Get chosen for your work, not your price.
Your work, your prices and your checks on one profile. Homeowners see all of it and pick you before they call.
Founding tradies: free until 3 homeowners contact you, then from $19/mo. How billing works
The whole thing, start to finish
Aidan, who runs BLDESY, walks through it in his own words: setting up your profile, how homeowners find you, putting your hand up for a posted job, and quoting and invoicing the work.
- 1Why I built BLDESY
- 2Your profile and the five checks
- 3How homeowners find you
- 4Posted jobs and putting your hand up
- 5Quotes, invoices and Xero
- 6What you pay
$0
Per-lead fees
3
Leads free before you pay a cent
–
Tradies per trade, per area
175+
Inner-Sydney suburbs at launch
How it works
How a homeowner ends up calling you
- Exampleelectrician marrickville
bldesy.com.au › electricians › marrickville
Electricians in Marrickville | Verified & Licensed
Checked local electricians. See their work and prices before you call.
Step 1
They search for a local tradie
Someone in Marrickville types what they need, the way they always have.
- Example
Electricians in Marrickville
Your business✓ CheckedAnother local✓ CheckedAnother local✓ CheckedStep 2
They land on your trade's suburb page
Every trade and suburb has its own BLDESY page. Spots are capped, so it's a short list, not hundreds.
- Example
Your business name
✓ ABN✓ Licence✓ Photo ID✓ White Card✓ InsuranceExpress InterestStep 3
They open your profile
Your photos, your prices and your checks. They've picked you before they get in touch.
- Example
Messages · now
BLDESY lead alert
Sarah M is keen to hear from you. Call or text 0400 000 000Step 4
Your phone buzzes
You get a text with their name and number, and the details in your portal. Call them back. No lead fee.
The other way in
When a homeowner posts a job
Not a bidding war. A short list, and a homeowner who can see your work.
- 1
A job lands in your inbox
A homeowner in your area posts a job in your trade. You get an email with the details.
- 2
You see the whole job first
Location, scope, budget, timing and photos, before you do anything. No fee to look, no obligation.
- 3
Put your hand up, with a price if you like
Only the first 5 tradies can reply, within 72 hours of posting. Add a ballpark price so they know where you sit.
- 4
They choose, you quote
The homeowner compares replies against each tradie's profile and picks. Then you send a proper quote, built straight from the job.
Areas open once homeowners there are waiting, so you're not switched on to silence.
We're new, and we won't pretend otherwise. Work builds as each area opens — which is exactly why you pay nothing until 3 homeowners have contacted you.
Sound familiar?
Three ways good tradies get skipped
Referrals are ageing out
Referrals still work — but the people who swear by you are a generation older than the people buying the houses now.
No reviews, no look-in
New ABN, no reviews yet? You're getting filtered out before anyone's even seen the work.
Renting leads, keeping nothing
Paying for every lead, then quoting against a pile of other tradies — money that never stacks into anything you keep.
Same cause every time: they can't see or believe your work before you talk. Fix what they see, and price stops being the conversation.
Why it's different
Same job, two ways
Sarah in Marrickville needs a switchboard upgrade.
On a pay-per-lead site
- Sarah's job goes out as a lead. You pay to see it.
- So do other tradies. Whoever rings first or quotes lowest usually gets it.
- She knows nothing about you except your price.
- Win or lose, the lead's already paid for.
On BLDESY
- Sarah searches, finds your page and sees your switchboard photos and your price.
- She contacts you directly, or picks you from at most 5 replies on a posted job.
- Your checks are on show, so she rings already trusting you.
- No per-lead fee. Free until 3 homeowners contact you, then a flat plan from $19/mo.
Up to five checks
Your profile does the selling for you.
A verified shopfront, built once. No website needed.
Photos of your real work lead — homeowners pick the tradie whose finished jobs they can see. Then the checks make them believe it.
No reviews yet? That's fine. The badges are checked against official registers, and insurance certificates are verified directly. Not self-declared.
How they show on your profile
- ABN — checked against the Australian Business Register
- Licence — verified with NSW Fair Trading, in real time
- Photo ID — matched to the account, so no one trades on your name
- White Card — site-ready, checked
- Insurance — certificates AI-checked, with a person reviewing anything unclear
Done once. It sits there working.
Five minutes. Done once.
Verify
Sign up and pick your trade in about five minutes. We run the checks.
Put your work up
Your best photos, prices, specialties, service area. This is the bit that does the selling.
Get seen. Get chosen.
Homeowners who contact you have already seen your work and your price. Warmer calls, no quote-offs.
Not near your paperwork?
First name and mobile — we'll text you the link for when you've got your ABN handy.
See your savings
Stop paying per lead.
