Painting business coaching
What are the fastest growing painting companies doing... that you’re not?
Systemize your painting business for growth through prebuilt processes, credentialed coaches, and a community of high-performing peers.
No BS. All results.
After 12 months in the program the average Breakthrough Academy Member sees...
Is growing your painting business exhausting you?
When you run a painting business, and you’re great at what you do, work floods in, and operations spin out of control.
Clients badger you with never-ending questions and color changes
Your crews call you 100 times a day, forcing you to work IN your business (not ON it)
And a lack of skilled painters makes building the dream team feel like an uphill battle
All the while, fly-by-nighters are constantly underbidding you
That’s why we created Breakthrough Academy.
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Business networking on steroids.
Crowdsourced solutions, healthy competition, and endless inspiration all await you inside Breakthrough Academy’s one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In 2016 my business was operating at 3% net profit. We had no money in the bank and the whole endeavor was at risk of failure. After BTA, our margins are now healthy enough to include all of our tenured management team Members in a profit sharing model and our painters in a bonus system that has revolutionized our company culture, productivity and general happiness levels.
We have more than doubled our gross revenue and exponentially increased our gross profitability in a way that has allowed us to take better care of our customers needs and everyone in our organization.
BTA is a game changer. I have been running my painting business for over 15 years and thought things were going pretty well. With the help of BTA , we’ve reached a whole new level of systems, profitability, and overall a smooth running business.
I joined BTA three years ago and it is the best business decision that I have ever made. Since joining BTA my company is more organized, I hire better employees, revenue and net profits are way up. My BTA Coach keeps me on track and helps me integrate the BTA way into my company.
Proof and results
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Nik Palladino
Ryan Lermitte
Van City Electric
Chris O'Donohue
Brad Gordon
Mike Van Capelle
Nik and Sam started painting houses to pay their way through college. Growth brought along serious challenges, though. Their business had matured, and headcount had grown, but their systems hadn't. After a few years of turning away work they couldn't get to, they realized they needed to overhaul their systems—badly.
By implementing a Strategic Plan, Goal Setting and Review (GSR) meetings, and an effective tech stack, Ryan was able to automate and delegate his way to a more strategic role in the company.
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing.
Uncover how Chris O'Donohue of Great Canadian Landscaping grew his profits and got his time back.
With the help of Breakthrough Academy, Brad has implemented high-impact business systems, including an organizational chart, employment agreements, and ideal candidate profiles to improve hiring.
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Mike Van Capelle
Ian Price
Jason Hoke
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge. A few years later, though, he was pulling his hair out.
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jason Hoke
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Ian Price
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jon Drew
Jon Drew always wanted to work for himself, and when he started Refined Exteriors with a long-time friend, he knew he'd made the right choice. But, the growth of the company led to new challenges.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Cory Byron
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing and the work kept coming, but without understanding the ins and outs of budgeting, job costing or financial controls, Cory found himself doing side jobs outside the business just to make ends meet.
Hashtag Plumbing
Brent and Chloë Mooney
From the outside, Hashtag Plumbing owners Brent and Chloë Mooney were running a successful 6-figure plumbing business. On the inside, things felt a lot more hectic. Brent wore every hat in the business. One time, he worked 68 hours in a 3 day period. When they found themselves with $1MM in revenue and no money in the bank, Brent and Chloë knew it was time to ask for help.
Frequently asked questions about Breakthrough Academy.
A painting contractor business coach helps you turn a job-by-job operation into a company that runs on process.
For a painting company, that means tighter estimating, production hours you actually track, a sales follow-up process, defined crew lead roles, hiring, onboarding and financial controls you look at more than once a year.
Painting business coaching isn't motivation. It's the unglamorous work of deciding how things get done, writing it down and holding people to it.
Painting company profit usually dies in predictable places: estimates that were optimistic, crews standing around a job site while someone does an unplanned paint run, go-backs because someone wasn't trained properly before they were given a roller...
It all adds up until a full schedule turns into a break-even year. Painting business profit is defined more by systems than by sales.
The more systems you build early on, the easier it will be to scale sustainably. Highest priorities include a budget, standardized estimating, job costing, and employment agreements with all staff.
Those painting business systems are what let volume go up without your stress going up with it. Scale without them and you get the same chaos you have now, just with a bigger payroll and more people depending on you.
You grow a painting business by making the answers available before anyone has to call you.
Lead intake, estimating, production scheduling, sales handoffs, crew lead responsibilities and job costing each need one documented way they get done. Painting company growth stalls when the fastest route to an answer is your cell phone.
Your phone isn't a system. It's a bottleneck with a ringtone.
Crews call the owner all day because the answer isn't anywhere else.
Fix that before the job starts: written scope, a job packet with the details already in it, clear production expectations, a trained crew lead and simple rules for what genuinely needs escalating. That's what painting crew management looks like when it's working.
Painting contractor systems are just answers you wrote down once instead of giving out forty times.If your crew has to guess, they'll call. And if they're calling, you might as well still be on the job site.
Yes. Painting business coaching at Breakthrough Academy fits residential, commercial and mixed shops.
We work with hungry, humble, smart painting contractors who are ready to implement.
The work mix matters less than the pattern: too many decisions running through you, profit that swings without a clear reason and a team that needs more structure than you've had time to build.
You’ve built something great. Let’s make it amazing.
Ready to take your business to the next level? Let's chat.
Curious how the program will work for YOU?
You have all the right pieces of the puzzle.
We’ve helped over 1,900 contractors just like you
You don’t need to build it by yourself.
The time is now.
Over 1,900 Contractors have built businesses they’re proud of with Breakthrough Academy.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
If you’ve read this far, it's safe to say you’ve already tried a bunch of stuff.
