For workers
See who's hiring within range, and what it pays.
Every application in one place with its live status, plus saved jobs, an “Available Now” flag, and a travel radius so nothing shows up that's too far to take.
The hiring network for the US trades.
HammerLoop puts construction workers and the contractors hiring them in the same place — in English and Spanish, with pay rates on every job, on web, iOS and Android. 9MILLS designed and built it, and still runs it.
- Client
- HammerLoop LLC
- Industry
- Construction & trades
- Surfaces
- Web · iOS · Android
- Live since
- June 2026
- Our role
- Design, build, run, grow
Built for the people on site, and the people hiring them.
HammerLoop came to us in early 2025 with a clear idea: construction sites can never find labor fast enough, and skilled workers can never see who is hiring nearby. The product had to serve both sides without becoming another job board — a network where workers have real profiles and contractors can find them.
So it was built as two products sharing one network: workers get profiles, trades, an availability status and every application in one place; contractors get company profiles, job posts and an applicant pipeline; and messaging sits in the middle, so a post turns into a conversation inside the app.
It runs on web, iOS and Android, in English and Spanish, because the workers are on phones on site, the contractors are in a browser all day, and much of the workforce it serves works in Spanish. The current platform went live in production in June 2026, and we still ship it every week.
Both halves had to be worth opening every day.
A hiring network only works if the supply side keeps showing up. Workers get their own home screen, not a filtered version of the contractor product.
For workers
For contractors
Post a job, or go find the person directly.
Company profile, open jobs, and an applicant pipeline you can move through — accept, hold or reject — with counters that tell you whether a post is actually pulling.
Three systems carry the whole product.
Find work
A feed across 60 trades where the hourly rate is on the card, not three taps in. Workers filter by trade, location and distance, mark themselves open to relocating, and open a job to see the crew, the certifications required and the pay before applying.
- Pay rate surfaced on every job card
- Distance and relocation filters
- Full job detail: trade, certifications, site
- Saved jobs and recommendations
Find workers, and reach out
Contractors search the worker side by trade and location and reach out straight from the results — or post a job and work the applicants down to a shortlist. The desktop app is where the hiring actually gets done: the pipeline, the counters and the decisions live on one screen.
- Search workers by trade, location and rate
- Contact workers straight from search results
- Applicant pipeline: accept, hold, reject
- Decision-ready profiles with certifications
Message, notify, decide
Direct messages both ways, and push and email notifications that mean something: a ping when a new applicant lands, and a status change the moment a contractor decides. Workers choose what they hear about, and a daily digest keeps the volume down.
- Two-way messaging, worker and contractor
- Alerts when a new applicant lands
- Push and email on every status change
- Notification preferences and a daily digest
The office side of the same network.
Workers live on the phone. Contractors, office managers and recruiters live in a browser tab all day — so web isn't a shrunken port of the app, it's where the hiring work is designed to happen.
Eleven screens, one loop.
Post or search, apply or reach out, talk, decide — in English or Spanish, on whichever device is in hand.
Find jobs Job detail Worker home Worker profile Worker inbox Notifications Find workers Contractor home Company profile Company inbox Messaging
Tap any screen to see it full size.
The parts nobody photographs.
English and Spanish
English and Spanish across web, iOS and Android — the interface, the notifications and both store listings, not a translated marketing page.
Worker-location privacy
Workers are matched by radius without publishing a home address to every contractor who searches.
“Available Now” status
A single toggle that pushes a worker to the front of contractor search when they can start.
Recommendations
Contractors and crew leads can vouch for a worker, and that history travels with the profile.
60-trade taxonomy
One shared trade list behind search, profiles, job posts and alerts, so filters agree with each other.
Instrumented end to end
Signups, profiles, posts and applications are tracked across web and mobile, so product and ad-spend decisions are made on numbers.
Where it stands.
What we shipped
- 3
- surfaces — web, iOS, Android
- 2
- languages, English and Spanish
- 60
- trades in the taxonomy
- June 2026
- current platform live in production
The network, July 2026
- 2,216
- members on the network
- 192
- employers
What the client says
“Their work on our digital launch produced an exceptional return, with user acquisition costs far below what we expected.”
Build it, launch it, then grow it.
Build & launch
From first build to three live surfaces, on the web and in the App Store and Google Play.
- Product scoping with the founders
- Product design across phone and web
- Engineering, QA and store submission
- Analytics across web and mobile
Run & grow
We still ship HammerLoop every week, and we work the acquisition numbers.
- Weekly releases and maintenance
- Paid acquisition and lifecycle messaging
- Content and social for both sides of the market
- Reporting on signups, profiles and job posts
Frequently asked questions
Building something two sides have to show up for?
Send us the repo, the designs or the prototype. We'll read it and tell you honestly what's worth keeping and what it takes to launch.
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