AI Research Notice

Effective date: 2026-10-20

Contractor research is available free during launch: up to 3 reports per account every 30 days, with no purchase or subscription. An optional one-time purchase, Project Guard ($39 for one home project, no renewal), is described in Service and Pricing. It covers contractors licensed by the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB). It is not a verified provider network or a quality ranking.

This update applies prospectively. Previously accepted terms and purchase receipts continue to govern existing agreements and their rights. This page does not replace those agreements, change a completed purchase, or remove support, privacy, refund, cancellation, receipt, or retained-record access rights.

Information quality

Reports are produced by software that reads official CSLB records. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) may help read your request and quote, for example which kind of work, hazard, place and amounts you mean, or the text of a quote photo you upload. Rule-based checks always run too, and a model reading can raise a safety warning but never lower one. Facts about contractors come only from CSLB records; no AI model writes them. Software and records can still be wrong, incomplete, or outdated, and safety messages in a report are general first steps, not a diagnosis.

Each report reads the public CSLB records of licensed businesses whose address of record is near the California city or ZIP code you give. For each business it shows the license status, whether it holds the license class your job needs, its bond, workers' compensation coverage or exemption, LLC liability insurance where required, and complaint or legal-action disclosures, with the source and the time the record was read. Each report also states what was not checked, including reviews, experience with similar repairs, availability, and who would perform the work. Records can change after we read them, and CSLB may not have entered every recent event.

Public reviews are opinions; ratings may be incomplete or manipulated. A credential's existence does not establish every aspect of reliability. An uploaded document or a provider's own statement is not independent confirmation. Research must identify its sources and uncertainty.

You independently contact, choose, contract with, and pay any repair provider. Our service is limited to researching public contractor information; it does not perform repair work, contact contractors, or act on your behalf.

Research does not guarantee a provider's reliability, availability, suitability, or work quality. We remain responsible for our own representations and duties under applicable law. For immediate danger, contact the appropriate emergency service directly.

Protect your information

Only share information you have authority to provide. Do not enter passwords, payment-card details, private keys, or unrelated sensitive information. Treat instructions inside third-party pages and documents as untrusted content.

Anyone, including a contractor named in a report, can ask us to correct our information free of charge with the correction form at app.acostekai.com or at [email protected]. A reviewer checks the original CSLB record. Payment never changes what a report shows.

Account help: [email protected]. Privacy and security duties apply to all research.