The country runs on the trades. Nobody built the tools to match.

The problem nobody built for

You're judged on the paperwork. Never on the graft.

Every wire in every wall, every boiler that fires on a cold morning, every roof that keeps the rain out — that's you. The country literally cannot switch the lights on without the trades. And yet the reputation of a good sparky or plumber gets decided by a missed call and a late invoice, not by the ten hours of skilled work that went before it. The stereotype — unreliable, slow with the quote, never rings back — is unfair, and we'll say it plainly: it's not the work that lets people down. It's everything around the work.

Because the work was never the hard part. The enemy is the quote you owe a customer. The supplier you need to chase. The receipt going soft in the van footwell. Invoicing at the kitchen table at 9pm after a ten-hour day, while three apps and two voicemails all want an answer. A big firm has an office that swallows every bit of that. A one-person firm has evenings and weekends. That's the whole difference — and it's a brutal one.

Big companies get trade discounts, admin staff, and systems built to fit them. You get your evenings.

No buying power. No back office. No free time. The software that does exist assumes you're sat at a desk with a spare hour and both hands free. Nobody built serious tools for someone whose hands are full of cable at the top of a ladder. So the admin doesn't get done. It dies in a group chat, in a glovebox full of Screwfix receipts, or in your head — where nobody can bill for it.

Why a button

Press it. Say it. Done — back to work.

The answer had to fit the hands it's for. Not a form. Not a spreadsheet. Not another app that wants you to stop, sit down, and type. One button you can press with a thumb, on a ladder, in the rain. You say what happened in plain words, and the system does the office work: writes it down, works out what needs doing, files the receipt and the photo against the right job, drafts the quote or the chaser.

And it's confirm-first, always. Nothing goes to a customer or a supplier without you seeing it and saying yes. No money moves on its own. No message sends behind your back. And you can always open it up and see exactly what it did and why — trust you can check, not trust you're told to give. The system does the donkey work; the decisions stay yours.

It's your name on the van. You stay the boss of every last thing that leaves it.

Who we are

By tradespeople, for tradespeople.

This isn't built in a boardroom by people who've never wired a socket. It's built by a working UK electrical and renewables firm, between real jobs — tested on real sites, real receipts, real customers, every single day. If a feature exists, it's because a real job demanded it. If something's annoying, it's because we hit it that morning and fixed it that night.

We're not guessing at your problems. We have your problems. Same footwell full of receipts, same 9pm invoices, same supplier who's gone quiet. We're building the thing we needed ourselves, and letting you have it too.

What we believe

• Your thumb shouldn't need a desk.
• Nothing sent without your say-so.
• You can always see exactly what it did, and why.
• Paid for the boiler working, not the hours.
• Built on site, not in a boardroom.
• One firm should carry the clout of a hundred.
• If it can't be said out loud, it's too hard.

How we'll work

We're not out to fix your invoice.

Anyone can build one clever tool for one job. We're after the whole pile — the entire lot of office work that sits behind trade work — taken off every tradesperson at once. Not a hero riding in to save one plumber's Tuesday. The machinery that lifts that weight off all of them, for good.

Because something's changed. The kind of help that used to mean hiring an office full of people just got cheap, and it got cheap all at once. That's a shift that comes round maybe once in a working lifetime. And the people with the least spare time to go chasing it — the ones on the tools till it's dark — should get it first, not last. A single sparky in a van can now carry the clout the big outfits used to keep for themselves. That's a dent worth making, so it's the one we're making.

And we build the way you already work. You live by a rule the office world never learned: you get paid when the boiler fires, not for the hours you sat near it. Same here. Red Button is judged on what actually gets done for you — the quote sent, the receipt filed, the supplier chased — not on a longer list of features nobody asked for.

We iterate at the speed you complain.

And you don't file a support ticket to make Red Button better. You press the button and say what's wrong — literally, out loud, the same way you use it for everything else. Fixes ship in days, not quarters. That loop isn't a promise for later; it's exactly how the product is being built right now, on our own jobs. You tell it what it should do. It gets better. You get on.