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Partnering with governments
BuildSOS was started by contractors who sit on Louisiana’s licensing boards and lead their local Homebuilder Associations, after the 2016 floods showed them how much a rebuild loses in the gaps between government, homeowners, insurers, builders, volunteers, and suppliers. Local and state governments carry the cost of those gaps. We’d like to help close them with you.
What we bring to a community
Recovery goes faster when homeowners can tell an honest contractor from a storm chaser. The BuildSOS Verified Seal starts with an independent BuildZoom check of a contractor’s license, insurance, and track record, and homeowners can find a verified contractor for free.
Homeowners get free, plain-language tools for every stage of a disaster, from the Disaster AIDvisor during an event to the Policy AIDvisor that explains what their insurance actually covers. Residents who know their next step, and know what their policy covers, face fewer surprises in a recovery.
Contractors who show up before the storm
We train contractors to take part in the public side of resilience, not just the job site. Our guides teach them to join hazard mitigation planning, to coordinate with FEMA and relief agencies instead of working around them, and to teach their neighbors alongside the local fire department or emergency manager.
That means the builders in your community arrive at a planning meeting with real jobsite experience, and they already know your emergency manager’s name when a disaster hits.
Keeping recovery dollars local
Fraud makes every party in a rebuild put its guard up, and those defenses slow everything down. Our goal is a recovery that reaches the people who need it, is done by contractors who passed real checks, and keeps value in the community instead of sending it somewhere else while residents wait.
Talk to us
If you work for a city, county, parish, or state agency and want to explore what a partnership could look like, email andy@buildsos.com. Tell us about your community and the hazards it faces, and we’ll start from there.