Paying for leads right now? Drag it to your monthly spend and see what you'd keep.
Roughly 8 shared leads a month at $50 each — and you're competing with other tradies for every one.
Lead-gen platforms
$400/mo
BLDESY Trade plan
$39/mo
You'd keep
$4,332/year
That's $361/month back in your pocket.
Founding period: join before we go live and keep your launch rate while you stay subscribed. Nobody pays until 3 homeowners reach out.
Capped on purpose.
When your trade is full in your area, it's full. That's the point — you're up against a set number of local tradies, not hundreds, so homeowners aren't wading through a long list to find you. Check your trade before someone else takes your area.
Capped per trade, per area
Is there a spot for you?
Pick your trade and where you work.
Checking…
We cap electrician spots per area — a set number per trade, per area — so you're competing with a few locals, not hundreds. When your area's full, it's full. Full area? Join the area waitlist and we'll let you know when a spot opens.
We don't fake testimonials.
BLDESY hasn't launched yet, so we're not going to invent quotes from tradies who don't exist. Instead: get verified before BLDESY goes live, pay nothing until 3 homeowners contact you, keep your launch rate while you stay subscribed, and get a permanent Founding Tradie badge that signals to homeowners you backed this thing early.
Your founding rate doesn't go up while you stay subscribed on the same plan.
On every plan
Won the job? Do the paperwork here too.
From quote to paid, then the next job from the same customer. No extra app, no add-on fee.
- 1
Branded quotes
Your logo and colours on every quote. Build from your price book, fixed-price services and saved templates — or import a supplier PDF price list.
- 2
Invoices
Turn a quote into an invoice with your bank details or PayID on it. Customers pay you direct — BLDESY never touches the money.
- 3
Xero sync
Connect Xero and every invoice you send lands there automatically.
- 4
Customers + Quote again
Everyone you've quoted or invoiced in one list. Tap Quote again and their details are filled in.
Built to keep you, not trap you
Pause billing 1–3 months
Quiet patch? Pause instead of cancelling. Your profile is hidden from search until you're back.
Your data, any time
Download your quotes, invoices, customers, prices and reviews as spreadsheets. No lock-in.
Pick your fit
Four tiers. Pick the one that fits your work.
Your first 3 leads cost nothing. After that, a 14-day grace period with a reminder before anything is charged. No per-lead fees. Annual billing gets you two months free. Launch rates locked while you stay subscribed.
Handyman
or $190/yr
Solo handymen, gardeners, cleaners — jobs under $500
Trade
or $390/yr
Licensed solo tradies — residential work $500–$10,000
Specialist
or $690/yr
Renovators, multi-trade firms — projects $10,000–$100,000
Commercial
or $1,290/yr
Building companies + larger multi-trade operations
Nothing to pay until 3 homeowners contact you.
Questions? We've got answers.
Signing up and creating your profile is completely free, and plans start at $19/month — no per-lead fees, no commissions, ever. Annual billing gets you two months free. Your card is never charged until 3 homeowners have contacted you through the platform — then a 14-day grace period runs before your first bill, with a reminder before anything is charged. Founding tradies — anyone verified before BLDESY goes live — keep their launch rate for as long as they stay subscribed.
Everyone who verifies before BLDESY goes live keeps a permanent Founding Tradie badge and keeps today's launch rate for as long as they stay subscribed on the same plan. And like every tradie on BLDESY, you don't pay a cent until we've brought you 3 homeowner enquiries.
We support 50+ trade categories — from builders, plumbers and electricians to specialists like arborists and civil contractors — with spots per trade capped in each area. Everyone needs a valid ABN. For licensed trades we verify your licence number live against NSW Fair Trading. For trades that don't carry a licence — like handyman or gardening — we still verify your ABN, photo ID and insurance; licence and White Card just don't apply.
Yes — it's included on every plan. Send branded quotes built from your price book, services and templates (or import a supplier PDF price list), turn them into invoices with your bank details or PayID, and sync sent invoices to Xero. Customers pay you direct; BLDESY never touches the money.
As homeowners in your area post jobs, the ones that fit your trade and service area reach you by email. You see the full job before you apply — no obligation.
Always. You see full job details before applying — location, scope, budget, timeline, the client's previous-job history. You only apply to jobs you actually want. No obligation, no pressure, no penalty for being selective.
We're launching inner Sydney first — nine zones, 175+ suburbs — and expanding area by area from there. Work outside our founding neighbourhoods? Apply anyway: you'll reserve your spot for your area and we'll tell you the moment it opens.
Spots capped per trade, per area
Stop paying per lead. Start getting chosen.
Join before we go live · free until 3 homeowners contact you · launch rates locked in
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