Bring your subs.
Lock them in. Never reset on a competitor.
Every general contractor reading this has a six-to-twelve-firm bench they protect harder than anything else in their business. The tile setter who does level-5 work on a week's notice. The plumber who passes first-round rough-in inspections 95% of the time. The finish carpenter whose scribe and mitre work holds up next to custom cabinetry. On Angi and Thumbtack and HomeAdvisor, none of those names matter — the lead platform treats your crew like it doesn't exist. On AskBaily, your crew is the asset.
What happens when you declare your bench
You add each sub by license number and trade. We verify the license through the relevant board (automated in six jurisdictions, manual 72-hour elsewhere), record the relationship length you declare, and start the edge. Every project you run through AskBaily with that sub adds to the edge: payment flows, photo milestones, inspection pass/fail outcomes, homeowner CSAT. None of this is editable — the edge is append-only. Six months in, you have a recorded, verifiable history with each of your subs that no competing platform can match.
Why this is the strongest lock-in available to you
Platforms with a per-lead revenue model cannot give you this. Their business depends on re-selling the same homeowner contact to multiple contractors, so their unit of record is the lead — never your crew. Even if they wanted to build a sub-trade graph, surfacing it would undermine their own pricing structure (the whole point is to keep you competing with strangers, not to reveal who has the better bench). That structural conflict is why no lead-gen platform has ever shipped a public sub-trade surface, and why it is unlikely any of them will.
Because the data lives here — and because the verification lives here — the asset belongs here. You cannot port an AskBaily sub-trade graph to another platform, but you also cannot accidentally lose it to one. The bigger your graph gets, the more expensive it becomes for any competitor to match, and that expense works in your favor.
What homeowners see
On your pro page, homeowners see each sub's name, the trade, how long the relationship has run, and how many joint projects the two of you closed in the last 12 months. This is the evidence that decides whether they pick you over the GC down the street whose profile says nothing about crew. Your work speaks for itself; the graph lets the crew behind the work speak for itself too.
No subscription. No lead auction.
AskBaily charges per accepted scope when a project closes. You do not pay a monthly fee. You do not compete with three-to-five other contractors for the same homeowner contact. The economics favor GCs who invest in crew quality, which is what the sub-trade graph is actually measuring.
Import your sub list
Start the onboarding flow with your bench pre-loaded — we accept a plain CSV (sub name, trade, license number) or a copy-paste list from an existing project-management tool.
Want the full verification methodology?
Six layers of evidence per edge — license board, payment trail, photo milestones, cross-GC vouches, dispute history, Trust Ledger. Read the methodology →