The hard part of booking a tradesperson is not the booking. It is not knowing whether the person turning up is competent, insured or likely to turn up at all, which is why this market is built on platforms rather than on directories. That is a durable business with permanent demand, since households keep needing plumbers, electricians and cleaners regardless of the economy. Handybook carries the service model in a single compound, with a verb concealed inside it, and the tone matters more than it might elsewhere.

Right-to-repair legislation has passed in several markets, manufacturers are being forced to publish parts and manuals, and the organisations campaigning for it are nonprofits on exactly this extension. Serviceable carries two meanings pulling in useful directions. Fit for use, functional, good enough for the job. And capable of being serviced, which is the repairability question that became a genuine political and consumer issue. The repairability reading is the more interesting one now.