The Record Score is a 0 to 100 summary of the public paper trail behind each listing. Every number in it comes from a source you can check yourself, and the formula is on this page.
| Part | Points | How it is counted |
|---|---|---|
| Years registered with the state | 20 | 2 points for each year on the state record, up to 10 years. Longevity is not quality, but a business that has kept its record active for years has more history you can check. |
| Google rating and review count | 30 | Up to 30 points from the Google rating, weighted by how many reviews it has so that a handful of reviews cannot produce a top score. Counted only where we matched a Google Business Profile. |
| Owner-verified listing | 10 | 10 points when the owner has claimed the listing and we approved the claim. Claiming is free. |
This directory does not carry discipline records for this license type, so discipline is not part of the score here. Use the state lookup to check it.
We add the points a business earned and divide by the points that were available to it. A part with no data for that business is left out of both numbers, not counted as zero, so a business is never marked down because a source has nothing on it. A listing gets a score only when it has a state record part or a Google rating; years on the record alone are not enough.
It is not a review, a recommendation or a measure of workmanship or care. It cannot see insurance, pricing or how a job went. Businesses cannot pay to change it, and a Featured (paid) listing keeps exactly the score its record earns.
Paid Featured listings, if any, come first and are labelled. The rest are ordered by Google rating weighted by number of reviews, then the state record where one is published, then years on the record. Businesses we could not match to a Google Business Profile follow those we could. Data is refreshed weekly.
Scores are recalculated from the source records at every weekly rebuild. If a record is out of date or matched to the wrong business, tell us and we will correct it at the next rebuild. hello@jrcloudtech.cloud