How AskBaily works
Three steps. No form. No lead-pool. No 5–10 follow-up calls from strangers.
1. Tell Baily what you're working on
Open askbaily.com. Type — or speak — what you're thinking about. A kitchen. An ADU in Encino. A spa bath. A wildfire rebuild in Altadena. Plain language. No form fields. Drop a photo if you have one and Baily reads it with Gemini multimodal.
2. Baily scopes the real project
Baily asks three to five clarifying questions — the kind an actual LA general contractor would ask on the phone. Your neighborhood. Your lot. Existing kitchen footprint. Budget ballpark. Timeline pressure. What Baily gives back:
- A scoped summary of the actual work (not a category bucket)
- A realistic 2026 LA cost range (not a nationwide average)
- The permits your project actually needs — LADBS plan-check vs. express, Title 24, HPOZ, hillside, AB 1033, SB 9, coastal commission
- A phase-by-phase timeline from scope lock through final inspection
3. One licensed LA builder calls
Baily hands your scope to one builder: NP Line Design, the design-build general contractor that actually built Baily. California State License Board #1105249. BBB A+ accredited. 12+ years in Los Angeles. Netanel Presman (RMO) calls you with the scope already in hand.
One call. Not twelve.
Why this is different from Angi, Thumbtack, and Houzz
Those are lead-marketplaces. Your contact info is the product. It gets sold to between four and fifteen contractors, each of whom pays the platform per-lead and then has every reason to call you repeatedly until someone signs. The follow-up cost is yours.
AskBaily isn't a marketplace. It's an AI front-end for one licensed LA general contractor. If NP Line Design isn't a fit for the scope — say, your project is outside LA county, or it's commercial at a scale we don't serve — Baily says so, in the chat, and points you elsewhere. No contact sell-through. No surprise follow-up pool.