For instructors and program coordinators
Your graduates leave with a ticket and no way to be found.
TradeForge is a website and booking system built for one kind of person: someone who has just finished their apprenticeship and is about to work for themselves. In forty-five minutes of class time, every student in the room can walk out with a live site, online booking and their licence number published.
What it is
A tool, not a curriculum.
A website builder for one job
Not a general-purpose builder. It knows fifty-two trades — their services, their licences, the jobs customers book and the questions homeowners ask — so a student who picks 'electrician' starts with a page that already reads properly.
With booking and a job calendar
The site takes real bookings against real hours and drops them on a calendar with the address and the job type. It is the first piece of business software most of them will run.
Theirs, not the school's
Each student signs up in their own name. The site is their property, the address is their address, and it does not stop working when the term ends.
Why it matters to a graduate
The gap between qualified and hireable.
Every program in the country teaches the trade properly. Almost none of them cover the part that decides whether the phone rings in year one.
- They finish with a licence, a truck full of tools and no way for a stranger to check that they exist.
- The first thing a homeowner does with a name is search it. If nothing comes back, the next call goes to the shop that has a website.
- The two things customers look for — licence number and insurance — are the two things a Facebook page buries.
- Being able to take a booking at nine at night is worth more to a new business than any amount of advertising.
- They have been taught the trade and the code. Nobody teaches them how to be found, and it is the thing that sinks first-year shops.
The session
Forty-five minutes, start to published.
Run it yourself or let us run it. Either way this is the shape of it.
- 0–5 min
The problem, in one slide
What a customer sees today when they search a graduate's name, and what they see when the shop up the road has a site.
- 5–15 min
Everyone picks a trade and a business name
Students sign up and answer the interview questions. This is where they decide what to call themselves, which is usually the loudest fifteen minutes of the class.
- 15–35 min
They publish
Hours, service area, licence number, the services they actually intend to sell. By the end of this block every student has a live web address.
- 35–45 min
One of them books another one
Students book jobs on each other's calendars and watch the request land. Nothing sells the point faster than seeing it arrive.
What we need from you
- A room with wifi and forty-five minutes of your timetable.
- Students on laptops or phones — either works, the whole thing is built for phones.
- A heads-up on the trades in the room so we bring the right examples.
What you get
- Someone to run the session, in person or over a call.
- An instructor account so you can see what the students see.
- Handouts your students keep, with the steps written down.
- Access sorted out for the group — tell us the class size and term dates.
Get in touch
Tell us about your program.
A real person reads these and answers them. We are not going to put you into a sales sequence.
The button below opens an email to schools@tradeforge.app with these lines already in it. Fill in whatever you know and send it — nothing here is required.
- School or college
- Program and trade
- Roughly how many students
- When your term starts
- Best number to reach you
Or write to schools@tradeforge.app yourself. Same inbox.