What's AskBaily, and who builds the project?

AskBaily is an AI that scopes your Los Angeles home remodel — kitchen, ADU, bath, wildfire rebuild, you name it — and hands the finished scope to one licensed LA general contractor: NP Line Design (CSLB #1105249, BBB A+). You're not being auctioned to twelve strangers.

Yes. Chatting with Baily is free. You pay nothing for the scope, the cost range, or the builder intro. If you decide to move forward, NP Line Design prices the work like any other LA GC — line-item, transparent, CSLB-licensed.

How is this different from Angi or Thumbtack?

Angi and Thumbtack sell your contact info to 4–15 contractors each. Your phone doesn't stop ringing. Baily sends your scope to exactly one builder — the one who built the AI. One call. One scope. One decision.

Does Baily know LA permits, Title 24, HPOZ, wildfire zones?

Yes — that's the whole point. Baily is trained on LADBS permit flows, Title 24 energy compliance, HPOZ preservation rules, AB 1033 and SB 9 lot-split rules, coastal commission requirements, the seismic retrofit ordinance, and wildfire rebuild processes in Palisades and Altadena. A generic AI assistant doesn't know any of this.

Can I text Baily instead of using the website?

Yes. Text (818) 605-1388 and you'll reach the same Baily. If you start on the website, provide a phone number, and later text that number, Baily remembers the conversation and continues where you left off.

Ask Baily about your LA remodel.

One homeowner. One scoped project. One trusted LA builder.

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The math, as arithmetic

strangers Angi sells one lead to.

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.

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

Who sees your project / Them

3–8 contractors, simultaneously

AskBaily

1 licensed LA builder

Who scopes the job

Who scopes the job / Them

You, via a category form

AskBaily

Baily + NP Line Design GC

Photo intake

Photo intake / Them

Upload to a form, wait for a callback

AskBaily

Gemini multimodal, analyzed in-chat

Permits and Title 24

Permits and Title 24 / Them

Not considered until the call

AskBaily

LADBS + Title 24 2025 in the scoping

Wildfire rebuild and insurance

Wildfire rebuild and insurance / Them

Same generic intake as a kitchen refresh

AskBaily

Specialist flow — SB 1103, Xactimate, IICRC

Your info

Your info / Them

Your data is the product

AskBaily

Stays with one builder, not resold

Follow-up calls

Follow-up calls / Them

5–10 over the next 48 hours

AskBaily

1, from Netanel's team

SMS / iMessage continuity

SMS / iMessage continuity / Them

Restart from scratch

AskBaily

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.

How it works

Three steps. No lead-pool. No follow-up spam.

Tell Baily what you're working on.

Kitchen, ADU, spa bath, wildfire rebuild — in plain language. Drop a photo if you have one. No form.

Baily scopes the real project.

Permits, Title 24, HPOZ flags, realistic LA cost range. You see the same scope we build against.

One licensed LA builder calls.

NP Line Design — CSLB #1105249, BBB A+, 12+ years in Los Angeles. Not 12 strangers. One.

“A string of bright beads of sunlight, breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.”

— Francis Baily, 1836

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.

Built by NP Line Design — the actual general contractor.

AskBaily is a product of NP Line Design INC, a licensed, bonded, insured Los Angeles design-build general contractor. You aren't being handed off to a random lead-pool — Baily scopes it, Netanel Presman (CSLB RMO) builds it.

CSLB: #1105249
BBB: A+ Accredited
Founded: 2013
LA projects: 200+

Questions LA homeowners actually ask

AskBaily is an AI that scopes your Los Angeles home remodel — kitchen, ADU, bath, wildfire rebuild, you name it — and hands the finished scope to one licensed LA general contractor: NP Line Design (CSLB #1105249, BBB A+). You're not being auctioned to twelve strangers.

Not just a homepage — a knowledge graph

Angi sells your lead to 8 strangers. We built a platform instead.

68 regulatory + cost pillars across 34 cities, 13 in-house regulatory authority pages across 10 countries, 6 cross-city topic hubs, original research, matched-pro profiles, and open JSON data endpoints. The infrastructure Angi and Thumbtack structurally cannot ship.

Topics · 6 hubs

Cross-city authority

ADU, seismic, historic, basement, condo, masonry — aggregated across 34 cities.

Regulatory · 13 pages

Canonical definitions

CSLB, Title 24, NYC DOB, Party Wall Act, NSW FT, HCRA, BCA, and more — 10 countries.

Matched pros

Verified profiles

Live CSLB + BBB verification. Structured per-contractor credentials the dinosaurs can't ship.

Compare · vs Angi + Thumbtack

Head-to-head

Direct comparisons cited to each competitor's own public disclosures.