# Rated People > Rated People is a UK website and app where homeowners post a job free and are matched with tradespeople, who contact them to quote. It is part of Checkatrade Group. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.md (~4,850 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.min.md (~1,130 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author. - Updated: 2026-10-15 ## Overview **Grade F · 15.9/100 · rank #1067 of 1094 · #5 in Home services & local trades · not agent-ready · not for agents · confidence medium** ## Assessment Rated People lets UK homeowners post a job free and hear from tradespeople, and since September 2026 it belongs to Checkatrade Group. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Checkatrade's keyless MCP server is the nearest route, since Rated People jobs go to Checkatrade Group tradespeople. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Averton Ltd (Checkatrade Group) (https://www.ratedpeople.com) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Home services & local trades (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services) | | Auth | OAuth or key · An account on the Rated People website or homeowner app. No API key, OAuth app or developer access was found (checked 2026-10-14). | | Pricing | Freemium (Freemium) · Free for homeowners to post a job, per the home page (https://www.ratedpeople.com). Tradespeople buy Rated People leads only through Checkatrade membership, which starts at £30 a month and includes leads from both platforms (https://www.ratedpeople.com/blog/rated-people-joins-checkatrade-group, 17 September 2026). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on ratedpeople.com or in its terms (checked 2026-10-14). | | Licence | Closed service under the Rated People Platform Terms of Use (Averton Ltd) | | llms.txt | not found | | Last release | 2026-10-13 | | Surface listed | The Rated People website and homeowner app, read from ratedpeople.com (home page, terms of use, privacy notice, help pages, the Checkatrade Group post) and the App Store listing on 14 October 2026. No account was created. | | Outside agent access | None. No API, MCP server or developer page was found, and robots.txt disallows /api/. | | How it works | A homeowner posts a job and tradespeople matched by trade and area get in touch to quote. Job details go only to Checkatrade Group tradespeople (https://www.ratedpeople.com/terms-of-use). | | Company | Averton Ltd, company 17439358, Level 2 Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9SS, part of Checkatrade Group. Data processed by Vetted Ltd (Checkatrade), ICO registration Z6851067. | | Coverage | UK | | Capabilities | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros, home.reviews | | Tags | not-for-agents, hosted, official, closed-source, freemium, ios, android, uk | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rated-people.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 30 | 3.8 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 54 | 4.7 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 42, provenance 59) | 7% | 8.8 | 51 | 4.5 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **15.9 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.ratedpeople.com does not resolve (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). The website and apps are in general use, not labelled beta (10). - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Rated People has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). www.ratedpeople.com/llms.txt returns 404 (0). With no agent interface there is nothing to version (0 of 15). - Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. There is none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people. - Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). The security programme line is scored. www.ratedpeople.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0 of 20). - Payments & pricing 30: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Tradesperson pricing is published only as Checkatrade membership from £30 a month, plan-only (10). Posting a job is free for homeowners, with no card mentioned (20). A person signs up on the website or in the app (0). - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 54: Read for a closed service. Rated People for Homeowners 19.0.1 on 13 October 2026 (30). Versions 18.4.0, 18.5.0 and 19.0.1 between 11 August and 13 October (20). Help pages for homeowners and tradespeople and a phone line, no changelog (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 51: Closed service under Platform Terms of Use effective 17 September 2026, naming Averton Ltd with company number and office (15). The privacy notice names Vetted Ltd as controller and its ICO number, says job media is deleted when the job completes or lapses, keeps reviews under a retention schedule and describes UK addendum, data transfer agreement and US-UK framework safeguards for transfers. It has no date (20 of 30). The terms promise notice of material changes. No deprecation policy (2 of 20). Transfers are described without a sub-processor list (5 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/rated-people.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/rated-people.json) ### What we couldn't check - The date of the privacy notice. - Whether Rated People and Checkatrade will merge their job-posting flows. - Why the App Store provider (Rated People Ltd) differs from the contracting entity (Averton Ltd). ### Sources - home page: (seen 2026-10-14) - Platform Terms of Use, effective 17 September 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy notice: (seen 2026-10-14) - post on joining Checkatrade Group, 17 September 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - App Store listing and version history: (seen 2026-10-14) - robots.txt: (seen 2026-10-14) - security.txt, 404: (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 59/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Averton Ltd | 20/20 | | Domain age | ratedpeople.com, registered 2005-04-16 (21 years) | 15/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | read, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects | 8.3/10 | | Privacy policy | read, states 6 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points | 6.5/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | The terms (effective 17 September 2026) name Averton Ltd, company 17439358, as part of Checkatrade Group. The privacy notice is Checkatrade's, with Vetted Ltd (company 04285394) as controller, and has no date. www.ratedpeople.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no status page was found. The App Store provider name is Rated People Ltd, which differs from the contracting entity in the terms. RDAP gives a registration date of 2005-04-16 for ratedpeople.com. