Data Sources & Transparency
See where Verified Remediation gets its data: state licensing boards, Google Places ratings, insurance documents, and the zip codes behind service areas.
State Licensing Boards
Official regulatory agencies for mold professional licenses
We source license data directly from official state regulatory databases. Our automated scrapers pull fresh data daily to ensure accuracy.
Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation (DBPR)
Visit DBPR- License Types: Mold Remediation (MRSR), Mold Assessment (MRSA)
- Data Fields: License number, holder name, status, expiration date, disciplinary actions
- Sync Frequency: Daily at 2:00 AM UTC
Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation (TDLR)
Visit TDLR- License Types: Mold Remediation Contractor, Mold Assessment Technician
- Data Fields: License number, company name, status, effective/expiration dates
- Sync Frequency: Daily at 2:00 AM UTC
Additional State Sources
- New York DOL: Open Data CSV export (2,500+ licenses)
- DC DOEE: HTML table scrape of licensed mold professionals
- Louisiana LSLBC: State licensing board database
For states without mold-specific licensing requirements, we discover providers via Google Places and verify industry certifications where available.
Industry Certifications
Recognized training and certification bodies
IICRC (Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification)
Visit IICRCThe leading certification body for restoration professionals in North America.
- WRT: Water Damage Restoration Technician
- AMRT: Applied Microbial Remediation Technician
- CMR: Certified Mold Remediator
Additional Certification Bodies
- ACAC: American Council for Accredited Certification
- NORMI: National Organization of Remediators and Mold Inspectors
- MICRO: Mold Inspection Consulting and Remediation Organization
Certifications are self-reported by contractors during onboarding and may be manually verified by our team. We display certification badges on provider profiles to help homeowners identify qualified professionals.
Ratings & Reviews
Third-party review data for trust signals
Google Places API
API DocumentationAll ratings and review counts are sourced directly from Google Places API. We do not host our own review system.
- Data Fields: Star rating (1-5), review count, business phone, website
- Sync Frequency: Weekly batch enrichment for all active providers
- Tier A Threshold: 4.0+ stars with 5+ reviews
- No Manipulation: Contractors cannot edit ratings on our platform
By using Google as our sole review source, we benefit from their spam detection and review verification processes. When Google removes a fraudulent review, it automatically disappears from our platform on the next sync.
Geographic Reference Data
Where our zip code, city, and county information comes from
GeoNames
The postal code export for the United States: 41,488 zip codes with their city, state, county, and map coordinates. This is what lets us tell whether a contractor actually covers your address.
geonames.orgUS Census Bureau
The official state FIPS codes. County names repeat across the country, so we combine these with GeoNames county codes to tell one Montgomery County from the seventeen others. Public domain.
census.govAttribution and licence
Zip code, city, county, and coordinate data © GeoNames, from download.geonames.org/export/zip/, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
We have modified it. County codes are combined with Census state FIPS codes to form full five-digit county identifiers; roughly 60 zip codes keep the city name the postal service uses rather than the one GeoNames prefers, because that is the name people recognize for their own address; and records with no coordinates are left out. GeoNames does not endorse us or how we use the data.
We refresh this manually once or twice a year rather than on a schedule. Zip code boundaries barely move, and a surprise change to the data that decides which contractor hears about your project is worth noticing rather than absorbing silently.
Infrastructure Partners
Technology providers powering our platform
Apify
Web scraping platform for automated license database extraction. Runs custom actors for FL DBPR and TX TDLR scraping.
Inngest
Background job orchestration for scrape processing, enrichment, and daily license expiration checks.
Supabase
PostgreSQL database and authentication. Stores all provider data, licenses, and contractor accounts securely.
Vercel
Hosting and deployment platform. Provides global CDN, serverless functions, and automatic scaling.
We use industry-leading infrastructure to ensure uptime, security, and fast page loads. All data is stored in U.S.-based data centers with SOC 2 compliance.
Data Integrity & Quality
How we ensure data accuracy
- Data Normalization: All scraped data goes through standardization (name formatting, address parsing, license type mapping) to ensure consistency across sources.
- Fuzzy Matching: When importing new licenses, we use 85% similarity threshold matching to prevent duplicate provider entries and link licenses to existing profiles.
- Manual Review Queue: Providers with uncertain matches are flagged for manual review by our team before being published.
- Kill Switch Protection: Expired licenses, disciplinary actions, or failed verifications automatically hide providers from search results.
- Tier Recalculation: Provider tiers are automatically recalculated whenever any trust signal changes (license status, insurance approval, new reviews).
Our data pipeline processes over 19,000 provider records across all 50 states. We prioritize accuracy over volume—providers with insufficient verification data are displayed with appropriate warnings rather than hidden completely.
Questions About Our Data?
We're committed to transparency. If you have questions about our data sources, want to report an error, or are a state licensing board looking to partner with us, please get in touch.