The party diagnosing the problem is the party selling the fix.

Commercial buildings carry inspections that are not optional. Fire sprinklers, fire alarms, backflow devices, extinguishers, elevators. The inspection finds a deficiency, and the company that found it hands you the quote to correct it.

That is not a scandal. It is how the trade is organised, and most of the people in it are competent and honest. The defect is structural: the only party in the room who has read the code is the one being paid to find something, and the owner has no independent reading of what the standard actually requires.

This site exists because that gap is closeable with public records and published standards, and almost nobody closes it.

Who it is for

Commercial property owners and the people who manage their buildings. Not consumers, and not contractors. If you are a contractor, nothing here is sold to you and nothing here is sold about you.

What it does

You send a quote. We return what the published standard requires, whether the contractor’s licence classification authorizes the quoted scope, which line items do not survive a question, and the exact questions to ask in order.

We do not inspect your building. We do not certify anything. We do not give legal advice, and for a dispute of any size you should have an attorney — we will tell you so rather than pretend otherwise.

How it is paid

A flat fee per review, quoted before we start. No commission from contractors, no referral fee, and deliberately no percentage of any reduction.

The success fee was considered and rejected. Being paid a share of the savings would recreate the exact conflict this service exists to remove — it would give us a financial interest in finding problems, which is the thing we are auditing somebody else for. It is also unprovable, because there is no counterfactual: a different contractor quoting a different scope is not a measurement.

If that ever changes, it will be stated on the page where it happens rather than buried in a policy document.

Who publishes it

Xenco Labs Inc., which publishes comparison and reference sites in adjacent industries. The work behind this one started with the publisher’s own commercial buildings and his own contractor disputes, which is where every mechanic on this site was first identified.

We name patterns, not parties. A specific licensed contractor is not identified on a public page here while a dispute involving them is live. That belongs in a regulatory filing, which is the correct forum and where the record is the point.