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Missed call answering for painters

Brush in one hand, roller in the other? Your phone still gets answered.

You're not putting the brush down mid cut-in to take a call. Tradie Catch answers the calls you miss, notes the deadline, and books the quote into a time you're free.

  • First month free, then $399/month
  • No lock-in contract. No app to download.
  • Set up once with a call divert on your phone
~52%

In home services, a person answered only about 52% of inbound calls. The rest never got a human on the line.

Source: Invoca, 2026 home-services benchmark.
Built for painters

The calls a painter misses, and what happens to each one.

It answers like a good offsider would, and it doesn't make promises you didn't make: only your suburbs, only your free times, and never a price outside your own price guide.

Interior repaints

Captures the rooms and suburb, and books a quote visit when you're free.

Exterior and roof painting

Takes the details. Never prices outside your own price guide.

Pre-sale touch-ups

Notes the deadline as part of how urgent it is, so you see it straight away.

End-of-lease work

Urgent deadlines are flagged, not buried.

Commercial and strata enquiries

Captures the job and the caller's name so you can follow up.

Callers who hang up

A text back within seconds, so they don't move on to the next quote.

What lands on your phone

Run the whole thing by text. From the ute.

No logins, no app, no portal. You get a text when there's a job, and you reply like you'd reply to your mate.

book 2pmBooks them in at 2pm.
yep book itTakes the time it offered.
I'll ring themYou call them yourself.
turn it offSwitches it off.
turn it onSwitches it back on.

Example messages for illustration. Names and jobs are made up.

More on running it by text

FAQ

Fair questions from painters.

My jobs are about deadlines more than emergencies. Does it handle that?

It asks how urgent the job is, so a sale photo date or an inspection on Friday is in the text you get. Anything the caller says can't wait comes straight to you.

Will it quote per room?

Only from your own price guide. If the price isn't in your guide, it books a time for you to quote.

I quote after hours. Can it book evening visits?

It only offers times you're actually free. If you're free at 5pm, that's what it offers.

All questions

A missed call answering service for painters

Tradie Catch is a missed call answering service for painters in Australia. When you're cutting in, on a ladder or covered in paint, your missed calls divert to a friendly Aussie AI voice that takes the job, the suburb, how urgent it is and the caller's name.

Interior and exterior repaints, pre-sale touch-ups and end-of-lease work are booked in for a quote visit at a time you're free, in suburbs you cover. The deadline is part of the job text you receive, and anything urgent is texted straight to you.

It's an AI receptionist for painting businesses with no app, no lock-in contract, and no quoting outside your own price guide. Set up once with a call divert. First month free, then $399 a month.

First month free, then $399 a month. See pricing, or see the full rundown on the Tradie Catch home page.

What are missed calls costing you?

Free calculator. Put in your own numbers and see the yearly figure, with the maths shown.

Work out my number

Start your free month.

Leave your details and Matt from Backbone Automation will get your painter business set up. First month free, then $399/month, no lock-in.

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