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ABOUT
The system was Broken.
So I Built a Better One.
40 years in the trade. One devastating loss. And a realisation — the problem wasn’t people, it was the system. Recommend & Share is the solution.
THE FOUNDER'S STORY
I'm Garry, and I was a tradesman with over 40 years’ experience in the industry, until the actions of a rogue contractor cost me everything — including my business.
MY WHY
This experience had a devastating impact on my family and my health. I quickly realised how widespread the problem was — and that I wasn’t alone. The legal system is flawed and lets people down. That’s when I knew I had to act, to prevent others from going through what my family and I have been through.
When I started looking at the scale of the problem — the billions lost, the lives destroyed, the two tradespeople a day who take their own lives from the financial stress of an industry that offers them nothing.
— I realised this wasn't just my story. This was everyone's story.
And nobody was coming to fix it. So I decided I would. Recommend & Share is the result. Not a tech startup. Not a directory. Not a review site. The UK's first trust infrastructure platform for the home improvement industry. Verified profiles. Digital Commitments. Mutual Recommendations. Both sides accountable. Both sides protected. Free for everyone.
Built and funded by one person who refused to walk away from an industry he spent his life in.
"I used my pension to fund this — not a business plan, not an investor's money. My pension. Because I believed in it enough to bet everything on it."
GARRY LEWIS, FOUNDER
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