Each "Get Licensed" roadmap is a 9-page PDF built from the state board's own applications, fee schedules, and exam bulletins — sequenced the way an application actually goes through, with the reciprocity fast paths spelled out. Everything the $1,000 filing services know, for $39.
GA + AL + NC + SC + TN. The five roadmaps plus the Southeast reciprocity one-pager: which licenses unlock which states, and the cheapest sequence to hold all five.
Real pages from the Texas roadmap (v1.1, 9 pages). Every state guide follows the same layout: one-page overview, step-by-step roadmap, reciprocity shortcut, printable checklist, and a dated sources page. Click a page to enlarge it.
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Every guide carries its "Verified" month on the cover and a sources page, so you know exactly how current it is — and what to re-check before filing.
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The raw requirements are — spread across a dozen PDFs, in no particular order, with the gotchas unlabeled. The roadmap is the sequencing (what to file first, what silently costs you a board cycle), the current figures gathered in one place, and the reciprocity paths most contractors never find. It's the 3–5 hours of cross-checking, done and dated.
Each guide states its verification month and tells you the two or three things to re-confirm before filing (the checklist page). When we publish an updated edition within 12 months of your purchase, you get it free.
They focus on the contractor-level license — the one that lets you bid and pull permits — and note where journeyman/master cards are state-issued vs local, with the local programs called out.
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No. The guides are informational, prepared with care and cited to primary sources, but they're not legal advice and no outcome is guaranteed. The issuing board's current published requirements always control.
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