About Gleam

Built for the trades,
by people who get it.

Gleam started with a simple observation: most sole traders are brilliant at their trade and terrible at paperwork. Not because they're disorganised — but because the tools built for them were designed by people who'd never been up a ladder.

Our mission

Less admin. More earning.

There are over 2 million sole traders in the UK working in the service trades — window cleaners, gardeners, cleaners, mechanics, pressure washers. Most of them are running their whole business from a notes app, a WhatsApp thread, and a head full of details they're terrified of forgetting.

We built Gleam because that's a solvable problem. The core loop of every trade job — capture the lead, book it in, do the work, get paid — is the same every time. It just needed an app that understood that, and that could run entirely on a phone in a van.

So that's what we built. Gleam is the job management app we would have wanted if we'd been tradespeople ourselves.

What we stand for

Our values.

These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the decisions we make when building Gleam.

Simple by default

Every feature earns its place. If a window cleaner can't use it in 10 seconds without reading a manual, it's not done yet.

Honest about pricing

No bait-and-switch free trials. No feature gates designed to frustrate. The free plan is genuinely useful, and paid tiers are worth every penny.

Built with real tradespeople

Every feature is tested on a real job, by a real tradesperson. Not in a lab. On a driveway, in a garden, at the top of a ladder.

Mobile-first, always

Desktop is an afterthought. The phone in your pocket is the primary computer. Every decision we make starts with: does this work on a 5-inch screen in direct sunlight?

We listen properly

Our roadmap is built from real conversations with real users, not assumptions. If something doesn't work for you, tell us — and we'll fix it.

Your data is yours

We don't sell your data. We don't mine it for ads. We're a software business and we make money from subscriptions — not from you.

Say hello

We're a small team and we reply to every email.

Questions, feedback, feature ideas — we want to hear all of it. Especially the critical stuff.

contact-us@gleam-jobflow.co.uk

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Waitlist members get early access, early-adopter pricing, and a direct line to the team.

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