Verified experts
Working or retired trade professionals, verified out of band. Consent, review, and a licensed human on anything that can kill someone. They are the only people whose knowledge may become training text.
Two doors
Accepted expert knowledge mints a ledger receipt — bookkeeping, not a payout. Monetization is deferred. Specific benefits and economic participation terms remain to be developed.
Everyone else
Questions, outcomes, gaps, photos, conditions. They steer what we collect next. They cannot edit an expert entry, and they cannot become one. Everyday business records stay outside model training.
Always answer. Never dump the shop into the model.
If the trades model does not have it, a larger model still answers so you stay in TradesKnow. The question and the site context you add help us close the gap with a verified tradesperson. That is not the same as training on your customers, estimates, or job files.
What this is not
- Not a marketplace, lead-gen service, or field-service platform. Not an FSM.
- Not a certification or licensing authority. We do not issue the licence.
- Not a replacement for a licensed human on gas, live panels, structure, or confined space.
- Not a promise of a payout or a paid seat. A ledger credit is a receipt.