Know which estimate became a booked exterior, before the season closes.
Built for a painting contractor that sells interior, exterior and cabinet work across a territory, whoever runs the marketing. TruLata reads your Google accounts, your Business Profile reviews and the estimate requests from your own site's forms, runs the watching and the drafting on a schedule whether anyone is at a desk, and shows you what each estimate became.

Is this built for a painting contractor?
Yes. It is built for a painting company that sells interior, exterior, cabinet and staining work across a territory, and a company with several crews or a commercial division fits the same way. The marketing is often the owner's, done at night after the day's estimates are written up and tomorrow's crews have their colors and their addresses, and a company with an office manager or a marketer gets the same screen. Search, ads, content and the counting run on a schedule whether or not anyone had time this week, every estimate request is counted from your own site, and one screen shows what happened and what it cost.
A homeowner chooses a painter slowly and on evidence. They look at the house or the room, search for a painter and the town, read the reviews on your Business Profile and look at the photos of finished work, then ask more than one company to come out and walk it. The estimate is where the job is won: the prep you describe, the scraping, priming and caulking, the paint line, the start date, and on a house built before 1978, whether your crew does lead-safe work. A fast visit and a clear number put you in the running.
The weather sets the calendar. Exterior work needs dry days and a temperature the paint will cure in, so the season for it is short, and the estimates that fill it are requested in a rush in spring and again in a scramble before the fall rains. Interiors and cabinets carry the winter. A marketplace sells the same exterior request to several painters at once, and you are pricing against every one of them before you have seen the siding; a request from your own site's form is yours alone. The comparison with bought leads is on mechanism, not on a marketplace price we would have to invent.
- The house or the roomLooked at, then a search for a painter and the town
- Reviews and finished workRead on your Business Profile, photos of past jobs included
- A few walkthroughsThe prep, the paint line, the start date, and lead-safe work on a house built before 1978
- The estimateA fast visit and a clear number put you in the running
The weather sets the calendar.
What does the screen read for a painting company?
It reads six sources you already have. Google Analytics 4 gives sessions, where they came from, which pages were read and the key events you count as a request, hours behind during the day; for a painter the pages that get read are the gallery of finished work and the service pages for exteriors and cabinets. Search Console gives the queries you appeared for, impressions, clicks and average position, two to three days behind; for a painter those queries are the job and the town, the exterior house painter search in April and the cabinet painting search in January, and the positions are Search Console's own averages, not a rank tracker. Google Ads gives spend, conversions and cost per conversion by campaign, and a watch reads the account's change history every morning at 7:05 Eastern.
Google Business Profile gives reviews, rating and listing performance, and the reviews card sits on the search view, because a homeowner who is about to let a crew into the house reads the reviews first. Your website's forms feed a lead sheet: the form handler appends each submission server-side as it lands and emails your team, and the Leads view reads that sheet newest first. An exterior repaint, three bedrooms and a hallway, and thirty kitchen cabinet doors each land as a row with the time, the name, the contact, the job and the town, and the full message is one click away, including the line that says they want it done before the rains. Where your company runs on a CRM or booking platform, the Jobs view reads jobs and the job pipeline live, and shows a coming-soon card rather than a number until the data is trustworthy.
What appears is one screen for your company, at your own address on our domain, behind a sign-in. It loads last night's snapshot the moment you open it, pulls live numbers behind the request when that snapshot is older than five minutes, and stamps the header with how old the data is. The Refresh button starts a full pull and never shows an error. On each request you set what it became: contacted, quoted, won, lost, or not a lead with the reason, so the exterior you booked for June sits next to the estimate that went to a lower bid, on the same screen.

