Editorial standards
This is a Your-Money-or-Your-Life site: a wrong reciprocity fact can cost someone a job start date or a filing fee. These are the standards that govern every page, and the people accountable for them.
Who writes and reviews this site
Pages are produced by the License Reciprocity Editorial Team — the research-and-verification team that reads the primary boards and compact commissions and turns them into the data that drives every page and tool. The same team stands behind every page: each reciprocity fact, fee, and requirement is verified against the official state licensing board or interstate compact commission, and the page is dated. The site is owned and operated by ConnectEra LLC, which is accountable for what publishes here.
How automation and AI are used
The pages on this site are generated, not written one by one. Software assembles each state page and state-to-state page from a typed, source-cited dataset: one record per profession for each of the 50 states and DC, each with its official sources and the date it was last verified.
- AI research tools read the official boards, statutes and compact commissions and draft the records under a written protocol: official sources only, no invented values, and a blank with a note where a fact is not published. AI tools also help draft the templates that turn records into sentences.
- Every record is researched from its official sources under that protocol, with the researcher's verification notes kept on file. Since 2026-09-27, each research batch also goes through a separate, adversarial verification pass that tries to prove the records wrong; the official source settles any disagreement, and the evidence is kept on file. Older records get that second pass at their next re-verification.
- Automated checks fail a release that contains a record with no source or no verification date, a statistic that disagrees with the data, or a record more than 10% past its re-verification schedule.
- A person reviews and approves every release before it is deployed.
Tools speed up the reading; they do not decide what is true. The full process is under how these pages are made on the methodology page.
No synthetic authors, no invented credentials
We do not publish fictional writers, AI-generated author portraits, or borrowed titles. The editorial team is described honestly as a team, under its own name; and no page claims a legal, medical, or licensing credential that its author does not actually hold. We are a data-and-tools publisher — not a law firm, a licensing authority, or a school — and we say so rather than dressing the site up as something it is not.
Primary sources only
Every reciprocity fact traces to a state licensing board, an interstate-compact commission, or the governing statute — never to prep-school blogs or aggregator lists, which routinely publish inflated reciprocity counts. Aggregators are used only as cross-checks and are never cited. Each page lists its sources; the full registry is at /sources/, and the verification hierarchy is on the methodology page.
Honest nulls
Some boards do not publish a fee or a processing time. Where a fact is not publicly available, we write "not publicly disclosed" rather than estimate. A blank with a link to the official board beats a confident guess — because the guess is the thing that gets someone hurt.
Dates that tell the truth
Every page shows the date its facts were last verified, and that date moves only when the record is actually re-checked against its source — never automatically on deploy. State and state-to-state pages also show when the page itself last changed, and the sitemap reports the later of the two to search engines. Each profession's re-verification schedule and next review date are published on the methodology page. Freshness on this site is earned, not stamped.
Independence and advertising
No lead generation, no course sales, no paid placements, no "sponsored" boards. The site is free to use and may carry display advertising served by Google, which keeps it free. Ads are visually separate from the content and never placed inside a tool or an answer. Advertisers do not choose, see, or influence what we publish, and no fact, ranking, or state appears on a page because someone paid for it. The only incentive is to be the most accurate, most citable source on license reciprocity.
Corrections
Errors get fixed, visibly. Report one to hello@licensereciprocity.com with the official source. Confirmed corrections ship with an updated verification date, and systemic aggregator errors we've rejected are documented on the pages they affect. Every correction and data change is listed, dated, in the corrections and changes log.