Estimating software · Painting contractors
Bootstrapped in Calgary, built for the driveway quote. PaintScout mapped the paint shops ZoomInfo skips.
PaintScout is estimating and quoting software built specifically for painting contractors, with on-site quote presentations, production-rate libraries, and a CRM the painter actually opens. The install base is the cleanest map of serious owner-operated paint businesses in North America, and the file every coatings OEM, sprayer vendor, and displacement-play field-service platform has been trying to buy from a broker.
founded in Calgary, never raised
Bryce Tymrick and Jon B started PaintScout in 2016 and built it without outside capital. Roughly 10 employees serve a customer base that includes most of the named voices in the painting community.
typical operator revenue band
The PaintScout customer profile is the painting owner who outgrew a spreadsheet, hired a second estimator, and needs the on-site quote to close before the prospect calls a competitor.
named alternatives in the displacement race
Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, JobProgress, and FieldPulse all run displacement plays into the PaintScout base. The map below names them.
Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
employees at PaintScout
inamed shops in the public sample
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iTop alternatives
Top PaintScout alternatives.
The five tools below are where a PaintScout shop most often lands when it shops the market. Most evaluations come down to whether the owner wants a painting-specific estimating tool with built-in production rates, or a generalist field-service platform that bundles scheduling, dispatch, and recurring service.
| # | Alternative | Best fit | Positioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jobber | Small shops | The generalist trades default. Strong on scheduling, invoicing, and consumer messaging, lighter on the painting-specific production rates and proposal aesthetics PaintScout built its name on. |
| 2 | Housecall Pro | SMB generalist | Another field-service default. Owners who want one tool for the painting book and the handyman or pressure-washing side-line often land here, even if the estimating depth is thinner. |
| 3 | ServiceTitan | Upper mid-market | The enterprise-leaning field-service platform. Larger paint shops with 20 plus trucks and a commercial book sometimes graduate here for the dispatch and reporting layer, even though estimating is the weak spot. |
| 4 | JobProgress | Project-led trades | Project-management-first platform popular with roofing and exterior contractors. Painting shops that run job-based crews rather than route-based service pick it up when they want a project board, not a calendar. |
| 5 | FieldPulse | Mid-market generalist | Field-service platform aimed at the same mid-market trades base. The price-led displacement option when PaintScout renewal pricing comes in hot and the owner wants one tool across multiple trades. |
Positioning notes reflect how the PaintScout base talks about each tool inside Painter Pulse, PCA forums, and the Nick Slavik show. Source: Orbital data team, June 2026 snapshot.
Who buys this data
B2B vendors selling into PaintScout shops.
This page is for the teams selling into painting operators, not the operators themselves. If a vendor ships one of the categories below, the PaintScout-customer map is what the AE team has been asking for.
The long version
Detail, on demand.
PaintScout is a painting tool, not a general trades platform. The customer base is concentrated in independent residential and commercial paint shops, with a clear lean toward owner-operated companies in the 1 to 10 million dollar revenue band that close on the kitchen table rather than over email.
Primary verticals. Residential repaint, commercial painting, new-construction painting, and the cabinet-refinishing specialist shops that have grown into a real second line. The shared trait is an estimator who walks the job, builds the scope on a tablet, and presents the quote before leaving the driveway.
Operator profile. 1 to 10 million dollars in annual revenue is the sweet spot. Below that, owners stay on a spreadsheet and a Google Doc proposal template. Above that, the largest national painting franchises sit on custom builds or ServiceTitan. The PaintScout base is the dense middle that every B2B vendor selling into painting cares about.
Named customers. The publicly visible PaintScout book includes Nick Slavik Painting and Restoration Co., Harpeth Painting, Highfill Painting, Tornambe Painting, Smith and Company Painting, Four Bridges Painting, Headwaters Painting, Sound Painting Solutions, Kitty Hawk Painting, and Gallagher Painting. The full file is what the dataset returns.
Orbital is a custom agent platform, not a scraped list. To build the named worklist of paint shops running PaintScout, the agents do the work in order.
How the PaintScout customer list is built
- Tech stack agent. Crawls each paint shop’s site, reads the proposal-share links, the customer portal markup, and the embedded quote-acceptance flow, and confirms whether the back office is PaintScout. Runs on demand so the list is current when it is pulled.
- Owner finder. Names the decision-maker at each operator, owner, GM, or estimating lead, and confirms the seat on LinkedIn before it lands on the row.
- Email waterfall. Returns a verified work email for the named owner and checks deliverability before the row is shipped.
- Phone intel. Adds a direct dial with a dial-or-skip read, because most painting owners answer the cell faster than the inbox during the busy season.
