The professional network for construction. Find verified trades in minutes — and see the packages you never hear about.
About 30 seconds · Free for founding members · No agency calls
Illustrative interface · not real user data
Fast replies
Live reply times from verified trades in range
Reliability scored
Every profile carries a public reliability score
£0 to be found
Free forever for subcontractors
The way it works now
Post at 6am. Forty comments saying “interested”. No insurance, no cards, no idea who actually turns up. Then you do it again next week.
Today
With Trado
Manchester’s construction market
£4bn
Annual construction output
70,000+
Trades across Greater Manchester
Zero
Platforms built for how you actually work
One app. Both sides of every job.
Illustrative interface · not real user data
Trado Blast
Tell Trado what you need and it goes to every available, verified, insured company in range. Watch replies land in real time — distance, day rate, rating, free from when.
Illustrative interface · not real user data
Discover
Trade, distance, availability, rating, insurance cover, accreditation. Then see who's actually free this week — not who updated their profile in 2023.
Illustrative interface · not real user data
Radar
A live map of who's available near your site right now, with a heat layer showing where the density is.
Illustrative interface · not real user data
Verified · Reliability
Companies House matched, director ID confirmed, insurance checked and dated. Every awarded job scored on whether they started on the day they said they would.
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Once we have enough real data from awarded jobs, we’ll publish a live, anonymised day rate index by trade and region. Built from real jobs, not surveys.
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Gtr Manchester
Awaiting data
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London
Awaiting data
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West Midlands
Awaiting data
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Yorkshire
Awaiting data
No rates published until the sample is large enough to be honest.
Founding members
We’re opening Manchester first and onboarding in signup order. Founding members are verified free, for life.
100 founding member places in Manchester
Step 1
Takes about 30 seconds. No CV, no phone calls.
No. There's no margin on your labour and nobody takes a cut of your day rate. You deal direct with the company, in the app.
Creating a profile, being discovered and receiving work are free — permanently. Contractors who post unlimited labour requests pay a subscription later. Founding members get verification free for life.
Yes. A sole trader is just a company of one on Trado — same profile, same reviews, same reliability score. Some of the best-rated companies on the platform are gangs of two.
Companies House matching, director ID and insurance checks before you get a verified tick. Reviews can only be written between two companies that actually awarded a job in the app.
Manchester first. We onboard in signup order, so joining now moves you up the queue.
Who’s behind this
I’m Lennie, 17, based in London. I started Trado because UK trades deserve better than lead auctions and £170/month directory fees. Manchester first, then the rest of the UK. If you’re a Manchester sub or contractor, I want to hear from you personally.
Get in touch: hellotrado@gmail.com