One membership. Pick the household that needs help today.
Cairnstead is a trust-first home services marketplace. We background-screen, license-check, and platform-insure the pros who come into your home — for repairs, for your elders, and for your pets. No more comparing claims and fine print across Thumbtack, Angi, Care.com, and Rover.
Home repair
In-home elder care
Pet care
Not sure which one fits first? Talk to a household-onboarding specialist.
Drop your email. We'll let you know when your metro opens up.
No waitlist fee, no upsells. We'll email you once your zip is in an active cohort and you can pick the first vertical you want to try.
Two doors in
Households book a pro. Pros clear the inbox.
Households land on the routed booking flow the moment they’re ready. Pros see the incoming requests the platform has vetted for them, in one place.
For households
Pick a vertical, a trade, and a slot. We route the request to the pro whose Trust Pass matches.
For pros
Sign in to your pro account and review the requests that landed overnight. Accept or decline each one in place.
One membership · three verticals
A plumber, a caregiver, a dog walker — held to the same bar.
Tap a vertical to see the exact screening, license, and insurance terms behind it.
Trades you let inside the house.
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, and handypeople — every job is covered by platform-bound general liability before they step on the property.
- General liability · $1M per occurrence
- Workers’ comp where applicable
- Property damage covered
Typical response: same-day for emergencies. Recurring-job discounts available.
Request accessVetting pipeline
- 01BackgroundCounty + federal criminal, 7-year address history, sex-offender registry.
- 02Trade licenseState contractor board verification, expiry monitored quarterly.
- 03InsuranceCOI issued to the platform; Airbnb / STR-short-term-rental eligible.
How it works
Three steps from sign-up to a pro you can hand your keys to.
- 01
Create a household
One login covers your home, your elders, and your pets. Set the addresses, the trusted contacts, and the level of clearance each visitor needs.
- 02
Book a vetted pro
Browse by vertical. Every candidate carries a Trust Pass you can read before they arrive — license status, last screening date, the policy bound to their profile.
- 03
We stay on the line
If a job goes sideways, the platform policy is primary — you don’t negotiate with the pro’s insurer, you escalate to us. Receipts, notes, and shift logs all in one place.
Why Cairnstead
Stop stitching together trust, vertical by vertical.
Today’s households run three marketplaces to get three jobs done and then try to reconcile three different definitions of “vetted.” We bundle them.
Frequently asked
The questions that come up before the first booking.
Still want the short version? Email us.
Read the full FAQ →Ready to hand your next service call to one vetted platform?
Pick one vertical — home repair, elder care, or pet care — to start. We will add the others as quickly as you want them. There is no waitlist fee and the membership trial covers full claims handling from day one.