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Ask Baily about your Brisbane renovation. One vetted QBCC-licensed Brisbane builder who understands Character zoning.

hipages shares your brief with ten QLD tradies. Baily introduces one QBCC-licensed Brisbane builder who has closed a Character-zone Queenslander renovation in the last two years.

Brisbane — joining waitlist

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Brisbane, Australia market, 2026

Brisbane remodeling market overview

A$60-320K typical project

Market size

A$38-120K

Median kitchen

A$18-55K

Median bathroom

4-14 (Building Approval) weeks

Permit timeline

How AskBaily compares to Angi and Thumbtack

The math, as arithmetic

12

strangers Angi sells one lead to.

1

licensed Los Angeles builder Baily hands your project to. Named, verifiable, CSLB #1105249.

5–10

follow-up calls a lead typically fields, in the first 48 hours.

Every other marketplace sells your kitchen remodel to a dozen strangers and calls that “choice.” Baily picks up where they cash out.

Brisbane partner

We are accepting Brisbane builder applications.

We vet one general contractor per city — licensed, insured, with a track record in Brisbane, Australia. If you are a Brisbane GC who wants exclusive routing from Baily, apply at /for-pros.

What Baily scopes in Brisbane

High-ticket remodels, scoped for Brisbane, Australia.

Kitchen Remodeling

Scoped for Brisbane, Australia costs and permits

Bathroom Remodeling

Scoped for Brisbane, Australia costs and permits

Full Home Renovation

Scoped for Brisbane, Australia costs and permits

Service × Brisbane spoke pages are coming in a later release.

How the math actually runs

Their way. Our way.

Angi, Thumbtack, Houzz, HomeAdvisor. One pattern: your project gets sold to many strangers. AskBaily runs the other direction.

Who sees your project / Them

3–8 contractors, simultaneously

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1 licensed LA builder

Who scopes the job / Them

You, via a category form

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Baily + NP Line Design GC

Photo intake / Them

Upload to a form, wait for a callback

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Gemini multimodal, analyzed in-chat

Permits and Title 24 / Them

Not considered until the call

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LADBS + Title 24 2025 in the scoping

Wildfire rebuild and insurance / Them

Same generic intake as a kitchen refresh

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Specialist flow — SB 1103, Xactimate, IICRC

Your info / Them

Your data is the product

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Stays with one builder, not resold

Follow-up calls / Them

5–10 over the next 48 hours

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1, from Netanel's team

SMS / iMessage continuity / Them

Restart from scratch

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Same Baily, same conversation

Every column on the left is documented — FTC v. HomeAdvisor (2023, $7.2M), Angi’s own lead-share terms, Thumbtack’s pay-per-contact schedule. We cite them so you don’t have to.

Brisbane, Australia rules Baily knows

Local regulation, already in the scope.

QBCC Contractor Licence is mandatory for any residential building work over A$3,300. License classes (Low Rise, Medium Rise, Open) gate what contract values a builder can take. QBCC home warranty insurance (QHWS) must be paid before building work starts on contracts ≥ A$3,300 — skipping this voids the homeowner's statutory warranty.

Brisbane City Plan 2014 Character Residential zone protects pre-1946 timber-and-tin Queenslanders. Demolition, relocation, and major alterations need Council approval with a Character-compatible design response. Removing a front façade or raising on stumps without assessment is one of the most common non-compliance triggers QBCC flags.

Post-2011 Flood Regulation Line + Flood Planning Area overlays require minimum habitable floor levels. Any addition or raising in the flood-affected catchment (West End, South Brisbane, Rocklea, Milton) must be designed above the Flood Planning Level. Builders must verify the overlay on Brisbane City Council's online map before quoting.

Brisbane neighborhoods

Brisbane neighborhoods — coming soon.

AscotHamiltonNew FarmPaddingtonRed HillBulimbaWest EndSouth BrisbaneChandlerFig Tree PocketBrookfieldClayfield

Brisbane neighborhood sub-pages are planned for a later release. Chat with Baily now for a Brisbane, Australia scope regardless of neighborhood.

Origin

Who is Baily?

Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.

He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.

That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.

Baily was a businessman before he was a scientist. That’s our vibe too.

Questions LA homeowners actually ask

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