There are no requirements to be listed
We do not ask for insurance, a license, years in business, or anything else. A small operation that started last month is listed the same way as a company with fourteen people. Our job is to get cleaning companies in front of people who need cleaning — not to decide who is allowed to work.
We used to look at documents. We stopped
Until August 2026 a company could send us its insurance certificate or its business license, we would look at it, and its profile would carry a badge with the date. We took that away on purpose, and it is worth saying plainly why.
We cannot authenticate a document. We have no way of knowing whether a policy is genuine, whether it is still in force, or whether the paper we were sent is what it claims to be. Putting our badge on it made you trust us, and there was nothing underneath that trust. If a policy had expired and something went wrong in your home, our badge is the first thing a lawyer would have pointed at.
Looking at a document with the private parts blacked out does not fix it either: it is still us vouching for it, and it means holding personal data we would rather not have at all.
What we do instead
- The state, not us. A company can tell us the exact name it is registered under. We link you to its state’s official public register so you can look it up yourself, for free.
- Straight from them to you. We ask for no paperwork and we accept none, so nothing has been through our hands on the way. What a company says about itself reaches you as it wrote it. We cannot authenticate a license or an insurance policy, and we do not claim otherwise.
- You decide. Ask the company for proof of insurance before work starts, the same as you would with any contractor. What a register shows you is that the business exists and is in good standing.
It is a smaller claim than a badge, and a sturdier one: it does not ask you to trust us at all. The record is published by the state, and you read it yourself.
What it does not mean
A register listing is not a rating, a background check, insurance, or a guarantee of the work. It tells you the business exists on the record of its state and nothing more.
A register tells you a business exists and whether it is in good standing. It says nothing about whether they clean well, turn up on time, or carry insurance today. Ask for proof of insurance before anyone picks up a mop. You can send exactly this: “Before we start — can you send me proof of insurance?” That is the whole message. A real company answers it without blinking; one that will not answer at all has told you something too.
And that goes for reviews too
Some listings show a count of what their customers answered — three yes-or-no questions, sent by the company itself with a link that works once. We do not check that those jobs happened. All we know is that the company sent the link, and we say so right next to the count instead of letting you assume otherwise.
What we do promise is the other half, and it is the part that makes a count worth reading: nothing comes down for being bad. A listed company cannot delete a review, cannot edit one, and cannot ask us to. It can reply underneath, and you read both.
A missing link is often our gap, not theirs
Plenty of companies here have not given us a registered name yet, and some states are not in our list at all. It says nothing about their work — ask them directly, the same as you would with any other company.
The registers we link to
These are the official state bodies, and searching them is free and needs no account. We add a state when the first company from it is listed.
- ArizonaArizona Corporation Commission
- CaliforniaCalifornia Secretary of State
- FloridaFlorida Department of State, Division of Corporations
- GeorgiaGeorgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division
- IllinoisIllinois Secretary of State, Department of Business Services
- NevadaNevada Secretary of State
- New YorkNew York State Department of State, Division of Corporations
- North CarolinaNorth Carolina Department of the Secretary of State
- TennesseeTennessee Secretary of State, Business Services
- TexasTexas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Two notes worth knowing. In some states the register is not run by the Secretary of State — in Arizona it is the Corporation Commission, in Florida the Division of Corporations — so the name above is the body that actually holds the record. And in Texas the Secretary of State charges a dollar per search, so we link to the Comptroller’s free search instead.
We are still growing
This platform is new and growing. Some listings are still examples while we fill each city, and new companies are added as they join. We would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
If something is wrong
If a company here treated you badly, is no longer trading, or is not who it says it is, tell us. We would rather take a name off than defend it.