Choosing a tradesperson is one of the most expensive decisions most homeowners make outside buying a house, and often one of the hardest to judge. MyTrustedTraders brings public platform, registry, and profile evidence into one place so homeowners can inspect the record faster.
We do not rate, score, or rank tradespeople on our own judgement. The record shows public reviews, credentials you can verify in a registry, and endorsements from named peers. If we cannot point to the source, we do not publish the claim.
A hundred reviews across several named platforms is harder to fake than a thousand on one isolated profile. We cross-check whether the same business shows up consistently before putting it forward.
Trade-to-trade endorsements are hard to buy and useful to inspect, especially where specialist work depends on collaboration.
Traders can claim profiles, but money must not buy placement, badges, better reviews, or stronger trust language.
The former React route made the product philosophy explicit: MTT is not a private endorsement badge. It is a public evidence surface, and every layer has to keep its limits visible.
Checkatrade, TrustATrader, MyBuilder, RatedPeople, and other source records keep their names visible. Consolidation does not turn imported evidence into MTT-owned reviews.
Gas Safe, NICEIC, Companies House, FMB, licensing, and insurance signals stay separate from review volume so a busy profile does not look verified by accident.
Architects know builders, builders know plumbers, and specialists know who they would work beside again. Those signals are useful only when the relationship is named and bounded.
Search, shortlist, compare, and enquiry flows keep proof summaries close to the action so a homeowner can pause on evidence before calling or sending job details.
A business can claim a profile, correct wrong source data, or ask for privacy handling without buying ranking, badges, review placement, or stronger trust language.
Thin review history, missing credentials, uncertain identity joins, stale platform data, and unresolved gaps remain visible because hiding them would make the record weaker.
A strong marketplace should help both sides: homeowners get better evidence before they call, and traders get a clear route to own, correct, or challenge the record that already represents them.
The transparency standard explains what the public site may show, claim, and refuse to overclaim.