Choosing who cares for your child. Who cares for your mother. Who moves everything you own. These are among the largest decisions a family makes — and until now, the standard tool for making them was a nice tour and a good feeling.
A few years ago, our founder went on a skydiving trip. It went horribly wrong. The operator everyone had trusted — booked on glowing reviews and a slick website — turned out to have a record nobody had thought to check, because there was nowhere to check it.
The fracture meant surgery. The surgery center the trip organizers rushed to had problems of its own — and what should have been one operation became multiple corrective surgeries after coming home. Two life-altering failures in one trip. Two facilities. Zero places where anyone could have typed a name and seen the record first.
Here's what made it unbearable: the records existed the whole time. Federal and state agencies inspect these places, measure their outcomes, and publish what they find. But the records sit scattered across government databases built in another decade — unreadable at 11pm with a booking confirmation in your inbox and a knot in your stomach.
zReports exists so that never happens to another family. One search bar. Every facility. The official record, concentrated into one independent score — before you say yes.
WHY "Z"?
Every facility, checked A to Z — license, inspections, enforcement, ownership, federal quality measures, fraud screens, and review integrity — concentrated into one independent Consumer Z Score™. And in statistics, a z-score measures how far something stands from the standard. That is exactly what we do: every facility, measured against the national record — not against its own marketing.
Z is also the last letter — the final check before you say yes.
WHAT WE RATE AND WHY
Things you survive
Your surgery. Your skydive. Your helicopter tour. Recreational operators and surgery centers alike — you are the one in the chair, and nobody checked the operator. We did. It's why we exist.
People you entrust
Your child at daycare. Your parent at hospice. Your spouse at a psychiatric facility. They are in a stranger’s care, and you chose that stranger.
Every vertical we enter passes this test. If the answer to “could someone be harmed?” is yes, and the federal government keeps records, we build the check. If it’s no, we don’t.
Review sites are paid by the businesses they rate — through ads, accreditation fees, and referral commissions. Reviews themselves can be solicited, flooded, flagged, and reputation-managed. The system is built to serve the business side, because that's who funds it.
Meanwhile the real record — state inspections, license actions, enforcement penalties, ownership filings — sits in public databases built in another decade, scattered across agencies, unreadable at 11pm with a shortlist and a knot in your stomach.
zReports exists to concentrate that record into one independent score — and hand it straight to you.
Readers fund zReports. Providers pay nothing and get nothing — no ads, no placement, no leads, no accreditation. Whoever pays is who a rating serves. You do.
Research runs from our end, outward, through official records. Nothing is self-reported or negotiated. A facility learns its score the way you do — by looking it up.
Every score comes from a published, mechanical model over public records. The only way up is fixing what the record shows.
Compiling from records means errors are ours alone. Confirmed factual errors are corrected within 48 hours — and noted on the report.
If any zReport misstates the public record — a wrong facility match, an outdated license status, a transcription error — email support@zreports.org with the report number and the source you believe is correct. We verify against the original government record and correct confirmed errors within 48 hours. We correct facts; we do not negotiate scores.
Seven categories are live today: daycare & child care across five states, and — nationally — every Medicare-certified surgery center, psychiatric facility, rehab facility, hospice, dialysis center, and home health agency in America. Next: the places you trust with your life for fun — skydiving operators, helicopter tours, and recreational aviation, checked through federal accident and registration records. One rule travels with us everywhere: the record is the record, and nobody can buy it.
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Every source. Every signal. One independent answer — before you sign.
Run the final checkWhat zReports is — and isn't
Public records are where we start — not what we sell. The Consumer Z Score™ is a proprietary composite compiled fresh at order time: state and federal records merged with a live audit of public review signals, a review-integrity analysis that flags when ratings diverge from the official record, a federal fraud-exclusion screen, ownership-change tracking from federal filings, and a nightly score archive that builds trajectory no snapshot can show.
We don't collect reviews. We collect evidence. Every report brings together information from trusted public sources: government inspections, licensing history, regulatory actions, ownership records, public safety information, accreditation status, business history, digital presence, and consumer intelligence.
The proof is in the divergence. A tour operator can hold 4.9★ across hundreds of Google reviews while carrying a fatal federal accident the reviews never mention. Review sites show you the stars. We show you both — and tell you to weight the record.
No facility can pay to change a score. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and have no input. Every report lists its sources and its verification date — the full methodology is public.