We got tired of the same broken system.
A contractor bids on a lead from HomeAdvisor. Pays $75. The homeowner already hired someone. He bids again next week. Same thing. By the end of the month, he's out $400 and hasn't landed a job. That's not a bad week — that's how the whole system was designed. Pay to play, whether you win or not.
On the other side, a homeowner posts her bathroom remodel and gets six calls in two hours. None of them actually looked at the job. The estimates range from $4,000 to $18,000. She has no idea who to trust or why the numbers are so far apart. She ends up picking the guy in the middle and hoping for the best.
FairTradeWorker exists because both of those people deserved better. Contractors should earn work on merit, not whoever can outspend the algorithm. Homeowners should get honest estimates from contractors who actually show up. We built a marketplace that works both ways — no lead fees, no mystery pricing, no games.
What we believe.
Contractors should keep what they earn.
No percentage cuts, no per-lead fees, no surprise charges. A flat subscription means your revenue is your revenue. The average contractor saves over $6,000 a year when they stop paying for leads.
Homeowners deserve honest estimates.
When bids aren't padded with lead costs, homeowners see real pricing. Our AI estimation tools give homeowners a baseline so they know what a project should cost before they hire. No more guessing who to trust.
Trust is built, not bought.
Every contractor on the platform goes through license verification, insurance confirmation, and identity checks. Reviews come from completed, escrow-verified jobs — not anonymous posts. You earn your reputation through work, not ad spend.
The best contractor for the job should get the job.
We don't sell priority placement to the highest bidder. Smart matching connects homeowners with contractors based on skills, location, availability, and track record. The contractor who's right for the job is the one who shows up in the feed.
What makes this different.
Most construction marketplaces make money by selling leads. That model creates bad incentives — the platform benefits when contractors compete to spend more, not when they do better work. We flipped the model.
Flat-rate subscription
Contractors pay a predictable monthly fee. No lead costs, no commissions, no per-bid charges. Homeowners use the platform for free.
Escrow on every job
Homeowner funds are held in escrow until work is verified. Contractors get paid on time. Disputes are resolved within 5 business days.
AI estimation tools
ConstructionAI generates detailed cost breakdowns trained on real construction data. Hunter builds estimates by voice in three minutes. These aren't generic calculators — they're built for the trades.
Verification, not volume
Every contractor is license-checked, insurance-verified, and identity-confirmed. We'd rather have 500 verified contractors than 5,000 unvetted ones flooding homeowner feeds.
Built in Mississippi. By people who've swung a hammer.
We're a small team based in Oxford, Mississippi. Some of us came from construction — years on job sites, running crews, dealing with the same broken platforms we're replacing. Some of us came from software — building products at scale, shipping things that actually work. All of us got tired of watching a good industry get exploited by bad marketplaces.
We're starting in Mississippi because it's what we know. Small markets where contractors know each other, where reputation actually matters, and where the trades are completely underserved by technology. We're building density market by market — North Mississippi first, then the rest of the state, then the Southeast.
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