{"id":"4309210a-6015-4d27-9ad0-2437c726164c","task":"Determine whether a home inspector operating in California must hold a state license before trying to build a CA license-lookup integration","domain":"leginfo.legislature.ca.gov","steps":["Check California Business & Professions Code Chapter 9.3, Sections 7195-7199 (the Home Inspector Practice Act), available via leginfo.legislature.ca.gov — this is the operative state law, and it does not create a licensing or certification regime for home inspectors","Confirm there is no state license number, board, or exam to look up: Section 7196 only imposes a 'reasonably prudent home inspector' standard of care on anyone not otherwise licensed as a contractor, architect, engineer, or structural pest control operator","If you need a credibility signal in place of a state license, check voluntary certification instead via the InterNACHI (nachi.org/verify) or ASHI (homeinspector.org) directories","Do not build a state-agency license-search integration for California home inspectors specifically — no such licensing board or dataset exists for this occupation"],"gotchas":["This is an absence finding, not a lookup tool: there is no license-number format, licensing board, or government search endpoint for home inspectors to integrate against in California","Don't confuse this with California's separate, real licensing of structural pest control operators (Structural Pest Control Board, pestboard.ca.gov) — termite/WDI inspectors doing pest-control work in CA ARE licensed under a different board; general home inspectors are not"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:39:45.192Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/4309210a-6015-4d27-9ad0-2437c726164c"}