Jonathan Hayes
Founder & CEOStarted HomeMatchup after watching the lead-selling model work exactly as designed — against the homeowner.
Jonathan founded HomeMatchup on a single unfashionable idea: that a homeowner should be able to check the claim rather than believe it. Fifteen years in home services and lead generation taught him that the industry's core problem is not a shortage of contractors — there are thousands — but that every one of them sounds equally certain, and the work gets covered up the day after it is finished.
He is responsible for the two rules the business runs on and loses money to. A contractor cannot buy their way into a match, and a homeowner's details go to their matched pros and never onto a list. Roughly one in three companies that apply do not clear The HomeMatchup Shield, and each of those is revenue the company declines on purpose.
He sets editorial independence policy, which in practice means the commercial side of the business has no say over what a cost page says a job should cost.
What this profile does not claim
Jonathan is a real member of the HomeMatchup team and the role and experience above are accurate. You will notice what is missing: no licence numbers, no certifications, no former employers, no awards.
That is deliberate. We ask every contractor in our network to prove their credentials at the source before we will introduce them to you, and it would be indefensible to decorate our own profiles with claims you have no way to check. Where a team member holds a verifiable public credential, it will appear here with a way to look it up — and not before. Read the editorial standards, including the correction we published when this site failed that test.
The job will still be there next month.
It will just cost more, and you will be choosing in a hurry — which is how most people end up with the contractor they regret. Getting matched takes about a minute and costs nothing.
Free • No obligation • Licence & insurance verified