nudge on every quote that's out there while the customer picks a color and weighs other bids, so the job gets a fair shot at closing instead of going cold.