The growth system behind ambitious UK trade businesses.
Trade Engine combines managed Google and Meta advertising, high-converting landing pages, Sitely and weekly accountability. Together, we create a measurable route from where your business is today to where you want it to be.
For builders, electricians, plumbers, heating engineers, roofers, bathroom fitters and other ambitious UK trade businesses.
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Illustrative Sitely screens. Figures shown are examples, not live business performance.
We do not take over your company or run your jobs for you. We install the marketing, systems and accountability that help you run the business properly and progressively step away from the tools.
Enquiries come in, then sit unanswered because everyone is on site.
Good opportunities go cold because nobody followed them up in time.
Quotations are late, inconsistent, or priced from memory.
Jobs, teams and customer updates live in WhatsApp and in your head.
You cannot see the real numbers — pipeline, capacity, margin or cash.
Nothing moves forward unless you personally push it.
The business has outgrown the way it is being run.
Most trade businesses reach a point where the owner becomes the ceiling. Leads, quotations, jobs, staff and cash all depend on one person. Trade Engine installs the marketing and operating systems that allow the company to grow with greater control.
Managed Google and Meta advertising, high-converting landing pages and lead-source tracking.
Sitely automatically follows up every enquiry and quote on Day 3, 8 and 15, so opportunities are never forgotten or left to go cold.
Structured sales stages, quotation tools, reminders and follow-up processes stop good opportunities being forgotten.
Jobs, schedules, teams, documents and customer updates are managed through one simple system.
Targets, pipeline, capacity, cash and job performance become visible to the owner.
Processes, responsibilities and daily actions are made clear so the business no longer operates from the owner's memory.
Tell us your trade, territory, current position and growth ambitions. We assess whether there is a genuine fit and whether your trade territory is available.
We sit down with you, agree the target and calculate the leads, appointments, quotations, sales and capacity required to reach it.
We configure your marketing, landing pages, Sitely account, sales stages, targets and operating processes.
You run the business through Sitely. Trade Engine manages the marketing, monitors performance and works with you to remove the next bottleneck.
This is a partnership, not a course and not a promise that somebody else will run your company for you.
Trade Engine does not simply send leads and hope for the best. We track what happens next. You will know what is working, what is being missed and what must happen to keep the business moving towards its target.
Three connected components. Ordinary marketing agencies do not provide them together.
Capture active demand
Puts you in front of local customers at the exact moment they are searching for your service and ready to buy.
Create demand and retarget
Builds familiarity with people who are not ready to enquire yet, then keeps you in front of them until they are.
Build trust before contact
Professional footage of real customers gives social proof, so people trust you before they ever pick up the phone.
Turn traffic into enquiries
Purpose-built pages built to convert, with every enquiry measured and attributed to its source.
Most agencies generate a lead and leave the rest to you. Trade Engine connects the marketing directly to Sitely, so every opportunity enters a controlled process from first enquiry through to completed work.
Every partner receives full access to Sitely. It connects:
Sitely modules are released in phases. Where a module has not yet launched, we say so plainly and confirm what is live today during onboarding.
As Sitely's Leads, Quotes, Jobs and Advertising modules come online, it will build a weekly performance report for Trade Engine and the partner. Where the data is available, it will show:
If you receive ten enquiries but contact only five, we will see it.
If surveys are completed but quotations are not being sent, we will see it.
If good opportunities are sitting without follow-up, we will see it.
We do not use this information to take over your business. We use it to identify where growth is being lost, challenge avoidance and agree the next actions with you.
A clear partnership structure: the growth plan, the marketing engine, the operating system, the setup and the accountability that keeps it improving.
Advertising spend is paid separately by the partner unless the commercial agreement states otherwise.
Sitely features are released in phases. Planned modules are not presented as live — we confirm what is available today during onboarding.
One monthly partnership fee. Advertising spend is paid separately.
Partnership terms and advertising budgets are agreed after we understand your trade, territory, target and capacity.
Apply NowWe provide and manage the marketing, install the systems, give you access to Sitely, measure the performance and hold the weekly accountability. You keep running your business.
The partnership works when both sides do their part.
We may partner with an electrician, plumber and roofer in the same area, but we will not appoint competing partners for the same core trade within the same agreed territory.
Territories are agreed using postcode coverage, local demand, population, practical travel distance and the partner's delivery capacity. Exclusivity is subject to the partnership agreement and ongoing performance requirements.
We calculate the sales, quotes, appointments and qualified enquiries your target requires. We then compare that activity with your current capacity, margins and average job value to create a realistic route forward.
We help trade businesses build towards seven figures, but seven figures is an ambition and a planning direction — not a guaranteed result, and not the right immediate target for every business. Every partner begins from their current position. Some need to increase average job value, team capacity or conversion rates first. Turnover alone is not success: margin, cash and delivery capacity matter just as much. All figures shown are planning figures.
This is the starting point. During onboarding, we calculate the qualified leads, appointments, quotations, teams and working capacity required to support this target.
Figures are planning estimates, not financial guarantees. Results depend on demand, budget, conversion, capacity, pricing and delivery.
Apply for a Partner PositionWe understand the pressure of managing customers, quotations, people, jobs and cash while still working in the business.
Campaigns are monitored by specialists and connected directly to measurable sales activity.
We provide the systems and visibility. You provide the leadership and delivery. Growth requires both.
We work with one partner per core trade within each agreed territory, and we onboard carefully so every partner gets proper attention. Acceptance depends on trade-territory availability, capability, delivery capacity and genuine fit.
One monthly partnership fee. Advertising spend is paid separately and agreed with you.
We will review your current Google Ads, website, Google Business Profile and enquiry journey, then show you where opportunities are being lost. No charge and no obligation — a member of the team reviews your details and contacts you to talk it through.
We have been where you are. On site at 7am, quoting at 10pm, chasing payments at the weekend. Watching the work pile up but the money not follow. We know what it feels like when everything runs through one person and that person is you.
You have built something. You have skills most people will never have. What is usually missing is not effort — it is a measurable plan, a marketing engine that actually feeds the pipeline, and a system that holds the business together when you step back.
That is what Trade Engine is. Not a course, not a logo, not somebody promising to run your company for you. If we are the right fit, brilliant. If we are not, we will still point you in the right direction.
Matt and the Trade Engine team.
Not every trade business is the right fit. We work with established, ambitious trade businesses that can deliver quality work and are prepared to follow a measurable growth plan.