A $50 expired license shouldn't cost a $500K contract.

The Problem

Every week, a contractor somewhere in Kentucky sends a technician to a jobsite with an expired license. It's not malice — it's a spreadsheet that didn't get updated, a renewal notice buried in someone's inbox, a name mismatch between the company roster and the state database.

The consequences are severe: state fines starting at $10,000, project shutdowns, voided insurance coverage, and GC relationships destroyed overnight. One mechanical contractor in Lexington lost a $500K hospital renovation because a single tech's plumbing license had lapsed eleven days earlier.

The painful irony? The license renewal fee was $50.

Our Response

Watchpost was built by people who've lived this problem — who've watched a $50 oversight cascade into a six-figure loss. We built the system we wished existed: one that watches every license in your fleet against the state registry, every single night, and alerts the right people the moment anything changes.

No spreadsheets. No manual lookups. No crossed fingers. Just automated, cryptographically verified compliance monitoring that runs while you sleep.

Why Kentucky First

Kentucky's Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction (DHBC) maintains one of the most structured state licensing registries in the country. We chose to build here first because getting it right in a well-organized system lets us prove the model before tackling states with fragmented databases.

Our scraper integrates directly with the DHBC's public registry — matching names, license numbers, trade categories, and expiration dates with sub-second accuracy. Once Kentucky is bulletproof, we expand state by state.

Our Core Values

• Transparency

  Every verification is logged, hashed, and exportable. If we checked it, you can prove it.

• Reliability

  Nightly syncs run at 2 AM. If the scraper fails, ops gets paged. Your data is never stale.

• Simplicity

  Paste names. Get monitoring. Export audits. No training manuals, no onboarding calls.