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. A spa bath. An addition. A rebuild. Plain language. No form fields. Drop a photo if you have one and Baily reads it.
2. Baily scopes the real project
Baily asks three to five clarifying questions — the kind a real general contractor would ask on the phone. Your neighborhood. Your lot. Existing footprint. Budget ballpark. Timeline pressure. What Baily gives back:
- A scoped summary of the actual work (not a category bucket)
- A realistic 2026 cost range built on your metro's pricing — not a nationwide average
- The permits your project actually needs — zoning, energy code, historic overlays, ADU regulations, coastal review, fire-zone rebuild rules — whichever apply at your address
- A phase-by-phase timeline from scope lock through final inspection
3. One vetted contractor calls
Baily hands your scope to one vetted, locally licensed contractor. Verified license, active insurance, references, and a real track record in your metro. They call you with the scope already in hand — one call, not twelve.
Where AskBaily is fully live today:Los Angeles. AskBaily's LA launch partner is NP Line Design — CSLB #1105249, BBB A+ accredited, 12+ years building in LA. Netanel Presman (RMO) calls LA homeowners with the scope already in hand.
In other metros— Phoenix, NYC, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Toronto, London, Sydney, Dubai, and the other 60+ cities AskBaily covers — Baily is in ramp-up mode. We verify each contractor's license against the local board (CSLB, NY DOB, AZ ROC, FL CILB, NSW Fair Trading, UK NHBC, BCA Singapore, Dubai DM, etc.) before any handoff. If we don't yet have a vetted partner in your metro, Baily says so transparently in the chat — no contact sell-through.
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 vetted contractor per metro. If the local partner isn't a fit for the scope — say, your project is outside their service zone, or it's commercial at a scale they don't serve — Baily says so, in the chat, and points you elsewhere. No contact sell-through. No surprise follow-up pool.