For trade suppliers
Architects and planners: reach the builders who need drawings
Most homeowners arrive at an extension with a rough idea and no drawings, and most builders would rather price from a proper set than a sketch on a phone. You sit at the start of that, and being findable at the point someone is still deciding what is possible is worth more than being findable later.
List your practiceListing is by application. We check who you are before anything goes live, and we talk you through what a listing costs before you commit to it.
Why Pinnacle exists
Cowboy builders have cost homeowners their savings and good tradespeople their reputation. Most platforms check the company rather than the person behind it, so the ones who turn up and do the work properly get tarred with the same brush.
Pinnacle vets the individual. Our founder, Graham Nash, has spent 25 years helping families rebuild after they were let down, more than 500 of them, sometimes out of his own pocket. That standard is why tradespeople join, and it is why the businesses listed beside them are checked too.
For you that matters in a practical way: every trade reading your listing has been vetted before they got here, on ID, insurance, qualifications and references, and homeowners running projects on Pinnacle see it too. It is a smaller audience than a directory you can buy your way into, and a considerably better qualified one.
Graham's storyWho you would reach
- Builders and loft conversion specialists asked to price extensions and structural changes that have no drawings yet.
- Builders who have been asked to price work that has no drawings, and would rather hand the homeowner a name than lose weeks.
- Other suppliers on the same job, particularly structural engineers and surveyors, where the work is split across several practices.
How a listing works
Being listed is being findable, not being sold for. Most people find you in the directory, and we may also introduce you by email to a member or a homeowner who needs what you supply.
Apply
Tell us what you supply, where you are and how far you deliver or travel. It takes a few minutes.
We check you
Your company registration, your trading history and anything you have told us you hold. A person does this, and rings you to go through it: anything you hold that the form has no box for, a licence, a registration, a scheme membership, is told to us on that call. We come back to you either way.
Your listing goes live
You appear in the directory under the categories you cover, to anyone searching near you, and you get a public profile page anyone can open, carrying a description we write with you.
They ask for your details, or we put you in touch
A vetted tradesperson, or a homeowner running a project here, reads your listing and asks for your contact details, or we may introduce you to them by email. Either way, that is the point at which you hear from them.
You take it from there
The conversation is yours. We do not quote for you, take the order, or add anything to what you charge.
What we check
Your company registration and trading history, the services you list, and any professional accreditations. Where you tell us you hold a chartered or scheme membership we record it and verify it, because it is the thing your customers will rely on most.
Being checked is the point of the directory. A trade choosing a supplier here knows somebody looked, which is not something they can assume anywhere else, and it is why we would rather list fewer businesses properly than many on trust.
More about our checksWhat is coming
We record how many times somebody asked for a listed business's details, because that is the figure that means something rather than how many times a page happened to show you.
We are building a view for suppliers that will show you your own. It is not live yet, and we will tell you when it is rather than counting it as a reason to join today.
Homeowners running projects can search the directory too.
Questions trade suppliers ask
Will Pinnacle pass me homeowner projects?
No. Homeowner projects are matched to vetted tradespeople, not to suppliers, so you are never matched to one. You are listed in a directory those builders search, and a homeowner running a project here can find you in it and ask for your details. We may also introduce you by email to a homeowner or a builder whose project needs an architect, and after that you deal with them directly. If you want to be matched to projects yourself, architect is a trade Pinnacle vets, and that is a separate registration on the tradesperson side.
Who is searching this category?
Vetted tradespeople, usually at the point a homeowner has asked them to price work that has no drawings, and homeowners who have reached that point and come looking themselves. That is a good moment for you and an awkward one for anybody selling later in the build.
Can I list planning consultancy without the full design service?
Yes. Tick the category and tell us which part you do when we ring to check you: every member gets a public profile page carrying a description we write with you from that call, and the listing links to your website too. Plenty of enquiries here are planning applications and permitted development questions rather than a full set of drawings.
What if I only cover part of the country?
Tell us how far you travel. Searches within that radius are ordered by distance and the directory shows the closest results first; outside it you are not shown at all, so choose the distance you will genuinely cover.
Other trade suppliers we list
Ready?
Apply, and we will take it from there.
Applying starts the checks. It is not an instant yes, we tell you where you stand either way, and nothing goes live until you have agreed to it.