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://www.ratedpeople.com/terms-of-use), read 2026-10-14, dated 2026-09-17, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects. - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-09-17. - Names the governing law or courts. The law of England and Wales. - States a limit on its liability. Capped at £50. - Not found in the text. Says how changes to the terms are announced. - Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment. - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Users grant a perpetual, transferable and sublicensable licence over their content, including to license it to third parties without payment. "This includes the right to use Your Content to operate, develop, improve, market and promote our Platform, brands and services, and to license, sublicense or otherwise make Your Content available to third parties, without payment to you." - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Total liability for any claim or series of related claims under the terms is limited to 50 pounds. "Subject to the section below, our total liability to you for any claim or series of related claims arising from these Platform Terms is limited to £50." - Also in the text (2026-10-14). The terms say AI, including technology from Checkatrade Group members or third parties, may be used to operate, develop and improve the Platform. "We may use artificial intelligence and other automated technologies (AI) to operate, support, develop and improve the Platform and our services, including technology provided by other members of the Checkatrade Group or third parties." **Privacy policy** (https://www.ratedpeople.com/privacy-notice), read 2026-10-14, gives no date, states 6 of the 8 things a reader expects. - To know. Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was found (costs points). "We may also store and use call transcripts for internal analytics and business intelligence purposes, including categorising enquiries, understanding job outcomes and conversion patterns, and improving our models and services." - To know. Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising. "9.4 We also share personal information in order to create custom and lookalike audiences on Facebook and Google." - Not found in the text. Gives the date it was last updated. - Not found in the text. Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising. - Gives a privacy contact. Names a data protection officer. - Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on standard contractual clauses and the Data Privacy Framework. - Also in the text (2026-10-14). The notice says AI functions may be made available through third-party platforms including ChatGPT and Claude, and that OpenAI and Anthropic may process what users enter. "8.4 We may provide AI-powered features, tools or services through third-party platforms, including ChatGPT and Claude, to help you access and use our services." ## Live (updated 2026-10-14 21:16 UTC) - security.txt: none - Watching privacy - Watching terms - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/rated-people.json ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - Posting a job is free for homeowners, per the home page - Platform terms dated 17 September 2026 name Averton Ltd with its company number and registered office - Three homeowner app releases between 11 August and 13 October 2026 - The privacy notice describes retention of job media and the safeguards for transfers outside the UK ## Weaknesses - No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call - No status page, security.txt or disclosure policy found - Tradesperson prices are given only as Checkatrade membership from £30 a month - No sub-processor list or deprecation policy found ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Rated People from another agent. Hand the job post to the person, or use the Checkatrade listing's MCP server to find Checkatrade Group trades 2. Tell the person that posting a job is free and that tradespeople will contact them to quote ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bark | F | 16.5 | 1065 | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md | | Checkatrade | E | 43.9 | 961 | home.jobs, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md | | Airtasker | F | 36.8 | 1024 | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md | | Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) | F | 12.7 | 1078 | home.jobs, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.md | | Taskrabbit Partner API | E | 44.3 | 957 | home.quotes, home.jobs | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.md | | Houzz | F | 13.1 | 1075 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - Rated People joined Checkatrade Group, announced 17 September 2026, and the two platforms continue to operate separately (source: ) - The Platform Terms of Use, effective 17 September 2026, are with Averton Ltd, company 17439358, and say job details are shared only with Checkatrade Group tradespeople (source: ) - The privacy notice says personal data from Rated People is processed by Vetted Ltd, which operates the Checkatrade brand (source: ) - Rated People for Homeowners 19.0.1 on the App Store on 13 October 2026, rated 4.6 from 4,312 ratings, provider Rated People Ltd (source: ) - robots.txt disallows /api/ and /post-a-job for crawlers - #5 of 10 in Best home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.md - All 43 home services comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/home-services/index.md ## Compare - [Handy vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-rated-people.md): F 10 vs F 15.9 - [Houzz vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-rated-people.md): F 13.1 vs F 15.9 - [Rated People vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-trustatrader.md): F 15.9 vs F 12.1 - [Rated People vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-urban-company.md): F 15.9 vs F 11.8 - [Airtasker vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-rated-people.md): F 36.8 vs F 15.9 - [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-rated-people.md): F 12.7 vs F 15.9 - [Bark vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people.md): F 16.5 vs F 15.9 - [Checkatrade vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-rated-people.md): E 43.9 vs F 15.9 - [Rated People vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-taskrabbit.md): F 15.9 vs E 44.3 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on ratedpeople.com or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "rated-people", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html Rated People on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Rated People on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/rated-people.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people) ``` Plain link: ```html Rated People on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. Sharing assets for social media, two PNGs of 1200 × 630 that say Rated People is listed on Anchor Terminal, with the vendor's logo and this page's address and no grade or score. - Dark: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/rated-people-dark.png - Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/rated-people-light.png - Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=rated-people