Registry Watch: 155,625 business records tracked, 11,688 duplicate records cleared
The registry tracks 155,625 collision and automotive business records this week. The largest movement happened in the staging layer, where a deduplication pass cleared 11,688 records that already matched listings in the live directory. Clearing them lowers the published count, and that is the intended behaviour: a duplicate is not a shop.
The registry in numbers
The live registry holds 155,625 business records, of which 64,846 are collision-classified body shops. Behind them sit 163,008 business records, 93,597 license-register matches drawn from nine state systems, 60,312 compliance records, and 9,892 certification records. Coverage spans all 50 states. Of the tracked records, 1,778 carry at least one manufacturer (OEM) certification, 4,179 belong to a chain or multi-shop operator, and 34,346 list a working website.
What the dedup pass removed
The registered layer -- the staging tier where records surfaced from public registers wait before they can enter the live directory -- now holds 15,878 records. Measured against the July 20 snapshot, 288 records were added and 21,196 removed.
The largest identified cause is deduplication: 11,688 records were dropped because they duplicated listings already held in the base directory, 691 because they duplicated other registered-layer entries, and 258 as address variants of records already on file. Deduplication runs before any promotion to the live layer, so a duplicated record is removed before a shopper could ever see it. The remainder of the removals is not separately attributed in this week's pass, and we would rather say so than assign it a cause we have not measured.
That layer is fed by government NAICS-811121 business registers, EPA, OSHA and SBA overlays, and state Secretary of State filings. Both additions and removals pass verification before they reach the published count.
License watch: Florida
Florida's July 20 register pull shows 2,089 licenses no longer active, of which 1,274 are strictly expired. The broader class also counts cancelled, closed, denied and terminated statuses, which is why it sits above the expired-only figure.
This pull covers the state completely. Earlier pulls could not retrieve Miami-Dade records, so this total is not directly comparable with previous weeks -- a larger figure here reflects fuller coverage, not necessarily more lapses. For a consumer the practical point is unchanged: a license can lapse between visits, so verify a shop before authorizing work, and the current Florida records show which shops still hold active status.
MSO footprint tracker
Five consolidators hold the largest chain footprints in the registry: Caliber Collision at 2,071 locations, Gerber Collision & Glass at 1,903, Crash Champions at 1,476, Classic Collision at 633, and CARSTAR at 566. These are locations we can currently attribute to each brand from our confirmation overlays, not company-reported totals. All five sit inside the 4,179 chain-affiliated shops the registry tracks overall, so consolidation is visible at the top of the market without accounting for most of it.
Data-quality note
A week in which the published total falls is not a week in which the directory got worse. Duplicates inflate a count while making it less useful, and folding them in is the only honest correction available. We publish the lower true number rather than the higher inflated one, every time.
Totals here are point-in-time and computed from the live dataset at the moment of writing. See how our data is verified for the checks each record passes before it counts.
The registry refreshes nightly; Registry Watch summarizes the deltas once a week.
Every listing in the directory is checked against official state registers, federal records, and manufacturer certification programs, nightly.
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Every figure in this report is produced by the directory's automated verification pipeline from official state registers and federal records, then mechanically cross-checked against the published dataset before release. Counts are point-in-time and move nightly by design. This is aggregate industry reporting: not legal, insurance, or investment advice.