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Connection Without Compromise

Find what you need. Show what you offer.

Find what you need. Show what you offer. TradeScout connects people and local businesses without sold leads, paid ranking, or contact before acceptance.

Use normal TradeScout pages or open Scout for guidance. Both paths keep the same businesses, requests, jobs, properties, and outcomes connected.

Recommendations drive TradeScout. Direct Connect sends one protected request only to businesses the requester chooses, and contact information opens after acceptance.

TradeScout, in plain language

  1. Scout helps people understand a need, compare reasonable paths, and prepare a next step.
  2. Requests and contact stay protected until the requester sends and the business accepts.
  3. The business home keeps offers, proof, availability, requests, work, and outcomes together.
  4. Home and property keep useful records and work history with the property.
  5. Money explains how TradeScout stays free without selling leads or trust.
  6. Community turns local participation and completed outcomes into useful context.
  7. CVS reflects verified standing and real performance; payment cannot buy it.
  8. Every feature shows the connected tools available to requesters and businesses.

The Scout page

One question can create value for both sides.

Scout helps a requester understand a need and choose a next step. It also helps a business use TradeScout, be considered for work that fits, and receive a clearer request when the requester chooses to send one. Scout recommends and prepares; both sides still approve the action.

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Understand the need

  1. 01. Clarify the need

    For the requester: Start in ordinary language. Describe the problem, goal, product, property, event, job, or decision without knowing the correct category first. Scout asks for the missing details that would materially change the answer.

    For the business: Receive a need that is easier to judge. When the requester proceeds, the business can receive clearer work, timing, location, budget, urgency, and fit information instead of a vague call or empty contact form.

  2. 02. Compare the paths

    For the requester: See more than one reasonable answer. Compare hiring, doing it yourself, buying, renting, booking, posting, requesting, or waiting when those are valid choices. Scout can put the strongest path first without hiding the alternatives.

    For the business: Compete on fit instead of purchased position. A business can be considered because its offer, location, availability, verification, recommendations, and outcome history fit the need—not because it bought a higher rank.

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Explain and prepare

  1. 03. Explain the recommendation

    For the requester: Understand why an option fits. See the useful evidence, local context, tradeoffs, missing information, and checks that matter before acting. A recommendation is a supported starting point, not an unexplained command.

    For the business: Let the maintained business record speak. The profile, offers, service area, current availability, verified proof, recommendations, response history, and completed outcomes can help explain why the business belongs in the answer.

  2. 04. Keep control

    For the requester: Review before anything is sent. Scout can prepare a request, listing draft, post, or other next step, but the requester reviews it and chooses whether to continue, who should receive it, and what information is included.

    For the business: A recommendation is not permission to interrupt. Being shown by Scout does not expose private contact information or create a blind call. A selected business reviews a submitted request before direct contact opens.

  3. 05. Move into action

    For the requester: Carry the answer into the next tool. Useful context can become a prepared Direct Connect request, Exchange listing draft, HomeID action, community post, saved comparison, or another reviewable next step without starting over.

    For the business: Receive context, not a resold name. The chosen business gets a structured opportunity tied to the original need. TradeScout does not charge the business for the lead or broadcast the same private contact to a crowd.

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Carry context forward

  1. 06. Prepare the next action

    For the requester: Start the next tool with the answer already attached. Review a prepared request, listing draft, HomeID action, community post, saved comparison, booking step, or purchase path without describing the same need again.

    For the business: Receive the context the requester approved. If the requester chooses the business, the prepared action can carry the relevant scope, timing, location, evidence, and constraints forward instead of becoming an empty lead.

  2. 07. Use connected context

    For the requester: Bring the relevant history forward. Scout can use selected HomeID context, prior conversation, saved work, nearby activity, recommendations, listings, events, and current proof when that information belongs in the decision.

    For the business: Keep business information useful everywhere. Updating the profile, offer, service area, availability, verification, or completed work improves the source Scout can use instead of forcing the business to maintain a separate answer for every search.

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Operate and promote

  1. 08. Use Scout as a business tool

    For the requester: Ask for help across daily decisions. A requester can use Scout for local help, products, property, projects, employment, community activity, events, trust checks, price factors, and what to do next.

    For the business: Ask what the business should do next. A business owner can use Scout to review profile gaps, verification needs, offers, customer requests, materials, local demand signals, property work, finances, and the next available operating step.

