Ever wondered who your friends use for a plumber? They have wondered the same about you. That knowledge already exists. It just lives in other people’s phones, so you ask around every time. Pros We Know opens up the pros your people already trust.
Your address book was never built for this. Good pros get buried among hundreds of contacts, and saving, updating and finding them is a chore. We turn them into live contacts, filled out with phone, website and licence, ready the moment you need one.
We already hold 267,000 Canadian businesses, 94,000 licence-checked against public government registries.
🔒 Private by default · Your trusted network is never sold · Trust rankings can’t be bought
Three things, and that’s the whole app
Your pros. The people you’d actually hire, lifted out of your contacts and kept current. Phone, website and licence, filled in for you.
Search finds yours first.Then the ones your people use. Then licensed pros nearby, for when nobody you know has an answer.
You see your friends’ pros when they see yours.That is the entire sharing rule. Anything you mark private stays yours alone.
Set up in about a minute
One scan, and the pros you already know, buried in there for years, come back as Live Pro Contacts.
✨ One scan. Watch it happen.
J John Plumber buried in contacts
A ABC Heating & Cooling buried in contacts
M Mike, Sarah's roofer guy buried in contacts
JJohn's Plumbing
Plumber · Oakville · used twiceWOULD REHIRE
MMike's Roofing
Roofer · warranty on fileREC’D BY SARAH
Half-remembered contacts go in; a list you can actually use comes out. We look up the phone number, website and licence your contact card never had.
Your contacts weren’t built for professionals. We fixed that.
This is the part people hesitate over, so here it is plainly. The scan is the fastest way to build your list of pros. Here is every single thing it does.
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We look only for people you’d hire.Trades and contractors, home services, and health professionals. Friends, family and coworkers are ignored.
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Nothing is saved without you.We show you what we found and you tick the ones to keep. Only names, companies and email domains are sent to our server to sort them, and they are not kept. Phone numbers stay on your phone until you save a pro.
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Then we fill in the gaps.Our own enrichment engine finds the missing phone, address and website, and checks trades against public licence registries so you can see who’s verified.
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Any pro can be marked private.Private pros stay out even of the shares you choose. Some contacts are nobody else’s business.
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Finding people you know is separate, and mutual.Your phone turns each number into a one-way code before anything leaves it. We never receive a number, and the codes we keep are locked with a key stored separately, so they cannot be reversed. If someone you have is already a member, they are told nothing. You are connected only when they independently have you too. Even then, your pros stay private until you pick which ones to share.
No connection? No problem.
You get the pros your network would hire again, and you see who vouched for them. When nobody you know has one, you get licensed local businesses.
Trust can’t be bought here.
Your notes, what you paid, the photos you took: none of it is shared with anyone, at any level.
When you search, a result can tell you two different things. If someone you’re connected to shared that pro, you see their name. If they’re only known further out in your network, you see that the pro is trusted there. Never who. And a pro nobody you know has used may still show how many members keep them: a plain count, across everyone who uses the app, that names no one and never appears for a single keeper.
Word of mouth, without the asking.
Next time you need a plumber, you’ll already know one.
Your own pros from day one. The ones your people would hire again as they join.
