MyBuilder is a homeowner marketplace: people post a job and you pay a fee, typically £3 to £50 depending on the work, each time a homeowner shortlists you. SiteLens watches the planning register and surfaces new projects the day they are submitted, classified by trade and value, from £0 with no per-lead fee. Two different kinds of lead, and this page helps you pick.
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MyBuilder leads are homeowners ready to hire for a specific domestic job now. SiteLens leads are new applications, residential through commercial, at the point of planning, which is earlier and often much larger than a homeowner enquiry.
MyBuilder charges a fee for every shortlist, which adds up quickly, a £200 callout can cost £10 to £30 in lead fees before you have done any work. SiteLens is a flat £39/mo, or £29/mo billed annually, with a free tier and no per-lead charge at all.
SiteLens reads every application and tags the likely trades, the project type and an estimated value band, so you can see the schemes worth chasing at a glance. MyBuilder relies on the homeowner’s own job description, with no value classification.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | MyBuilder |
|---|---|---|
| Core function | Planning-stage project alerts and AI classification | Homeowner job marketplace |
| Built for | Trades, suppliers and developers chasing projects | Domestic trades wanting homeowner jobs |
| Public, transparent pricing | Yes (per-lead) | |
| Free forever tier | No membership, pay per lead | |
| Starting price | £0, then £39/mo (£29/mo billed annually) | £3-£50 per shortlisted lead |
| Per-lead fees | Yes (per shortlist) | |
| Reach projects before they are a job | ||
| AI classification by trade and value | ||
| Commercial and infrastructure work | Mostly domestic | |
| Daily alerts filtered to your trade and area | Job matches when posted | |
| Map-based search | ||
| Contract | Monthly or annual | Pay as you go |
For a domestic trade, the two fit together. MyBuilder brings in homeowners ready to hire for a job now, paid for per shortlist. SiteLens finds the larger and earlier projects at planning stage so you can build a pipeline that does not depend on paying for each lead. One fills today’s diary; the other finds tomorrow’s work.
MyBuilder has no membership fee, you pay per lead, typically £3 to £50 depending on the type and size of the job (often £15 to £40 on bigger work), each time a homeowner shortlists you. SiteLens is £0 on the free tier and £39/mo for Pro, or £29/mo billed annually, with unlimited application views and no per-lead charge.
For finding work, yes, but they find different work. MyBuilder finds homeowners with a job to do now. SiteLens finds new projects at planning stage, residential through commercial, classified by trade and value, so you can approach them early. Many trades run both.
A MyBuilder lead is a homeowner who has posted a job and wants it done, and you pay a fee each time you are shortlisted. A SiteLens lead is a new planning application you see the day it lands, classified by trade and estimated value, with no per-lead fee, so you reach the project before it becomes a competitive job.
If your work is domestic jobs and you want homeowners ready to hire today with no subscription, MyBuilder’s pay-as-you-go model is built for that. You only pay when a homeowner shortlists you, the cost per lead is reasonably transparent, and the enquiries are people who actively want the work done. SiteLens does not generate homeowner enquiries at all, so for reactive domestic work MyBuilder is the better fit.
SiteLens is for the other job: finding projects early, especially the commercial and larger residential work that never appears as a homeowner enquiry, and approaching them before they are a competitive quote. If that is where your growth comes from, that is what SiteLens is for.
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