A bidding marketplace where companies hire vetted lighting engineers and pay only when the finished work is approved.
Lightful matches companies that have a lighting job, whether design, installation or consultancy, with a worldwide pool of checked engineers. Clients describe the job in technical detail, engineers send priced bids with a delivery date, and the money is held until the client signs off. We delivered the complete web marketplace.
Hiring for lighting work meant asking around locally or posting on a general freelance site that had no idea what a lux level or a certification standard was. Clients couldn't line up bids against the same requirements, and neither side had protection if a job went wrong. Lightful wanted a trade-specific marketplace where scope, pricing and payment were all clear up front.
We made the job brief the center of the product. Because every bid answers the same structured brief, clients compare like with like, and escrow means neither party has to trust the other first.
4 steps, from architecture to launch.
The posting form asks for construction type, area, budget, deadline, required certification, software and deliverable format.
Engineers quote a price, a delivery time and a note, and can edit or withdraw while the bid is pending.
Firestore keeps chat, bid status and deadlines current for both parties in real time.
Stripe takes payment when a bid is accepted and releases it only after the client approves the delivery.
Open-ended job posts forced engineers to ask questions before they could price anything.
A structured form captures the technical requirements up front, so engineers can quote immediately.
Clients didn't want to pay first, and engineers didn't want to work first.
Funds are captured at award and released on approval, which protects both sides.
Projects tended to drift once the bidding was over.
Awarded jobs show a live deadline countdown, a private chat and a single action to submit the delivery.
A technical brief covering scope, budget, timeline, standards and output.
Search, sort and filter open jobs by keyword and status.
Quote, revise or withdraw, with bids grouped as pending, accepted or rejected.
Awarded projects get a deadline timer, a chat thread and a delivery step.
Stripe escrow released when the client approves, plus push alerts for bids, messages and deadlines.
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