Editorial standards
What stays
off this site.
Company records here are built from dated public sources and the companies’ own pages. These are the standing rules for what never makes it into a record, a ranking or a download.
A ranked position for money.
Ranked positions are not for sale, and this edition contains no sponsored placements or referral forms. Companies are scored by the same published method whether or not they have a business relationship with the publisher, including report subscribers, marketing clients and lead-generation partners. A relationship never changes a score, a rank or what a record says. The full disclosure is on the about page.
Your project.
The shortlist lives in your browser. The comparison, bid worksheet and owner worksheet produce downloads or printouts on your device. Nothing you type into them is sent to us or to a company, and none of it becomes a lead.
People’s personal details.
We publish companies, not the people behind them: no home addresses, personal phone numbers or the names of individual license holders or employees drawn from public files.
Review text.
The Kansas City lists use a Google rating and review count, published with the date observed. Review text and reviewer names are not copied into records or data files.
Scope we could not confirm.
A company’s own pages decide what it is shown as offering. When a page is silent on utilities, permits or finishes, the record says the scope was not established. It never fills the gap with an assumption, in either direction.
Verdicts from missing evidence.
A company left out of a ranked list, or a service not found on its site, is a limit of the sources we could read. It is not a finding that the company does poor work or lacks a capability.
Changes on request alone.
Corrections need a source we can check. A record changes when the source supports it, and ranks change only in a new edition. Asking for a better position is not evidence.