What runs while my crews are on ladders, and what waits for a person?
Your Google Ads search campaigns are managed for you on all tiers, and the account is watched every morning. At 7:05 Eastern the ads change watch reads your account's change history and its user list, sorts our own writes and routine noise from material changes made by anyone else, and raises the material ones the same morning, including the recommendations Google applies on its own. A budget or bid change is made within the limits set for your engagement and lands in your account's own change history, so when the exterior budget is raised for spring and pulled back once the weather turns, each move has a decision behind it, and a move Google's automation makes on its own is raised the next morning.
On Launch, Growth and Command, the content engine researches and drafts on your cadence, and a painter's topics are the questions a homeowner asks before booking the walkthrough: how long an exterior repaint lasts, whether cabinets can be painted instead of replaced, what the prep on an older house involves. Each topic passes a demand gate on real search volume and what already occupies the result page, the research cites current sources, the dedupe reads the titles already published on your site, and each piece is filed as a Google Doc in your Drive with a featured image. Auto-publish is a per-client setting and approval is optional. On Growth and Command, Meta ads are managed alongside search, and the Creative view appears where we run paid social.
On Command, the outbound engine sources prospects weekly to the target profile set with you, which for a painter is the work that repeats on a cycle: property managers with unit turnovers, homeowner associations with a repaint on the calendar, and general contractors who sub out their painting. It finds a deliverable address or routes the prospect to a contact-form path and drafts into a review-first queue; a person releases each send, or the queue releases on the schedule set for the engagement, and every send is logged with the draft, the mailbox and the time. Replies are classified, and not-interested and bounced addresses are suppressed.
Every day at 7:20 Eastern, on an instance whose forms feed the sheet, the lead watch runs five checks across the sheet, GA4 and Ads, so a dead tag, a blind ad account or an estimate form that stopped submitting is flagged the next day rather than at the end of the season. Every night at 12:01 Central a fallback snapshot is baked, and a failed pull leaves the previous page up. What stays with a person is the judgement: the limits on spend, and anything that answers a homeowner. From the screen you can set a lead outcome, request a website change, and request a content, keyword, category or targeting change; each one reaches your team as a logged ticket, and the engine's writes to your ad accounts and your site go through their APIs and land in each account's own change history.
Every move of the exterior budget, on the record
- Our change, within the limits set for your engagement
- A move Google's automation makes on its own
- A change under any other login
- Our own writes, marked as ours
- Routine noise, set aside
- Material changes, raised the same morning

What stays with a person is the judgement.
Can I see it before I sign anything?
Yes, with your name and email in front of it. The demo is the same engine code every client runs, pointed at a fictional company called Meridian so it can be public. Every number is invented, and the screen says so. Open the Leads view, the Google Ads view and the search view and you are looking at the screen a painting contractor gets, with your sources in place of Meridian's.
Then picture it on your own company. You sell painting across a territory, whoever runs the marketing, whether that is one crew in a van or six crews and a commercial side. That is the company this page, the setup and the tiers are written for; if you want the work done as a service rather than run as a system, the services side is the other door. Part of it runs on your own numbers during setup: the first pull, the answer-engine baseline and the ads watch run on your accounts in the first two weeks, before most of the engines are switched on. Start in late winter and the watch is on your account before the spring estimates arrive.
One thing about the search view is worth knowing before you open it. Ranking is not earning, so the view puts the estimate requests your own forms took beside the queries and positions that earned them. A position there is Search Console's average for that query, not a rank tracker's guess. A gallery page that climbed and a service page that booked exteriors are told apart on the same screen.

Which tier fits a painting contractor?
Starter includes the TruLata dashboard, full analytics, leads, search visibility, the AI visibility program, managed Google Ads search, the assistant and briefings and support tickets. The content engine is on Launch, Growth and Command. Meta ads are on Growth and Command, which suits a painter whose before-and-after photos do the selling. The outbound engine, for property manager and association work, is on Command. Command adds the outbound engine, ad creatives and your full marketing team, always on.
Seats are three on Starter, three on Launch, ten on Growth and unlimited on Command. Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Every tier is month to month with nothing metered, and committing annually takes twenty to twenty-five percent off the monthly. The pricing page carries the same figures as every other page.
Can your team run it for me?
Yes, through two doors. Managed TruLata is our team running the program on your accounts, with the strategy, the optimization and the approvals on our side, and every change we make lands in your account's own change history, which the same 7:05 Eastern watch reads and sorts as ours. Local services marketing is TruLata's agency work for the same buyer, with search and paid search with a daily account watch among it. Either way your evenings go back to writing estimates.

