For instructors and program coordinators
Your graduates leave with a ticket, but how are they found?
TradeForge gives new tradespeople everything required to start taking real clients the day they finish their apprenticeship. In just one brief workshop, every student in your classroom will build and launch their own fully functional, professional business platform - done.
Students get:
A Live, Custom Website: A clean, mobile-ready online presence featuring their brand and license details.
Online Booking Engine: Instant job scheduling directly from their site.
Client & Job Tracking: Easy management to log leads and track job progress from day one.
Built-in Billing: Direct invoicing to handle payments effortlessly.
No coding, no complicated setup, and no wasted time—just a complete, job-ready digital toolkit for the next generation of trades.
Nothing to pay in the class. A new site is live for 48 hours from the minute it is published, with no card. Keeping it up after that is $1 for the first month, then $10 a month, and they cancel any month.
What it is
A tool, not a curriculum.
A website builder for one job
Not a general-purpose builder. It knows sixty-nine 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 — no card, nothing to pay, the site is up the moment they press publish.
- 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.
Nothing is charged in the class. A new site is live for 48 hours from the minute it is published, with no card — which is what lets a student publish in the room and show it to somebody that evening. Keeping the site up after that is theirs to decide: $1 for the first month, then $10 a month, on their own card, cancelled from their own dashboard whenever they like. No school account, no invoice to your department.
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.ca 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.ca yourself. Same inbox.