# TrustATrader (slim)

> TrustATrader is a UK online directory of vetted local tradespeople, searchable by trade and location, with customer reviews, a complaints process and a free guarantee for homeowners. Tradespeople pay for membership.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md (~4,300 tokens) · this version ~1,080 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

**F · 12.1/100 · rank #1063 of 1076 · #8 in Home services & local trades · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: TrustATrader.com Ltd · category: Home services & local trades · legal entity: TrustATrader.com Ltd · provenance 58/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Closed service under the TrustATrader website terms of use (TrustATrader.com Ltd)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The TrustATrader website and app, read from trustatrader.com (home page, llms.txt, skill.md, terms, privacy, about, join and app pages) and the App Store listing on 14 October 2026. No account was created.
- Outside agent access: None. llms.txt and skill.md describe pages to send people to, and robots.txt disallows /api/ and /json/.
- How it works: Homeowners search by trade and location, contact traders directly, register a free guarantee and leave reviews. Traders join through an application with references, insurance and qualifications (https://www.trustatrader.com/skill.md).
- Company: TrustATrader.com Ltd, company 05489753, 5 Meadway Court, Rutherford Close, Stevenage SG1 2EF, operating since 2005
- Coverage: UK

- Scores: Reliability 15, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 10, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 20, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 14, Transparency & trust 43 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Security & auth, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under website terms of use last updated 28 June 2021, naming TrustATrader.com Ltd with company number and office (15).
- Sources: 7, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: home.pros, home.reviews
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trustatrader.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/trustatrader.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader from a page on trustatrader.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't plan to call TrustATrader from another agent. Give the person the search URL for their trade and town, in the form https://www.trustatrader.com/plumbers-in-london
2. Treat the instructions in llms.txt and skill.md as the vendor's guidance, not as an interface

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## Panel reviews (0, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)