Your Helper
Bud is ToolBud's app foreman — one helper who knows the whole job site. Ask for what you need and Bud answers, drafts, or points you to the right screen. You always decide what happens next.
What Bud Does
You don't have to know where anything lives or which screen you need. Ask Bud, and you'll get an answer, a draft to review, or directions to the right part of the app — with Bud alongside you the whole way.
Finding your way
Bud shows you around the job site, answers general questions about how ToolBud works, and points you to the right area when you're not sure where to start. Bud can also draft pieces of your profile for you to review and edit.
Bud helps with
Projects & planning
Talk through a fix or a build and Bud helps you get from "something's wrong" to a clear plan — the steps, the materials, and the tools you'll need. Your plan saves, so you can come back to it.
Bud helps with
Your toolbox
Point your camera at a tool and Bud identifies it. Import your purchase history and Bud helps you sort what came back — including duplicates and near-matches — before any of it lands in MyToolBox.
Bud helps with
Asking your neighbors
Bud helps you turn a rough thought into a clear, neighborly ask — advice, a referral, a helping hand, a paid task, or a tool you're looking for. You review every word before it posts.
Bud helps with
Buying & selling used
Not every tool is worth owning. Ask Bud whether to borrow or buy one for the job in front of you, and it checks what neighbors have and what ToolShed Market is listing before it answers. You decide — and when you're ready to pass a tool along, Bud gets the listing started.
Bud helps with
Designed Around Real Moments
Bud isn't a chatbot bolted onto the app. Bud is built around the real, everyday moments where most apps leave you guessing — and ToolBud's neighbors deserve better than that.
I don't know what this tool is.
I need to fix something but don't know where to start.
I want to ask my neighbors without sounding awkward.
I want to sell — or find — a used tool.
I'm new here. Where do I go first?
How It Works
You don't have to know where anything lives. Start anywhere and just say what you need — Bud takes it from there.
Mention a busted faucet, and Bud works up a repair plan with you and lists the tools it'll take.
If the wrench you need isn't yours, head to ToolShed Market to borrow or buy one — or have Bud help you write an ask to your neighbors.
It's one neighborhood, one app, and one continuous conversation — the same Bud the whole way through. Nothing happens until you say so.
You Stay In Control
Bud guides, organizes, drafts, and explains. Bud doesn't post, send, list, or borrow anything without you. Every request, message, listing, or change is yours to approve first.
Requests, posts, listings, and changes go out only after you review and confirm them. Bud drafts — you decide.
Bud works inside the same friends-and-community network you do. Trust starts with the people, not the AI.
Bud makes it easier to reach your neighbors. Bud never replaces the conversation — it helps it start.
For sensitive or risky requests, Bud explains why it can't help, shows you what to do instead, and lets you cancel anytime.
Bud is ready when you are. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know the moment ToolBud launches in your area.
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