🏗️ US licensed contractor directory

Contractor intelligence suite Official-registry discovery and source-aware verification for U.S. contractor workflows.
🏗️ Contractor directory ➤ You are here	✅ License verifier Check known contractors against supported official registries.

Find contractor records with official-source evidence. Search supported state registries by license, business, place, trade, and published status. Keep the source and retrieval time beside each result.

🏛️ Official records Know which registry produced each row.

🎯 Published filters Use dates and compliance facts only when published.

🧭 Clear shortlists Sort consistently and see why each row fits.

🔔 Safer monitoring Review field changes and cautious absence signals.

🔍 What does this Actor do?

Use this Actor to build a focused contractor directory from supported public registries. It helps supplier teams research a target area, business-development teams narrow a trade, and compliance teams retain published evidence beside each result.

Each row carries the source state, registry name, source record ID, source query link, and retrieval time. Published business, license, location, phone, expiry, bond, insurance, and trade fields appear only when the selected registry provides them. Missing source values are omitted, never replaced with generic labels.

⚡ Keep the evidence with the list. Source coverage differs by registry, so every result shows where its facts came from.

🗺️ Official coverage

• Connecticut: Home-improvement credentials.
• Illinois: Roofing credentials.
• Oregon: Active Construction Contractors Board licenses.
• Texas: TDLR-regulated trades, not a statewide general-contractor registry.
• Washington: Contractor registrations.

An absent result is not a conclusion that a contractor is unlicensed. Filters and fields vary by official registry, and unsupported filters are reported in the run summary.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Choose coverage Select the official registries that fit your search.

STEP 2 Narrow the results Add a license, business, place, trade, or status filter.

STEP 3 Use the evidence Export the records or schedule the same search for change-only results.

🧾 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
states	array of strings	No	Official registries to search. Defaults to Washington and Oregon.
licenseNumber	string	No	Exact published license or registration number.
companyName	string	No	Published business or contractor name.
city	string	No	City where a selected registry publishes and supports it.
county	string	No	County where a selected registry supports it.
trade	string	No	Published trade, specialty, endorsement, or license type.
statuses	array of strings	No	Normalized published or source-derived status where available.
expiresFrom, expiresTo	date	No	Keep records within a source-published expiry-date range. Missing dates are excluded and reported in coverage.
issuedFrom, issuedTo	date	No	Keep records within a source-published issue-date range.
requirePublishedBondInformation	boolean	No	Keep records with a published bond value or source-published bond reference.
requirePublishedWorkersCompensationInformation	boolean	No	Keep records with a source-published workers’ compensation field.
sortBy	enum	No	Reproducible order by source, company, license, published dates, or published-field completeness.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum contractor records across selected registries.
monitorMode	boolean	No	Emit new, field-level changed, or carefully confirmed missing-record signals after complete checks.
monitorName	string	No	Stable name for a recurring saved search.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
companyName, licenseNumber, licenseStatus	strings	Published contractor identity and license facts.
tradeNames	array of strings	Published trade, specialty, endorsement, or license type.
address, city, county, postalCode, phone	strings	Published location and contact fields when available.
licenseIssuedAt, licenseExpiresAt	strings	Published license dates when available.
bondAmount, hasBond, hasWorkersCompensation	number or boolean	Published compliance fields when available.
sourceState, sourceName, sourceRecordId, sourceUrl	strings	Official-source evidence for the record.
shortlistReasons	array of strings	Plain-language reasons based on exact matches and source-published facts. No hidden score is used.
monitoringChange, changedFields, previousValues, monitoringReason	text, array, or object	Explainable monitoring result and previous published values when a field changed.
retrievedAt	string	Time the official-source result was retrieved.
sourceAttributes	object	Additional source-specific published facts.

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per result. Empty runs cost nothing, and there are no subscriptions.

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❓ FAQ

Does a missing record mean the contractor is unlicensed?

No. Registry coverage and search scope vary. Treat a missing record as a research signal, not a license determination.

Which state should I use for a general contractor search?

Washington is the broadest initial construction-registration source. Texas covers regulated trades, not statewide general contractors.

Can I use published business details for outreach?

Use only published business fields and follow your own consent and regional compliance requirements.

Can I monitor a saved search?

Yes. Reuse the same scope with monitoring enabled. Field changes show their changed fields. The first complete-source absence is a review signal, and a second confirms the monitoring signal. A partial or capped source does not advance the saved snapshot.

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