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Marketplace / Local Services

Connecting skilled labor with local clients through search, not word of mouth

Built a two-sided marketplace where skilled tradespeople register and get discovered by clients searching for services in their area, replacing informal word-of-mouth hiring with a searchable local platform.

Client
A local skilled-trades marketplace
Timeline
Completed engagement
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The challenge

Finding skilled labor for a job, or finding work as a tradesperson, still mostly happened through word of mouth or informal local networks. There was no platform where a skilled worker could be found by someone searching for that specific service in that specific area.

Our approach

We built the platform around search relevance from day one: a labor profile only creates value if it surfaces for the right client in the right location, so ranking and location-scoping needed to work before anything else about the platform mattered.

The solution

We built a website where skilled tradespeople can register themselves or be registered by a system administrator, with profiles searchable by service type and location. When a client searches for labor for a specific job, matching profiles for that area surface at the top of the results, and the client and tradesperson connect directly through the platform.

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