Tell us your trade and your city. We'll tell you every filing you owe and when — license renewals, bonds, workers' comp, tax deadlines, city business licenses, the federal stuff — with the penalty for missing each one, and a reminder before it's due.
Most contractors who lose their license don't lose it over bad work. They lose it over paperwork they didn't know existed.
Quick test — a typical contractor owes 12 to 20+ recurring obligations across nine agencies
If any of those made you pause — that pause is what we sell the cure for.
From our obligations research
The kind of thing that never arrives in the mail.
Contract on an expired CSLB license and California law lets the customer demand back everything they ever paid you — not just refuse the balance. The renewal is biennial, the delinquency fee nearly doubles it, and the date is buried in the month you first got licensed.
Contractors were told workers' comp becomes mandatory for everyone — employees or not — on January 1, 2026. The Legislature moved it. If you're planning around the old date, you're working from stale information. Subscribers get the real date and what to do before it.
You owe business license tax in most cities where you perform jobs — not just where your shop is. One nearby city voids your cheapest rate if you file even a day late. Another charges per-job at the permit counter. We track the ones you actually work in.
Hire a subcontractor for $600+ and California expects a report within 20 days — separate from the 1099. (And the 1099 threshold itself just changed.) Two obligations, two agencies, zero notices mailed to you.
Applicator licenses expire December 31 — but which December 31 depends on whether your surname starts A–L or M–Z. Get it wrong and you're reapplying from scratch, exam included, after your CE hours came up short.
EPA lead-safe certification renews every five years — but file fewer than 90 days before it expires and you cannot work covered jobs until the EPA finishes processing. The effective deadline is three months before the one printed on your certificate.
Coverage
Built from your answers to twelve questions — trade, cities, employees, entity type — so it's your business's calendar, not a generic checklist.
We track the recurring obligations listed in your plan — not every law that could ever apply to a business. See the Terms of Service for exactly what this service is and isn't.
Pricing
That's not a slogan — check the delinquency fee on your own license. Then check what an unlicensed-work claim would cost.
Month to month. No contract. Cancel online in two clicks, no phone call.
Free — before you pay a dime
We're onboarding our first California customers now. Join the list and we'll send you the three deadlines contractors in your trade miss most, with this year's dates. Then you decide.
Fair questions
No. We're not a law firm, and no attorney-client relationship is created by using this service. We compile publicly available regulatory information and remind you about deadlines. When something needs a professional — a licensing dispute, a tax question specific to your situation — we'll say so and point you to one. Our Terms of Service spell this out.
No, and that's deliberate. You file; we make sure you know what, when, where, and what it costs to miss. The direct filing link is on every deadline.
The agencies themselves — CSLB, the Secretary of State, the FTB, EPA, DPR, city finance departments — checked against the statutes, with a dated source log for every rule in the library. When a rule changes, we update the library and your calendar with it.
The national platforms are built for 50 states, which means they're shallow in every one of them. We do one state, three trades, deeply — down to which cities near you tax jobsite work and which December 31 your applicator license actually expires on. Ask a national player what the CSLB does when your bond carrier files a cancellation notice. We know, to the day.
Tell us — hired your first employee, added a city, bought a truck over 14,000 lbs — and your calendar updates. We also ask you quarterly, because "anything changed?" is the obligation nobody calendars.
From codex — the bound book that replaced the scroll, where Romans kept the laws. Building code, tax code, legal code: your business answers to all three. We keep the book so you don't have to.