Methodology · sources · corrections
About the data
Every number on this site traces back to a public record filed with a city or county. This page explains how.
Where records come from
Contractor licensing in the United States is a patchwork. Some states license contractors statewide — Arizona's Registrar of Contractors, Florida's DBPR, Tennessee and North Carolina's licensing boards. Others, Colorado and Texas among them, leave it to cities and counties entirely. What every jurisdiction has in common: most concrete work — foundations, flatwork over local thresholds, retaining walls, structural cutting — requires a building permit. We pull those records directly from each jurisdiction's own permit and licensing systems: open-data portals where they exist, public lookup portals where they don't. Open work for bid comes from the same kinds of official sources — SAM.gov federally, state DOT lettings, and city/county procurement systems.
We do not collect reviews, accept paid placements, or editorialize. A contractor page is a ledger of that company's public filings, nothing more.
How contractors are matched
The same company appears under different names across systems — “Rocky Mountain Concrete LLC” in one county, “Rocky Mtn Concrete” in another. We resolve these variants into one canonical record using, in order of strength: Colorado Secretary of State entity IDs, license numbers, phone numbers, and normalized-name matching. Every alias that resolved to a record is retained, so matches are auditable and re-runnable.
What the numbers mean
| Field | Definition |
|---|---|
| Permits on record | Concrete-classified permits naming this contractor across all jurisdictions we ingest. |
| Permits, last 12 months | Same count, restricted to permits issued in the trailing 12 months. |
| Median declared job value | Median of values the applicant declared on the permit. Declared values are as filed — they are not verified contract prices. |
| License status | Checked against the issuing jurisdiction's registry. “None found” means no active license matched in the jurisdictions we ingest, not that none exists anywhere. |
| Enforcement actions | Code violations, license discipline, and stop-work orders on the public record, resolved or not. |
What we deliberately don't say
Rankings on this site reflect permit volume only. “Most permits issued” is a fact from the public record; “best contractor” is an opinion, and we don't publish opinions. A high permit count is not an endorsement, and a low one is not a warning — plenty of excellent specialists pull few permits.
Freshness
Source systems are re-scraped on a daily cadence and pages rebuild as records change. Each contractor page shows the date of its latest record. Jurisdictions publish on different schedules, so a permit can take a few days to appear here after issuance.
Corrections
We publish what the issuing jurisdiction publishes — we never hand-edit records. If a record is wrong, the fix is at the source: contact the issuing city or county, and once their system reflects the correction, the next scrape picks it up automatically. If a record has been resolved to the wrong company (a mismatch, not a source error), claim the record from its page and flag it in the message — mismatches we can and do fix.