Join the Trustline Builds construction network
Build for owners who are abroad and cannot stand on the site themselves. We hold the client relationship, define the milestones and control the money, so you are paid against verified work instead of chasing someone in another time zone.
For builders, construction firms, site foremen and project managers.
Contractors build. Professionals verify — one-time or on a recurring plan. If you inspect, survey or review rather than put up the structure, you want the professional network instead.
What the work is
Managed builds for diaspora clients — usually a house being built back home by someone living overseas. Trustline Builds finds and holds the client, agrees the brief and the milestone plan with them, and you execute the construction against it.
How the money works
Funds are milestone-controlled. A stage is released once the work for it has been verified and the supporting documentation is in — not on request, and not on trust. That cuts both ways: you cannot draw ahead of the work, and the client cannot stall on work that has been done and evidenced.
- Material procurement and supplier payments run through the platform, not around it
- Every release is tied to a milestone somebody has verified
- The client sees the same package you do before they pay it
What we ask of you
Work to the milestone plan agreed in the brief, submit progress updates with photographic evidence at each milestone, and keep client communication on the platform. Trustline Builds may inspect a site or audit project records at any time — that is what makes the client trust a build they cannot visit.
Read this before you apply
The Contractor Agreement contains a non-circumvention clause: you agree not to take private work from a client introduced through the platform, during the project or for 24 months afterwards. It also requires that procurement and payments stay on the platform. These are the terms — better to know now than after vetting.
Where you stand
You are an independent contractor engaged through the platform, not an employee of Trustline Builds, and you carry professional liability for your own work. Trustline Builds acts as the intermediary between you and the client.
How vetting works
- Identity verification1–2 days. We check the ID document you upload.
- Reference checks2–3 days. We call your referees — tell them to expect us.
- Business document reviewIf you provided registration, tax or incorporation documents.
- Admin approvalYou are sent a sign-in on WhatsApp, or by email invite if you gave us one.
- Sign the Contractor AgreementElectronically, at your first sign-in. Applying is consent to be vetted; this is the agreement you actually work under, and no project is assigned until it is signed.
Most applications are decided within 3–5 business days.
What you need before you start
- A government ID document — the Ghana Card in Ghana, the NIN slip in Nigeria — front and back
- Two referees we can call, with working phone numbers
- Your trade or specialisation, and how long you have worked in it
- Business registration, tax and incorporation documents, if you have them
- Engineering, architecture or professional body registration numbers, if you hold them
- Photographs of completed work — optional, but it is what a client looks at first