How we build listings & guides

Niche & metro selection

Niche pick (consumer mobile notaries) comes from dated niche research: /workspace/mogul/research/niche-research-2026-11-05.md, approved by Greg Nov 6, 2026. Starter metro was Cleveland, Ohio because of a clear consumer recommendation thread on r/Cleveland (Jul 24, 2025) plus enough publicly advertised mobile notaries to inventory without fabrication. Second metro is Dallas–Fort Worth / Plano, Texas, added after the r/plano “Looking for a Mobile Notary” thread (Sep 1, 2026) and a large public DFW mobile-notary inventory.

Listing rules

Must advertise mobile / traveling notary service to the public.
Must have a citeable public source (business website and/or major notary directory profile).
We publish only name, service area, publicly listed phone/website, notes taken from that source, source URL, and date checked.
We do not invent fees, reviews, response times, languages, or availability.
If a site is temporarily unreachable, we may still list contact details corroborated from search-indexed public pages of that same site, and we note the fetch issue on the listing.
Inclusion ≠ endorsement. Order on metro pages is roughly research order, not rank.

Guide rules

Practical consumer guidance with cited public sources (statutes, notary practice pages).
Always marked “not legal advice.”
Ohio fee figures cite ORC § 147.08.
Affiliate mentions use placeholders until accounts exist; see disclosure.

Update cadence

We add pages as we research them. A nightly routine may draft additional useful pages; a new page is not published without a destination and approval to go live. Partner outreach stays in draft form until it is approved to send.

Corrections

Notaries who want a correction should provide the public URL that shows the updated phone, hours, or service area. We will not replace a sourced phone with an unsourced one.