It's a California contractor license — no school, no degree. Four years on the job, paperwork, and two exams. You've already done the four years.
Dear future contractor,
We get it.
You're good at the work. Really good.
But the money's capped. The permits aren't yours. And every big job runs through somebody else's number.
Meanwhile, the guy signing the contracts hasn't swung anything heavier than a pen in ten years. Put him on your crew for a morning and he wouldn't make it to the first break.
And the builder who subbed you in? He couldn't pass your trade exam with the book open. He calls you when something's actually hard.
He's not smarter than you. He's got a number. That's the whole edge.
So every year you think about getting your license. And every year you hear "state exam" and picture night school, textbooks, and somebody shushing you in a library.
Relax. It's none of that.
No school. No degree. No essays.
Four years on the job? You've already got that.
An application? Paperwork.
Two multiple-choice exams? That's the wall. The whole wall.
And walls are kind of your thing.
Right below this letter there's a real question from the exam. Try it. That's the entire method: see the questions before the state shows them to you.
— McBean Builders
Straight out of the Law & Business bank. No sign-up to try it.
California caps unlicensed work at $1,000 a job — no permits, no crew. Go past it anyway and the law gets meaner: an unlicensed contractor can't sue to collect. Finish the job, hand over the invoice, get stiffed — no court will hear it.
So the work runs through the guy with the number — his contract, his price, his margin, your labor. Not because he's better at the job. Because he's licensed. Every week without your own number is a week on the wrong side of that split.
Nobody dreams about an exam. Here's what's on the other side of it.
No more paying a guy with a number to sign off work you did. You're the contractor of record — the city deals with you.
The kitchen, the addition, the ground-up — permits, crews, contract pricing with margin in it. Legal at any size the day your license posts.
Your company, your crew if you want one, your rates. The license doesn't build the business — it makes it legal for you to.
No school. No degree. No night classes. California asks for three things — and you likely have the hard one already.
Journey-level work, four of the last ten years. Somebody who's seen you work signs to certify it. If you've been building since 2022, you're already there.
One application to the CSLB, fingerprints, a license bond. A process you wait through — not a program you pay for.
Two multiple-choice tests at a computer: Law & Business, plus your trade. Good builders fail them every week — not because the tests are hard, but because they read a book once and never drilled a question.
This is the whole product. No videos, no textbook — the real questions, worked the way you'll face them, like the one you tried up top.
3,543 real exam questions — Law & Business plus your trade — in sets of fifteen, about nine minutes each. In the truck, on the couch, in line at the supply house.
Get one wrong and you're told why in plain English — why the right answer is right, and why the wrong one was written to catch you. Straight talk, not code-book language.
Every question you get wrong goes on one list and keeps coming back until you've had it right twice running. Work the list down — walk in on exam day with it empty.
While we're in early access, everything on this site is free. Not a sample. Not a starter tier. The whole thing. You get it free; we get somebody using it hard and telling us what to fix. That's the trade.
When pricing starts, this becomes the $59.99-a-month plan. Anyone already in gets an email first, and everything you've worked through stays on your account. Until then there's nothing to cancel, because there's nothing to charge — worst case, you close the tab and you're out nothing.
PS — this section comes off the page the day pricing starts. If you're reading it, you're not too late.
Right now, yes — all of it, no card. We're in early access. When pricing starts you'll get an email first, and everything you've worked stays on your account.
No. California wants four years of journey-level experience out of the last ten — somebody who's seen your work signs to certify it — then an application and two exams. There's no classroom anywhere in it.
That's who this was built for. There's no textbook and no videos — fifteen questions at a time, and when you miss one you're told why in plain English. Answer, read, move on. That's the whole method.
Law & Business — the exam every contractor takes — plus the trade exams for General Building and Plumbing. More trades are being added; that's what the early access is.
You're early, so you'll hit a rough edge before we do. Tell us and we fix it — that's the deal you're getting everything free for.
The people who pass aren't smarter — they'd just seen it all before. Drill until nothing on that screen surprises you.
Getting licensed means passing Law & Business and the trade exam for your classification. Take the one you need, or both.