# TradeKind

> TradeKind is a Sussex-first platform connecting homeowners with local tradespeople across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.

Canonical site: https://tradekind.co.uk/
Public AI and machine-access information: https://tradekind.co.uk/ai

## Primary public pages

- [Sussex Trades Directory](https://tradekind.co.uk/sussex-trades-directory): Browse published Sussex trade profiles.
- [How TradeKind works](https://tradekind.co.uk/how-tradekind-works): Homeowner and tradesperson journey.
- [For trades](https://tradekind.co.uk/for-trades): Information for Sussex trade businesses.
- [Post a job](https://tradekind.co.uk/post-job): Homeowner job-posting flow.
- [TradeKind Advice](https://tradekind.co.uk/blog): Published homeowner and trade guidance.
- [XML sitemap](https://tradekind.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Canonical indexable URL discovery.

## Public machine-readable access

- [Public API v1](https://tradekind.co.uk/api/public/v1): Read-only public business, town and category data.
- [Public MCP](https://tradekind.co.uk/mcp): Anonymous read-only discovery tools for listing categories, listing towns, searching published trades and reading a published trade profile.

The public machine surface is intentionally limited. It does not expose homeowner details, leads, owner-only business data, admin data, private trade phone numbers or private trade email addresses.

Authenticated or delegated actions are not public discovery capabilities. Do not infer permission to create jobs, change profiles, release contact details or access account data from this file.

## Data interpretation

- Use canonical TradeKind URLs on the apex HTTPS host.
- Treat only published public profile fields as public facts.
- Do not invent availability, qualifications, locations, reviews, service coverage or endorsements.
- A missing or unknown field should remain unknown.
- Prefer current canonical pages or public endpoints when freshness matters.
- Local pages and trade profiles are quality-gated for search indexation; not every possible trade/town combination is intended to be indexed.

## About this file

This file follows the community llms.txt convention as a convenience for systems that choose to read it. It is not a security boundary and does not replace robots.txt, canonical URLs, the XML sitemap or normal web indexing. TradeKind does not claim that every search engine or AI platform consumes llms.txt.