Check the record
before you sign.
ContractorFaX reads the public record on a California contractor — license, insurance, who actually holds the license, and what the company claims about itself — then hands you one sourced report in plain English.
The company's website advertises “9 years in business.” The license on record was issued January 2021 — five years ago.
A real finding from a real audit. We don't name the contractor on this page — you'll see the name when you run your own.
Audit a contractor
Paste a CSLB license number, or type the company's name.
- No contractor pays to appear here, rank higher, or be removed.
- Every line names the record it came from.
- If a source can't be reached, it says so — a gap is never a pass.
The record already answers the important questions. It's just scattered.
Re-roofing a house is one of the largest checks most people write without a professional beside them. The facts that would tell you who you're dealing with are public — but they sit in a license board database, a Secretary of State registry, a workers' comp record, and three manufacturer directories that never talk to each other. Almost nobody pulls all of them. Contractors know that.
So the asymmetry holds: the person selling the job knows exactly what their record says, and the person paying for it doesn't.
Our mission is to close that gap — to put the same records a professional would pull in front of the person actually paying the bill, written so it can be read in five minutes, with every claim showing its source.
Four agents, one record, no guesswork.
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You give us a name or a license number
If several contractors share a name, you pick the right one from a list showing city, status and classification — so the audit runs against the company you mean.
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Four agents read the public record in parallel
License, insurance & bond, identity & qualifier, and web intelligence — each pulling from its own sources at the same time. A fifth reads reviews for context only.
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Claims get checked against records
What the company says about itself on its own website is compared with what the state says. Where the two disagree — a founding year that predates the license, a certification that isn't in the manufacturer's directory — that contradiction is the finding.
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You get a report you can act on
A 0–100 Trust Score, the red flags in plain English, and a short list of questions worth asking this specific contractor before you sign.
Weighted toward what can actually hurt you.
Status, class, issue and expiry dates, the holder of record, disciplinary history, prior names — plus GAF, Owens Corning and CertainTeed certification directories.
Workers' compensation — active, exempt, through a PEO, lapsed or absent — and whether the contractor bond meets the $15,000 state minimum.
Is the person on the license a real principal of the business, or a qualifier renting their credential to a company they have no active role in?
Finds the company's real site, reads its self-claims, certifications and BBB standing — the raw material for every claimed-versus-verified comparison.
Counts, ratings and cross-platform consistency. Shown for context and deliberately given zero weight — reviews are the easiest signal to buy.
Five findings send the score to zero regardless of everything else: a license that is inactive, suspended or not found; no workers' compensation on record; or strong evidence the license holder isn't a principal of the business.
Three states. Nothing in between.
Confirmed against an authoritative source — the license board, the registry, the manufacturer's own directory.
The contractor says so and we couldn't confirm it. It stays labelled as their claim, never quietly promoted to fact.
The source was unreachable when we looked. An outage is reported as an outage — never as a clean result, and never as a finding against the contractor.
Find out what the record says.
One name. About a minute. Sourced either way.
Audit a contractor