  2. 09. Match promotion to the need

    For the requester: See useful options at the useful moment. When the need calls for a product, service, material, booking, or local offer, Scout can include a relevant option in the decision instead of filling the page with promotions unrelated to the question.

    For the business: Put the offer where it can actually help. A business can describe what it sells, where it applies, who it fits, and when it is available. Scout can bring that offer forward when the active need matches it. Any paid, sponsored, or affiliate placement stays identified and cannot buy a recommendation, CVS, or false fit.

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Improve the next result

  1. 10. Improve the next result

    For the requester: Leave useful evidence for the next requester. The recommendation, request, response, completed outcome, and later positive or negative recommendation can make the next answer more informed.

    For the business: Earn stronger discovery through participation. Timely responses, completed work, verified purchases, recommendations, current proof, and resolved problems can improve future trust and fit. Payment cannot manufacture that history.

Direct Connect

A request becomes contact only after both sides choose it.

Direct Connect owns the request, preview, acceptance, contact, and outcome. It is not a lead list, an open contact form, or permission to interrupt someone because Scout mentioned a business.

Topic 01 of 05

Prepare the request

  1. 01. Prepare the request

    For the requester: Define the need before sending it. Review the outcome, scope, place, timing, urgency, budget information, photos, documents, property context, and anything else the recipient needs to judge the request.

    For the business: Nothing arrives while the request is still a draft. A search, comparison, or recommendation does not create a lead. The business receives nothing until the requester approves the request and chooses where it should go.

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Choose recipients

  1. 02. Choose recipients

    For the requester: Choose who may review the request. Use recommendations, profile evidence, service area, availability, CVS, credentials, and fit to choose a business. Sending to more than one business remains an explicit requester choice, not an automatic broadcast.

    For the business: Appear because the request fits. Eligibility can depend on the offer, location, availability, current proof, category requirements, recommendations, outcomes, and CVS. Payment cannot buy inclusion or priority.

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Preview before contact

  1. 03. Preview before contact

    For the requester: See what will be shared before it leaves. The requester reviews the recipient and the information packet. Unrelated Home Vault records, private documents, and contact details stay out unless the requester deliberately includes or authorizes them.

    For the business: Judge the opportunity before exposing direct contact. The business can review the supplied scope, timing, location context, evidence, and constraints before accepting. This reduces blind calls, vague inquiries, poor-fit work, and time spent chasing a resold name.

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Accept or decline

  1. 04. Accept or decline

    For the requester: Receive a decision instead of losing control of the request. If a business declines or does not fit, the requester can keep the request, revise it, or choose another recipient. A decline does not release private contact information.

    For the business: Accept suitable work or decline it without buying the lead. The response becomes part of the request history. Timely accepts and declines can support responsiveness signals; silence and repeated poor handling can affect future eligibility.

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Work and outcome

  1. 05. Work and outcome

    For the requester: Keep the conversation, decision, payment, and result with the need. Messages, quotes, bookings, purchases, work steps, payment records, completion evidence, disputes, and the final recommendation can stay attached instead of being rebuilt across disconnected services.

    For the business: Turn an accepted request into an operating record. Clients, jobs, materials, estimates, invoices, receipts, follow-ups, delivery proof, and completed outcomes can improve the business record and future recommendations when the evidence supports them.

What is different about TradeScout

A working business home, not another page on the internet.

TradeScout is for the full small-business economy—not only contractors. A restaurant, retailer, service company, shop, practice, maker, or professional can be found, checked, chosen, contacted, and paid through one connected system.

Topic 01 of 08

How category tools work

Built around the business

Business-category tools are rolling out every day.

TradeScout adds tools around how each kind of business actually operates, so each profile can replace more of the separate software that kind of business pays for today.

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Service businesses

Service businesses

Move from request to completed work.

Profile offers, service areas, proof, Direct Connect requests, estimates, jobs, materials, invoices, payment records, licensing, insurance, and completed-work history.

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Restaurants, shops, and sellers

Restaurants, retail, makers, and sellers

Turn discovery into an order or visit.

Profiles, hours, locations, recommendations, fixed-price items or services, bookings, purchases, promotions, and Exchange categories including local food and handmade goods.

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Property professionals

Realtors and property professionals

Connect the listing to the property record.

Property listings, clients, market analysis, comparative market analysis, appointments, contacts, inspections, repair decisions, and the history that follows the asset.

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Vehicle sellers

Vehicle sellers

Manage more than the listing.

Vehicle listings, customer follow-up, financing steps, trade-in information, VIN lookup, appointments, and the conversations that move a buyer toward a decision.

