About the project
The case, start to finish
Construir Confiança is a project I started to attack a problem everyone feels when starting building work, a renovation, or hiring a tradesperson: it's hard to know who to trust. There are excellent companies losing work for lack of visible proof, and customers who go ahead nervously, because everyone looks good until something goes wrong.
My idea was to build a platform that acts as a credibility layer on top of these companies. It isn't a site of promises, and it isn't advertising: it's a system where companies that do good work can show it clearly, and where the customer can decide with less risk. The goal is simple — reduce uncertainty.
So I designed it as a real platform, with user logic and dashboards. There's the customer side, but also the company side and the administrative side, because if you want to create trust you need structure and control.
What the project already has working:
- Complete authentication pages: login and account creation
- Google sign-up, to cut friction and increase conversion
- User type selection, to separate flows and permissions from the start
- Company creation inside the platform, with simple, fast onboarding
- A Company dashboard, to manage profile, information and presence
- An Admin dashboard, for internal management, verification and organising the ecosystem
Infrastructure and backbone:
- A dedicated project email, as a professional channel with its own identity
- An automated email system to bring the flow to life: onboarding, notifications, account recovery and confirmations
- Stripe integration, to support payments and plans and prepare for monetisation
The design wasn't an afterthought. I planned the whole visual language around conveying what the name promises: clarity, seriousness and trust. I worked the layout, hierarchy, pages and navigation until it looked like a modern, solid product.
All of this was built in a real three-month sprint, focused on moving from concept to a product with structure. The platform is designed to grow into a reputation system for the sector, with trust levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and a clear path for companies to show consistency over time.