Method
How we score
Every tool is scored fresh for your trade, team size and the features you tick. Nothing is paid for, nothing is special-cased — the same sums run for every tool, and the highest score is what we stamp.
The order of things
- Team size leads. A tool built for sole traders shouldn't win for a 20-strong firm, and the other way round. Getting the size wrong costs a tool more than anything else can win it back.
- Trade comes next. A tool built for your trade gets a solid lift. Gas and heating additionally weigh certificate handling.
- Your features tune it. Every feature you tick that a tool genuinely supports adds to its score — and trims the grid to tools that do all of them.
- Built-in-the-UK is a tie-break. Worth a few points when two tools are otherwise level. Never enough to win on its own.
The weighting, in full
- Team-size fitBuilt for your team size+50
- Team-size missNot built for your team size−40
- Trade fitBuilt for your trade+30
- Gas certificatesGas jobs only — full / partial support+15 / +5
- Works on the toolsStrong mobile / offline+5
- UK complianceVAT / CIS handled+5
- Each feature you tickPer feature the tool actually supports+8
- Built in the UKTie-break only — never decisive+3
These are the exact numbers the finder runs. Team-size fit dominates by design — it is the one thing that, got wrong, should knock a tool down the list.
How the feature trim works
Tick the features that matter and the card grid shows only tools that supportall of them. If nothing supports every one, we don't pretend otherwise — we show the closest matches and say so.
A worked example
A sole trader doing gas work, no features ticked:
- Built for sole tradersteam-size fit+50
- Built for gastrade fit+30
- Full gas certificatesgas only+15
- Strong mobile + UK compliance+5 each+10
- Built in the UKtie-break+3
- Total108
Bump that same trader up to a 20-plus firm and the team-size fit flips from +50 to −40 — a 90-point swing — so a tool built for larger outfits takes the top spot instead. That's the routing working exactly as intended.
What keeps it honest
- Ranked by fit, not by money. No tool can pay to rank higher.
- Marks are illustrative until verified. Every capability mark and price is a placeholder, flagged as such, until we've checked it against the vendor's own current information.
- No invented reviews. We only publish real, attributed reviews — review sections stay empty until then.