Built ontrust.Designed for trades.
TradeMatch exists because the UK trades marketplace was broken — rigged against the very tradespeople and homeowners it was supposed to serve. We built the alternative.
The market was rigged against both sides.
Every major trades platform had quietly turned into a lead-extraction machine. Tradespeople paid upfront regardless of whether they won work. Homeowners got fake reviews, ghost leads, and zero payment protection. Nobody was protecting the people the platforms were supposed to serve.
A marketplace with integrity at its core.
We started from first principles: what would the ideal trades marketplace look like if you genuinely cared about outcomes for both sides? Every feature on TradeMatch exists to answer a real problem we found in the existing market.
To become the UK's most trusted trades marketplace — for everyone.
Not just trusted in reputation. Trusted in architecture. Every product decision we make, every feature we build, is filtered through one question: does this make the platform more honest?
Four failures the market ignored.
The incumbent platforms had documented, public, systemic problems. Our founding team mapped every category of failure — and built a direct answer to each one.
See how we fixed itEvery feature built for a reason.
We didn't copy the incumbents and add a badge. We rebuilt from scratch with every trust failure mapped and addressed.
Phone-Verified Jobs
Milestone Escrow
Tamper-Proof Reliability Scores
Full Credential Verification
See Before You Buy
48-Hour Human Resolution
TradeMatch vs the incumbents.
We're not shy about how we stack up. Judge for yourself.
| Feature | TradeMatch | Checkatrade | MyBuilder | Bark.com |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phone-verified jobs before distribution | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Milestone payment escrow | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| No annual subscription required | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full job detail before purchase | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Immediate review publication | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✓ |
| Max 5 vendors per lead | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lead quality credit guarantee | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 48-hour human dispute resolution | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Credits never expire | ✓ | N/A | N/A | ✗ |
Founder-led. Mission-driven.
TradeMatch was founded by someone who lived the failures of the existing market firsthand. Every member of the leadership team is hired because they've operated at the problem, not just studied it.
10+ years in digital marketplace strategy and product development. Extensive experience building consumer-facing platforms in the UK home services sector. Led all aspects of TradeMatch's product development from concept to 129-page live platform — with deep expertise in programmatic SEO, conversion optimisation, and trust architecture design.
Four values that shape every decision.
Not written for a wall. Written because every feature, every hire, every product call at TradeMatch runs through these filters first.
Transparency above all
Protection is non-negotiable
Fairness to both sides
Quality over quantity
Find the right tradesperson. Protected, every time.
Post a job free in under 3 minutes. Get up to 5 quotes from verified, insured tradespeople. Pay securely through escrow. No fake leads. No cowboys. No nonsense.