Painting quotes that arrive with the walls, not just a name
Exterior or interior, a "get a quote" box gets a painter a name and a callback. This intake asks which one first, then follows the right path — elevations, siding, and prep for the outside; rooms, ceilings, and color changes for the inside — so the estimate lands with enough to price.
The questions this niche actually needs
A blank “how can we help?” box gets you a callback and three more questions. Here's what the painting intake asks up front, so the request arrives ready to act on.
- First — inside or outside? The form follows the right path.
- Exterior: the siding material, how many stories, and the prep — peeling, chalking, or bare wood.
- Interior: which rooms, whether ceilings and trim are included, and any color changes.
- How soon you'd like it, and the color you have in mind if any.
- Photos of the elevations, or of the rooms — where the prep and the square footage live.
Try it — this is the real form
The same engine a paying business would use, running in demo mode. Answer a couple of questions and watch the brief that would land in the owner's inbox. Nothing is emailed and no account is created.
The real form — go through it yourself
What lands in your inbox
Answer on the left — each answer prints here, then the finished brief lands after you submit.
What the photo does here
On the exterior, a photo of each elevation gives the estimator the square footage, the surface — wood, stucco, and fiber-cement all paint differently — and the prep, which is where peeling and bare wood add labor the paint never does. Inside, photos of the rooms show ceiling height, trim to cut in, and whether a bold color has to be covered, which is the real driver of coats and time. Either way the photo is where the quote actually lives, not the phone call.
Request: Painting — Exterior (whole house)
Timing: In the next few weeks
Surface: Fiber-cement (Hardie) · Size: Two stories
Condition / color (as given): "Some chalking on the south wall and a little peeling
on the trim. Thinking of going from beige to a warm white with black trim."
Photos: 3 attached (front and both side elevations)
Location: 75024
Preferred contact: text
What an estimator would note: a two-story fiber-cement repaint with chalking and a
light-to-different color change is a wash-and-prime job, not just topcoat — worth
confirming trim linear footage and south-wall prep from the photos before pricing.What “structured intake” means here
A painting intake is a hosted request form that first asks whether the job is exterior or interior, then follows the right path — the surfaces and prep outside, or the rooms and color changes inside — with photos that carry the scope. Instead of "interested in a paint quote," the painter gets a one-page brief they can price: an exterior with its stories and siding, or an interior with its rooms and coverage.
Where this is the wrong tool
This takes exterior and interior painting quotes for one painting company. It isn't a color-consultation tool or a materials calculator, and it doesn't send a crew — it captures the request, with the photos, and hands the painter a brief to quote from.
See how it compares, or set it up
Every niche gets its own question set — browse the rest, or read how this differs from a chat widget or an answering service.