AI receptionist for painting contractors
- Spring exterior season hits all at once. Your crews are 20 feet up a ladder, nobody answers, leads go to the next painter on Google.
- Estimate intake needs surface area, current color, prep level, and ceiling/trim scope. Your wife at the office captures half of it.
- Winter interior calls (rentals turning over, condo touch-ups) get treated as low priority and go cold.
- Color-consultation tire-kickers tie up your line for 20 minutes asking which off-white to pick.
- 24/7, Estimate intake: Spring exterior peak
- 0, Missed calls: Every caller answered live
- Captured, Surface area: Sq ft, prep level, scope
- Live, Booking: Interior and exterior
What Gala does
- Detailed estimate intake: Square footage, current paint condition, prep level (patching, sanding, full prime), surfaces (walls, trim, ceiling, doors). Your estimator arrives knowing the scope.
- Seasonal script switching: Spring: exterior focus, weather-dependent scheduling, deck and fence work. Winter: interior, condo turnovers, rentals. Gala uses the right script for the season.
- Color-question handling: Generic color advice gets a polite redirect to a paid consultation. Real estimates get booked. Your crews stop being unpaid Pantone consultants.
- Property-type routing: Condo (low-rise vs high-rise access rules), single-family, commercial office. Each gets the right intake questions about access, hours, and tenant coordination.
- Photo capture: Texts the caller a link to send photos of the rooms or exterior. Your estimator walks in with the scope already half-mapped.
- Multilingual: Detects the caller's language on the first sentence. Critical for Quebec residential and condo association work. Works best in French and English.
One number, two languages, no surcharge
Gala answers in Québécois French or in English depending on who is calling, with no keypad menu and no transfer. Most providers in this market are built for English and Spanish, and several bill a second language as a monthly add-on.
Your data stays in Canada
The moment a caller gives a name, an address, or a payment detail, you are handling personal information, so ask any vendor where the recordings live. Here, data is stored in Canada, on a Québec-based application server, voice processing runs under zero data retention, and your data is never sold or used to train third-party models.
What it costs
A flat monthly rate in Canadian dollars with no setup fee and no contract, bilingual included. Plans: Essential $129/mo (250 minutes), Advanced $249/mo (500 minutes), Enterprise $439/mo (1,000 minutes). See every plan.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Gala quote painting prices per square foot over the phone?
- Only the ranges you provide, for example 'interior repaints typically run $X-$Y per sq ft.' Firm numbers come after the walk-through or photo review. Your sales process stays intact.
- Does Gala handle weather-dependent exterior painting scheduling?
- Yes. Gala asks about urgency, books in a flexible spring window, and confirms 48 hours ahead based on the forecast you share. Reschedules are handled automatically.
- How does Gala handle condo association painting jobs?
- Those calls go through a commercial flow: building access, COI requirements, permitted hours, and association approval steps are captured and routed to your commercial estimator.
- Does Gala integrate with the field-service software I use for painting contractors?
- Yes, native integration. Customer records, estimate bookings, and job notes sync both directions. Photos collected at intake land in the customer file automatically.
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Contact: contact@gavion.ai · +1 (514) 534-1298 · +1 (855) 505-0607 (toll-free) · Québec, Canada · Service across Canada in English and French.