- ICP score. Grades each PaintScout account A to D against the vendor’s specific fit formula, revenue band, residential versus commercial mix, state, and crew count.
The result is a worklist of PaintScout customers, filterable by state, revenue band, and segment, with a named owner and a working number on every row. Sample first, pay second.
We believe
If a vendor wants the 1-to-10-million-dollar residential or commercial paint shop, the PaintScout base is the cleanest place to start.
The largest national painting franchises are mostly not on PaintScout. The long tail of one-person painters working off Yelp leads are not either. What sits on PaintScout is the middle, owner-operated shops with a real estimating function, a production-rate library they actually trust, and a checkbook. For paint and coatings manufacturers, sprayer OEMs, payments processors, and the displacement-play field-service platforms, that middle is the only audience that converts at scale.
That is also why the named customer list matters more than a logo grid. A painting owner running 12 crews under a regional brand is invisible to a generalist B2B database and invisible to a trade-press revenue ranking. Tech-stack detection on a per-site basis is how that owner shows up on the row.
Do not buy this if any of the following are true.
You only sell to the national painting franchise tier. Those operators are mostly not PaintScout accounts. If the motion is one annual contract with a master franchisor at corporate, two phone numbers will do more than a multi-thousand-row file.
You sell to one-person painters working off Yelp leads. The deep long tail of solo painters mostly works from a phone notes app or a spreadsheet. The PaintScout base skews owner-operated and crewed, and will leave that long tail off.
You sell to homeowners, not to operators. Homeowners booking a one-time repaint are not the PaintScout audience. That is a consumer dataset, not a B2B owner dataset.
Your unit economics need above 100,000 dollars in annual contract value on day one. A 4-crew paint shop rarely writes a six-figure first-year check. Save the PaintScout list for the year a mid-market overlay starts to make sense.
Most lists of PaintScout customers floating around the vendor market come from one of three places, and all three break in the same way. The first is a logo grab from the PaintScout case-study page and the Nick Slavik podcast roster, which catches maybe 30 of the most-visible names and skips the entire quiet mid-market that closes jobs without filming themselves doing it. The second is a scrape of public review sites, which mixes prospects with actual customers and brings the same five logos back every time. The third is a generalist B2B database that tags companies by SIC code 238320 and never opens the operator’s actual proposal page.
Tech-stack detection on a per-site basis is what fixes that. The proposal-share link, the customer portal markup, and the embedded quote-acceptance flow each leave a fingerprint that confirms PaintScout is in the back office. The owner finder then names the actual buyer at that operator rather than the franchise corporate office or a generic info@ address. The owner is the line on the contract, and in painting the owner is also usually the lead estimator.
The other gap is freshness. PaintScout churn is low because the production-rate library and the on-site quote flow create real switching costs once the team is trained. The base still shifts. New wins from Jobber and Housecall Pro, displacement to ServiceTitan when the shop crosses 20 trucks, JobProgress wins on the project-led roofing-and-paint hybrids, and the slow drift of consolidator-driven acquisitions all move the list month to month. A file pulled in March 2026 against the same vendor request will not match the file pulled in June. Live detection is the only way the list stays a list and not a snapshot.
Questions
Before you ask sales about the PaintScout dataset.
How many companies use PaintScout?
Owner-operated residential and commercial paint shops across the US and Canada, concentrated in the 1-to-10-million-dollar revenue band where the owner still walks the job. The national franchise tier is mostly absent from the base, and so is the solo painter working off Yelp. Orbital ships a named list of the mid-market in between, with the owner on every row.
What are the best PaintScout alternatives?
The five most common alternatives are Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, JobProgress, and FieldPulse. Which one a PaintScout shop moves to depends on whether the owner wants a painting-specific estimating tool or a generalist field-service platform that covers scheduling, dispatch, and recurring service.
Can I get a list of companies that use PaintScout?
Yes. Orbital’s tech stack agent confirms PaintScout usage and returns each operator with a named owner, a verified work email, and a direct dial. The list is filterable by state, revenue band, and segment (residential, commercial, new construction, repaint) so the dataset fits the actual buying motion.
How current is the PaintScout customer data?
Records are produced live when the list is pulled. The tech stack agent re-checks each operator on demand, so the file does not go stale in transit. PaintScout churn is low because the production-rate library and the on-site quote flow create real switching costs, but new wins and displacement to generalist field-service platforms still shift the picture month to month.
See the PaintScout customer dataset before you pay for it.
Tell us the states, revenue bands, or segments to focus on. Orbital sends a free sample of around 100 verified PaintScout-customer records that can be checked against an existing pipeline, no commitment, no email-list back-and-forth.
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