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Directory profile

Fill in your business details, preview how customers will see you, and publish your listing on ContractorsNearMe.

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Your directory profile is the public listing customers find on ContractorsNearMe (contractorsnearme.ai). You build it in MyBuildX and check it at https://mybuildx.com/profile/preview (How customers will see you). Publishing is for General Contractor accounts with the Contractor ID plan.

Profile preview showing how customers will see the business

What you can do

  • Fill in your listing in Settings: business name, handle, trade, phone, website, city, about text, coverage, specialties, credentials and offers.
  • Upload project photos.
  • Preview the listing privately.
  • Publish it with Publish profile (or buy the plan with Continue to checkout first).
  • Copy your Contractor ID, profile slug and contractor.id short link from Home.

Get listed

The Get listed on CNM checklist on Home tracks four of these steps: business info, photos, preview, and publish.

  1. Add your business info. In Settings → Business, fill in Business name, Handle (claim), Trade, Phone, Website, and City (with a 2-letter state). Press Save.
  2. Add profile details. In Settings → Profile, write the About text (up to 2,000 characters), and set Phone, Service radius (miles), and Specialties. Saving shows “Profile saved, CNM payload updated.”
  3. Upload project photos at https://mybuildx.com/photos/uploads. See Photos and videos.
  4. Preview your profile at https://mybuildx.com/profile/preview. You see your business name, trade, city, about text, photos, and the Public page link on contractorsnearme.ai.
  5. Publish. On the preview:
    • If your plan is active, press Publish profile. The panel then shows Published with the date.
    • If not, press Continue to checkout (“Publishing needs the Pro plan (from $20/mo)”), pay, then come back and press Publish profile.

Use the preview page to publish. The Publish your listing button on Home’s listing card opens Settings, which has no publish button.

  • The handle you claim in Settings → Business must be 3 to 40 characters: lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. It’s unique across BuildX.
  • With a handle, you get a contractor.id short link. It starts working once your listing is published.
  • Home’s listing card shows your Contractor ID and Profile slug with Copy buttons, and your QR code once the listing is published.

Make the listing stronger

  • Credentials (Settings → Credentials): upload PDFs under Licenses, Insurance, Credentials, or Trust Badges with Upload for review. Each upload shows Pending review until BuildX checks it.
  • Offers (Settings → Offers): add a title, discount and expiry with Create offer. Active offers are sent with your profile to ContractorsNearMe.
  • Reviews: reply to them on Reviews.

Good to know

  • Customer and supplier accounts see Not applicable: listings are for contractors.
  • Subcontractor accounts can preview but don’t get the publish panel. To get listed as a sub, see Claim your profile.
  • If you already have an unclaimed profile on ContractorsNearMe, claim it instead of starting over. See Claim your profile.
  • Changes you save in Settings sync to ContractorsNearMe. If the listing card says your directory link isn’t ready yet, it appears once your profile syncs.