About
Built narrow on purpose
Aerys is software for painting companies. Not for every trade, not for enterprises, and not for a company with someone whose full-time job is the software.
Where it came from
It started as a tool to solve one specific problem: an estimate took an hour and a half to produce, had to be typed up at the kitchen table after the site visit, and still looked like it came off a notepad. Then it had to be turned into an invoice somewhere else, and the approval chased by text message.
The fix was not a better template. It was putting the estimate, the approval and the invoice behind one link — so the customer approves it themselves and the invoice already exists when they do. That is still the center of the product. Everything else was built because the jobs that got approved then had to be scheduled, produced and costed.
Why only painting companies
Software that has to price every trade at once has to price generically: a line item, a quantity, a number. That is fine for a service call and wrong for a repaint, where the money is decided by 9 different surfaces with different production rates, sold by square foot and linear foot, with sheens, prep, coats attached.
We would rather be the obvious choice for one trade than the adequate choice for twelve. That is about who we write for and who we onboard — not a fence around the software. A service carries its own charge metric, its own elements and its own rates, so a company running two trades holds both catalogs in one account, and adding a trade we have not packaged is adding a service rather than waiting for us. Painting, pressure washing, landscaping and pool service each start from a ready-made catalog; what we add deliberately is the next one of those, not the ability to sell something else.
Who it is for
Companies doing roughly $300,000 to $3 million a year. Usually owner-operated, usually with between two and fifteen people running work, usually with no office administrator — because the person who would be the administrator is the owner, and they are on a job site.
If you are bigger than that, there is enterprise contractor software built for you and we will tell you so. If you are smaller, the free tier is there and a spreadsheet might genuinely still be the right answer — we wrote a page about exactly that.
How we sell it
By application, with onboarding that takes a conversation. We load your services and production rates with you and connect card payments, because an empty account with generic rates in it is worth nothing to anybody. It is slower than a self-serve signup and that is the trade we are making.
We also do not cold email. There is no cold-email feature in what you buy, we do not send it on your behalf, and we did not get you by sending it.