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Managers, HOAs, and groups

Property managers, HOAs, and groups

Keep shared responsibilities visible.

Residents, members, maintenance requests, violations, documents, vendors, votes, finances, community posts, and the decisions tied to a shared place.

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Employers, workers, and helpers

Employers, workers, and helpers

Connect available work with available people.

Job posts, resume posts, pay ranges, applications, shortlists, helper profiles, odd jobs, crew needs, job-site support, and direct replies after the right checks.

Topic 08 of 08

Replace the website stack

Selective Inheritance

Keep your domain. Replace the website and the pile of services behind it.

Your existing domain should point directly to your TradeScout business profile. That profile becomes your public business home inside the same system people use to find you, check your proof, contact you, send a request, choose what happens next, and handle payment-related steps.

The stack businesses pay for now

Disconnected pieces of one customer journey.

  • A website, hosting, forms, listings, messaging, lead services, and payment add-ons
  • The same business information maintained in several places
  • Separate bills for disconnected pieces of one customer journey
  • A domain that sends people to a page with no connection to the rest of the process

TradeScout as the business home

One maintained profile that keeps working.

  • Your existing domain points straight to one maintained profile
  • One profile supports discovery, proof, contact, requests, decisions, and payments
  • Useful facts and media can move over with their source and check date attached
  • Stop paying another vendor for any job TradeScout already provides

HomeID, HomeScout, and 1 Tap Sale

The property keeps its history. The owner controls what happens next.

HomeID is the durable property record. HomeScout is the discovery, listing, and action side. Direct Connect turns a property need into work, then verified results can improve the HomeID. 1 Tap Sale begins the selling path from information the owner has already kept.

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HomeID and the private record

HomeID

Give the property an identity that lasts longer than one owner.

HomeID belongs to the property identity, not to a username. Owners and other authorized people receive time-scoped authority over it. When ownership changes, the identity and allowed history can continue while the prior owner's private information stays private. A property manager can receive only the authority needed to maintain the property without being treated as the owner.

The private Home Vault

Keep the details that are expensive to reconstruct later.

An owner can keep property details, systems and appliances, models and serial numbers, maintenance, upgrades, inspections, costs, warranties, documents, photos, evidence, maintenance schedules, projects, build milestones, and a completed-work timeline. Authorized professionals can start with what the owner has approved instead of rebuilding the property story from scattered files and memory.

Physical HomeID NFC card

Carry a tap-to-open access point when the property record is needed on the go.

Use a compatible phone to open an owner-approved HomeID view during a listing appointment, walkthrough, inspection, maintenance visit, or vendor handoff. The tap never makes the entire private Home Vault public; the owner still chooses what to share.

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Requests and inspections

From record to request

Use the property history to ask for the right work.

The owner chooses which HomeID details belong in a request, previews the packet, and creates a Direct Connect draft. Nothing is sent just because the record exists. The chosen business sees useful context without receiving unrelated private property information.

From completed work back to HomeID

Let verified work improve the property memory.

Estimates, invoices, receipts, inspections, maintenance, upgrades, completion evidence, and other approved records can be linked to the property. Evidence and verification rules decide what becomes part of the timeline.

Inspection intelligence and expedited follow-up

Reduce the time between a question, usable evidence, and the right follow-up.

TradeScout is building guided, evidence-linked workflows for permit inspections, home inspections, insurance claims, pre-sale review, item valuation, and equipment condition. TradeScout cannot approve a permit, guarantee a faster appointment, replace an official inspection, or turn general guidance into local authority.

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HomeScout and selling

HomeScout

Turn property information into discovery and action.

HomeScout connects property listings with Exchange discovery, inspection and repair decisions, Direct Connect work, and the HomeID that should survive the transaction. A HomeID can exist without a public listing; a listing is an action taken from the record, not the record itself.

1 Tap Sale

Start the sale without rebuilding the property from scratch.

1 Tap Sale uses saved HomeID and Home Vault information to start a HomeScout listing draft. It does not complete a property sale in one tap. The owner reviews the listing, chooses what becomes public, supplies anything missing, and controls submission and transfer.

Transfer without oversharing

Carry the useful property record forward, not the prior owner's private life.

A sale or approved handoff closes the old authority window and opens the new one. The transfer packet is explicit and filtered by visibility rules. Private owner data does not automatically transfer with the home.

AssetID direction

Use HomeID as the first durable asset record.

