Methodology

Mold Compass is educational. We do not inspect homes, perform remediation, sell legal services, or diagnose health conditions. Our role is to organize source-backed guidance so readers can understand the situation, ask better questions, and know when a qualified professional is needed.

Source Hierarchy

1. Primary sources first. We prioritize official public health guidance, state statutes, state agency pages, licensing board pages, city and county resources, and recognized remediation standards.
2. Local data in live pages. City and risk pages use NOAA climate normals, US Census housing data, and official local references where those sources are available in the content files.
3. Plain-English interpretation last. Mold Compass turns source material into checklists, decision points, and planning tools. We avoid treating uncertain legal, health, or remediation questions as settled.

How Ask Scout Uses Sources

Ask Scout starts with Mold Compass pages that are already published or checked into the site, including public guides, tools, state pages, and city pages.

When someone asks a question, Ask Scout looks for the most relevant Mold Compass pages and includes source links with the answer. It is a guide to the site and its sources, not a replacement for legal, medical, insurance, or remediation professionals.

Citation Policy

• Legal claims need traceable support. State pages cite statutes, agencies, local code resources, court or legal-aid references, and licensing sources where they support a claim.
• Health and cleanup claims stay tied to official guidance. Health, testing, cleanup, and remediation pages point readers to EPA, CDC/NIOSH, OSHA, WHO, FEMA, and ANSI/IICRC resources where those sources are relevant.
• Uncertainty is labeled. When state law is unclear, a source is limited, or a situation depends on facts not available on the page, we say so instead of filling the gap with certainty.

Review Cadence

Mold Compass reviews source-heavy content through source-backed research sweeps, build-time route and page metadata checks, and targeted revisions when source material changes or a correction is flagged.

Legal and local pages get the strictest treatment because laws, agency pages, and local programs change more often than general mold education.

Correction Standard

If an official source shows that a page is wrong or out of date, we update the page, narrow the claim, or label the issue as uncertain. If you spot something we should review, send the page link and the official source, agency page, statute, or local rule that tells a different story.