What a painter's screen reads, and how fresh it is.
| What | Where it comes from | How fresh |
|---|---|---|
| Estimate requests | Your site's forms, appended to a lead sheet server-side; the Leads view reads it newest first | Live |
| Jobs and job pipeline | Your CRM or booking platform, where the company runs on it | Live; a coming-soon card until the data is trustworthy |
| Reviews, rating, listing performance | Google Business Profile, with our Google account as a manager you can revoke | Refreshed with each pull; the header stamp says when |
| Spend, conversions, cost per conversion | Google Ads, by campaign | Intraday lags hours; change history read daily at 7:05am ET |
| Sessions, sources, pages, key events | Google Analytics 4, gallery and service pages included | Hours behind intraday |
| Queries, impressions, clicks, average position | Search Console; its own average positions, not a rank tracker | 2 to 3 days behind |
| The page itself | Snapshot on open, live pull behind it when older than 5 minutes, nightly bake at 12:01am CT | Header stamp says when the data was pulled |
In the spring rush the estimate requests from your forms are live on the screen, the Google Ads numbers still run hours behind, and Search Console runs two to three days behind. The header stamp says when each pull ran, the Refresh button forces a new one and never shows an error, and a failed pull leaves the previous page up rather than a blank one.
Questions, answered.
Do you count phone calls?
When your CRM records the call as a lead, and a call-tracking platform you already run connects during setup like any other source with an API. The requests the screen counts are submissions from your own site's forms, written to a sheet server-side as they land and read newest first.
Can I see which estimates turned into booked jobs?
Yes, because you mark it. Each estimate request is a row you set to contacted, quoted, won or lost, or not a lead with the reason, and the outcome stays on the row. Where your company runs on a CRM or booking platform, the Jobs view reads jobs and the job pipeline live beside it, and Google Ads shows spend and cost per conversion by campaign, so an exterior campaign and a cabinet campaign are judged separately.
Can I pull the exterior budget back when the weather turns?
Yes. A budget or bid change is made within the limits set for your engagement and lands in your account's own change history, and a targeting change requested from the screen goes to the team as a logged ticket. The watch reads that history at 7:05 Eastern every morning and sorts every change by who made it, so a change Google applies on its own is raised the same morning.
What happens over the winter if nobody opens it?
The scheduled work keeps running: the ads change watch at 7:05am Eastern, the lead watch at 7:20am Eastern on an instance whose forms feed the sheet, the content engine on its cadence on Launch, Growth and Command, and the fallback snapshot at 12:01am Central. When you open the page it loads the latest snapshot and pulls live numbers behind it when that snapshot is older than five minutes.
What does it cost for a painting contractor?
Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Seats are three on Starter, three on Launch, ten on Growth and unlimited on Command. Every tier is month to month with nothing metered, and a managed strategy retainer sits on top of any tier, scoped with you rather than priced on this site; <a href="/product/managed">the managed page</a> says what our team takes on.
Does it replace the leads I buy?
It counts a different kind of lead. A marketplace lead is a shared lead, the same homeowner sold to several painters at once. The leads on the screen are submissions from your own forms; a bought lead shows on the Jobs view where your CRM records it. Whether you keep buying is your call, and the buying leads page compares the two on mechanism.
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- Refreshed when you open itLive data on page load, never a monthly PDF
- Counted from your own formsLeads recorded server-side, compared daily with Ads and GA4
- Seen in AI answersHow often ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok name you, measured
- Every send loggedProspect emails leave from a review-first queue, and every send is logged.