The larger design is an AssetID pattern for records that can outlast individual owners. HomeID is the implemented starting point; future asset types will only claim the same depth when their history, authority, evidence, and transfer support actually exist.

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For realtors

What this changes for a realtor

Spend less time reconstructing the property and more time representing the client.

HomeID does not replace the realtor. It gives an authorized realtor a cleaner starting point, better-supported answers, and a connected way to move from listing preparation to closing without taking control away from the owner.

Prepare the listing faster

Use owner-approved property facts, systems, upgrades, documents, and completed work instead of asking the seller to rebuild everything from memory.

See what needs attention before launch

Review missing details, inspection findings, maintenance history, and items that need verification before they become buyer questions.

Coordinate sale preparation

Turn repairs, cleanup, staging support, photos, or inspection follow-up into controlled Direct Connect requests with the right property context attached.

Share better information during the appointment

Use the physical HomeID NFC card or an owner-approved packet during a listing meeting, walkthrough, inspection, or buyer conversation.

Support claims with dated evidence

Separate documented systems, maintenance, upgrades, and completed work from unsupported marketing language.

Carry the property through closing

Prepare an explicit transfer packet so useful history can follow the home while private seller information stays out of the buyer handoff.

Keep the client relationship connected

Use realtor clients, market analysis, comparative market analysis, appointments, contacts, connections, and follow-up beside the property workflow.

Explain what 1 Tap Sale actually saves

It saves the first round of duplicate entry by starting a listing draft from HomeID; professional review, pricing, presentation, disclosure, and submission still matter.

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For property managers

What this changes for a property manager

Manage the property from its history instead of a pile of disconnected work orders.

A property manager can receive scoped authority to maintain the asset, coordinate vendors, and keep records current without becoming the owner or receiving every private owner record.

Keep each property separate and durable

Store systems, appliances, documents, inspections, completed work, and schedules with the property they belong to.

Give vendors useful context

Share the component, issue, prior work, access details, and selected evidence needed for the job without opening the entire owner vault.

Turn maintenance into a controlled request

Create and review a Direct Connect request from the property record, then choose who receives it and when contact opens.

Use the NFC card during field work

Tap the physical HomeID card at the property to reach an approved view or packet during inspection, maintenance, turnover, or vendor access.

Track recurring work and costs

Keep maintenance schedules, project planning, invoices, receipts, costs, warranties, and completion evidence attached to the asset.

Coordinate HOA and shared-property work

Connect residents, maintenance requests, violations, documents, approved vendors, votes, and finances where a managed community is involved.

Prepare for sale or owner review

Use the property history to explain condition, recent work, open items, and sale preparation without reconstructing years of management activity.

Hand off management cleanly

Close the prior manager's authority and open the next one while the allowed property history stays with the asset.

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Owner-led sale

When an owner does not want a realtor

Use the same property history to lead the sale directly.

TradeScout does not require a realtor to start a HomeScout listing. The owner can choose an owner-led path, use 1 Tap Sale to begin from HomeID, and bring in only the professional help they decide they need.

Start without re-entering the property

Use saved property facts, systems, upgrades, documents, photos, and completed work to prepare the first listing draft.

Choose what buyers can see

Publish selected listing information and share approved HomeID evidence without making the private Home Vault public.

Prepare the property through Direct Connect

Request inspection follow-up, repairs, cleanup, photography, moving help, or other sale preparation from selected businesses and helpers.

Answer property questions with history

Use dated maintenance, systems, appliances, documents, and completed-work records instead of relying only on memory or sales language.

Share on site with the NFC card

Open an owner-approved HomeID view or packet during a showing, walkthrough, inspection, or buyer conversation.

Keep the choice to add representation later

Invite an authorized realtor or another professional when that help becomes valuable without abandoning the existing record or listing work.

Avoid paying for representation the owner does not want

An owner-led path can avoid a representation fee that was never chosen. Other transaction, inspection, repair, title, closing, tax, or legal costs may still apply.

Know what TradeScout does not replace

TradeScout does not provide the owner's pricing judgment, required disclosures, negotiation, contract review, title work, closing services, inspections, or legal advice.

How money works

TradeScout earns money without selling leads, trust, ranking, or contact information.

Core access, standard profiles, requests, and connections are free. TradeScout earns through disclosed transaction fees, qualifying partner revenue, optional profile and marketing services, branded product sales, and labeled sponsorships.

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Automatic affiliate split

For every account

Affiliate attribution is automatic.

