The Modern Painter’s Notepad
Colors live in texts. The schedule lives in your head. Follow-up happens when you remember. Field Stash takes the switchboard job off you: it answers, books, briefs the crews, and follows up, and you finally see which jobs make money.
Built by a working painting contractor to run his own company. It has run that company every working day since.
This is the product, not a metaphor. The receptionist only offers slots your drive time can actually make.
Sound familiar?
Five ordinary moments. Each one quietly costs you money, and none of them shows up on any report you own.
Not one of these is a painting problem. They're information problems, and they all have the same fix.
If this reads like surveillance footage of your week, watch it on a live demo instead of living it again.
Who built this
I never planned to build software. I planned to paint houses, send clean proposals, and get home at a reasonable hour. Then the phone started deciding how my days went.
That Tuesday you just read? Nobody wrote it for this page. The sheen text answered from memory, the call that rang out while I was up a ladder, the timesheets living in a group text. I ran years of that Tuesday.
You know the estimate that never left the truck. I walked the house, measured every room, penciled the whole thing on a clipboard. Then the day happened. By the time I sat down to type it up, the homeowner had signed with the company that got a proposal back the same evening. The job was mine to lose, and I lost it to paperwork.
And you know the April meeting. My accountant could tell me whether the year made money. Which jobs lost it? Nobody could say, months after the last coat dried. That number was never written down anywhere.
I went looking for software and did not find my company in any of it. Priced per seat, so the crew leads never get logins. An AI receptionist, sure, as a paid add-on. Nothing that knew what drive time does to an estimate day, or that a work order is useless if it does not say which white goes where.
So I built the thing I needed and ran my own company on it. Every feature in Field Stash exists because a real week at a real painting company demanded it. If something did not survive the field, it did not stay in the product. That is the whole pitch.
Want the tour from someone who has actually cut in a ceiling line? Book the demo.
What you'll see on the demo
No screenshots to take on faith. Each claim below comes with the exact thing to ask for, live, on your demo call.
Every missed call triggers an instant text-back. The AI receptionist answers, qualifies the lead, and books the estimate on your actual calendar. Calls, texts, and voicemail transcripts all land on the customer record.
On the demoCall the line and let it ring out. Watch what the lead receives before you've put your phone down.
More on thisThe calendar knows the drive time between every stop and only offers slots you can physically make. Days pack tighter, windshield hours drop, and confirmations text themselves.
On the demoAsk us to book two estimates across town, and watch which slots the system refuses to offer.
More on thisA self-serve instant quote funnel on your website prices the repaint and books the estimate while you sleep. The AI color visualizer shows their own rooms in the colors they're considering.
On the demoAsk for the self-quote link and price a job the way a homeowner would.
More on thisGood, Better, Best options with e-signature. The conversation moves from “yes or no” to “which one,” and the paperwork closes itself on the homeowner's phone.
On the demoAsk to see a three-option proposal signed from a phone screen.
More on thisDrag-and-drop crew scheduling, and work orders that carry colors, sheens, and gallons per room out to the field, offline if the basement has no signal. The what-are-we-painting phone call stops.
On the demoAsk to open the work order for a three-room repaint and read the color schedule.
More on thisReal clocked hours and material costs post against the estimate while the job runs. Winners and losers show themselves while you can still do something about it.
On the demoAsk to see the costing screen for a finished job, estimate on the left, reality on the right.
More on thisThe field side
Field Stash ships with a crew app built for jobsites, not offices. Work orders, color schedules, photos, and the time clock all work offline and sync when the truck finds bars again.
GPS-tagged before, during, and after shots that land in the office gallery on their own.
Clock in and out from the jobsite, straight into the job costing you read about above.
Surfaces, products, sheens, and gallons for every room, readable in a basement with zero bars.
The whole company in one thread, without handing out anybody's personal number.
Exhibit A
This is a real render from the Field Stash visualizer: the photo a homeowner sent, and the same cabinets in the color they were deciding on. Attach this to an estimate and watch the conversation change.
Thousands of colors across the five major paint lines, for exteriors, interiors, and cabinets. Embeddable on your own website to capture leads.
then it all goes up again when you hire painter number seven
Pricing, without the menu
Every major competitor charges per seat and sells the good parts back as add-ons. Field Stash is one flat monthly price for your whole company: you, the office, and every crew lead.
We quote the exact price up front on the call, before you commit to anything. It doesn't change when you grow.
Straight answers
Answered the way you'd want an estimator to answer a homeowner: directly.
It replaces the pile. CRM, estimates, proposals, scheduling, work orders, phone and texting, invoicing, and job costing run in one system with one login. The goal is fewer tabs, not another one.
They do, and we won't pretend otherwise. Two differences, both visible on a demo. Theirs is a monthly add-on that bills whether or not the phone rings; ours is built in and runs on credits, so you only pay for the calls it actually answers. And ours books appointments using the real drive time between your stops, so the slot it offers is a slot you can actually make.
Not on this page, on purpose. We would rather show you the product running a real painting company, the founder's own, than print a wall of quotes you have no way to check. Book the demo and judge it live.
The field app was built for painters, not office staff. A crew lead opens the day's work order and sees rooms, surfaces, colors, sheens, and gallons. It works offline in basements and dead zones and syncs when signal returns.
And because users are unlimited, every lead gets a real login instead of the whole crew sharing one.
One flat monthly price for your whole company, plus credits for the AI receptionist so you only pay for the calls it answers. No per-seat math, no add-on menu. We give you the exact numbers on the demo, before you commit to anything, and the flat price stays flat when you hire.
One Platform. Every Job.
Plan on an hour with the live product, no slideware. Bring your hardest Tuesday and we'll walk each hour of it through the system, and if it runs long, it runs long. Nobody is reading slides at you.
P.S. Right now, somewhere in your service area, a homeowner is calling down a list of painters. Field Stash is how the list stops at your name.