Contribuda/trustwork

An open engine for the place where the construction industry meets.
Created and maintained by Contribuddha.
Read the news that matters to your trade. Meet people at events, or host your own. Learn something useful on a Tuesday evening. Find the subcontractor, supplier or client who actually fits, and see why. Buy and sell with quotes that can never be quietly changed. Keep an agent that represents you in the industry, works under your direction, and never steps outside the limits you set.
And run all of it for your own country or your own city, connected to every other hub in one worldwide mesh.
Trustwork is free software (AGPL-3.0-only). It is young, it is honest about what works today, and it is looking for people who want to build it with us.
## Why we are building this
Construction is one of the oldest crafts we have and one of the most fragmented industries in the world. A facade is designed by one firm, fixed by a second, clad by a third and maintained for decades by someone who never met any of them. Knowledge lives in the heads of site foremen. Reputation travels by phone calls between people who already know each other. A talented young contractor in a regional city can stay invisible for years to the very client who needs them.
We think the industry deserves a gathering point: a place people come back to because it is useful, where your professional story belongs to you, where trust is earned with evidence instead of bought with advertising, and where software helps people deal with each other more clearly and more fairly. Better communication makes better buildings.
## What you can do on a Trustwork hub
| Read | Topical news with named sources and honest dates, practical articles by practitioners, and a curated weekly magazine you can read on your phone or download as a properly laid-out PDF. Corrections are always visible. |
| Meet | Find conferences, site visits, webinars and meetups, register in a minute, and book meetings with the people you want to talk to. Host your own events, with tickets, check-in and materials. |
| Learn | Short, practical courses on real site work, and certificates anyone can check by number. |
| Be found | A personal profile that is yours for life, independent of your employer. A company page with its people, projects, catalogue and reputation. |
| Find partners | Publish what you need or what you offer. Matching explains why a candidate fits, shows what is unknown, and never sells positions. Introductions are double-opt-in. |
| Buy and sell | Turn a vague need into a clear request, collect quotes that are frozen once sent, compare them honestly, negotiate, and agree on terms both sides can prove are identical. |
| Build a reputation | Reputation comes from evidence of what actually happened: deliveries, acceptance, payment discipline, cooperation, and reviews tied to real work. Every score shows its method, sample sizes and what was excluded. Nobody can buy one. |
| Delegate to your agent | Your agent looks for partners, presents your services, negotiates and pursues your goals, under mandates you can read, change and revoke at any moment. It talks to other people's agents through structured offers, never through tricks. |