Before they let a painter into every room in the house, they ask AI who to trust.
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews, Claude or Perplexity for a painter and two or three names come back, not a page of links. Painting is a job people compare carefully and hand to whoever they trust most, so that shortlist decides the quote you never get asked for. Wombid's free audit shows whether your name is on it. Then we get to work on the signals that decide it.
One extra named job this month is $3,500.
Australian research puts a interior 3-bed at $3,500. Starter is $129 a month.
The shortlist is two or three names. Get on it.
Run the free painter audit →Your painting business is judged on six questions.
Every Wombid audit puts the same six questions a real customer would ask to all five AI engines, live, with your trade and your area swapped in. For a painter in Newtown they read:
- Who is the best painter in Newtown?
- Can you recommend a reliable painter near Newtown?
- I need a painter for interior house painting in Newtown. Who should I call?
- Which painter in Newtown has the best reviews?
- Which painter in Newtown can start soon?
- Affordable painter for an exterior repaint around Newtown?
Three of the six are pure reputation: best at one, reliable at two, best reviews at four. Two name the work itself, interior painting at three and the exterior repaint at six. The fifth asks who can start soon, and that is a live question for a painter: a rental turnaround before new tenants or a repaint before a sale runs on a date, and the painter named in that answer gets the call. Your weight sits on the reputation three and on whether your profile and website name interior and exterior work in plain words.
And when they ask who to call, the answer names a business, not a page of links.
One you never see. The other is already yours.
“Three painters quoted the house up the road. I never knew it was going.”
Because a painter is picked on trust, the answers name the painters with the clearest public signals: recent Google reviews that name the suburb and the rooms, a profile that says interior painting, exterior repaints, weatherboards and roofs by name, and the same details everywhere.
- Wombid measures what all five engines say about your business, shows you who is being named instead, then works those signals month after month.
- What you get is every signal working in your favour, and proof of what changed, from $129 a month after the free audit.
“I quoted the whole interior of a four-bedroom in March. Two weeks of work, and not a word since.”
A painting job is rarely cancelled. It gets put off: after Christmas, after the kitchen, when the money is there. And the interiors you painted years back are due again, whether the owner has noticed or not.
- The one-off $149 Win-Back Campaign goes through your own ServiceM8, finds up to 100 past customers and quotes that never went ahead, and sends each one a personal text in your name from a number they can reply to.
- You approve every message before anything sends, replies land on your phone, and opt-outs are handled automatically.
- One payment, no subscription. We only ever work your own records: no bought lists, no strangers, and we never sell leads.
Reviews are where the two sides meet.
The review engine inside Growth texts your customer one honest Google review request right after you mark the job done, while the drop sheets are folded and they are still walking room to room looking at it. That is a Win work action, and the dated public review it earns is one of the signals the AI engines and Google Maps read when they decide which painter to name.
Start free. Every price is the full price.
Agencies charge $5,000+ a month and bill whether anything changes or not. Every Wombid price is public, month to month, and the proof starts free.
The old agency way
- $5,000+ a month, billed whether anything changes or not
- Lock-in contracts and reports you need a translator for
- You take their word for what got done
The Wombid way
- From $129 a month, every price public
- Month to month, cancel anytime
- Every report quotes the engines' own words. You never take ours.
Free Audit
- All five AI engines plus your Google Maps positions
- Checked live for your area
- Score, competitors, what they said
- A shareable page, emailed
Starter
- Your visibility re-checked monthly
- A Fix Pack of ready-to-paste content aimed at the exact painter questions you are missing, interiors and exterior repaints included
- Your AI business card so engines can read who you are
- llms.txt so AI crawlers can read your site
Growth
- Everything in Starter, weekly
- The review engine texting your customers after every job
- Your Google Business Profile checked in Google Maps every week with your position tracked
- A bigger pack with an AI-ready article, who AI named instead of you, and the pages Google's AI Overview used
Marketing Pro
- Everything in Growth every week
- We do the hands-on work every month: changes made on your website for you
- A new service or suburb page written and published
- Four Google Business posts
- A report on exactly what we did
Win-Back Campaign
Your quiet quotes and past customers, texted personally in your name from your own ServiceM8 records. You approve every message.
Prices in AUD, GST included. Monthly plans are month to month, cancel anytime. The Win-Back Campaign is one payment and does not start a subscription. Either side can come first.
What painters ask us.
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Find out what AI tells customers about painters in your area.
The proof costs nothing. Four details, and the report lands in your inbox: your score, the names that sat above you, a shareable page, and your number one fix.
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