AI office staff for painting businesses
Automic Trades gives painting owners a full digital back office — AI specialists that answer leads, book jobs, send quotes and invoices, keep the books, and stay on top of compliance, hired one at a time. Built for how painting shops actually run.
Get started →Painting cost baselines Automic Trades starts you with
- Labor rate
$65/hr - Material markup
50% - Target margin
35% - Minimum job
$350
The specialists, tuned for painting
Office Manager
Runs the morning brief
Sales
Answers new leads
Bid Support
Drafts your quotes
Customer Communication
Keeps the conversation
Bookkeeping
Runs your books
Marketing
Shows what wins jobs
Social Media
Shows the work
Service & Reactivation
Earns the reviews
Logistics(coming soon)
Tells customers you're coming
Compliance(coming soon)
Keeps you current
Hiring & SOPs(coming soon)
Builds the bench
Fleet Manager(coming soon)
Keeps the trucks running
Supply Chain(coming soon)
Gets the parts there
Facilities(coming soon)
Minds the shop itself
HR(coming soon)
Handles the people paperwork
Webmaster(coming soon)
Keeps the site current
Training Manager(coming soon)
Keeps the crew current
Questions painting owners ask
- What cost baselines does Automic Trades start my painting business with?
- Automic Trades pre-fills your painting shop with industry-standard baselines — a $65/hr labor rate, 50% material markup, 35% target margin, and a $350 minimum job — then Bid Support and Bookkeeping tune every quote and report to your real numbers as you correct them.
- How much does Automic Trades cost for a painting shop?
- Each AI Specialist is $300 / mo flat, and every complete block of 5 Specialists you hire takes $100 off the monthly total. The Office Manager is included free with any paid Specialist. No tiers, no seats — add or drop any Specialist any time.
- Which Automic Trades specialists can I hire for my painting business today?
- Sales, Bid Support, Customer Communication, Bookkeeping, Marketing, Social Media, Service & Reactivation are Ready for Work now, each priced at flat $300/mo. 9 more specialists are still in development — join the notify list to be first when they ship.
- What specific problems does Automic Trades solve for painting shops?
- Exterior painting leads cluster hard in spring and fall, and a crew on a ladder all day isn't the one who's going to pick up a ringing phone. Automic Trades' Specialists are built around exactly that pattern — see the Painting problem pages linked below for the real numbers behind each one.