--- title: Run a painting company from ChatGPT or Claude description: Painting quotes with options, purchase orders for paint, and change orders, from ChatGPT or Claude. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. url: https://doingwork.work/for/painting/ --- # Run a painting company from ChatGPT or Claude Painting quotes fall apart when walls, trim, and ceilings get mixed into one number the customer heard differently. Put the choice on the quote. ChatGPT or Claude can draft it in Doing Work, connected at https://doingwork.work/mcp, and it sits there until a person whose role may send it sends it. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. ## The choice on the link One option is walls. Another is walls and trim. Ceilings can be an optional line they tick, or left off until they ask. Prices come from your price book or from what you say. A member price applies only if you set one and the customer is on an active plan. The customer signs on the link, picks the option, and can pay a deposit there. They do not need an account. Photos of the rooms go on the job and can be attached to the quote, so the scuffs you are pricing are on the page they sign. The assistant's summary should say which room, because six beige walls look the same in a camera roll. Search can find that summary later. ## Paint, crews, and the extra bedroom Gallons for this house go on a purchase order for this job. There is nowhere else to put them. No stock room, no bin. When the customer adds the fourth bedroom after signing, that is a change order, not a quiet edit to a locked quote. A locked quote stays locked. A withdrawn quote cannot be reopened. You write a new one if you need to start over. Two painters on a crew get one visit with both of them, at a time both are free. Each can subscribe a calendar app they already have to a private feed of their visits. The feed is read only. Tomorrow's kit list can include the address, the quote's work, open checklist items, and the latest photos. A field painter sees only their own. ## Say it this way - "Draft a quote with a walls option and a walls-and-trim option. Ceilings optional. Use my price book. Do not send." - "Open a purchase order for the gallons on this job and put the color in the note." - "They added the bedroom. Draft a change order. Hold the send." - "Find a Wednesday when both painters are free for three days." A repeating visit is the wrong tool for a one-time interior. It fits a property manager who wants a touch-up every month. Connect at [quickstart](https://doingwork.work/docs/quickstart/). Read [/ai/](https://doingwork.work/ai/) for the assistants and the fee in one place. ## Price The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. [Pricing](https://doingwork.work/docs/pricing/). [Jobber](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/jobber/), [Housecall Pro](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/housecall-pro/), and [no monthly fee](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/no-monthly-fee-field-service-software/) are the pages to read beside this one. ## Questions owners ask Painting companies ask about options, the paint order, and the room that gets added later. ### Can Claude or ChatGPT run a painting company's quotes? They can draft them inside Doing Work after you connect the assistant. Options cover walls only versus walls and trim. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. ### How do I buy the paint for one job without a store room? Draft a purchase order on that job, with the gallons and the cost. Mark it ordered. Receive it when the paint shows up. Receiving is what adds it to job cost. There is no stock location. The color can go in the note on the order or in a note on the job. Notes are internal. ### Can the customer add ceilings after they signed? Draft a change order for the ceilings. The owner or office sends it, and the customer signs on a hosted page. You can invoice the change after that. ### What if I need two painters free on the same Wednesday? Ask for a time when both are free, or save them as a crew and book the crew. You get a warning if one is off or already booked. Doing Work does not assign a different painter on its own. ### Does the quote PDF look like my company? It can show your logo, your accent color, and your license number. There is no color visualizer. Do not promise one.