Built for Painting Owners

Your Painting Business Should Work for You.
Not the Other Way Around.

DIY substitution is eating your residential work. Housing slump means fewer renos. You're competing on price because nobody talks quality. Your margins are collapsing.

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65%
of your week spent fire-fighting
9pm
when most trade owners stop working
3 in 4
say the business runs them
8%
average profit margin you're killing yourself for
The Reality

Sound Familiar?

You started this for more time, more money, less stress. Here's what you actually got.

You Are the Business

Residential homeowners watch YouTube, buy paint, and do it themselves. Your quotes get passed around and used as price benchmarks. You're competing with people in their garage on weekends.

The Money's There But It's Not Yours

Housing slowdown means fewer large reno projects. Work has shifted to smaller touch-ups. Your pricing doesn't cover small jobs. Cash flow is broken into tiny, high-friction pieces.

The Busy Trap

Price competition is brutal. You're racing against 50 other painters for every job. Nobody asks about prep quality or paint specification. It's all 'how much?'

Staff Headaches Without a Playbook

Building a commercial pipeline is hard. You've got no relationships with builders or FM teams. You're always hunting the next residential job.

Real Results

Powered Up.
Real Stories.

Sam Stapleton
$260K to $3 Million in 2 years
Bailey McKewon
Doubled revenue year on year
Jay Tough
From busy subbie to big team
The Systems

Built in a Real Business.
Taught to Yours.

Every framework was built inside Response Electricians. Named. Tested. Repeatable.

Pricing for Profit

Painting has two markets: residential (commodified) and commercial (relationship-driven). You can't win residential on price. Commercial pays better. The pricing system lets you exit residential and build commercial.

Hiring Right

Your first hire is a painter who owns quality and finishes on time. They make you look like a business, not a tradie doing gigs. Clear role clarity means they run jobs, not you.

Job Management Loop

The Job Management Loop separates residential quotes from commercial proposals. You'll see which funnel fills fastest and which margins stick. Most painters will realise commercial is where the money is.

Financial Visibility Loop

The Financial Visibility Loop shows you material cost per job type. Large commercial jobs have different material costs than residential. You'll price accordingly once you see it.

Compliance as Advantage

Commercial painting compliance includes safety, insurance, and schedule certainty. When your business is audit-ready, builders take you seriously. Compliance becomes a competitive advantage.

AI for Trade Operations

AI manages paint specification libraries and prep scheduling so you're not making up quotes every morning. It also tracks commercial relationship pipelines.

The Pathway

Where Is Your Painting Business Today?

Phase 1

Foundation

You're a solo painter doing residential work. All jobs, all yourself. The Foundation phase gets you pricing that works for your first hire and clarity on which market to pursue.

Phase 2

Growth

You've got a painter or two but you're still on every job. The Growth phase brings systems so they can run jobs independently while you build commercial relationships.

Phase 3

Expansion

You've got painters and a pipeline of work. But every colour consult, quote sign-off, and quality callback still lands on you. Expansion phase builds an operations layer so the business delivers without you on every walkthrough.

Phase 4

Scale

Your GM runs operations. Quoting, crew allocation, quality control, and client management happen without you. You're choosing between growth, acquisition, or stepping back entirely. The business is the asset now.

The Programs

Six Programs. One Goal.
Owner Freedom.

Not steps on a ladder. Options on a menu. Pick the level that fits your painting business right now.

Freedom Fighter 1:1
Dedicated 1:1
Your own dedicated lead coach. Fortnightly personalised sessions tailored entirely to your painting business. Direct access to your coach. Custom solutions for your situation.
Includes Everything in AI Club
AI Workshops Specialty Coaches Weekly Live Sessions 59 Courses TRADIES App
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Most Popular
Tradie Teams
Small Groups of Same Trade
Matched with other painting business owners. Dedicated lead coach. Fortnightly sessions. Peer accountability. Real-world problem-solving with people who understand your trade.
Includes Everything in AI Club
AI Workshops Specialty Coaches Weekly Live Sessions 59 Courses TRADIES App
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AI Club
Live Workshops
Weekly live AI sessions with Greg Allan. 48 self-serve AI guides across 8 categories. Use AI for quoting, scheduling, and customer comms.
Includes Everything in Foundations
Weekly Live Sessions 27 Lessons 59 Courses TRADIES App
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Business Foundations
Group + Live
Weekly live sessions with Greg Allan. 27 structured lessons across 6 modules. Pricing, hiring, financials, systems - the complete blueprint.
Includes Everything in Learning Hub
59 Courses 567 Lessons TRADIES App
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Learning Hub
Self-Paced
Full access to the TRADIES app. 59 courses, 567 lessons across the entire curriculum. Learn at your own pace, anytime.
  • Complete video library
  • Community access
  • Lifetime updates
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Start A Business
Self-Paced Course
15 video lessons covering business structure, pricing, marketing, financials, and systems. Built for tradies starting their own painter business.
  • 15 video lessons, 4+ hours
  • One-time payment, lifetime access
  • TRADIES app community access
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Your Team

Coaches Who Have Built
What You're Building

Not consultants. Not motivational speakers. Operators who have scaled trade businesses.

Lead Coaches

Josh Graham
Lead Coach
Josh Graham
Built and scaled two electrical businesses to 100+ staff. Sold to a Fortune 500 company. Fast-growth strategies and exits.
Levi Hamilton
Lead Coach
Levi Hamilton
Grown teams of 40+. Sharp on strategy, sales-driven growth, and building high-performing trade businesses.
Jack May
Lead Coach
Jack May
20+ years in trade business ownership. People management, quoting systems, margin protection, and practical strategy.
Greg Allan
Founder - Foundations & AI Club Host
Greg Allan
Built Response Electricians from scratch to a fully autonomous, GM-led, premium electrical business. Hosts the weekly Foundations and AI Club live sessions. Every system taught at Tradies Success Academy was built inside his business first.

Specialty Coaches

HR & Hiring
Finance & Accounting
Operations
Marketing
Meta Ads
Leadership
Profit & Wealth
People & Culture
Project Management
For Painting Business Owners

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Painting Business?
It Starts Here.

8,000+ trade business owners have powered up with the Academy. Proven systems. Real coaches. Your painting business is next.

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