Our home contractor walked off the job midway through our kitchen remodel and we need to know the legal steps to hire someone else without losing our deposit.
Download run
Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Our home contractor walked off the job midway through our kitchen remodel and we need to know the legal steps to hire someone else without losing our deposit.
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
New Jersey home improvement contractor abandonment consumer protection deposit refund written contract registration NJ Division Consumer Affairs officialGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
New Jersey home improvement practices regulations deposit limit contractor kitchen remodel official NJ consumer affairsGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (2)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
New Jersey home improvement contractor abandonment consumer protection deposit refund written contract registration NJ Division Consumer Affairs official Google ↗
New Jersey home improvement practices regulations deposit limit contractor kitchen remodel official NJ consumer affairs Google ↗
- New Jersey Revised Statutes Section 56:8-151 (2025) - Contracts, certain, required to be in writing; contents. :: 2025 New Jersey Revised Statutes :: U.S. Codes and Statutes :: U.S. Law :: Justia · law.justia.com
- NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS · njconsumeraffairs.gov
- Consumer Affairs Home Improvement Contractors · visitmonmouth.com
- Avoiding Fraud Tip Sheet · nj.gov
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Jersey home improvement contractor abandonment consumer protection deposit refund written contract registration NJ Division Consumer Affairs official OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
New Jersey home improvement practices regulations deposit limit contractor kitchen remodel official NJ consumer affairs OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |