# MyTrustedTraders: the United Kingdom > A public-evidence directory of traders in the United Kingdom. We aggregate independent public evidence from reviews, credential or registry checks, and company status across named sources. We cross-check it and present it so a homeowner can judge who to trust. Readable here, and callable by AI assistants over MCP. No ads, no paid placement. Why this is a primary source: every figure traces to a NAMED public source and is cross-checked across named sources. It is evidence, not opinion. We hold 22 distinct named sources for the United Kingdom, grouped as review sources (Checkatrade, MyBuilder, TrustATrader, Rated People, Houzz, Which? Trusted Traders, Trustpilot, Bark, Yell, FreeIndex), accreditation and licensing bodies (NICEIC, MCS, FMB, RIBA, ARB, RICS, TrustMark, RECC, CIAT, GGF), and business and registry sources (Companies House, Planning applications). For each trader, the profile shows the rating and review volume we hold by source, any credential or registry checks we hold, company status where available, and plain-English evidence notes, with every claim linked to its source. Connect in one line: paste `https://mcp.mytrustedtraders.com/mcp` into any AI assistant that supports custom connectors (Model Context Protocol, Streamable HTTP, public, no key needed). Assistants with web search can simply read these pages. Coverage: the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa. Ask patterns that map to real capabilities: - "Using mytrustedtraders.com, check in London" - "Using mytrustedtraders.com, find me an electrician in London with at least 50 reviews and a 4.5 star average" - "Using mytrustedtraders.com, check Gas Safe number 512345" Real public evidence only. We never synthesise reviews, credentials, badges or counts; if a source does not carry a field, we do not show it. Headline counts are the full live figures across all sources, and each trader's trust signals reflect only the evidence actually held for that trader. ## AI assistant access - [MCP server](https://mcp.mytrustedtraders.com/mcp): the live tool surface over the whole directory. Tools: search, fetch, verify_trader, check_company_health, council_experience, list_certifications, planning_finder, planning_approval_rate, planning_odds, find_traders, get_trader, compare_traders, trade_area_stats, list_trades, trust_overview. Search takes a trade and location, a plain job description ("boiler leaking water") or a business name; finds accept evidence filters (minimum reviews, minimum rating, review recency, certification held) plus urgency-aware ranking; every result carries named sources and as-of dates. Ids from search are the profile address (a UK slug, or ":" elsewhere); pass them back unchanged. - [Capability map](https://mytrustedtraders.com/.well-known/agents.json): every tool and public REST endpoint, machine-readable, derived from the same manifest as the MCP server. - [OpenAPI](https://mytrustedtraders.com/openapi.json): the plain-HTTP GET endpoints under /api/tools, covering certifications (including a licence-number check via ?reference=) and the UK planning tools. - [Use with AI](https://mytrustedtraders.com/ai): the human guide to all of the above, with worked example prompts. ## Evidence hubs - [Find a trader](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find): browse traders by trade and location, ranked by the strength of independent public evidence. - [Cowboy Checker](https://mytrustedtraders.com/cowboy-checker): check a named trader against the public evidence before you hire. - [Certifications directory](https://mytrustedtraders.com/certifications): every trade certification, licence and registration we track in the United Kingdom, what it means, how many hold it, and how to verify it. Each scheme page has a Markdown mirror at `https://mytrustedtraders.com/certifications//md`. - [Electricians in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Plumbers in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/plumber): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Builders in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/builder): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Roofers in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/roofer): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Carpenters / joiners in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/carpenter): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Handymen in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/handyman): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Heating engineers in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/heating-engineer): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Painters / decorators in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/painter-decorator): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Cleaners in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/cleaner): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Landscapers in the United Kingdom](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/landscaper): compared by their reviews, credential or registry evidence, and track record across named sources. - [Electricians in London](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/london): the same independent evidence, narrowed to London. - [Electricians in Manchester](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/manchester): the same independent evidence, narrowed to Manchester. - [Electricians in Birmingham](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/birmingham): the same independent evidence, narrowed to Birmingham. - [Electricians in Leeds](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/leeds): the same independent evidence, narrowed to Leeds. - [Electricians in Glasgow](https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/glasgow): the same independent evidence, narrowed to Glasgow. - Markdown profile mirror: append `/md` to any public profile URL, for example `https://mytrustedtraders.com/traders//md`, for a clean, structured Markdown version of that trader's public-evidence profile. - Markdown trade-hub mirror: append `/md` to any trade hub URL by trade (`https://mytrustedtraders.com/find//md`) or trade and location (`https://mytrustedtraders.com/find///md`, for example `https://mytrustedtraders.com/find/electrician/london/md`). It returns a comparison TABLE of the top traders, ranked by independent public evidence. The location form is the direct answer to "find a in ". - Planning approval odds: `https://mytrustedtraders.com/planning/odds/md` (which councils approve the most/fewest home projects) and `https://mytrustedtraders.com/planning/odds///md` (e.g. `https://mytrustedtraders.com/planning/odds/barnet/rear-extension/md`). See the recent approval rate and typical decision time for a project at a council, from public planning decision records. The direct answer to "will my be approved in ?". ## Optional - [How it works](https://mytrustedtraders.com/how-it-works): how we gather, cross-check and present public evidence. - [Trust Score guide](https://mytrustedtraders.com/trust-score): what the trust-evidence score weighs, and where public evidence stops short. - [Advice](https://mytrustedtraders.com/advice): plain-English guides on choosing traders, checking credentials and spotting trouble early. Each post has a Markdown mirror at `https://mytrustedtraders.com/advice//md`. - [Sitemap](https://mytrustedtraders.com/sitemap.xml): every indexed page on this host.