When a signed-in account shares a TradeScout link, its referral code is attached. If someone joins through that link and later generates qualifying TradeScout revenue, the program attributes 5% to the referrer, 5% to community vaults, and 5% to trade and culinary scholarships.

Key conditions: No signup fee; No fee to share; Revenue event required

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How TradeScout earns

For TradeScout

The platform earns at specific money events.

The current purchase rule is a flat id="root" TradeScout fee on an on-platform purchase. TradeScout can also earn commission from qualifying partner offers and revenue from approved, clearly labeled sponsor or advertising relationships. None of those payments can buy CVS, organic ranking, request routing, or contact information.

Key conditions: id="root" purchase fee; Partner commission; Labeled sponsorship

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Optional business spending

For businesses — optional paid service

Express Profile is an optional done-for-you service.

A business can still claim, create, and operate its standard TradeScout profile for free. Express Profile pays for hands-on design, setup, and publishing of a more customized branded presentation. The charge pays for that work—not CVS, recommendations, organic ranking, request routing, leads, or access to contact information.

Key conditions: Optional; Scope and price disclosed first; No trust advantage

For businesses — planned, not active

A business will be able to pay only for an agreed result.

A business would choose whether to participate and agree to the event that creates a charge. Event types, rates, billing, and settlement rules have not been set up yet, so TradeScout is not charging businesses through this model today.

Key conditions: Business chooses; Cost event agreed first; No paid ranking

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ScoutFitters

ScoutFitters — products and services

Brand purchases help subsidize the TradeScout ecosystem.

ScoutFitters sells useful brand products and marketing services instead of charging people for TradeScout access. Its current self-serve tool lets a business upload a logo, preview placement, and order configured branded workwear.

  • Metal business cards and NFC business cards
  • Engraved, printed, and other custom-branded products
  • Marketing services, social marketing plans, and related brand support

Community reinvestment and opportunity

Local activity should create more than a transaction.

TradeScout is designed to keep useful work, money, evidence, and opportunity circulating through the communities that created them. Current products, stated initiatives, and planned programs stay clearly separated so support for the mission is never mistaken for a guarantee that a program has already launched.

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Community vaults

Community vaults and Community Builders

Show what came in and help decide where it can do local good.

Community vaults keep local contributions visible and connected to local efforts. Community Builders can review needs, propose or support efforts, and help direct funding across education, health, housing, food access, youth and elder support, environmental work, public spaces, emergency relief, and veteran support.

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Scholarships and Trade-Up

Trade and culinary scholarships

Help more people afford training, tools, and a path into skilled work.

Scholarship funding is intended to reduce the cost of education and training in skilled trades and culinary fields. A school partner, recipient, award, or distribution process is only confirmed when TradeScout names it publicly.

Trade-Up For Trade Schools

Trade one carpenter's pencil toward $250,000 in trade-school scholarships.

The TradeScout-run series starts with one carpenter's pencil and follows consecutive accepted swaps toward the goal. Verified updates are added as trades occur; it does not imply a school endorsement, selected recipient, or finished distribution process.

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Jobs, resumes, and helpers

Hiring and employment

Let employers post work and let people show that they are available.

The Employment Board supports job posts and resume posts. Employers can include the work, place, trade, and pay range, then review applicants and shortlist or decline them. A complete applicant-tracking workspace is not finished yet.

Helpers and odd jobs

Treat useful people as first-class participants.

Helpers can offer odd jobs, gig work, non-licensed labor, cleanup, moving, yard work, furniture assembly, seasonal tasks, job-site support, and crew overflow through the same request and outcome system. Work that legally requires a license still requires it.

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Veteran opportunity

Veteran work and training

Build paths from service into local work, retraining, and business ownership.

TradeScout's stated direction includes veteran job opportunities, tools, retraining, job placement support, and connections into skilled work. Dedicated partners, program terms, and guaranteed placements are not published as an active standalone program yet.

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How the loop connects

The intended loop

Work creates history; history creates trust; revenue helps create the next opportunity.

A requester finds help, both sides choose the connection, the outcome improves future recommendations, the business keeps more of what it earns, and qualifying revenue can support referrers, local efforts, education, training, and future workers.

Community Verification Score (CVS)

Trust affects where an account appears and what it can do.

Community Verification Score is not a star rating or a payment tier. It uses verification, responsiveness, completed outcomes, recommendations, marketplace history, and risk signals to decide where an account can appear and which actions it is eligible to take.

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What CVS changes

What it changes

Who can appear, where they appear, and what they can do.

