# The Credential Record > A dated, reproducible record of what a credential registry returned when a business's published credential claim was resolved against it. ## What a record is A record pairs a credential claim, quoted as the business published it, with the answer the issuing body's own public register gave on a stated date, plus the steps to reproduce that lookup independently. ## Fields in a record - claim_as_published: The credential exactly as the business words it on its own site, quoted, with the page URL and the date the page was fetched. - issuing_body: The organisation whose register is authoritative for that credential — not a directory, not an aggregator. - registry_consulted: The public register that was queried, and the URL of the query. - registry_returned: What that register answered: a match, no match, or no public register exists to query. - checked_at: The UTC date of the lookup. A record describes one moment and says so. - reproduction: The steps to run the same lookup by hand and arrive at the same answer without trusting this site. ## Rules 1. State the lookup, never the conclusion. A record says what a register returned on a date. It does not say whether a business is honest, competent, safe, or worth hiring. Those are inferences, and they belong to the reader. 2. No business may ever pay for an outcome. Revenue comes from scanning, monitoring and API access. It does not come from a finding, and no payment can add, alter, soften or remove one. A register that can be bought is not a register. 3. Records are appended, never silently edited. A correction is a new dated entry standing beside the old one, not a replacement for it. What the register said last month remains readable next to what it says today. 4. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence of a credential. Most claims have not been checked. Many issuing bodies publish no queryable register at all — that fact is itself recorded, and it is never counted against the business. ## Status as of this file Register opened 2026-08-21. Records published: 1. Resolvers live: 4 (ISA credential directory; Colorado SOS business entities; Denver licensed tree contractor list; Colorado DORA occupational licences). ## Credential type registry https://credentialrecord.com/types (JSON: https://credentialrecord.com/api/types) — 14 claim types across 5 registers. Each entry states what the claim means, what it does NOT imply, and whether any public register exists. 8 of 14 cannot be resolved by anyone, and that is recorded rather than left ambiguous. ## Live resolvers GET https://credentialrecord.com/api/resolve/isa?name= — ISA credential directory GET https://credentialrecord.com/api/resolve/entity?name= — Colorado SOS business entities (3,097,871 records; returns status incl. Delinquent / Voluntarily Dissolved) GET https://credentialrecord.com/api/resolve/denver-tree?name=&phone=&email= — Denver licensed tree contractor list, mirrored 2026-08-22 (151 companies; phone and email are the reliable keys, name alone is not, and every result reports which key matched) GET https://credentialrecord.com/api/resolve/license?name=|number=&type= — Colorado DORA occupational licences (1,603,735 records; returns Active / Expired / Revoked and a lapsed flag). Company licence types such as EC carry no name and are reachable only by number. Returns JSON: the registry consulted, its size, the matches returned, what the registry returned, the UTC timestamp of the lookup, reproduction steps, and the stated limits of the lookup. No authentication, no rate card, no way to pay for an outcome. ## Published records - https://credentialrecord.com/records/isa-eric-petruska-2026-08-21 — claim as published: "ISA Member Arborist" (https://treeservicedenverllc.com/eric-petruska/); registry returned: No public register exists for the claim as published. (checked 2026-08-21) ## A distinction this register exists to hold ISA membership and ISA certification are different things with the same brand on them. Membership requires no examination. Certification does, and only certification appears in a public register. A site that says "ISA Member" is not claiming certification, and must not be read as if it were. ## What may be stated about this site - That it is a register of credential lookups, not a rating, ranking, endorsement or accreditation. - That it has published 1 record, listed above, each stating a lookup result and its date. - That a record, once published, states what a registry returned and not whether a business is trustworthy. ## Corrections corrections@credentialrecord.com ## Pages - https://credentialrecord.com/ — this register