Methodology
Exitr turns dated public facts into signals and two scores. Missing data never adds points. Every claim links to its source.
Measured quality
electrical contractors
- Companies tracked
- 20,809
- Signals this week
- 269
- Accuracy (weekly sample)
- 100% on 2026-10-11
- Inference precision
- Not yet measured
- Freshness (median age)
- 2 days on 2026-10-13
- Confirmed in the last 30 days
- 100%
- Last refreshed
- 2026-10-13
Accuracy: each week a separate checker re-fetches a random sample of records straight from the source and compares them field by field. Target: 97% or better.
Inference precision: each week a sample of inferences is re-checked against their evidence. Target: 95% or better for every inference type; a type below the bar is hidden from customers until it passes again.
Freshness: how long ago each record was last confirmed at its source. Target: under 30 days (status and acquisition fields under 7 days).
Readiness score (0 to 100)
| Part | Max | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Tenure | 15 | 0 under 8 years since formation or first license, rising to 15 at 20+ years. |
| Growth stall | 20 | Permits or headcount flat or down over 12 to 24 months. |
| Founder dependence | 20 | No second-in-command roles posted in 24 months; single officer. |
| Exit preparation | 15 | First finance hire, leadership page refresh, new certification, site refresh after 24+ stale months. |
| Staleness | 10 | Website not meaningfully changed in 24+ months (archive-dated). |
| Market in play | 10 | Acquisitions within 50 miles in the last 12 months. |
| Corporate change | 10 | Officer, agent or address change in the last 12 months. |
Event signals fade with a 180-day half-life; standing facts do not. Confidence is low when fewer than 4 parts have data. Weights start as expert values; once 50+ real outcomes exist in a niche, new weights ship only if they beat the current ones on held-out outcomes.
Fit score and rank
Hard filters first: your states, size, exclusions. Acquired, PE-backed and closed companies never appear. Then service overlap (40%), distance to your nearest office (25%: full within 25 miles, none beyond 150), industry overlap (20%) and tool match (15%). Parts that don't apply are left out and the rest re-weighted. Rank = 60% readiness + 40% fit (your Owner can set 40% to 80%).
Inferences
An inference combines sourced facts into a plain conclusion, like "Permits show 6 data center or utility jobs since March 2025, across 4 quarters." Each shows its evidence, a confidence label and what would change the view. A validator rejects any sentence with a number we did not see, more than two sentences, or any guess about a person.
Sources
We use a source only after checking its terms. We follow robots.txt and never log in to anything. We do not store owner names, personal phones, personal emails or home addresses.
| Source | What it feeds | Last success | Terms reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida DBPR electrical contractor licensee file | Business (DBA) name, city, ZIP, license class, status, original licensure date | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Texas TDLR license file (Electrical Contractor) | Legal business name, county, city, ZIP, business phone, license status (expiration) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Buyer portfolio pages(not connected yet) | Companies a buyer lists as its own (independence check, weekly) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| City of Austin issued construction permits(not connected yet) | Electrical permits per contractor (volume, mix, project type, valuation) with a link to each permit | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Company enrichment API (People Data Labs; Coresignal is the alternative)(not connected yet) | Website, headcount and headcount change over 12 months, size band, founded year, company LinkedIn page (company-level only) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Connecticut Business Registry, Business Master (data.ct.gov)(not connected yet) | MSP candidates by self-reported NAICS code (541512, 541513, 541519, 518210) or business-name keyword (account number, name, business type, status, registration date, business city and ZIP); confirmed by website before use | – | 2026-10-13 |
| Coresignal Multi-source Company API (second enrichment provider)(not connected yet) | Same company fields as the enrichment entry (website, headcount by month, size band, founded year, company LinkedIn page), used when ENRICHMENT_PROVIDER is coresignal or both | – | 2026-10-13 |
| GDELT DOC 2.0 news API (press releases and trade press)(not connected yet) | Acquisition headlines (buyer, target, date, link) that become deal-tracker entries when the target is a known company | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX API(not connected yet) | Website change history for companies with a known website (staleness; site or leadership page refresh after 24+ stale months) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| New York Department of State active corporations (data.ny.gov)(not connected yet) | MSP candidates by business-name keyword (DOS ID, entity name, initial filing date, entity type, county, city, ZIP); confirmed by website before use | – | 2026-10-13 |
| OSHA establishment inspections (Department of Labor open data API)(not connected yet) | Safety record from public inspections (count in 5 years, latest date, inspection types, link to each OSHA page) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| OpenCorporates API(not connected yet) | Officer, agent and address changes; officer count; incorporation date (gap filling only) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Public DNS (Google Public DNS over HTTPS) and certificate transparency logs (crt.sh)(not connected yet) | Email platform and DNS host of the company's domain (switches between checks), and other domains newly sharing the company's web certificates (rebrand or new-brand hint) | – | 2026-10-13 |
| Public deal announcements (press releases, trade press, SEC filings)(not connected yet) | Deal tracker (buyer, target, date, location), buyer activity, acquired-company exclusions | – | 2026-10-11 |
| SAM.gov Entity Management API (public data)(not connected yet) | Federally registered businesses with an IT services NAICS code in the launch states (UEI, legal and DBA name, website, business start date, registration status and expiration, NAICS list, city and ZIP) | – | 2026-10-13 |
| SBA Paycheck Protection Program loan data (2020 to 2021)(not connected yet) | Jobs reported on the 2020 to 2021 loan application, used as a dated headcount baseline only | – | 2026-10-11 |
| SEC EDGAR full-text search(not connected yet) | Public acquirers' 8-K press-release exhibits naming electrical contractor acquisitions (buyer, target, target city and state, filing date) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (Form ADV bulk data)(not connected yet) | SEC-registered adviser firms (CRD number, business name, city, state, ZIP, main office phone, website), registration date, latest filing date, employees, regulatory assets under management, accounts and client counts (company-level) | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Texas Comptroller active franchise taxpayers(not connected yet) | Entity formation (SOS charter) date, organization type, right to transact business | – | 2026-10-11 |
| TheirStack jobs and technographics API(not connected yet) | Hiring by role (second-in-command, finance, reposted roles), data center and medium-voltage language, field and project software named in postings | – | 2026-10-11 |
| USAspending.gov award search (recipients under IT services NAICS codes)(not connected yet) | Businesses holding federal contracts under IT services NAICS codes in the launch states (recipient name, UEI, recipient state, city and ZIP) | – | 2026-10-13 |
| USAspending.gov awards per company(not connected yet) | Public-sector contracts held by an MSP (awards in 3 years, obligations, awarding agencies, end dates) for contract concentration and expiring-award signals | – | 2026-10-13 |
| Virginia DPOR contractor regulant list (electrical specialty)(not connected yet) | Business name, city, ZIP, license class and specialty, status, original license date | – | 2026-10-11 |
| Website crawler (Firecrawl)(not connected yet) | Services, industries, leadership page link, certifications (extract_company contract) | – | 2026-10-11 |
Refresh cadence
- License files: daily. Permits: daily. Deal news: every 6 hours.
- Formation records and enrichment: weekly. Scores, inferences and feeds: weekly (Sunday), after the integrity gate passes.
- Alerts on saved targets: within 1 hour of a new signal (Pro and Scale).
What is not included
No owner ages, personal social profiles, home addresses, personal emails or phones, and nothing about individuals beyond what a company publishes about its own leadership. See why.