CVS can affect Scout ordering, Direct Connect eligibility, Exchange visibility, Community standing, maps, directories, and other places where verified trust matters.

The four outcomes

Eligible, limited, restricted, or blocked.

A strong score in one area cannot erase a missing required credential, a suspended verification, or an active risk condition in another.

What it does not promise

Evidence improves the decision; it does not guarantee the outcome.

CVS cannot promise price, quality, availability, or fit. The requester and business still make those decisions.

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What raises or lowers it

What can raise the current score

Verified activity earns points.

  • Completed jobs: +2 each, up to +12
  • People helped: +1 each, up to +5
  • Active weeks: +1 to +4; recent activity: +1 or +2
  • Timely request responses, including accepts or declines: +1 to +3
  • Approved public positive recommendations: +2 each, up to +10
  • Delivered orders: up to +5; verified-purchase positive reviews: up to +5

What can lower the current score

Problems remain attached to the history.

  • Approved public negative recommendations: −5 each, up to −20
  • Verified-purchase negative reviews: −3 each, up to −12
  • Active disputes: −4 each, up to −12
  • Activity older than a year after prior participation: −2
  • Confirmed low external reputation can apply a small −3 or −6 adjustment

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Required proof and limits

What can cap or stop eligibility

Missing required proof can stop access, even when other signals are strong.

  • Rejected or suspended verification sets the score to 0
  • An unverified address normally sets the score to 0
  • A service provider missing required approved license or insurance evidence scores 0
  • A profile that is not fully approved is capped below 50
  • Expired credentials create risk flags and can stop new request eligibility

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Outside evidence

Outside evidence

Useful, labeled, and limited.

For a non-service business, a confirmed public listing and enough outside history can provide a limited starting score. Confirmed external ratings can apply a small adjustment. They never become TradeScout work history and never replace required identity, address, license, or insurance proof.

Temporary points for verified launch evidence

Audited and never purchased.

Current policy can temporarily recognize a fully verified launch, a named operator who confirms the business firsthand, or an attributable portfolio. Every grant records its evidence and expiration.

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Why payment cannot affect it

What never affects CVS

Money cannot buy trust.

Subscriptions, advertising, sponsorship, affiliate participation, transaction fees, and paid promotion cannot improve CVS, organic ordering, request routing, or contact access. Profile display choices also stay separate from CVS scoring.

Feature inventory

Everything TradeScout helps you do.

Topic 01 of 04

Discover and decide

  • 01.01. Scout — Ask what to do next

    Describe a need, search, compare options, and get a useful next step.

  • 01.02. Scout safety and code guidance — Check safety, codes, permits, and inspection steps

    Scout can explain general safety concerns, identify locally sourced requirements when available, flag what still needs confirmation, and prepare the next step. It does not issue permits, replace official code text, or act as the inspector.

  • 01.03. Recommendations — See who people support or warn against

    Read positive and negative experiences with comments, context, and moderation.

  • 01.04. Community — Follow what is happening nearby

    See questions, updates, organizations, events, and business activity around you.

  • 01.05. Decision Cards — Turn information into a next step

    See the recommended action, why it fits, and what should be checked first.

  • 01.06. Business profiles — Compare the business behind the offer

    See what it offers, where it operates, who controls it, and what proof is available.

  • 01.07. Community Verification Score (CVS) — Understand why an account appears

    See trust eligibility shaped by verification, responsiveness, outcomes, recommendations, marketplace history, and risk.

  • 01.08. Maps — See activity and service coverage

    Explore businesses, listings, offers, and local activity by place instead of searching disconnected sources.

  • 01.09. Leaderboard — See who is contributing locally

    Compare participation and trust momentum without letting payment buy the position.

  • 01.10. Local directories — Browse organized local results

    Move through businesses, places, categories, and recent activity without losing the location that makes the result relevant.

  • 01.11. Advanced search — Search local help with more filters

    Narrow local providers by place, service, and available profile evidence when the ordinary directory is too broad.

  • 01.12. People discovery — Find verified people nearby

    Search verified people by place, open a profile, request a connection, or move into a controlled Direct Connect conversation.

  • 01.13. Social connections — Follow people and keep local relationships

    Follow or unfollow people, review existing connections, and keep social participation distinct from permission to receive a business request.

  • 01.14. Decision calculators — Compare common cost factors

    Use available mortgage, vehicle-payment, pricing, affordability, and project-cost tools as inputs to a decision without treating an estimate as an approval or final price.

