Data and editorial standards
Where the facts on our check pages come from, how often we read them, what a check shows and what it does not, and how to have a page corrected or taken down. It covers the free checks on swiftagentsites.com, FloodFireCheck and the Swift Agent Network.
The same text is on swiftagentsites.com, which runs the checks: swiftagentsites.com/about/standards.
Where the facts come from
Every fact on a check page comes from a public file published by the regulator named below. We copy it as published, without adding facts or filling in gaps. Each page names its source, links to the regulator’s own lookup and shows the date the file was read.
| Check | Source | How we read it | How often |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate license, Texas | Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC), data.texas.gov file s7ft-44qi | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Colorado | Colorado Division of Real Estate, data.colorado.gov file 4zse-6bnw | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, New York | New York Department of State, data.ny.gov file yg7h-zjbf (active licenses only) | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Connecticut | Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, data.ct.gov files 7y8e-cawe, fwpc-pgqj and 6tja-6vdt | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Delaware | Delaware Division of Professional Regulation, data.delaware.gov file pjnv-eaih | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Illinois | Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), data.illinois.gov file pzzh-kp68, under the Open Database License | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Florida | Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), licensee CSV file | Our monthly copy only. The state publishes a download, with no lookup we can ask per name. | Monthly copy |
| Real estate license, California | California Department of Real Estate (DRE), daily licensee file | Our monthly copy only. The state publishes a download, with no lookup we can ask per name. | Monthly copy |
| Real estate license, Arizona | Arizona Department of Real Estate (ADRE), the Individuals list in its public database | Our monthly copy only, downloaded by hand: the state’s site blocks scripts. | Monthly copy |
| Insurance license, Texas and Medicare agent | Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), data.texas.gov file kxv3-diwf (agents; adjusters left out) | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Contractors, Texas | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) and Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners (TSBPE), their license files | Our monthly copy only. A license that leaves TDLR’s file stays for 12 months marked "no longer in TDLR’s file". | Monthly copy |
| Contractors, Colorado | Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), data.colorado.gov file 7s5z-vewr | Read from the file when the page opens. If the file takes more than 4 seconds, the page shows our last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit, plus the monthly copy |
| Movers and bus and limo operators | FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration), by USDOT number, files on data.transportation.gov: authority 6eyk-hxee, census az4n-8mr2, insurance ypjt-5ydn, revocations sa6p-acbp | Read from FMCSA when the page is built; one reading is reused for up to an hour. If FMCSA does not answer, that day’s last reading or the monthly copy, with its date. | Each visit (an hour at most), the monthly copy, and every Monday a re-read of the listed companies |
| Listing Lookout | The same state real estate files as above, and TDI’s file for Texas insurance agents | Our monthly copy, falling back to the state’s own file where it has one we can ask. Each answer is kept for a day. | Monthly copy |
| FloodFireCheck | FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (flood zones); OpenFEMA NFIP flood insurance claims; FEMA National Risk Index (tornado ratings, some cities); CAL FIRE Office of the State Fire Marshal Fire Hazard Severity Zones (California); Miami-Dade and Hillsborough hurricane evacuation zones; the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder for the address check | Downloaded and computed per neighborhood. The address check asks at the time (kept a day per address; inside Miami-Dade the county’s copy of FEMA’s map, elsewhere Esri Living Atlas’s copy). | New pages nightly. FEMA updates the claims about monthly. Each page states the date of its data. |
The monthly copy
A job runs every night at 08:30 UTC. From the first night of each month it copies the state license files, the contractor files and the FMCSA files, a slice a night, until each one is finished (about ten nights). The order is the license files first, then FMCSA, then the contractor files, then Florida. Arizona’s file is loaded by hand.
When a file’s copy is finished, rows that month’s copy did not see are dropped, so a license or carrier that left the file leaves our pages. Texas trade licenses are the exception: they stay 12 months, marked as no longer in the file.
Two more jobs keep the mover and bus pages current: every night at 08:00 UTC new company pages are added for the cities we cover, and every Monday at 07:30 UTC each listed company is read again and any change in authority, insurance on file, safety rating, phone or address is recorded.
Every page that shows the copy says the date it was read ("as of").
What a check shows
- A license check shows what the state’s file says on the date shown: whether the license is active on the file, its type, its dates and, where the file has them, the sponsoring broker and any disciplinary action on record.
- A mover or bus check shows what the carrier has filed with FMCSA: operating authority, household goods or passenger authority, insurance on file and any revocation. City pages call a company "cleared" when FMCSA shows active operating authority, liability insurance on file and no revocation pending. That is the only summary we work out from a filing.
- A FloodFireCheck page shows how much of a neighborhood lies in each FEMA flood zone and the flood insurance claims filed there, with hazard data where we have it.
What a check does not show
- It is not a rating, a review or a recommendation. An active license means the state has a current license on file; it says nothing about experience, complaints, lawsuits or results.
- No license found means "not in this file under that name". It never means "unlicensed".
- A filing is a fact about paperwork. A page says "the register shows no active authority"; it never calls a company a scam.
- It is not an endorsement by us or by any regulator. TDLR does not endorse this site, and CAL FIRE does not endorse FloodFireCheck. Past flood claims do not predict future flooding, and FloodFireCheck has no "safe" or "unsafe" labels.
- It is not legal advice. Before you rely on a license or a filing, check the regulator’s own lookup, which every page links.
- License pages never print an email, phone number, street address or ZIP code from the state’s file.
How members and clients appear
The Swift Agent Network has a free listing and a full membership. The free listing is the member mark on the business’s public record page, a link to its website and a member page, plus Listing Lookout for real estate agents. Full membership, at $29 a month or $290 a year (included with a Swift Agent Sites website), adds a photo, phone, short bio, a Contact me form, the state hub and FloodFireCheck.
Paying never changes a check result. The status, dates and filings come from the regulator’s file whatever the business pays. A member’s own additions sit below those facts, marked as added by them.
We match every license or USDOT number to the public record before a listing shows and before anyone pays.
On directory pages, "Verified" marks our clients and members. Where a directory page shows Sponsored names, they are labelled Sponsored: a paid label, not a ranking. The list itself is in alphabetical order by first name.
The member directory groups members by line of work and then by state, free and full alike. We list members; we never rate or rank them.
Corrections and removals
- The state or FMCSA has it wrong. The regulator holds the record, so the correction is made with them, through the official lookup each page links. Our page changes at the next reading: on the next visit for the files we read live, with the next monthly copy for the others.
- Our page differs from the regulator’s own lookup. Email mail@swiftagentsites.com or hello@swiftagentnetwork.com with the page’s address.
- Take a license page down. Every real estate, insurance and contractor license page has a Remove this page link at its foot. The page comes off the site and out of our sitemap and stays off. It does not change the state’s record. If you are a client or member, a person checks with you before it comes off.
- Mover and bus pages come from the federal register and have no remove link. Email hello@swiftagentnetwork.com and we take down what you added.
- Leave the network. Email hello@swiftagentnetwork.com. We take down your member page and everything you added. Step by step: Removing your page, or leaving the network.
Numbers we quote
We quote a number only with its source and the date it was read. For example: 2,076,775 rows in our copy of 10 state license files, counted in our database on 11 Nov 2026.
Who is responsible
Swift Agent Sites runs the checks, FloodFireCheck and the Swift Agent Network. James Brazil, the founder, is responsible for this page: about James, or email mail@swiftagentsites.com.