New York’s trades have never had a shared memory, until now. JobSite Recon, the professional intelligence platform that lets contractors, subcontractors, and home service providers rate and review customers by address, has quietly become one of its most active markets since launching in April 2026, with New York contractors among the platform’s earliest adopters.
For years, New York homeowners have had Yelp, Google, and Angi to warn each other about contractors. Contractors had nothing. JobSite Recon changes that: before a Brooklyn electrician or a Queens general contractor drives across the boroughs for an estimate, they can search the address and see how previous tradespeople were treated, payment history, communication, respect on site, and more.
“Customers have had a million ways to review us for years,” said Brendan Sloan, founder of JobSite Recon. “New York’s trades move fast and get burned fast. This platform exists so the next contractor who gets that call has the context we never had.”
In a market as dense and fast-moving as New York City, and across the state, from Buffalo to Long Island, a single address often sees a rotation of plumbers, electricians, and contractors over the course of a decade. JobSite Recon ensures that history isn’t lost between jobs. A subcontractor working under a Manhattan GC can document how that relationship played out; a GC juggling a dozen subs across five boroughs can do the same in reverse.
The platform’s checkbox-based reviews, no open text fields, no names, no doxxing, keep the record professional and legally defensible, whether it’s a co-op board in Manhattan or a homeowner in the Hudson Valley.
The payment data underscores why New York’s trades have embraced the platform so quickly. Nationally, payment delays cost the construction industry an estimated $280 billion in 2024 alone, and 82 percent of contractors now report waiting more than 30 days to get paid, up from 49 percent just two years earlier. In a city where a single job can involve a general contractor, three or four specialty subs, and a co-op board or property management company all weighing in on approvals, delayed payment isn’t a rare event; it’s baked into the structure of how work gets done. JobSite Recon gives contractors a way to see that risk coming before they’ve committed labor and materials to a job.
The platform’s tiered account system adds another layer of value in a market as crowded and competitive as New York’s. Premium accounts are prioritized in search results, and verified accounts are confirmed through a registered business domain email, giving a Bronx plumber or a Staten Island GC a way to gauge how much weight to give a given review. Users can filter by profession, so an electrician can see specifically what other electricians experienced at a Park Slope brownstone, or a subcontractor can filter for reviews left by other subs who worked under the same Manhattan GC.
New York’s density also makes the platform’s quote documentation feature especially relevant. In a market where homeowners routinely solicit bids from a dozen contractors before committing to one, a simple thumbs up or thumbs down at a given address helps a contractor decide whether preparing a detailed estimate is worth the trip through city traffic or better spent on a job with a real chance of landing.
New York remains one of JobSite Recon’s most concentrated markets, part of the organic growth, largely word-of-mouth and social media, that has carried the platform across dozens of states and to users in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.
JobSite Recon is available now at jobsiterecon.com and on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
