AI for security guard companies, tested on officer files and bids you already closed.

Licensing changes at every state line, and some states have none. NASCO, which calls itself the nation's largest contract security association, keeps a state licensing contact page. It sends California readers to the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services and Florida readers to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and for nine states, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, it reads no state requirements for licensure at this time. A directory can lag a statute, so confirm your own state; nothing here is legal advice. Where a state asks for nothing, the contract is the only list there is.

The company's own license changes its name too. California licenses a private patrol operator, a business that protects persons or property or prevents theft. Texas rules speak of a guard company license, tied to three years in the field and a year in a managerial or supervisory job. Hawaii's statewide guard request defines a guard agency run by a principal guard, its primary licensee. A bid response and an officer file have to use the right word for the state they answer.

The card has to be on the officer. Florida wants Class D and Class G licenses in the licensee's possession on duty. An Illinois permanent employee registration card is carried at all times on the job. Texas has commissioned officers carry pocket cards on duty and while traveling to and from an assignment, and California lets a guard still waiting for the hard card work with a printout of the Bureau's approval and valid picture identification. Your office file records what should be true at the post, and lining it up against the contract is the paperwork the first test takes on.

Texas ties the contract to the people on it. Its private security rules have a licensee keep contracts for regulated service, papers reflecting that the service was provided, and timesheets, invoices or scheduling records showing when licensed employees worked, for two years from the later of the service or the contract's completion. A company with no Texas office keeps them with its registered agent or at an agent's or employee's location in the state. Your closed site files already pair a contract with the officers who worked it, which is what makes them a fair answer key.

Public buyers publish the other half. Solano County Transit's 2022 request sought fixed-post unarmed guards for its transit properties in downtown Vallejo from firms licensed by the State of California. The Judicial Council of California, asking for non-sworn, unarmed, uniformed guards at its appellate courts, published answers to bidders' questions down to the hours per week at each court site. A request like that and the response you sent make a complete before and after.

One limit covers both jobs. Nothing in the proof of concept touches scheduling or payroll, a state portal, a live officer record or a live bid. It never decides whether an officer may work a post, never submits a registration and never signs a proposal: your compliance manager decides every staffing question and your proposal lead signs every response. Samples arrive with Social Security numbers, fingerprints and medical details already out.