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InstaBids
Start home-repair requests and read anonymised contractor bids.
First seen 15 Oct 2026. Evidence as of 4 Nov 2026.
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Source listings
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23
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Tools
| Tool | Description | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|
| bid_checklist | Get six items to compare in a home-project bid and optional trade-specific preparation. Omit trade for the general checklist; the answer's trade is then null. The answer includes sourceUrl. | Read-only |
| check_service_area | Every US ZIP can post a job. Homeowners anywhere in the US can post a job; once you send it, InstaBids finds contractors to bid on it. Returns guidance and whether the input is a US ZIP, plus nearby town pages. Get the answer for a five-digit ZIP, and list towns with an InstaBids town page for a five-digit ZIP. | Read-only |
| how_contractors_join | InstaBids is an AI-run marketplace for homeowners and property managers: describe a home job once, by chat or through your own AI assistant, add photos, and get multiple written quotes on the same scope, compared apples to apples, with no phone calls or home visits before you pick. Get the contractor join steps, availability, alias privacy, job-texts status and links to join or ask for text alerts. Joining asks only for your business details. Hand over the links so the contractor signs up and asks for texts themselves; this tool creates no account and sends no text. | Read-only |
| how_instabids_works | InstaBids is an AI-run marketplace for homeowners and property managers: describe a home job once, by chat or through your own AI assistant, add photos, and get multiple written quotes on the same scope, compared apples to apples, with no phone calls or home visits before you pick. Learn the homeowner steps, homeowner cost and contact privacy. | Read-only |
| job_guidance | Get must-have questions and photo asks from the current intake template for any trade. Unknown trades use the generic template. No prices or budget questions. | Read-only |
| job_status | Use this after start_job returned a statusHandle, to see whether the homeowner has sent the job and how many bids have arrived. Returns only the stage (draft, sent, collecting_bids, picked, closed or expired), the bid count and when it last changed. Never returns bid amounts, contractor names or the job text. The handle works for 7 days. Stage expired means the one-hour link lapsed before the homeowner opened it: start again with start_job. Read-only. | Read-only |
| permit_facts | Read sourced local permit facts, with the date each rule was checked; unpublished rules get guidance to ask your bidder and confirm local requirements. Homeowners anywhere in the US can post a job; once you send it, InstaBids finds contractors to bid on it. | Read-only |
| start_job | Use this when a homeowner wants contractor bids on a home repair or improvement job in the US. Creates a private draft from their description and five-digit ZIP and returns a one-hour link for the homeowner to open. Nothing reaches a contractor until the homeowner confirms their email and sends it. Do not include names, phone numbers, emails or street addresses. Do not use for emergencies. Ask the homeowner, one short question at a time and only for what is missing, what needs doing, where in the home, rough size or count, when it is needed and who supplies materials, then put the answers in the message. fill what you can; everything else can come later. Start with the homeowner’s description, trade and ZIP, plus a photo or a good description. Optional: photos, a description or transcript of a 20–60 s walk clip, timing and the job type’s must-haves from intake_templates. Never invent answers. ZIP only; never send a street address or a price. Nothing reaches contractors before the homeowner sends the card. | Changes data |
Change history
- start_job: input schema changed (+deadline_hard, +deadline_reason, +intent_confidence, +intent_level, +must_haves, +photoUrls, +project_completion_deadline, +quotes_by, +trade, +walk_clip)
- start_job: description changed (+"Ask the homeowner, one short question at a time and only for what is missing, what needs doing, where in the home, rough size or count, when it is needed and who supplies materials, then put the answers in the message. fill what you can; everything else can come later. Start with the homeowner’s description, trade and ZIP, plus a photo or a good description. Optional: photos, a description or transcript of a 20–60 s walk clip, timing and the job type’s must-haves from intake_templates. Never invent answers. ZIP only; never send a street address or a price. Nothing reaches contractors before the homeowner sends the card.")
- permit_facts: input schema changed
- job_status: input schema changed
- job_guidance: tool added
- how_instabids_works: input schema changed
- how_contractors_join: tool added
- check_service_area: title changed
- check_service_area: input schema changed
- check_service_area: description changed (+"Every US ZIP" +"post" +"job.")
- server instructions changed (+"get_updates lists what changed on the homeowner's jobs since the last check: new or changed bids, contractor messages and questions, and status changes, each with a short relay line for the homeowner. A contractor's question is answered by the homeowner in InstaBids.")
- start_job: input schema changed
- how_instabids_works: description changed (+"add photos," +"get multiple written quotes" +"scope, compared apples to apples, with no phone calls or home visits before")
- bid_checklist: input schema changed
- bid_checklist: description changed (+"Omit trade for the general checklist; the answer's trade is then null. The answer includes sourceUrl.")
- start_job: input schema changed
- permit_facts: description changed (+"guidance to ask your bidder" +"confirm local requirements." -"guidance. Published permit pages exist so far for Boca Raton, Coconut Creek, Parkland")
- server instructions changed (+"job:" +"Photos shared with contractors are privacy-cleaned copies; originals stay private." -"job in the written scope card:")
- start_job: input schema changed
- job_status: tool added
- server instructions changed (+"How a new job comes together: start_job takes the homeowner's own description and ZIP code and creates a draft. ask_next returns the one next question from the same intake InstaBids runs, including how urgent the job is; the assistant puts that question to the homeowner, and answer_intake records the homeowner's answer and returns the question after it. The loop repeats until readiness.openRequirements is empty. Photos help the homeowner describe the job in the written scope card: when a question asks for a photo, add_photo (where listed) gives the homeowner an upload link. A photo added after prepare_publish changes the job, so prepare_publish runs again after new photos. review_card returns the full request for the homeowner to read before it is sent. If prepare_publish says insurance is missing, give the homeowner insurance_url, then call prepare_publish again. Publishing needs the homeowner's own approval: request_approval (where listed) returns an approval link the homeowner opens, and the job is sent only after the homeowner approves it there. Once the job is sent, InstaBids finds contractors to bid on it. Bid prices are the contractors' own figures, quoted exactly as written. When bids arrive, list_bids shows each one under its label, such as Contractor A, and compare_bids lines them up side by side.")
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- Listed (registry)
| Source | Listing | First seen | Last seen | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official MCP Registry | ai.instabids/instabids | 15 Oct 2026 | 4 Nov 2026 | 2 |