  • 01.15. Emergency directory — Find urgent local help

    Narrow the business directory to services intended for time-sensitive local needs.

  • 01.16. TradeDeals — Find partner offers for active needs

    See relevant supplier and partner offers when they can help with a project or purchase.

  • 01.17. Exchange — Buy, sell, or rent locally

    Browse property, vehicles, equipment, tools, food, business items, and other local listings.

  • 01.18. Installable app — Install TradeScout on the device

    Add TradeScout to a supported phone, tablet, or computer home screen while keeping the same account and connected work.

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Connect and act

  • 02.01. Requests — Turn a need into a trackable request

    Keep the description, recipients, decisions, and progress attached to one need.

  • 02.02. Direct Connect — Send it only to businesses you choose

    Selected businesses review the request; contact opens only after acceptance.

  • 02.03. Messages and quotes — Keep the conversation with the request

    Carry questions, replies, quotes, and follow-ups beside the work they concern.

  • 02.04. Conversation search — Search prior conversations

    Find the person, business, request, or message thread without opening every conversation one at a time.

  • 02.05. Notifications — See what changed without checking every tool

    Review request activity, conversation requests, replies, status changes, and the next action from one notification center.

  • 02.06. Connections — Return to people who approved contact

    Keep agreed direct contacts separate from followers and strangers.

  • 02.07. Verification — Check identity and business proof

    Use the checks that fit the person, business, claim, or action instead of one badge for everything.

  • 02.08. Background screening and Screen Pass — Complete extra screening when the role requires it

    A background-check intake exists as an additional verification path. Screen Pass is the portable direction: show that the required screen was completed without exposing the private report. Broader partner completion is still expanding.

  • 02.09. Claims — Establish who controls something

    Claim a business, profile, property, or asset before taking actions that require authority.

  • 02.10. Fixed-price offers — Sell a defined service or item

    Publish a clear offer so the customer can understand the scope and begin a guided request or purchase.

  • 02.11. Bookings — Let customers request a time

    Show availability, accept booking requests, and collect a disclosed deposit when paid booking is enabled.

  • 02.12. Checkout and payment history — Complete a disclosed payment

    Pay for an eligible purchase, booking, or work step and keep the result in the account history.

  • 02.13. Employment Board — Post a job or a resume

    Businesses can post openings and review applicants; people can post resumes and apply. A complete applicant-tracking workspace is still being built.

  • 02.14. Helpers — Find help for ordinary work

    Connect people who do odd jobs, gig work, non-licensed labor, cleanup, moving, yard work, and crew support with people who need those skills.

  • 02.15. Groups and HOA tools — Coordinate a shared place

    Organize members, requests, vendors, finances, votes, documents, and neighborhood activity around one community.

  • 02.16. Events — Publish and follow a local event

    Create community activity that people can discover beside the businesses, groups, and places involved.

  • 02.17. Community moderation — Report harmful or misleading activity

    Use reports, moderation review, content limits, and account restrictions to protect participation without turning popularity or payment into authority.

  • 02.18. Notary services — Request a mobile or remote notarization

    Start a mobile or remote notary request with the service details and legal limits kept distinct from ordinary service work.

Topic 03 of 04

Keep the useful record

  • 03.01. Asset Management — Track the assets you care for

    Keep inspections, maintenance, upgrades, documents, and project history together with a home-first focus.

  • 03.02. HomeID — Preserve a property history

    Carry components, service, completed work, ownership context, and supporting records forward.

  • 03.03. HomeScout and Exchange property listings — Publish or follow a property listing

    Keep property discovery, listing details, decisions, inspections, and later ownership records connected.

  • 03.04. Zero Base Fee inspection tools — Capture a guided property inspection

    Eligible roles can document a property with guided capture, then keep the report available for repair and ownership decisions.

  • 03.05. Supply Run — Order and track materials

    Build a materials order, send it for fulfillment, follow status, and keep proof with the run.

  • 03.06. Saved items — Save something for later

    Keep useful listings, offers, projects, and ideas available without starting the search over.

  • 03.07. Notes — Write down what matters

    Keep working notes close to the people, jobs, purchases, and decisions they support.

  • 03.08. Privacy requests — Request access to or deletion of account data

    Submit a privacy request without treating a public profile, transaction record, or legally retained record as the same kind of data.

  • 03.09. Policies and compliance — Review the rules that govern an action

    Keep privacy, terms, verification, professional requirements, marketplace rules, and action-specific limits available beside the work they govern.

