Professional services
Where a firm is checked before the first call — and where a bad year stays visible.
Where professional services is judged
- Avvo
- FINRA BrokerCheck
- Clutch
- Zillow agent reviews
- Niche
- Martindale-Hubbell
- SEC IAPD
- G2
- and 16 more
Plus the 8 read for every business, whatever it sells — the full list.
The 5 trades in professional services
Where an issue reads
Particular to professional services
Read at the moment this page was rendered. If the crawler stops reading one, it leaves this list the same day — which is the difference between a source list and a marketing page somebody typed.
And for every business, whatever it sells
Why some of these are not review sites
- Avvo
- reviews plus a rating, and disciplinary history alongside it
- FINRA BrokerCheck
- disclosures, complaints and terminations — mandatory, public, and searchable by name
- NMLS Consumer Access
- licence status for anything mortgage-adjacent
- Course Report
- bootcamps and vocational training
- CFPB complaint database
- consumer complaints, by company, with the response
- for a consultancy the people *are* the product; headcount changes are a service signal
- ApartmentRatings
- property management, where the reviews are written by tenants rather than buyers and read very differently
- State bar discipline records
- public sanctions; the one search a client does last and should have done first
What it counts
The same complaint on three sites is a different fact
Every issue counts the same 12 themes for this trade — how often each is raised, on how many separate platforms, and whether the recent half is worse than the older half. None of it is a model’s impression of how common something is.
Whether the work was right, and demonstrably so
CommunicationUpdates, plain language, reachability
ResponsivenessReply times, missed calls, chasing
Delivery and deadlinesOn time, scope kept, handover
And 8 more in every issue: fees and billing, outcomes, onboarding and setup, support after the sale, teaching, curriculum, facilities, value.
The other sectors
24 issues about professional services
Yours specifically — no benchmarks, no industry averages, no filler. The first one is written the day you sign up, so you can judge it before the second arrives.
Half of an issue is read from a site of your own. If your business does not have one, leave this empty — you get the half read from your listings and reviews, and here is what that leaves out.