How listings work
Where the listings came from, what verified means, and how to get yours changed or taken down.
How a business gets here
We compiled an initial list from public map and business data for the six SouthShore towns. No business asked to be included and none paid to be. If that is not what you want, say so and the listing comes down.
Unverified and verified
Unverified means nobody at the business has confirmed the details. It does not mean nobody checked. Every listing is built by reading what the business publishes about itself, what the state registers hold, and what the mapping and review platforms carry — and where those disagree, the listing says so. Most listings are in this state, and we are working through them by phone.
Verified means we spoke to someone at the business, they confirmed the details, and they told us in their own words what they do — and, more usefully, what they do not.
When the sources disagree
They disagree more often than you would think. A phone number on a company's own website that differs from the one on their map listing. A license number written two ways. An address that moved three years ago and only got updated in one place.
Most directories show you whichever version they pulled first. We show you both, say where each came from, and leave the choosing to you — because if you are about to ring somebody, knowing there are two numbers in circulation is more use than being handed one that might be dead.
None of that is a judgment about the business. Contact details drift; almost nobody has time to police every site that lists them. It is a statement about how sure we are, which is a thing you are entitled to know before you act on it.
Unverified listings are deliberately kept out of search engines. A page nobody at the business has confirmed should not be competing for someone's attention.
Why some trades have their own page and some do not
A trade gets its own page in a town only when at least 3 businesses are on record there. Below that, they appear on the town page instead. A page listing one business is not a useful page, and making hundreds of them would be a way of gaming search results rather than helping anyone.
Ranking
Listings are never ranked, rated, or reordered by payment. Sponsored slots are labeled as such and sit outside the listings — buying one moves nobody. Listings appear in the order the data happens to be in — alphabetical on the pages that have an order at all. There is no featured tier and no premium upgrade.
Sponsored slots
Some pages carry one paid slot. It is labeled Sponsored, it says in plain words that the business paid for it, and it sits in its own box above the listings rather than inside them.
Buying one changes nothing about the list. Nobody is removed, demoted, or reordered, and the sponsor still appears in the listings in exactly the place they would have anyway. The assistant on this site does not know who has paid — that information is not in the data it reads, so it cannot favor anyone even by accident.
One slot per page, never more. What a slot is and what it is not.
Getting it fixed or getting out
Both requests go to the same place and both are honoured. Correct or remove a listing. No account, no login, no conditions.