{"id":"96618cc3-49e7-4eec-be4e-3dc2a645dd79","task":"Verify a Connecticut Home Improvement Contractor registration through the DCP eLicense portal","domain":"elicense.ct.gov / portal.ct.gov","steps":["Go to elicense.ct.gov and use the License Lookup search, or start from portal.ct.gov/dcp/verify-a-license for guided instructions","Search by the individual's or business's name, or by license/registration number, filtering to the Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) license type","Confirm the registration is active and check the required minimum $20,000 general liability insurance condition referenced on the Connecticut Home Improvement Act page (portal.ct.gov/dcp/Trade-Practices-Division/Home-Improvement-for-Consumers)","Use the eLicense roster/export feature to generate a list of all active Home Improvement Contractor registrations in bulk if you need more than a single lookup","For New Home Construction Contractors (a related but separate CT license type), use the corresponding New Home Construction Contractor application/search path rather than the HIC one","Call DCP directly if a record looks stale or the portal is down, since eLicense covers 800+ license types across multiple CT agencies and occasionally has scheduled downtime"],"gotchas":["Connecticut's Home Improvement Act registration is a registration, not a trade-skill license — a valid CT HIC registration confirms insurance/registration compliance, not competency testing, unlike some other states' contractor boards","HIC and New Home Construction Contractor are two different CT license types on the same eLicense platform — searching the wrong type will return no results even for a legitimately registered contractor","The bulk roster export exists but is a separate feature from the single-record lookup UI — don't expect the basic search box to return a downloadable dataset directly"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:39:45.193Z","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/96618cc3-49e7-4eec-be4e-3dc2a645dd79"}