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Best painting and decorating companies in Australia, according to AI (October 2026)

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode 60 questions a buyer in Australia types when looking for painting and decorating companies. The engines named 12 companies in Australia. Jim's Painting is named most often, in 48% of answers, followed by Higgins Coatings (32%) and Programmed Property Services (11%). 7 are named by all three engines.

The full list is below, ranked by how consistently each company is named.

  • 60 buyer questions
  • 180 answers read
  • 3 engines

All 12 companies AI names in Australia

Click a company to open its full report: every answer that names it, where it stands in each one, and the sites behind every rival. Mentioned is the share of answers that name the company: all 180, one engine’s 60 in the engine columns. Green marks that engine’s 3 most recommended. A crossed circle means it never named the company. Click a heading to sort.

Report
1Jim's Paintingjimspainting.com.au48%55%Most recommended40%Most recommended48%Most recommendedSee full report
2Higgins Coatingshiggins.com.au32%22%Most recommended37%Most recommended37%Most recommendedSee full report
3Programmed Property Servicesprogrammed.com.au11%3%17%Most recommended13%Most recommendedSee full report
4Painters Link Grouppainterslink.com.au6%2%12%5%See full report
5Premier Painting Grouppremierpaintinggroup.com.au6%5%Most recommended7%5%See full report
6ATD Paintatdpaint.com.au4%5%5%2%See full report
7CertaPro Painterscertapro.com2%2%2%3%See full report
8Champaintingchampainting.com.au1%2%See full report
9Fantastic Servicesfantasticservicesgroup.com.au1%2%See full report
10Spanline Australiaspanline.com.au1%2%See full report

2 more companies below

11Usher Groupushergroup.com1%2%See full report
12WOW 1 DAY PAINTINGno website found1%2%See full report

Every company AI named in Australia, ranked by how consistently it is named.

4 most recommended. 8 named. The rest not cited.

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Where AI gets its answers

Before an engine names a company, it reads the web. These are the sites each engine cited most in its 60 answers for Australia, by the share of answers citing them.

ChatGPT

198 domains · 718 links overall

SourceShareLinks
jimspainting.com.au52%
higgins.com.au20%
atdpaint.com.au10%
jims.net7%
info.higgins.com.au7%
dulux.com.au7%
premierpainting.com.au5%
programmed.com.au5%
franchisebusiness.com.au5%
jimspaintingperth.com.au5%
Gemini

99 domains · 478 links overall

SourceShareLinks
higgins.com.au20%
jimspainting.com.au20%
painterslink.com.au13%
atdpaint.com.au7%
jimshandyman.com.au5%
platinumpainting.com.au3%
brushworks.au3%
premierpainting.com.au3%
haymespaint.com.au3%
franchisedirect.com.au3%
Google AI Mode

118 domains · 488 links overall

SourceShareLinks
jimspainting.com.au42%
higgins.com.au25%
programmed.com.au10%
jims.net8%
pridal.com.au8%
painterslink.com.au7%
modernizesolutions.com.au5%
premierpainting.com.au5%
a1paintinggroup.com.au3%
brushworks.au3%

One thing stands out. ChatGPT cites company sites directly: jimspainting.com.au tops its list, so a company’s own pages decide whether it is named.

What to do with your row

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MentionedNamed, not recommended

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Not namedMissing from all 180 answers

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What “Top 3 in AI answers” means

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A company gets the badge when it is in the top 3 on any single engine, by how many of that engine’s answers recommend it, not just name it. The badge names the engine, so a company can hold it on Gemini and not on ChatGPT. In Australia that is Jim's Painting, Higgins Coatings and Premier Painting Group on ChatGPT. Jim's Painting, Higgins Coatings and Programmed Property Services on Gemini. Jim's Painting, Higgins Coatings and Programmed Property Services on Google AI Mode. 9 badges, 4 companies. A badge holder confirms its website inside the report and puts the badge on its site, and it links back to this page.

The 60 questions we asked

Every company was measured against the same 60 questions, asked the way a buyer types them, with no company name in the question. Grouped by how the question is asked: three kinds.

Use case (the job is named)

2 questions
  • Looking for painting contractors across Australia that handle multi-site retail repaints for shops in several states.
  • Which franchise painting contractors across Australia use their own employed painters rather than subcontractors?

Criterion (price, reviews, support, integration)

a plain category question with one qualifier6 questions
  • Any painting company franchises across Australia that give a fixed-price written quote?
  • I'm thinking of buying a painting franchise, so which painting company franchises in Australia have the lowest start-up cost?
  • Name the painting company franchises in Australia that have been operating for more than 20 years.

+ 3 more questions in this group.

Other phrasing

52 questions
  • Which painting company franchises send crews out to the country towns of New South Wales?
  • We're selling up and want the place freshened first, so which painters from a bigger group in New South Wales do pre-sale repaints?
  • Any Sydney painting contractors with several branches that handle strata building repaints?

+ 49 more questions in this group.

How we measure

Each of the 60 questions was asked once to ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode in October 2026: 180 answers. We read every answer and record which companies it names. A company’s share is the part of answers that name it. Different spellings of one company are merged into one row.

Left out: companies outside Australia, and names that aren’t painting and decorating companies. A name AI gave without a website we could find is listed without a profile.

One run per question means a single answer moves a company at the bottom of the table by a point. Treat differences of 1 to 2% as noise and the top 20 as stable.

Full methodology →

Questions about this ranking

Why isn’t my company listed?

Either no engine named it in the 180 answers we read, or it was named and we could not match it to a website. Search the list above. If it was named, its full report is ready and you can add the website from there. If it was never named, Findrix shows what AI says when buyers ask about painting and decorating companies, which rivals it names instead, and a ranked list of fixes: the page, the edit, and the next scan ticks it off. It starts with the 7-day trial.

What is in the full report?

Everything we collected about the company: its position on each of ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode, recommended or only mentioned, its average position in the answer and what AI says about it word for word. It opens after a quick login, free, for anyone. The “Top 3 in AI answers” badge goes on the company’s site when any engine puts it in its top 3.

Why would I subscribe if I am already listed?

This page is one snapshot. Findrix is where you control and grow your AI visibility over time: your own question set, 60 to 180 questions by plan, tracked for you and your rivals. On every answer you see recommended, only mentioned, or a rival, and which sites earned that rival the spot. Wrong facts come with the correction email written for you. Your site becomes a numbered plan: which page, what to change, confirmed by the next scan. A PDF report for you and your team. It starts with the 7-day trial.

Can I correct or remove my company’s listing?

Use Request a correction at the bottom of the page: we check the change against the answers and fix the listing. Sign in with an email on the company’s domain to open its full report. For anything else, write to us there too and we will look at it against your website.

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Measured in October 2026: 60 questions x 3 engines x 1 run. Request a correction.