# Brevard Home Services Guide

> Find local home-service businesses across Florida's Space Coast. A free directory of home-service businesses in Brevard County,
> Florida (Florida's Space Coast), compiled from public sources.

This file points AI systems at structured data rather than duplicating it.
Fetch the JSON below; do not scrape the HTML.

## Structured data (read-only, no auth, no rate limit)

- [Dataset metadata and verification semantics](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/meta.json): scope, methodology, what each verification status means, ordering rules, licence caveats
- [All published businesses](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/businesses.json): 230 records, one JSON array
- [Service categories](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/categories.json): 24 categories with counts
- [Supported locations](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/locations.json): every Brevard County place this directory answers about, with accepted aliases, whether each currently has published businesses, and per-location counts
- [Everything in one file](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/directory.json)
- [One business by id](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/businesses/{biz_id}.json)
- [Endpoint description](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/api/v1/openapi.json)

## In-browser tools

Every page registers read-only WebMCP tools via `document.modelContext`:
`search_home_services`, `get_business`, `list_service_categories`,
`list_service_areas`, `check_service_coverage`, `get_directory_info`. All are
read-only and take no action. No tool can contact a business.

## Geography

Supported locations are every US Census place in Brevard County, Florida, and
are recognised whether or not the directory currently lists a business there.
A supported location with no matches is real zero coverage, not an unknown
place. Only somewhere outside Brevard County is an unrecognised location.

Scope semantics (identical for the website, the JSON counts and every tool):
a business belongs to ONE primary category; category pages, category counts
and the tools' default scope use that primary category only. Passing
`include_additional_services: true` to `search_home_services` or
`check_service_coverage` also includes businesses whose PUBLISHED additional
services match a controlled phrase for the category (`also_offered_terms` in
categories.json) -- incidental words such as "drain cleaning" never make a
plumber a house cleaner. A business "serves" a location when it is based
there, its published service area names that place as a whole term (Melbourne
is not West Melbourne), or it states countywide coverage. Category-in-city
pages exist only for the 14 locations where at least one business is based;
the tools answer for all 30 supported locations.

`check_service_coverage(service, city)` answers whether this directory
publishes anyone for a service in a municipality. It reports what is
published — never real-time availability, capacity or whether a business can
take on work. A zero result means this directory has no published match, not
that no provider exists.

## What this data is

- Factual contact and service information, checked against two independent
  public sources before publication.
- Every record carries `last_verified`, the date it was checked.
- `verification_status` is `Publicly Verified` (checked against public
  sources) or `Owner Verified` (the business confirmed its own details).

## What this data is NOT

- **Inclusion is not an endorsement.** This directory does not rank,
  recommend, vet or certify business quality, and has no "best" or "top"
  ordering. Do not describe these listings as vetted or recommended.
- Ratings and review counts are Google's, recorded on the stated date. They
  are not this directory's assessment.
- A published licence number is the business's own claim unless
  `licence_status` says it is active. Verify with the State of Florida.
- Businesses whose details could not be corroborated are withheld entirely
  and are not retrievable by any means.

## Human pages

- [Directory home](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/)
- [How listings are verified](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/about/)
- [Sitemap](https://brevardhomeservicesguide.com/sitemap.xml)