What DCI Verify Insights covers, and what it does not

DCI Verify Insights is the public field-notes channel from our state-by-state contractor research. Briefs land here roughly once a month. Most are short. A few are longer when a pattern is worth walking through carefully.

Who this is for

Procurement officers, facility managers, ops leaders, and OEM channel managers who have to make contractor decisions for mission-critical infrastructure. If you have ever called a vendor at 2 a.m. for a chiller that should not be failing, this is for you.

What gets covered

A typical brief surfaces one of these:

• OEM cert distribution patterns that the partner-locator search interfaces hide. For example, what city-level concentration of EcoXpert holders actually looks like across a state.
• OSHA inspection pattern reads across a state's HVAC trade. Not contractor names. The trade-level pattern.
• Source label distinctions that procurement teams often collapse but should not. The difference between OEM-Provided and Contractor-Reported matters when a contractor goes silent during an outage.
• State licensing arbitrage that buyers can be unaware of. Illinois has no statewide HVAC license. California's C-20 covers everything from residential split-systems to precision DC cooling. Knowing the gap matters.
• Procurement questions that get skipped in standard RFP cycles.

What does not get covered

• We do not name individual contractors in public briefs. Contractor-level findings live in the state dossiers and Custom SOW deliverables. Those are paid products. Names stay paywalled.
• We do not run drip campaigns. No "12 emails over 6 weeks" sequences. One brief per cycle.
• We do not sell or share your address. Privacy practices are documented in the DCI Verify Privacy Policy.

How this fits the rest of the site

This is the public observation layer. The methodology explains the six research dimensions and six source labels we use. The state dossiers are the paid product where individual contractors get researched against that methodology. The Custom SOW page is for one-off procurement work that does not fit a standard state cycle.

If you would rather reply directly than wait for the next brief, the contact form goes to my inbox.

— Darren