Trust infrastructure for the skilled trades
The trades run on trust.Nothing has carried it.
CONDUIT verifies the people who do the work and the companies that hire them - continuously, on both sides, in one record the worker owns. Built by a commercial subcontractor that has been living the problem for fifteen years.
- Commercial launch
- October 16, 2026
- Compliance footprint
- 7 states at launch
- Trades covered
- Electrical HVAC Plumbing Low voltage More trades coming
The problem
Both sides are underwriting a stranger.
A contractor hiring a tradesperson is taking their word on a license, a safety card and a resume. A tradesperson taking a job is taking the contractor's word on pay, site conditions and whether the check clears. The paperwork that's supposed to settle this was true the day it was collected and has not been checked since.
- CredentialsLicenses, certifications and safety training live in a dozen disconnected registries. Verification is a phone call, if it happens at all.
- Field recordHours worked, systems touched and sites completed disappear when a worker changes employers. Every move starts the resume over.
- EmployersNobody scores the company. Pay history, site safety and whether crews come back are known only by word of mouth.
- SchoolsPrograms graduate students and lose sight of them at the door - exactly when the outcome data they now have to report starts to matter.
The platform
Verification that runs both directions.
Most workforce tools point at one side of the transaction. CONDUIT scores both, because a match is only as good as the weaker half of it.
One record they own, and it travels with them.
Credentials are verified at the source and re-checked on an ongoing basis rather than filed once. Work history accrues automatically instead of being retyped into a resume.
- Licenses and certifications verified against issuing bodies
- Expirations tracked and flagged before they lapse
- Hours, systems and job sites captured from the field
- Visibility to employers is opt-in and controlled by the worker
- Portable across employers, states and trades
A workforce you can prove, and a score of your own.
Employers see verified people instead of claimed ones - and are themselves scored on how they pay, how they run a site and whether crews return.
- Compliance status current at the moment of dispatch, not at hire
- Matching on trade, licensure, geography and real availability
- Employer trust scoring visible to the workforce
- State-by-state payment and licensing rules built into the logic
- Explainable scoring - every match shows its reasoning
The career arc
We don't place people. We follow them.
The industry treats a placement as the finish line. It's the first step of three, and the value compounds along the way - for the person, the employer and the school that trained them.
Worker
Entry from a training program, an apprenticeship or the field. Identity established, credentials verified, first assignments recorded.
Pro
Licensure, specialization and a proven field record. Higher-value work, continuous training recommended against what the record shows is missing.
Owner
The tradesperson becomes the employer - and enters the other side of the platform with a verified history already behind them.
Why now
Three things changed at once.
Federal aid arrived with a scoreboard
Short-term workforce programs became eligible for federal student aid in July 2026 - with completion, placement and earnings thresholds attached. Institutions now need verifiable outcome data to keep that eligibility, and most cannot produce it.
Demand outran supply
Data centers, grid work and electrification are pulling hardest on exactly the trades with the thinnest pipelines. The constraint on construction is no longer capital or permits - it's people who can be trusted on site.
Nobody owns the record
Credentialing bodies, state boards, schools and employers each hold a fragment. There is no neutral layer that carries a tradesperson's proof from one to the next. That layer is the company.
Footprint
Mid-Atlantic and Southeast corridor
Licensing, reciprocity and payment law differ in every jurisdiction, and getting them wrong is how workforce platforms quietly fail. CONDUIT launches with the rules for seven states encoded rather than approximated - the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast corridor where the demand and the relationships already are.
Who's building it
Operators, not observers.
CONDUIT was not designed from the outside in. It comes out of GBE Technology, a commercial subcontractor operating across eleven states and four trade verticals for fifteen years - which is also CONDUIT's first customer. The founding team pairs contractors who hire tradespeople with the educators who train them.
Principal of GBE Technology. Thirty years across telecom, wireless and IP infrastructure; fifteen years running commercial trade operations.
25+ years leading technology organizations spanning private, public and government sectors globally.
20+ Years architecting and delivering solutions across government, education, and healthcare institutions.
Contact
Launching October 16, 2026.
If you hire tradespeople, train them, or invest in the infrastructure that moves them - we'd like to talk before then.
beck@use-conduit.com