Topic 04 of 04

Run and grow the business

  • 04.01. Business profile — Publish one business home

    Show the offer, service area, proof, recommendations, requests, and next actions in one place.

  • 04.02. Custom domain — Point your existing domain to it

    Keep the domain customers already know while the TradeScout profile becomes the working business home.

  • 04.03. Selective Inheritance — Carry over useful outside evidence

    Bring supported facts, media, records, and certifications with the source and observation date attached.

  • 04.04. Category-specific tools — Use tools built for the business category

    Add workflows that fit how the business actually operates as new category tools roll out.

  • 04.05. Professional tools — Work from a role-specific workspace

    Realtors, vehicle sellers, property managers, service providers, and other approved roles can use tools built around their work.

  • 04.06. Business finances — Manage clients, jobs, and financial records

    Keep clients, jobs, expenses, materials, vendors, payroll, reports, and records together.

  • 04.07. Ledger and reporting — Keep an accounting trail

    Record revenue, expenses, transaction history, and financial categories so the business can review what happened without treating TradeScout as a replacement for required accounting or tax advice.

  • 04.08. Invoicing — Create estimates and invoices

    Prepare customer documents and keep payment progress connected to the work.

  • 04.09. CRM — Manage relationships and follow-ups

    Keep contacts, opportunities, conversations, and next steps attached to the business relationship.

  • 04.10. Business request board — Review work that fits before accepting it

    See eligible Direct Connect requests, review the supplied context, and accept or decline before private contact is released.

  • 04.11. Commercial directory — Find and bid on commercial work

    Verified businesses can review commercial projects, open supporting documents, submit a bid, and keep the project and verification requirements together.

  • 04.12. Analytics — Understand business performance

    Review requests, profile attention, project value, outcomes, and revenue trends in one place.

  • 04.13. Vehicle sales tools — Operate a vehicle-sales workflow

    Keep vehicle listings, VIN information, customer follow-up, financing factors, payment estimates, trade-in context, appointments, and buyer conversations together where those tools are available.

  • 04.14. Real-estate professional tools — Operate a property-sales workflow

    Keep listings, clients, market analysis, comparative market analysis, mortgage factors, appointments, contacts, inspection follow-up, and property history connected where the role is approved.

  • 04.15. Local reach and shareable profiles — Build local discovery from maintained information

    Use the maintained business identity, categories, service area, location, offers, proof, and public activity as the source for local discovery instead of rewriting the same information for every channel.

  • 04.16. Resource and training areas — Learn a tool before depending on it

    Read available guidance and training material for platform and business workflows. Coverage varies by tool, and a visible resource page does not mean every lesson, partner, or program is finished.

  • 04.17. Accelerator and support programs — Apply for business support when a program is open

    Use published application areas for growth or support programs when TradeScout has named the terms, availability, and selection process. A program page alone is not a promise of funding or acceptance.

  • 04.18. Story Generator — Write and save the business story

    Create, save, copy, publish, or remove a professional business story without rebuilding the company background for every channel.

  • 04.19. Promotions — Publish an offer without buying trust

    Create a business promotion while keeping paid visibility separate from CVS, recommendations, and organic trust ordering.

  • 04.20. Social publishing and external auto-sharing — Publish once and extend it outside TradeScout

    Use connected accounts, post templates, content choices, and destination choices to share approved project completions, recommendations, offers, community posts, achievements, and referral milestones beyond TradeScout. Dependable end-to-end automatic publishing is still expanding by platform.

  • 04.21. Wallet — Track money moving through the account

    See the account balance and payment history tied to activity in TradeScout.

  • 04.22. Share Hub and affiliate system — Share without losing referral credit

    Signed-in sharing keeps attribution attached and pays only after qualifying TradeScout revenue occurs.

  • 04.23. Express Profile — Have TradeScout build the branded profile

    Pay for optional hands-on profile design and setup without buying trust, ranking, requests, or contact access.

  • 04.24. ScoutFitters — Order branded products or marketing help

    Create branded workwear or request cards, custom products, marketing services, and social plans.

For people

  1. Start with a need, question, product, service, property, or local opportunity.
  2. Compare useful options and real proof.
  3. Choose who receives a Direct Connect request.
  4. Keep the completed outcome for next time.

For businesses

  • Claim or create a public business profile.
  • Show products, services, availability, proof, and completed work.
  • Review chosen requests before contact opens.
  • Never buy a resold lead.

Selective Inheritance lets a business carry forward useful, provable information from an outside source without importing unsupported claims.

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