Norwegian construction and trade companies are built on skill, craftsmanship, and reliability. Yet many businesses face the same reality: workload fluctuates, projects require more capacity than you have in-house, and finding the right partners quickly can feel harder than it should.
Cooperate exists to make collaboration easier-so more Norwegian companies can work together on bigger projects, with less friction and more trust.
Why we’re building Cooperate
We don’t believe the answer is more middlemen. We believe the answer is better connections, better structure, and simpler workflows.
Many companies recognize these challenges:
- Some weeks you have idle capacity-other weeks you need extra hands urgently.
- You want a reliable subcontractor, but you don’t have the time to search, vet, and coordinate.
- You see bigger opportunities, but it’s difficult to assemble the right team fast enough.
- Conversations, documents, and agreements end up scattered across calls, emails, and spreadsheets.
Cooperate is being built to turn “we should collaborate” into “we’re already working together.”
What Cooperate is (and what it isn’t)
Cooperate is a B2B collaboration platform for the construction and trades industry in Norway.
It’s designed to help companies:
- build a professional company profile that supports trust and discovery
- share workforce when there’s availability-and find workforce when demand spikes
- discover contractors and subcontractors based on trade, location, capacity, and availability
- communicate in one place with in-app messaging and notifications
- streamline documentation and agreements using clear templates and structured flows
- strengthen trust through ratings and reviews after collaborations
Cooperate is not an agency.
We don’t manage your projects, we don’t act as your staffing provider, and we don’t replace your relationships. We create the digital infrastructure that helps companies find each other and collaborate-on your terms.
How Cooperate helps companies collaborate in practice
1) Share workforce when capacity changes
Cooperate supports workforce sharing in a structured, transparent way-so companies can:
- list available workers or crews with skills, certifications, and dates
- search and filter by trade, location, and time window
- connect quickly and clarify details without losing context
2) Find the right partners for bigger projects
When projects grow, you need a stronger team. Cooperate makes it easier to:
- discover companies by trade and geography
- evaluate partners via profiles, experience, and feedback
- build a reliable network beyond word-of-mouth
3) Move from “hello” to “let’s do it” with less friction
Collaboration succeeds when expectations are clear. That’s why Cooperate is designed to support:
- structured conversations through in-app messaging
- notifications that keep requests and replies moving
- simple documentation flows and agreement templates
Our vision and mission
Our vision
A Norway where cooperation is the default-where skilled companies of any size can join forces, take on bigger projects, reduce downtime, and build stronger local value creation.
Our mission
To provide a safe, practical, and accessible platform that helps Norwegian companies collaborate on workforce sharing and project partnerships-built around trust, clarity, and real everyday needs.
The principles behind Cooperate
- People first: Behind every company are real people. We build for their reality.
- Trust matters: Profiles, transparency, and accountability are core-not optional.
- Accessible to everyone: You don’t need to be big to collaborate on big work.
- You stay in control: Cooperate supports your cooperation-it doesn’t replace it.
A word from the founders
Cooperate started with a simple observation: the construction industry has enormous competence and capacity-yet it’s often difficult to coordinate at the speed real projects require.
We’re building Cooperate for the teams on-site, the project managers balancing timelines, and the owners trying to grow sustainably. We want to make collaboration more accessible, more structured, and more fair-so companies can thrive together.
And we’re doing it with the industry, not just for it. Your feedback, needs, and experience will shape what Cooperate becomes.
Next steps
We’re launching Cooperate in two phases - because a collaboration platform only works when there’s a strong network from day one.
Phase 1: Join the waitlist (open for the next few weeks)
- Register your company on our website and join the waitlist.
- Help us build the critical mass of trusted companies needed for the platform to create real value from the start.
- Share the waitlist with companies you already trust - the stronger the network, the better Cooperate works for everyone.
Phase 2: Official launch (planned for later in Q1 2026)
- We’ll invite companies from the waitlist in waves as the platform opens up.
- Once you get access, you’ll be able to complete your profile, invite your team, publish available capacity, and connect with partners.