Why We Built Clearwork for Trades

If you're a sparky, plumber, handyman, landscaper, roofer, or anyone running a trade business, you already know the truth:

The work isn’t the hard part.
The paperwork is.

Jobs coming in through WhatsApp.
Photos saved randomly in your camera roll.
Quotes scribbled on paper.
Invoices sent late.
Clients chasing you for updates.
Teams not knowing what job they’re meant to be on.
Trying to sort everything at 9pm when you should be with your family.

We've seen this over and over.
And honestly — we’d had enough of watching good trades lose money simply because their admin was a mess.

So we built Clearwork.

Not for tech companies.
Not for agencies.
Not for office people.

For trades. For you.

The real problem we wanted to fix

We’ve worked with trades for years — building software, helping them organise jobs, listening to how their days actually go.

And the story is always the same:

• Work comes in everywhere: WhatsApp, calls, texts, Facebook.
• Important details get buried under 200 unrelated messages.
• Photos get lost.
• Invoices get written late.
• Jobs get forgotten altogether.
• Parts and materials don’t get tracked properly.
• Money gets left on the table.

Most trades aren’t short on work.
They’re short on organisation.

Not because they’re unorganised people —
but because every job comes flying in at full speed, while the admin piles up behind them.

And every bit of software out there was either:

• too complicated,
• too expensive, or
• built for big construction firms, not small crews.

So we decided to build something better.

Who we are

We’re just two developers who’ve spent years building real tools for real businesses:

• I (Brandon) built the entire web dashboard and the backend API — the bit you use on your laptop or desktop to manage jobs, customers, invoices, and all the behind-the-scenes logic.
• My Co-founder built the mobile app in Flutter — the bit you have in your pocket, quick and simple, so you can add jobs, log work, and upload photos on site.

We didn’t have a massive budget.
We didn’t have investors.
We didn’t build this for a boardroom.

We built Clearwork for actual trades who work hard and hate admin.

What Clearwork actually does (in plain English)

Here’s the simplest way to put it:

Everything for your jobs in one place.
No more chaos.

Clearwork lets you:

• Put every job into one clean job list
• Add customers without digging through old messages
• Attach job photos and never lose them again
• Track labour and materials properly
• See what’s finished and what still needs doing
• Create tidy invoices without messing about
• Keep your team on the same page
• Stop everything slipping through the cracks

You don’t need a training course.
You don’t need a manual.

If you can use WhatsApp, you can use Clearwork.

Who Clearwork is for

Clearwork is built for:

• One-man trades
• Small teams (2–10 people)
• Contractors who are always on the go
• Anyone who still works out of WhatsApp, Notes app, Excel, or paper
• Anyone who hates admin but needs to stay on top of jobs

If that sounds like you, you’re exactly who we built this for.

Clearwork isn’t here to change how you work — it’s here to stop things slipping through the cracks.

And here’s what Clearwork is not

This is important.

Clearwork is not:

• A bloated corporate system
• A complicated construction management platform
• A massive piece of software with 500 pointless features
• A tool that takes three weeks to learn
• Something built for office people

No jargon.
No over-the-top dashboards.
No nonsense.

Just simple tools for real trades.

Why we care so much

Because paperwork shouldn’t be the thing holding you back.

We’ve watched trades lose:

• jobs,
• time,
• photos,
• materials,
• invoices,
• money,
• and evenings with their families

all because they didn’t have a simple way to keep everything together.

Clearwork is our answer to that.

A tool built for the real world.
Fast, simple, reliable.
Something you can use on your phone with dirty hands on a cold job site and it still works.

What’s coming next

We’re building Clearwork the right way:

• No investors telling us to cram in features nobody wants
• No pressure to bloat the system
• No chasing big corporate contracts

Just honest improvements based on what real trades actually need.

The mobile app will keep getting new features.
The dashboard will keep getting easier and faster.
And we’re going to keep listening.

If you’re sick of the admin pile

Clearwork won’t magically run your business for you.
But it will take a huge amount of pressure off your shoulders.

If your day looks like a mix of:

• missed messages
• lost photos
• forgotten jobs
• late invoices
• and evening admin catch-ups

then Clearwork will help a lot.

And if it doesn’t, then we didn’t build it right. Simple as that.

If you’re curious, give it a try. No pressure. No hard sell. Just a cleaner way to run your day.

Thanks for reading.
And if you ever want to chat or give feedback, I’m always around.

– Brandon