How we track newly licensed contractors
The data behind First Call Feed comes straight from state licensing boards — assembled, normalized, and verified so it's actually usable.
Sources
Official state contractor-licensing boards. Each state publishes differently — some as full active rosters, some as dated issuances — and each is handled on its own terms.
Freshness
Pulled weekly. Where a state publishes issue dates, "new" is the licenses issued in the window; where it publishes a full roster, new licenses are found by diffing each week's pull against a baseline.
Validation
Every source runs through a validation layer that re-checks output against the live record. A feed that ships bad data is worse than no feed.
Get the full feed
The aggregates here are free. The paid feed carries every new licence in full, for one state, sold to one agency in it. What the record contains varies by state — the board decides, not us — and each state's price and spec sheet say exactly what you get. 7 contractor states are open today.
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Where does the data come from?
Directly from state contractor-licensing boards — the official public records — pulled on a schedule per source.
Directly from state contractor-licensing boards — the official public records — pulled on a schedule per source.
How often is it updated?
Every Monday. New licenses are detected by change-tracking against a per-state baseline.
Every Monday. New licenses are detected by change-tracking against a per-state baseline.
How do you keep it accurate?
Each source has its own validation layer that re-checks output against the live record, so nothing ships unverified.
Each source has its own validation layer that re-checks output against the live record, so nothing ships unverified.