What Happened to Levelset's Payment Profiles (and What to Use Instead)

For years, the smartest free move in construction was two minutes on Levelset: look up a GC's payment profile, check their payment-speed score and the reviews from other subs, and know before you signed whether you were about to work for a slow payer. If you've tried that lately, you've noticed — the reviews are gone, and so is the score.

What actually changed

Levelset was acquired by Procore back in 2021 and has been folding into the Procore platform since. Along the way, the company announced changes to its payment profiles: profiles no longer host contractor reviews(the stated focus is “positive testimonials”), and the payment/risk score is no longer visible while new metrics are developed for the Procore Construction Network. The lien-rights software business continues — but the free research resource that told you how a GC actually pays has effectively gone dark.

That's a real loss. Being able to check whether a GC had a history of slow payment or lien filings before signing a subcontract was some of the cheapest due diligence in the industry, and contractors on forums have been asking where it went.

How to vet a GC without it

• County records still exist.The underlying data — mechanics liens filed against a GC's projects, releases, judgments — is public record at the county recorder and court level. It's slower than a profile page, but a search of the county where the GC does most of its work tells you a lot.
• Ask for sub references, not client references.A GC's customers know if the house came out nice. The subs know if the checks came on time. Two phone calls to trades who've worked for them beats any score.
• Check the state license board and court index. Complaints, license actions, and a civil-case search on the company name (and its principals) are free and take minutes.

The better answer: stop depending on vetting

Vetting is probabilistic — even good GCs hit cash crunches. What actually protects you is the boring paperwork discipline that makes you the sub who's expensive to not pay:

• A written subcontract with payment terms and a written-change-order clause — even a short one — so there's no ambiguity about what's owed.
• Preliminary notices sent on time, every job, so your lien rights stay alive (our free deadline calculator covers MA, MD, and TX).
• Conditional-only lien waivers until the check clears — never unconditional before the money is in hand.
• Signed T&M tags and change orders the same day the extra work happens, so disputes are about price, never about whether the work occurred.