Posters
You describe the job. They compete for it.
Post what you need once, and qualified pros near you bid for it with complete offers — the price and everything they will include at that price. You compare, you negotiate, you pick. It costs you nothing.
- sample pro profiles
- 34sample pro profiles
- kinds of work covered
- 156kinds of work covered
- Chicago metro cities and suburbs
- 29Chicago metro cities and suburbs
- bundled into sample offers
- $69.2Kbundled into sample offers
Pre-launch: the pro and offer figures come from sample data built to show the format, not from a live marketplace. The coverage counts are real — those are the categories WhoIPick opens with, and the Chicago metro suburbs the first rankings cover.
Free. Always.
Posting a request, comparing offers, messaging pros, and hiring are free and always will be. There is no Poster tier to upgrade to.
- Post as many requests as you need
- Receive unlimited competing offers
- Compare bundles side by side
- Message every pro who bids
- Pick whoever you want, or nobody at all
How the bidding works when you are the one hiring
The work you do is the first step. Everything after it is reading offers that were written for your job specifically.
Describe the job once
What you need, where it is, when it has to happen and what makes it awkward. Ten minutes, one time, instead of six phone calls that each start from nothing.
Offers come to you
Pros whose category and service radius cover your address read the whole request and decide whether to compete for it. You are not passed to a call centre and your number is not sold.
Compare complete offers, not quotes
Each offer shows the price and everything included at that price, with a stated value on each item, so two offers can be put beside each other and mean something.
Ask, negotiate, then pick — or do not
You set the window when you post — a few hours if the boiler is out, several days if you are choosing an agent. Ask a question, watch offers get revised in response, and award the job to whoever earned it. Closing without picking anyone costs you nothing.
What you end up looking at
The cheapest rate on this page is the most expensive offer
One worked example — sell my home in naperville. The pro asking the lowest commission includes almost nothing; the one asking the highest includes the entire move. Net cost is the column that settles it, and it is the column whether the job is a house sale, a bathroom or a week of dog walking.
| Who bid | Headline rate | What you pay them | Value of what is included | Net cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 003 WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 003 4.2 out of 5 from 58 reviews 4 things included in the offer Lowest rate | 1.5% | $9,375.00 | $350.00 | $9,025.00 |
WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 002 WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 002 4.7 out of 5 from 96 reviews 6 things included in the offer Best value | 2.25% | $14,062.50 | $6,825.00 | $7,237.50 |
WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 001 WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 001 4.9 out of 5 from 214 reviews 11 things included in the offer Most included | 3% | $18,750.00 | $11,000.00 | $7,750.00 |
Net cost is the fee minus the retail value of everything the pro includes. It is the only column that answers the question the seller is actually asking.
A house sale is the example because the numbers are large enough to see at a glance. A mover, a cleaner or a roofer bids in exactly this shape, with smaller figures.
Walk through this example line by line on how it works.
Safety and verification
Being built — see status per levelYou are letting someone into your house. We treat that seriously.
WhoIPick has not opened yet, so nothing below is running against real pros today. This is the ladder we are building and the order we are building it in — published now so you can hold us to it, not because it is already done.
The verification ladder
Level 1 · EmailAt launch
The floor. Enough to look around, not enough to be taken seriously.
Level 2 · PhoneAt launch
A working number that answers, tied to the account and not to a call centre.
Level 3 · IdentityPlanned
A government ID checked against a selfie, so the person bidding is a person. Run by a specialist pro, not by us.
Level 4 · Licence and insurancePlanned
For agents and licensed trades: licence number and current insurance confirmed before the badge appears. This is the badge that will matter most when the job is the largest transaction of your year.
Once it is running, a pro’s level will show on their profile and beside their offer — so you will be able to tell an email-only account from one that has cleared a licence and insurance check.
Ratings you can actually read
Reviews can only be written after both parties mark the job complete, both sides get reviewed, and every score is shown with the number of reviews behind it. Below are three sample profiles, showing how a score is presented at each end of the range.
WhoIPick Sample Moving Company 015
4.5 out of 5 from 341 reviewsA long record. This is what a score with weight behind it looks like.
WhoIPick Sample Cleaning Crew 012
2.9 out of 5 from 27 reviewsGenuinely weak, and shown as such. We do not filter the bottom of the marketplace out of the marketplace.
WhoIPick Sample Listing Agent 006
5 out of 5 from only 3 reviewsA perfect average from a handful of jobs. Flagged as new rather than presented as a track record.
Paid placement says so
Pros can pay for featured placement. When they do, the row carries the word “Sponsored” — never a colour on its own — and it never moves ahead of a rank somebody earned.
Writing the request
What a request that gets good offers looks like
The quality of what comes back is set almost entirely by the first ten minutes. Five things separate a request that draws real bundles from one that draws padded numbers.
The constraint that actually worries you
The sample seller closes on her new house five days before she has to be out of the old one. A parent booking a tutor cares that it has to be after football. Whatever the awkward part is, say it — the strong offers get built around that sentence.
Numbers a pro can price against
Square footage, roof squares, panel amperage, how many stairs, how many sessions a week, how many miles from the depot. Vagueness produces padded bids, because a pro prices the risk of being wrong.
The condition, honestly
“Thirty years of accumulation and the kitchen is dated” gets you an offer that includes junk removal. “The dog pulls badly on the leash” gets you a walker who has handled that. “Great condition” gets you neither.
What good looks like to you
Speed, price, least disruption, done properly once. Say which, and pros will bid the one you named instead of guessing.
What you will not do
No twelve-month contract, no time-and-materials, no early-morning starts. Ruling things out early saves everyone the round trip.
Sell my home in Naperville
The request that produced the three offers above, exactly as it was posted.
Four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath colonial near Cress Creek, about 2,850 square feet on a quarter acre. We are relocating for my wife's job and need to be out by the end of October. The house is in good shape — new roof in 2021, furnace 2019 — but we have thirty years of accumulation in it and the kitchen is dated.
We would like to see what agents will do on commission, but honestly the bigger problem is the move itself. We close on the new place in Charlotte five days before we would have to be out of this one. Tell us what you include, not just what you charge.
It named the deadline, the condition, the budget-relevant numbers and the thing she was actually worried about. Every offer she received answered that last part.
Questions Posters ask
Post what you need. Let them compete for you.
Free to post. Free to compare. Free to walk away.
Post what you need