American Trades IndexThe living record of the skilled trade workforce

Every licensed contractor in America, read fresh every night.

3,009,554 licenses across 54 state and metro sources, on one set of definitions, compared against yesterday every single night. One product. The only thing you choose is how much of the map you want.

What is in it
Journeyman684,881
Apprentice337,087
Contractor309,724
Master196,414

Every state writes its own vocabulary. We translate all of it into one ladder. Texas calls it a Master Electrician, Oregon calls it a Supervising Electrician, and a hundred boards in between use their own words. On one ladder you can compare Dallas to Denver without a footnote.

Ten trades: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, boiler, sheet metal, elevator, fire sprinkler, electrical sign, appliance and well drilling. The original state label stays on every record.

Your analyst and your software read the same file.

Six ways in. All of them included at both prices, with no seat charge and no upcharge for the API.

How you get itWhat it is for
DashboardLook up a market, watch a territory, export what you see. No training and no per-user fee.
APIPull counts, changes and history straight into your CRM, your model, or your own product.
AlertsWe send you the change the morning the state posts it. Nothing to poll, nothing to check.
Claude and MCPAsk it in plain language. Your analyst and your AI agent read the same nightly file.
WarehouseDelivered into Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks, where your team already works.
Free lookupCheck any license in any state. No account, no card, free forever.

$500 for your state. $2,900 for all fifty.

Lightcast, Dodge and ConstructConnect all make you sit through a call to hear a number, then charge you per seat on top. Ours is on this page and seats are free forever.

Or start free. Look up any license in any state, no account needed, and 500 records a month through the API. Free permanently, not a trial.

One State
$500per month
Billed monthly by card. Cancel anytime
  • The entire product, scoped to one state
  • All eight changes, caught nightly
  • Alerts when a company loses its qualifying party
  • Dashboard, API, alerts, Claude, warehouse
  • Unlimited seats. Unlimited queries. No overage
Start with one state One state per account. A second state is Fifty States.
Fifty States
$2,900per month
Billed monthly by card. Cancel anytime
  • The entire product, every state we publish
  • Identical software and access to One State
  • Every change we have ever recorded
  • Dashboard, API, alerts, Claude, warehouse
  • Unlimited seats. Unlimited queries. No overage
Start tracking Annual invoicing at the same price where a recurring card is not possible.
What the same team costs as it grows
10 seats
Per-seat at $300 a user: $36,000 a year
Fifty States: $34,800
25 seats
$90,000
$34,800
50 seats
$180,000
$34,800
A per-seat model at a typical enterprise rateFifty States, flat

Charging per seat is how everyone else in this category makes money. It is the one thing we will not do, because the person who needs the number is rarely the person with the login.

What we will not sell you.

Some of these cost us money. They are on the page because the refusals are what make the rest of it trustworthy.

Pick your state and start tonight.

Put in a card, choose a state, and the first nightly file lands tomorrow morning. Cancel any time from the dashboard.