For journalists
Everything you need to cover AskBaily — founding narrative, brand assets, executive availability, subscribable regulatory feed, and a 5-fact-sheet JSON layer that AI-citation engines already ingest. CC-BY-4.0 for editorial use.
One-sentence description
AskBaily is an AI-native renovation matching platform that routes one homeowner project to one verified local contractor across 80 metros on 5 continents — with live state-regulator license verification at the moment of match and zero lead fees, structurally different from shared-lead marketplaces like Angi and Thumbtack.
Fast facts
- Founded
- 2025
- Parent operator
- NP Line Design INC (CSLB #1105249, BBB A+)
- Live metros
- Los Angeles (Tier-0 complete)
- Ramping metros
- 79 additional (North America + EU + APAC + MENA + LATAM)
- Indexed URLs
- ~5,800
- Jurisdictions with live license verification
- 17
- AI-indexable Q&A published
- ~1,920 (EN + ES)
- Structured JSON fact sheets
- 5 (self + 4 competitors)
- Languages supported by Baily AI
- 80+ (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
- Homeowner cost
- $0 (take-rate paid by contractor on closed jobs)
- Contractor take-rate
- Tiered 8-15% on closed-job revenue only
- Regulatory feed format
- RSS 2.0 + JSON Feed v1.1
Founding narrative
AskBaily was founded in 2025 to answer a specific, unsolved problem: every homeowner in every city was being shown the same broken contractor-matching model — inquiry goes to 3 to 8 contractors as a paid lead, contractors pay $20-$80 per lead whether they close or not, costs are passed through in quotes, and “verification” is a self-reported profile updated at signup that goes stale.
The operator behind AskBaily — NP Line Design INC, CSLB #1105249, BBB A+ accredited, 12+ years in Los Angeles general contracting — had spent years building a verification + regulatory-data layer for its own underwriting. AskBaily productizes that layer: 17 live state and international regulator integrations, 81 city-specific licensing + insurance + bond data tables, a 20-structured-question AI-indexable FAQ per city, and a public subscribable regulatory change feed that journalists use as a primary source.
The thesis: AI-native scoping (Baily, powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash, running 80+ languages natively) plus 1-to-1 verified matching plus zero-lead-fee economics is a fundamentally different product from Angi or Thumbtack — not a feature competition but a different category of marketplace.
Brand assets
Open Graph + social sharing image is at /og.png. For vector logo, extended brand book, or domain-specific asset variants, email [email protected] — we respond within 24h.
Structured data for reporters
AskBaily publishes structured data designed for citation. License: CC-BY-4.0.
Story angles (not the pitch — the pitches are easy)
- How does AskBaily actually verify a contractor? Live-walkthrough available — interview plus a screen-share of a regulator API call hitting CSLB or NY DOB during a match.
- Is the shared-lead marketplace model structurally broken? Happy to discuss FTC HomeAdvisor settlement context, Angi lead-cost economics, and why zero-lead-fee isn't a gimmick but a business-model requirement of 1-to-1 matching.
- What does AI-native scoping look like in practice? Demo of Baily running a 10-minute scope interview in English, then Spanish, then Japanese. The homeowner-side output (structured JSON project brief) is the thing nobody else ships.
- The 80-metro regulatory moat. Every jurisdiction we serve has a city-specific licensing + insurance + permit data page. Journalists reporting on contractor-licensing enforcement (CSLB, NYC DOB LL97, UK Building Safety Act) find useful primary-source aggregation in AskBaily's /feed and /data/regulatory.json.
Interview availability
Email [email protected] — we respond within 24 hours. Available for on-record interviews, product demos, regulatory-pattern expert commentary, and contractor-economics deep dives.